The Healing Remedies Sourcebook: Over 1,000 Natural Remedies to Prevent and Cure Common Ailments. C. Shealy Norman

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СКАЧАТЬ style="font-size:15px;">       Cardamom is a stimulant, an expectorant, a diaphoretic, and has aphrodisiac properties. Its qualities are pungent and sweet, with heating/moisturizing effects on the doshas. Cardamom aids in the digestion of fats and starches, stimulates, and calms acid stomach and acid regurgitation.

      Part of Plant Used The seeds and root.

      Conditions Treated Cardamom aids respiratory problems, such as coughs, colds, bronchitis, asthma, and loss of voice. It also benefits the digestive system in cases of vomiting, belching, and indigestion. Cardamom’s stimulating effects bring mental clarity and good humor.

      Form Taken Tea, as an additive to milk and food, as a bath, inhalation, or massage oil.

      Used with Other Herbs? Cardamom blends well with orange, anise, caraway, ginger, and coriander.

      HOW TO USE

       Cardamom reduces kapha and vátha, and stimulates pitta.

       Because of its soothing nervine properties, it will calm a fluttery high vátha state by kindling agni (fire).

       Cardamom removes excess kapha mucus from the stomach and lungs.

       Basundi, a milk-based digestive aid, is also a dessert.

       CAUTION

       Do not use with ulcers, or in high pitta states.

       EUGENIA CARYOPHYLLATA

       CLOVES Lavanga

      Clove is the bud of a tropical evergreen tree. Now common as a kitchen spice, clove was a rare, prized substance for thousands of years.

      PROPERTIES

       Clove has pungent and heating properties. It functions as an analgesic, expectorant, stimulant, and carminative. Clove has antifungal properties useful for treating athlete’s foot, and it deodorizes the mouth and breath.

      Part of Plant Used Dried flower buds (either whole or powdered).

      Conditions Treated Clove is recommended for colds, coughs, asthma, laryngitis, pharyngitis, toothache, indigestion, vomiting, hiccups, low blood pressure, and impotence. Clove tones muscles, and expectant mothers are recommended to eat cloves in the last month of pregnancy to strengthen the uterus.

      Form Taken As an oil, compress, inhalation, massage oil, lotion, spice, and tea.

      Used with Other Herbs? Cardamom, cinnamon, lavender, ginger, orange, bay leaf.

      HOW TO USE

       Cloves reduce kapha and vátha, and increase pitta.

       Clove has long been used to fight bacteria, tooth decay, and anesthetize dental pain.

       For temporary relief of toothache prior to visiting your dentist, clean your teeth gently and thoroughly. Dip a Q-tip in pure clove oil. Apply it to the affected tooth and surrounding gum area.

       CAUTION

       Clove should not be given to children under two, or nursing mothers, and should be used with care by pregnant women. External use of the oil may cause a rash.

       GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA

       LICORICE Mulathi

      Licorice is one of the most popular healing herbs in Ayurvedic medicine. It has been used for ulcers and malaria, to treat throat and respiratory problems, and to soothe rashes and infections. Due to its strong, sweet taste, the herb is sometimes used in recipes to mask the unpleasant taste of another herb.

      PROPERTIES

       Licorice is sweet and astringent. It is a demulcent, expectorant, and germicide, with laxative and alterative properties. It has been used with muscle problems because of its anti-inflammatory, antiarthritic properties. Licorice is antibacterial and antiviral.

      Part of Plant Used The root and bark.

      Conditions Treated Strengthens the nerves, promotes the memory, treats asthma, bronchitis, throat problems, digestive disorders, disorders of the spleen, liver disease, Addison’s disease, inflamed gall bladder, colds, coughs, constipation, ulcers, and gastritis. Licorice powder has also been used externally to treat genital herpes and cold sores.

      Form Taken As a powder, tea or infusion, food, or oil.

      Used with Other Herbs? Black pepper, clove, fenugreek, ginger, long pepper, sage, turmeric.

      HOW TO USE

       Licorice reduces both vátha and pitta.

       The herb, a common treatment for bronchitis and colds, may be chewed directly, taken as a tea, or made into a medicated ghee, or clarified butter, preparation.

       CAUTION

       Licorice may increase blood pressure slightly and can cause mild adrenal stimulation. In pregnant and nursing women, or cases of high blood pressure or high adrenal function, it should be used only on the advice of a physician.

       INULA HELENIUM

       WILD SUNFLOWER Elecampane, Suria-Mukhi

      Traditional Ayurvedic and Chinese herbalists have long used the dried root of the wild sunflower, or elecampane, to treat bronchial infections, asthma, and whooping cough.

      PROPERTIES

       Wild sunflower is a sweet, bitter, pungent herb with warming, drying qualities. It acts as an expectorant, a tonic for the nervous system, a rejuvenative, and a galactagogue (induces milk secretion). Elecampane’s antibacterial and antifungal qualities support its use in the effective expulsion of intestinal parasites.

      Part of Plant Used The roots.

      Conditions Treated Colds, bronchial infections, coughs, lung congestion, and infection. It aids digestive disorders, such as amebic dysentery, pinworms, hookworms, and giardiasis. It stimulates the brain, kidneys, stomach, and uterus, and eases sciatica. Wild sunflower has been used to treat menstrual cramps.

      Form Taken Inhalations, massage oils, and lotions.

      Used with Other Herbs? Cedarwood, cinnamon, lavender, frankincense, musk, tuberose.

      HOW TO USE

       Elecampane increases pitta, and reduces kapha and vátha with its warming, drying qualities. A decoction treats both СКАЧАТЬ