Rosemary Herb Benefits Health in Many Ways

By Salvator Giustra 

Rosemary is a powerful herbal remedy that is currently used for headache, indigestion & depression (in addition to its adding flavour to many dishes). However, it also has many other uses as outlined below.

Using rosemary as an herbal remedy

Asthma may be relieved by rosemary's volatile oil, which can open air passages narrowed by histamine.

Another important benefit of this herb includes preventing food spoilage as the commercial products BHA & BHT. Simply fold crushed rosemary into meat, fish, pasta & potato salads. Of course, rosemary also enhances the flavour of the foods it is mixed into.

You can also use rosemary for body odour that is caused by bacteria or fungus. Simply mix ground rosemary into bath powder and use normally. You can also use the leaves to make tea or as a bath wash.

Rosemary's health effects include its action against infectious bacteria. This also extends to its inhibiting infections from minor cuts. Simply press fresh leaves onto cut before washing & treating.

While modern herbalists do not generally recommend rosemary for memory problems like ancient people did, there might still be a role for it in cognitive problems. As a tea or shampoo, rosemary contains certain compounds that may help inhibit Alzheimer's . Drink lots of rosemary tea & use shampoos containing its essence.

Rosemary also improves hair quality & may delay baldness. Give it a shot. At worse you'll come out with very clean hair.

Rosemary has generally stimulative properties so it may be a good natural treatment for fatigue. Drink several cups of rosemary tea a day or look for candles that contain rosemary oil.

Scabies is a disturbing condition where mites house themselves under the skin & lay its eggs. This causes infections & lesions. What rosemary does for sufferers is minimizing pain of scabies by dabbing cooled tea onto affected areas.

Its antispasmodic effects enable it to relax smooth muscle tissue so rosemary is quite good for digestive problems.

Rosemary can also help relieve congestion brought on by colds & flu.

Rosemary also contains powerful antioxidants which may help in preventing cancer, heart disease & premature aging.

Its antioxidant effects may also help arthritis sufferers especially before disease worsens.

Moreover, its antioxidant properties also suggest it may be effective against cataract formation. Drink lots of rosemary tea for that purpose.

If I've lost your attention, how about this? Rosemary is being studies for its ability to prevent & treat wrinkles by Japanese researchers. Drink some rosemary tea & use its essence in facial masks.

How to use rosemary to improve health

For congestion, make an herbal tea with crushed rosemary. Use 1 tsp per cup of hot water, steep for 10 minutes, strain & enjoy a few cups a day. You can also inhale steam from tea to breath in rosemary’s healthful properties.

As a bath, add 10 drops to warm water.

As a tincture, use 1/2 - 1 1/2 tsp, 2 - 3x daily.

For commercial preparations, follow manufacturer’s directions.

You can offer diluted rosemary tea to children less than 2 years of age.

Finally, use rosemary liberally, to taste, in meats & potatoes.

Cautions when using rosemary

Rosemary is very safe to take for most people.

However, even small amounts of rosemary oil may cause irritation of the stomach, kidneys & intestines. Larger doses may be poisonous.

Never ingest more than a drop of concentrated rosemary oil.

Salvator Giustra is an educator and health researcher. With a little help from my friends I am the creator of Healthy World Online, Inc.which includes several websites including:

[http://www.herbalremediesworld.com/]

[http://www.HealthyWorldOnline.net/]

I am currently a NYC Teaching Fellow, health researcher & computer scientist.

Previously, I was a clinical psychotherapist, psychological evaluator, taught at the College of New Rochelle for many years & spent a few years directing a busy psychiatric clinic in New York, produced a newspaper - jobs that I often held concurrently.

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Garlic, Garlic and Garlic, the Love/Hate Relationship.   

by Alam Noah

Allium sativum, that's the botanical name if you didn't know it, I didn't.
What can i say about garlic? It's simply a very nasty plant.
I've never found to this day a person who has told me that he loved the taste it leaves on the tongue, it's stinky and robust.
However, so many people are addicted to it (in the good sense).
My father for example, he can't sleep without eating four cloves, poor mom!
The history of garlic started in the Middle East region, I've read that the first people to have cultivated it were the ancient Egyptians; they used to consider it sacred and even gave it to the workers who have built the pyramids.
It has also been considered a healthy supplement to the Greeks; they used to give it to their warriors before war.

We can go on telling the story of garlic for a very long time, however, you can be sure of one thing, wherever it was eaten, it was placed a special position among the people.
Garlic is truly a miracle if we consider its healing properties.
Back in ancient Egypt, they used to treat people suffering from cancer with garlic, it has even been found in the tombs of pharaohs.
It has a chemical compound called Allicin which may be responsible for its healing properties.
Did you know that ancient people used to treat the common cold and even influenza with its extract?
My grandmother used to do this to my mother when she had a cold, she would bring some cloves and crushes them with olive oil, then she would take my poor mom and make her eat that nasty porridge.
My mom told me that she would be healthy and running within two days.
I've done the same now with myself, whenever I have a cold or feel I would have one, I take four cloves and crush them with a knife, and then I would slice them into little pieces and mix them with olive oil.
Trust me, I've tried to mash them; my friends made a lot of excuses not to see me. then I had the idea of swallowing it like a medication, which it is in my opinion, I put the mixture in a table spoon and swallow it with water.
The effects are amazing.
Garlic is, as most of you may already know, a fantastic seasoning or condiment on food.
There are many recipes you can prepare using garlic, you can't make one think with garlic: a sweet pie;)
My most favorite recopies are garlic bread and pasta prepared with a garlicky sauce.

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