Rosemary is one of the most useful and most flavoursome herbs.
It is thought that Rosemary is one of the few powerful heart tonics that is not a chemical drug. It’s a strong aromatic herb and effective insecticide, believed to be useful in parasite elimination preparations.
Rosemary also contains a chemical that is one of the few that can pass the brain barrier and is believed to improve brain function and memory by 20% and more. In tests, those who used a placebo did not get the same positive results.
Rosemary was often strewn in courtrooms to protect judges and jury from jail-fever.
Historically, it’s been used for speeding healing of the umbilical cord of a newborn baby, wounds, improved milk flavour when fed to cows, insecticide, hair treatments, heart ailments, headaches, high blood pressure, nervous ailments, nightmares, female ailments, threatened abortion, impure blood, gastritis, torpid liver, obesity, bites, stings, hair loss, nervine stimulant, digestive calming, muscular pain, sciatica, neuralgia, premature baldness, fevers, blood disorders, Alzheimer’s, dementia, memory, cognitive function, indigestion, concentration, liver protection, cancer and much more.
This truly has to be one of the most useful herbs, yet most use it just for flavour!!!!