What is Basil

Basil is a herb that is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. It can be mainly used to treat irregular menstruation, bruises, clearing away heat and detoxifying, etc. It is very helpful for us to prevent various common diseases in our lives. However, many friends have a superficial understanding of basil and have no idea what basil is, so it is difficult to use basil to treat some diseases.

Basil's leaves are relatively large and pointed, and its flowers are white. Its height is generally more than 60 centimeters. Its entire body is very useful, so we must have a good understanding of the nutritional value and medicinal effects of basil so that we can apply basil to our lives.

Basil is a plant of the genus Basil in the Lamiaceae family. It is also known as basil, air basil, dwarf basil, tonka bean, and bright seed. The whole plant is used as medicine. It is warm and spicy in nature. It has the functions of dispelling wind and promoting qi, eliminating dampness and digestion, activating blood circulation and detoxifying. It is used to treat exogenous headaches, food bloating and gas stagnation, abdominal pain, diarrhea, irregular menstruation, bruises, snake and insect bites, skin eczema, urticaria and itching.

Basil is also known as orchid fragrance. Its leaves are oval and pointed, and its flowers are purple-white. Distillation of its leaves and flowers can produce a transparent and colorless essential oil with a scent that is very similar to a combination of cloves and pine needles. It's a huge family. The varieties currently on the market include sweet basil, holy basil, purple basil, green basil, dense basil, dwarf purple basil, lemon basil, etc. Different types of basil are named because of their characteristics or unique aroma.

Basil is an erect annual herb 60-70 cm tall, smooth or mostly smooth. The whole plant has a strong fragrance, the stem is purely quadrangular, and the plant is green, sometimes purple. The leaves are opposite, ovate, 2.5-7.5 cm long, entire or slightly serrated, with long petioles, gray-green underneath, and dark oil cells. On the terminal spike-like inflorescence, racemes also grow at intervals, with 6-8 flowers arranged in whorls, and small white or reddish flowers. The fruit is a small nut with oval seeds that are small and black. When seeds come into contact with water, they swell and become coated with sticky matter.

Medicinal effects

Headache, migraine, earache, sinusitis, bronchitis, expectorant, cold, asthma, hiccups, flatulence, excessive uric acid, muscle aches, loose skin, pimples, blackheads, epilepsy, irregular menstruation, low milk secretion, breast congestion and inflammation, mood stimulation, stress relief, depression relief, aphrodisiac, tonic, antibacterial, insect bites.

Regarding the basil introduced in the article, I hope you can learn more about it, which will help you use basil to treat diseases in your life. If we know what diseases basil can be used to treat, we can remain calm when facing the troubles of diseases in life and treat the treatment of diseases correctly.