Clove – Syzygium aromaticum – Eugenia Caryophyllata
Aromatic clove is an excellent herb or even better a spice with useful healing properties, known since antiquity.
Aromatic clove is an excellent herb or even better a spice with useful healing properties, known since antiquity.
One of the oldest herbs with known healing properties and widespread use in the world, is mugwort. The important healing properties that characterize it, cover a wide range of needs of the human body.
Common cinnamon comes from the cassia plant. The part of the plant used is the leaves and mainly the wood of the tree, the bark to be precise, from where the distillation of the essential oil takes place. It is one of the oldest spices in the world. But the healing cinnamon is much more expensive, thinner in thickness than the wooden and hard casia while it has much stronger therapeutic effects than casia.
Before referring to antiseptic herbs, it is important to note that an antiseptic herb differs in properties from an antibiotic. Of course, this does not mean that some herbs can not have both antiseptic and antibiotic properties!
It may not be an herb but it’s the pride of the Mediterranean! Read the 2nd part of the tribute to the precious olive tree!
"Your food is your medicine and your medicine is your food."