Basil is both a food and a medicine. It is divid into 2 species: white holy basil, which we commonly use in cooking. Its branches and leaves are green and its smell is not too pungent, and red holy basil. Which has high medicinal properties. Its branches and leaves are dark reddish-purple. And its smell is more pungent than white holy basil because it contains more essential oils.
Today, UFABET we will take you to get to know basil better and see that it has more benefits than we think.
- Helps keep the body warm and prevent colds.
- Relieving stomach cramps and expelling gas to treat stomach pain, feces, and stomach bloating. It also helps reduce intestinal contractions.
- It is very effective in relieving stomach cramps and expelling gas to treat stomach pain, feces, and stomach bloating. It also helps reduce intestinal contractions.
- Helps relieve gas, stomach pain, constipation, and stomach bloating.
- It has the effect of helping to expel excess fat and sugar from the body. Helping to reduce body fat levels and blood sugar levels, helping to prevent diabetes.
- Help increase breast milk for women after childbirth by using about 1 handful of fresh basil leaves and adding them to curry soup and eating them frequently after childbirth.
- Use as a medicine to treat warts by using fresh red basil leaves, crush them. And apply to the wart area morning and evening until the wart head falls off. Be careful not to let it get in your eyes or on areas of skin that are not warts because. It will cause the good tissue to rot and be difficult to treat.
In addition, helps to eliminate the smell of meat. Use oil distilled from fresh leaves as appropriate. This essential oil attracts insects, causing fruit flies to fly to the oil.
Size and method of use as medicine: Using holy basil is easy. Just use fresh or drie leaves, shoots, or red basil to boil or blend and drink 1-3 glasses a day regularly.
Caution: Be careful when using high doses of basil in pregnant women. Or women who are planning to become pregnant and breastfeeding women. Or in diabetic patients who already have good blood sugar control, they must be careful when using high doses of basil. The dosage should be adjust appropriately so that blood sugar does not drop too low.