Benefits of tulasi (Basil)

Thulasi Herbal plant: Tulasi is an ancient Indian Vedic name. The Botanical name is “Ocimum Tenuiflorum”, also known as “Ocimum Sanctum”, “Holy Basil”, or “Tulasi”, is an Aromatic plant in the family “Lamiaceae” which is native to the Indian subcontinent and widespread as a cultivated plant throughout the Southeast Asian tropics. Buy from any Nursery to grow it in your own garden to benefit.

    

                 

You have to search from any nursery or from some Indian’s house and bring a Tulasi Plant and grow it in a big flower-pot or in your house-garden. Tulasi Plant leaves are so good for Asthma and T. B. treatments without any side-effects, though slow but very effective in the long run with a 100% hope for a complete cure. Ask for this plant from your nearest nursery to grow in your garden. Buy a Tulasi plant pot from any Nursery and grow/look after it in your house and make use of it as remedy for many health problems.

Tulasi is otherwise called “Awasiman Santom”, or “Tulawaan” or “Boodawani” or in Sanskrit “Brinda” or “Surasa”. Tulasi is also called with various names as Rama Tulasi, Krishna Tualsi, Vishnu Tulasi, Naa’yi (dog) Tulasi and Kaattu (wild) Tulasi. It is sacred for Hindus to keep a “Tulasi Madam” in the middle of every house and use the herbal plant leaves for health reasons and also for worship. The plant gives good odor and produces lots and lots of Oxygen around it in the atmosphere, throughout the day, which is very good for the health of the dwellers/residents of the house to inhale healthy fresh Oxygen to breathe.

SKIN INFECTIONS: Tulasi leaves paste is good for Skin infections or “Ringworms” or Eczema. Apply and rub gently for few times on the rashes. It is good for (Venmai theymal or Azhagu theymal) red or brownish rashes on face, neck or back of your body. Apply the Tulasi leaves paste for a couple of times, wait for half-an-hour, after every application and take shower to get cured for a couple of weeks. Apply Tulasi leaves paste like “Henna” (Mehendi) every night for one week, in and out of your feet toes for any Anti-Fungal skin problem and wash/take shower the next morning. Continue this treatment till you get rid of this problem.

Generally, Tulasi is good for normal cold, fever and headache during Winter Season. Tulasi plant prevents the entry of mosquitoes inside the house. Tulasi is good for Mosquito bite you can make the Tulasi leaves paste and apply or apply the juice of Tulasi leaves on the exposed portions of your body to prevent Mosquito bite irritation. The Tulasi paste or Tulasi water acts as a “Mosquito Repellent”.  Tulasi Plant stops/prevents the entry of all kinds of bugs and insects inside the house. Tulasi is good for teeth and gums if you just munch the “tender leaves” of the Tulasi plant, it stops bad odor from mouth, stops bleeding from the gums and teeth. It acts as Anti-inflammatory to your immune system.

The Tulasi leaves paste is good for Respiratory tract infections or good for breathing trouble. Tulasi leaves are good for Asthma and T. B. Patients. The simple method to make a Tulasi Expectorant, Tulasi Tonic is as follows:

To make the Tulasi Cough Expectorant or Tulasi Tonic, take two (2) table spoonful  of Tulasi Paste and add a pinch of pepper plus pinch of salt to taste and drink two spoonful every morning every day for as many as days, comfortable to the patient to get perfect cure from Asthma and/or Tuberculosis (T. B). Continue this treatment for a couple of months and watch the improvement.

Wonderful treatment for Gall Bladder Stones and good for Kidney Stones otherwise called the Kidney Calculus and also for the entire Urinary tract problems. This Tulasi Tonic or Tulasi Juice is also good for Tuberculosis (T. B) and Asthma patients as well. It is also good for the people with a weaker heart (Cowered/timid looking people, who are afraid of coming before others or facing or meeting others with shyness and with some kind of fear or those suffering from inferiority complex). In general Tulasi is good for “Psychosis” Patients. Tulasi Teertham/Juice (the Hindu Priest gives this Theertham or Holy Water to Hindu devotees in their Vishnu temples). Let us not talk about religion. Let us think this Juice of Tulasi as health-tip to them.

Take three (3) Cloves, one (1) Cardamom and add one pinch of Green Camphor (Pachchai Karpooram) which you can get from the India/Herbal shop. Grind or make dry powder of all these three ingredients/items. Take half a glass of cold drinking water in a bowl. Put the above powder and put 15-20 washed and cleaned Tulasi leaves in to the bowl (now it is called Theertham or Holy Water for Hindus or called Juice for us) No cooking and no boiling of this juice. Just take one table spoon of this mixture/juice and drink (the taste will be normal and its odor will be good) any number of times in a day and continue this for a couple of months. It is good for T.B. and Asthma, for all Respiratory problems good for Weak-Heart patients called “Psychosis” Patients. This Juice is good for Cancer Patients who are undergoing Chemo/Radio therapy to protect them from Cell mutilation and cure since it acts as Anti-Periodic medicine for them. This is also good for those to dissolve the MUCUS (Balgham) normally accumulated on chest and relieves breathing trouble. This Juice or Theertham will also stop breathing problem and bad odor of the mouth.

How to make “Ear Drops” for Ear pain for children or elders/Running Puss from the ears: Heat Two 2 spoons of Sesame Oil in a frying-pan, and add two spoons of Tulasi leaves-paste, mix/stir with spoon and fry for few minutes. Filter it, cool it and put couple of drops in the ears for a couple of times to cure Ear-pain. Few drops couple of days will even stop running-puss from the ears.