Holy Basil

Basil is most useful with the stomach and its related organs. It can be used for vomiting, nausea, constipation, menopause, and enteritis. This herb helps to stimulate the appetite, and relieves indigestion, cramps, and colic. It also increases the flow of breast milk. Basil improves blood circulation, relieves gas pains, and is used as an aid for indigestion. Basil tea can reduce a fever, colds, flu, coughs, sinusitis, and stomach cramps. It is sometimes used to treat whooping cough and headaches. This herb can be used for treating nervous irritability, tiredness, depression, anxiety, and insomnia. The leaves can be rubbed on insect bites and hives. In Ayurvedic medicine, the juice is recommended for snakebites, as a general tonic, for chills, coughs, rheumatoid arthritis, anorexia, skin problems, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, malaria, and earaches, but mainly used in the cases of fever. Since Holy Basil is used to reduce blood pressure, it is thought to have closeness for the heart, also to help the body to adapt to new demands and stresses.