BASIL AND ITS MEDICINAL VALUES:
Honoring the medicinal values of Basil, our ancestors have worshiped as Rama Thulasi and Krishna Thulasi . There are many kinds of thulasi as Nar(good)thulasi, Karun(black) thulasi, Sen(red)thulasi, Nila (ground) thulsi, Kal(stone) thulasi Nay (dog) thulasi, Mul (thorn) thulasi. They are detailed below:
- Narthulasi: this cures phlegm, thirsty and tastelessness. It cures stomach pain and Sluggishness.
- Nay-thulasi cures phlegm, cough and pneumonia.
- Nila-thulasi – this cures the sluggishness coming out of milk to children. It also cures the warmth of the body, cold-fever, bile-fever and pneumonia.
- Kal thulasi cures tumer, insect-bite and beetle-bite.
- Thorn thulasi cures insect-bite and beetle-bite.
- Thorn thulasi cures incised wound and phlegm.
- Senthulasi cures removes poison. It cures phlegm and sinus.
- Karunthulasi cures cough, asthma and chest mucus.
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