OCIMUM BASILICUM
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OTHER NAMESTamil: Tirunirupachai ; Karandai
English: Sweet Basil Telugu: Kukkatulasi ; Vebudipatri Malayalam: Ram-tulasi ; Tirunitri Kannada: Kam Kasturi Marathi: Sabza Hindi: Babui ; Tulsi ; Sabzah Sanskrit: Bisva Tulasi ; Varavara |
description & usage
This small annual, aromatic shrub or herb, indigenous to Persia and Sind, is cultivated in gardens in India.
Uses:
Catarrh, chronic diarrhoea, dysentery, gonorrhoea.
How to Use:
Leaves are used for flavouring purposes. Seeds are useful in catarrh, chronic diarrhoea, dysentery, gonorrhoea, nephritis, cystitis and internal piles ; they also relieve the after pains of parturition ; they are used as an aphrodisiac (1 to 3 drachms) ; a teaspoonful of seeds steeped in a glass of water swell into a mucilaginous jelly and with some sugar forms an excellent drink in the above-named diseases. Juice of the leaves is dropped into the ear in earache and dullness of hearing. Mixed with a little ginger and black pepper the leaf-juice is given during the cold stages of ague.
Parts Used:
Leaves
Taste:
Pungency
Action:
Diaphoretic, carminative, stimulant
Uses:
Catarrh, chronic diarrhoea, dysentery, gonorrhoea.
How to Use:
Leaves are used for flavouring purposes. Seeds are useful in catarrh, chronic diarrhoea, dysentery, gonorrhoea, nephritis, cystitis and internal piles ; they also relieve the after pains of parturition ; they are used as an aphrodisiac (1 to 3 drachms) ; a teaspoonful of seeds steeped in a glass of water swell into a mucilaginous jelly and with some sugar forms an excellent drink in the above-named diseases. Juice of the leaves is dropped into the ear in earache and dullness of hearing. Mixed with a little ginger and black pepper the leaf-juice is given during the cold stages of ague.
Parts Used:
Leaves
Taste:
Pungency
Action:
Diaphoretic, carminative, stimulant
