Tulsi Health benefits -

Ravi Narasimhan to Keralites

Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum) - Regular use of this medicine

cures cough, cold, chronic or new catarrh, nausea, cold

by birth, respiratory problem, pain in the eyes and head,

low or high blood pressure, heart disease, acidity,

constipation, gas, weakness of the kidneys, stones,

deficiency of vitamin A or C and the diseases caused

thereby, skin diseases, fever.

Common use of Tulsi leaf:

Jaundice - Basil is the best medicine for jaundice. Take ten basil leaves with 10gm of radish juice and consume 10gm with jaggery regularly for one month thrice daily to cure jaundice.

Piles: Eat three to five basil leaves everyday. Put five basil leaves in drinking water before half an hour. This cures piles. Grind the basil leaves and apply the lep on the haemorrhoids. And half a piece of camphor in this paste and avoid hot and spicy food items. Restrict sour food items totally for complete relief.

Cold: Take 7 holy basil leaves, 5 cloves and boil in one glass of water. Make pieces of holy basil leaves and cloves before boiling them in water. When the water reduces to half then add rock salt and drink it hot. After drinking this ecoction cover the body with clothes and let it sweat. Temperature becomes normal instantly and is also good to cure cold, catarrh and fever. This medicine can be taken twice or thrice in day depending on the severity of the problem. If the small children catch cold and phelgm then give ginger juice or holy basil juice with 5 to 7 drops of honey for instant relief.

Stomach-ache: Basil leaves cure the stomachache. Consuming one spoon each of basil and ginger juice cures cramps and stomach ache.

Stomach Worms: Heat the basil and ginger juice and take one spoon for two days at an interval of three hours to cure stomach worms, they are evacuated with stools.

Acidity: Make a powder out of flower of basil, skin of neem, small pipal and black pepper and take three gm of this powder on empty stomach to cure acidity. This cures the disease within 4-5 days

Thickening of the sperm: Basil cures seminal problems, take 50gm each of basil seeds and sugar candy and take 2.5 gm of this powder with milk every morning. If the basil seeds are not available then basil roots can be taken with sugar candy. The basil roots are also beneficial for strengthening and thickening the sperm and bring back the masculinity.