Basil is an herb that has a very strong and pleasant odor which may increase both in the garden and in the home, in a pot. It has many applications both in health and in culinary domains.
Basil leaves can be consumed either in fresh or in dried form. Basil leaves are drying in a well ventilated place, away from sunlight, stretched on some paper. After drying they have to be gathering into a bunch.
Fresh collected leaves are should be used immediately, especially is for cooking.
Basil is used in a wide range of affections like intestinal antiseptic adjuvant, soothes abdominal pain and helps eliminate gases, digestion stimulator, increase the secretion of milk from pregnant women, against nausea and vomiting phases, renal inflammatory problems, expectorant problems, gastric inflammatory diseases and easily diarrhea.
As tea, basil is used in intestinal colic, intestinal bloating, vomiting, flu, colds, acute and chronic bronchitis, headaches, gastric ulcer, urinary tract infection, anorexia, and diarrhea and colitis fermentation diseases. Also is used in beauty treatments for prevention of premature aging and in intimate problems like impotence and frigidity.
Has a good body reaction in cases of fatigue, tiredness, headache and migraine if is smelled in the fresh form or drunk like tea.
Also basil ointment and mixture, tinctures are used in different beauty treatments, having great skin regeneration.
In combination with ivy is used as decoct for grave cough.
In popular belief basil has not only healing powers, but also astrological powers, because used into a clean room, well ventilated, has an calming effect over the body providing the women’s opportunity to dream about the future husband, in Romanian mythology.
Also, basil is used in the kitchen both fresh and dried form.
Basil is said that is holy, being part of the cluster that is sanctified laymen at Orthodox services.
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