considered a wild growing plant in Russia, but cultivation is profitable for medical, industrial, and
commercial uses. Folk medicine: Used as expectorant and stimulant for asthma and chronic bronchitis.
Externally: For healing wounds and ulcers. Commercial: From the second year after planting hyssop it
can be harvested for the next ten years, with each yield growing stronger and more plentiful. Every year
cutting of the dry herb and flowers can yield 1,500–3,000 pounds for each acre. Industrial: For medicinal
purposes hyssop is collected before flowering. For industrial oil extract, at the beginning of the flowering
season. Hyssop is used for its strong aromatic touch in the wine, food, confectionery, and cosmetic
industries. Bees like hyssop nectar; from one acre they can easily, even in a short Russian summer, collect
pollen for 60 pounds of honey. Hungary has special industrial plantations for hyssop oil extract.
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