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ketunpoika's dried Meadowsweet flower powder

Meadowsweet is a perennial grass with a creamy-white fragrant inflorescence. Meadowsweet has traditionally been used to flavor a variety of beverages such as wines, mead and beer.

Inflorescences contain mineral salts that increase urine flow. Flowers have been used to cure eg. rheumatism and colds. Tea made from meadowsweet should not be brewed, as it will destroy some of its active ingredients.


An unknown acid from its leaves was isolated in 1939 by German chemists. This acid was renamed spiroic acid according to plant's Latin name spiraea ulmaria. Other scientists named the same acid salicylic acid, because they isolated the same substance from Salix willow leaves. Later scientists added an acetyl group to spiroic acid, which maintained the drug effects but reduced the side effects. Acetylspiric acid, became Aspirin, the world's most famous drug brand!

Meadowsweet tea has also been used in hair washing to encourage hair growth. In plant dyeing, meadowsweet gives a deep yellow and green color.

Ketunpoika's dried Meadowsweet flowers  (Filipendula ulmaria) have been picked, dried and packed by Ketunretket in Järvenpää, Finland. Packed in 1 dl paper bag, weight 20 grams. 

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  • WELCOME
  • About us
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  • Guided Tours
    • Private tour to Porvoo and Helsinki
    • Happiness with a Hobbyhorse - tour
    • Fatbiking in Nuuksio
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  • Natural Products
  • Dried Herbs
    • Nettle leaves
    • Fireweed flowers
    • Fireweed leaves
    • Meadowsweet flowers
    • Meadowsweet leaves
    • Raspberry leaves
    • Milfoil powder
  • Jam and honey
    • Lingonberry jam
    • Chokeberry jam
    • Chokeberry-Blueberry Jam
    • Blueberry Jam
    • Blueberry Jelly
    • Funnel Chanterelle Jam
    • Nettlehoney
    • Chaga and Honey Mixture
    • Milfoil Honey
  • Mushrooms
    • Puhtipakuri Chaga Powder
    • Porcini Groats
    • Funnel Chanterelles
    • Sheep Polypore Groats
    • Funnel Chanterelle jam
    • Red Cep Groats
    • Hygrophorus Camarophyllus Groats
  • Guide helping products
  • Private tour to Porkkala Peninsula