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The aroma of basil can lift
melancholy and drepression
Basil is more than just a culinary herb for herbalists. They use it to improve appetite and gently combat fatigue. Like other herbs in the mint family it is carminative and disinfectant. The fresh picked leaves make a stimulating and refreshing tea. Basil has also been used as an aphrodisiac, and for melancholy and depression.
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Preparation Methods :Essential oil, herb teas, culinary seasoning
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Basil for :Culinary |
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Mediterranean and Indochinese cuisines frequently use basil, the former frequently combining it with tomato. One of the most well known uses of basil is as one of the main ingredients in pesto. |
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Basil for :Insect repellent |
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For a quick insect repellent, just rub some crushed basil leaves on your skin, or add the essential oil to a outdoors blend |
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Genovese basil plant
The sweet or bush basil is Ocimum basilicum is the one most used as a condiment. There are about a hundred and fifty varieties of basil, now found through out the world.
Basil should be grown in a position that receives a good amount of sunlight - around 6-8 hours a day. Basil likes a fertile soil, and plenty of sunlight. Water well every week, making sure to water the base of the plant, avoiding the leaves and stems. Harvest the topmost leaves, picking a few leaves. Harvest plants before the first frost. Basil can be dried or frozen for further use.
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 The oil is a light greenish-yellow and contains linalol, which is also present in bergamot and lavender oils. Basil is a very aromatic plant which has the stimulating properties of mint, but is hotter. Great to burn while working or reading, helps you to concentrate and uplifts your mood. It is restorative, stimulant, and nerve tonic. The various basils have such different scents because the herb has a number of different essential oils which come together in different proportions for various breeds. The strong clove scent of sweet basil comes from eugenol, the same chemical as actual cloves. The citrus scent of lemon basil and lime basil is because they have a higher portion of citral which causes this effect in several plants, including lemon mint, and limonene, which gives actual lemon peel its scent. African blue basil has a strong camphor smell because it has camphor and camphene in higher proportions. Licorice Basil contains anethole, the same chemical that makes anise smell like licorice, and in fact is sometimes called Anise Basil. |
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 Basil is originally native to India and other tropical regions of Asia, having been cultivated there for more than 5,000 years, reached Europe in the sixteenth century. |
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 This is the herb which all authors are together by the ears about, and rail at one another (like lawyers). Galen and Dioscorides hold it not fitting to be taken inwardly; and Chrysippus rails at it with downright Billingsgate rhetoric; Pliny, and the Arabian physicians, defend it...an herb of Mars, and under the scorpion, and, perhaps therefore called basilican, and it is no marvel if it carry a kind of virulent quality with it. Being applied to the place bitten by venomous beasts, or stung by a wasp or hornet, it speedily draws the poison to it. Every like draws his like. Nicholas Culpeper |
 Basil brings prosperity and happiness when planted in the garden.
In Europe, they place basil in the hands of the dead to ensure a safe journey. In India, they place it in the mouth of the dying to ensure they reach God. The ancient Egyptians and ancient Greeks believed that it would open the gates of heaven for a person passing on. | | |
 Keep Basil in the first aid kit to treat wasp stings and snake bites. | | To remove a wart, rub basil leaves on the nub daily and cover with a bandage | | Diffuse 5 drops of basil in an aroma lamp to lift depression |
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