Recipes for ointments from ecologically clean ingredients

Did you know that Elder Hilarion, the first head of Lavra’s gardens, invented the recipes for ointments?

He made those ointments from ecologically clean ingredients and it was between 1829 and 1841 years. The ointments were successfully used to heal damaged trees in the monastic gardens. The gardener gave recommendations to lubricate carefully cuttings of the trees during their spring pruning. That type of ointment was made of impure gray wax, olive (wood oil) and lard in a ratio of 6:3:4. Another ointment, made of cattle manure, clay and cow or goat wool, had to be applied to the trees with smooth bark when necessary. It could happen when the garden workers cut the branches of those trees growing against the sun, or in case spots and cracks appeared on them.

In our next releases you will be able to know more about the recipes and cases when they were used.

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1. Dogwood tree

Natalia Lytvyn