Cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) is a plant with the lowest flowers, which grows up to 30 cm on the ground of Softwoods. Its red, acid fruits are rich with vitamins C and A, potassium and vegetable fiber, and with bioflavonids, which are strong natural antioxidant. Also, cranberries have a strong antibacterial action. Healthy tea are made from cranberry leaves and fruits, juice from fresh berries, and berries can be frozen or dried in order to make them into jam or sauce. Cranberry comes from North America and American natives who ate berries mixing them with maple syrup have known its healthy attribute. Cranberry is unavoidable fellow traveller of European sailors in 17. century when barrels filled with cranberries could be seen on ships.
Great Yellow Gentian (Gentiana lutea) is one of the most popular and most wanted healthy plants. It grows in grassy alpine and sub-alpine pastures, usually on calcareous soils. This perennial plant has a strong stalk, growing up to 1,5 m tall with lanceolate-elliptic leaves. Above half it have yellow flowers, which bloom from July to august. Buried part of Great Yellow Gentian, which is used for healing, consists of underground stem and root with bitter compounds. Gentiana Lutea was named after the last ruler of Illyrian tribal alliance, King Gentius (180 – 165 BC), supposed to that he was the first to know curative properties of Great Yellow Gentian. It was printed and described in Dioscoride’s De Materia Medica (The Materials of medicine, year 512).
