OCIMUM SANCTUM
description & usage
This small herb is found throughout India and cultivated near Hindu houses and temples.
Uses:
Skin diseases, such as itches, ringworm, leprosy, bad blood, etc.,
How to Use:
Leaves ground with water are applied on bad boils. Persons who affected with bad skin diseases, such as itches, ringworm, leprosy, bad blood, etc., should drink the leaf juice and also apply the same by itself or preferably mixed with juice of lemon (lime-juice) as a paste for radical cure. Fresh juice checks vomiting and destroys intestinal worms. With honey, ginger and onion juice it forms a good expectorant remedy, useful in cough, bronchitis and children''s fever. Home Remedies - 1. Take the seeds of ocimum sanctum, cocculus cordi folius, dry ginger, root of solanum jacquinii, all equal parts. Mix and make a powder. Dose is 1/2 drachm. Used in cough and other affections of the chest.
Parts Used:
Leaves
Taste:
Astringency
Action:
Stimulant, expectorant, demulcent
Uses:
Skin diseases, such as itches, ringworm, leprosy, bad blood, etc.,
How to Use:
Leaves ground with water are applied on bad boils. Persons who affected with bad skin diseases, such as itches, ringworm, leprosy, bad blood, etc., should drink the leaf juice and also apply the same by itself or preferably mixed with juice of lemon (lime-juice) as a paste for radical cure. Fresh juice checks vomiting and destroys intestinal worms. With honey, ginger and onion juice it forms a good expectorant remedy, useful in cough, bronchitis and children''s fever. Home Remedies - 1. Take the seeds of ocimum sanctum, cocculus cordi folius, dry ginger, root of solanum jacquinii, all equal parts. Mix and make a powder. Dose is 1/2 drachm. Used in cough and other affections of the chest.
Parts Used:
Leaves
Taste:
Astringency
Action:
Stimulant, expectorant, demulcent