Benefits of Tulasi (Holy Basil)

With the onset of rainy season, cold, infection and other common diseases show up. With tulasi we can find ready solutions at home. We shall look at what kind of solutions are available for different problems.

Treatment for bleeding nose and common cold

1. Put 3 or 4 drops of lemon juice in nostrils. This will stop the bleeding nose.

2. Make powder out of dried Ocimum Tenuiflorun (Tulasi) and try to breathe in the powder. This will stop the running nose.

3. Fry wheat flour in ghee on mild flame. Eat this flour daily in small quantities. This will cure sinusitis.

4. Extract juice out of pomegranate flowers and put 5 or 6 drops of the juice in nostrils. This will stop bleeding of nose.

5. Eat 7 black pepper seeds daily. This will cure your running nose.

6. Drink hot milk by adding little turmeric to it. It will cure your running nose.

7. If you are sneezing more with running nose, boil rose petals in sesame oil and put two drops of the oil in nostrils.

8. Smelling coriander leaves also cures the sneezing problem.

Treatment for Headache and migraine

1. Prepare herbal juice (kashayam) from the roots of jack fruit tree. Boil the herbal juice for couple of minutes and let it settle down. Take 5 to 6 drops of the juice and put it in nostrils and rest for sometime. You will see that your severe headache will vanish.