Herbs and spices to not only enhance the taste of our food, they stimulate and increase digestibility, absorption and help counteract any incompatible food combinations. In addition, herbs and spices can be used to treat various illnesses. It is therefore, highly recommended to include them in our daily cooking. Enjoy the wonderful diversity of your garden and kitchen herbs and their medicinal properties.

BASIL

• A native to India
• Comes in more than 50 varieties (green to purple)
• Pungent and warming herb
• Helps restore your balance, especially lung- or stomach-related complaints
• Treats mild-depression, headaches or menstrual pain
• Calms nerves, aids digestion
• Treats fever whooping cough, constipation, nausea, insomnia, fatigue, colds, and the flu
• Effective against bacterial and infectious parasites

CORIANDER / CILANTRO

• Ancient herb from the carrot family
• Pungent, sweet in flavor, astringent and cooling leaves, and neutral seeds
• Supports spleen-pancreas, stomach, bladder, and lung-meridian
• Help regulate energy, are diuretic, and specifically treat urinary tract infections
• Leaves and seeds are support perspiration, treat fever
• Aid digestion, relieve intestinal gas, pain, and support peristalsis
• Treat nausea, soothe inflammation, rheumatic pains, headaches, coughs, and mental stress, and they quench first

CINNAMON

• One of humanity’s oldest spices
• Sweet and pungent, warming
• Supports spleen-pancreas, bladder, kidney, and liver meridians
• Increases digestive fluid secretion and ameliorates intestinal gas
• Raises vitality and stimulates all functions in the body, counteracting congestion
• It aids the peripheral circulation of the blood
• Useful for treating diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting, influenza, arthritis, menstrual cramps, rheumatism, and candidiasis
• It is not recommended for pregnant women

CARDAMON

• Old World Spice, member of ginger family
• After saffron and vanilla, it is the third most expensive spice
• Sweet, pungent tonic, warm in its thermal nature
• Acts upon spleen-pancreas, stomach, lung, and kidney meridians
• Aids digestion, relaxes spasm, and cuts mucus
• Eases coughs, breathlessness, burning urination and hemorrhoids
• It acts as an antidote to coffee’s stress on the adrenal glands

PARSLEY

• The world’s most popular herb from Sardinia
• Blood purifier and warming food
• Helps stimulate the bowels, and treat kidney and gallstones, deafness and ear infection
• Ant carcinogen
• Dried parsley tea ameliorates is a diuretic and ameliorates kidney function
• Strengthens the teeth
• Contains vitamin A
• 3 times more vitamin C than oranges
• Twice as much iron as spinach
• Good source of copper and manganese
• It stimulates the uterus but is not used by pregnant women, although after delivery its helps contract the uterus and encourages milk flow
• Do more with parsley than garnish
• Use as a sauce ingredient, base for salad dressings, in vegetables dishes, soups and casseroles

ROSEMARY

• Excellent stimulant and warming herb
• Improves poor circulation, lowers cholesterol, muscle and rheumatism pains
• Treats lung congestion, sore throat, and canker sores
• Stimulates the NS, supports mental functions and memory, helps relieve sluggish gallbladder
• It is not recommended during pregnancy

ROSEMARY TEA:

• Good aspirin alternative for headache, gas and fevers
• Buffer or alkalinize an overly acidic stomach

Method:

• • Steep 3 tablespoons dried rosemary or 4 sprigs fresh rosemary in a cup just-boiled water for 10 minutes
  • Strain, sweeten with raw honey if desired, and drink