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:

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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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Do You Know About Rose Hips C?

By Bob Leland  

Rose hips provide up to twenty times more vitamin C dosage than citrus fruit. If you aren't yet convinced of the phenomenal health benefits of this vitamin then keep reading, you soon will be.

Vitamin C nutrition is considered essential for humans and even some animals such as the higher primates and even to small mammals like bats. Deficiency can cause scurvy and in fact did a couple of centuries ago. Many people attributed scurvy to the lack of fresh plant food, yet when the British Navy began feeding their sailors lime juice in 1795, scurvy became a thing of the past, for them at least.

Scurvy lead to liver spots and bleeding from all mucous membranes, those suffering from scurvy were pale, depressed and became partially immobilised. In advance scurvy wounds suppurate and teeth fall out. Death is certain. The human body can only store so much vitamin C which it soon depletes if fresh supplies are not provided. People with a lack of vitamin C are at higher risk to lung borne diseases and this is why smokers should supplement their Vitamin C supply.

Today the western world generally consumes enough vitamin C to ward off scurvy, but this doesn't mean we are in fact getting the recommended dose. Recommended doses of vitamin C are debatable but a good rule of thumb is 133mg per day in males and 120mg per day for females.

Natural sources and medical benefits of Vitamin C
The most common sources of vitamin C are citrus fruits. We need it if we are to follow a healthy diet because it also provides highly effective antioxidants, and it supports numerous physiological functions in our body such as the synthesis of collagen and neurotransmitters which is essential to the development of cartilage and blood vessels and also aids in the prevention of scar tissue.

Antioxidants gained from vitamin C help fight free radicals in our body which help prevent cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes and inflammatory diseases.

Rose hips benefits
The rich vitamin C source has always been attributed to citrus fruits, yet rose hips are overtaking their content in leaps and bounds. The rose has long been loved for its beauty and fragrance and has often been there for the special times in our lives, yet they hide within them a little miracle called the rose hip which is considered the fruit of the rose. Once a rose flower has bloomed and the petals have dropped, the rose hip becomes visible. Usually red in color, rose hips can also be purple or black, they are a top source of vitamin C providing between 20 to 60 times the doses obtained from citrus fruits. The healing power of rose hips is not something new though, even during WWII they were used to create a syrup as citrus fruits were hard to find at this time. Rose hips are used to counteract flu and colds and can lower high temperatures.

Simply steeped into a tea, it is recommended that between 2 - 4 cups of rose hip tea be consumed per day during bouts of colds, but if taken on a daily basis over a life time, you shouldn't be susceptible to illnesses such as these. Rose hips are versatile too and can be used to create jams, syrups, breads, tea, oils and creams. Used topically rose hip has incredible skin healing properties.

Adequate doses of vitamin C have long been associated with soothing restlessness and even depression and rose hip products can be taken safely to aid in melancholy, offering drug free cures. A lack of vitamin C also plays a hand in sleep deprivation and rose hip tea taken before bed on a regular basis will eliminate insomnia, ensuring you get good nights sleep, are refreshed and energetic.

There is a growing interest in reviving the medicinal properties of rose hips and a host of products in capsule form are available on the market, yet what could be simpler than harvesting your own rose hips from your own garden. Look for a variety of rose that produces quite large rose hips because they are higher in vitamin C, but don't harvest those that are diseased or insect infected.

The vitamin C nutritional value of rose hips is best when used immediately after harvesting, and once you have turned your culinary hand to them and offered their nutritional value to your family, it won't be long until you see their healthy benefits.

Bob Leland is a Rose Growing enthusiast. Visit About The Care Of Roses for more expert advice on rose hips benefits [http://www.aboutthecareofroses.com/RoseHipUses.xhtml] and other resources you can use right now to grow gorgeous roses.

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