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Basil

Basil

Botanical name: Ocimum Basilicum
Botanical family: Labiatae

Note: Top

Part of plant used: Leaves

Origin: Originally comes from Asia, basil is found in both the northern and southern hemispheres.

Description: Very clear, sweet and slightly spicy.

History: Ancient plant used in Ayurvedic medicine. Used a lot in India and grown for luck in many homes. There is an ancient myth about a jealous father who chopped off his daughter’s lover’s head and buried it. The daughter found the buried head with a basil bush growing on it. (Poem by Keats)

Properties and Indications:

  • Digestion – activates peristalsis, enzymes, detergent for poor indigestion
  • Can clear blockages (mucous, psychological)
  • Restorative, stimulant, especially for the nervous system
  • Good for post ops – it can stimulate if the person is very low
  • Extremely euphoric, high, giddy feeling
  • Sharpens the senses, makes more alert
  • Helpful for people coming off tranquillizers and drugs
  • Wasp stings, snake bites

Personality:

  • Brings out repressed anger for people who cannot express anger
  • Expels melancholic vapors from the heart – depression
  • For people who are too laid back, cannot make a decision and people who procrastinate too much
  • Useful to connect a person, ie. for backwardness
  • Can move someone who has too much water, earth or air

Contra-indications:

  • Not to be used in pregnancy
  • Never use at night
  • Avoid on epileptics
  • Not to be used on people who are restless, irritable, strong willed, domineering, forceful, angry or burnt out
  • Not usually good for Fire signs unless they are depleted

Blending:

  • Bergamot, Black Pepper, Caraway, Clary Sage, Clove, Geranium, Hyssop, Lavender, Manuka, Melissa, Rosemary, Spearmint, Verbena
  • Not to be used with Marjoram

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