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Tulsi Health Benefits (Ocimum sanctum, Holy Basil)

Tulsi Health Benefits (Linden Botanicals)

Tulsi health benefits include its reputed ability to help people address physical, chemical, metabolic, and psychological stress.


Mounting evidence suggests that Tulsi tea and extract effectively help it address physical, chemical, metabolic, and psychological stress through a unique combination of pharmacological actions.

Tulsi (also called Holy Basil, Ocimum sanctum, and the Queen of Herbs) is an amazing plant, which is why we’ve written a lot about it. For starters, it’s a nootropic, an adaptogen, and an antioxidant. Used for thousands of years, Tulsi is prevalent in ancient Greek and Unani systems of holistic health as well as Ayurvedic medicine. Below, we’ll review some of the many Tulsi health benefits.

Scientific Research on Tulsi

Native to India, Tulsi has been used as an herbal therapeutic for more than 3,000 years. Here’s what a study published in The Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine says about Tulsi health benefits in an article titled “Tulsi – Ocimum sanctum: A Herb for All Reasons”: “The predominant cause of global morbidity and mortality is lifestyle-related chronic diseases, many of which can be addressed through Ayurveda with its focus on healthy lifestyle practices and regular consumption of adaptogenic herbs. Of all the herbs used within Ayurveda, Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum Linn) is preeminent, and scientific research is now confirming its beneficial effects. There is mounting evidence that Tulsi can address physical, chemical, metabolic, and psychological stress through a unique combination of pharmacological actions.”

In sum, Tulsi is used to nurture the body and support the natural healing process with a number of chronic diseases and everyday ailments. (Tulsi is recognized in both the Indian Materia Medica and in The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India.)

To be clear, we’re not suggesting Tulsi should be used to treat a specific disease. Instead, we will discuss the therapeutic uses of Tulsi recognized throughout Asia. Tulsi offers a broad spectrum of support, which is why we believe it’s a valuable health supplement. Our goal is to provide some understanding of the multiple body systems with which Tulsi interacts.

Below, we’ll review Tulsi health benefits and some of Tulsi’s more common therapeutic uses.

Tulsi: An Herb for All Reasons

 

Breathing Problems: Tulsi extracts are often used to relieve respiratory problems like asthma and bronchitis.

Common Cold and Cough: As an effective expectorant, Tulsi is useful in relieving coughs and sore throats that result from the common cold.

Eye Problems: Regular use of Tulsi extract may relieve eye problems like sore eyes and poor night vision.

Fever: Tulsi helps relieve various kinds of fevers.

Headaches: External as well as internal consumption Tulsi provides relief from headaches.

Heart Problems and High Cholesterol: Tulsi helps maintain healthy heart function and can lower cholesterol levels.

Insect Bites: Extracts from Tulsi can be used to prevent insect bites. Tulsi is also effective as a mosquito repellent and relieves itching from insect bites.

Kidney Stones: Tulsi supports the function of the kidney, and regular consumption of Tulsi tea can help with the elimination of kidney stones.

Mouth Ulcers and Other Dental Problems: Chewing of raw Tulsi leaves is used to relieve mouth ulcers. In addition, its antibacterial properties can help reduce dental problems like bad breath and may help prevent gum disease.

Nerve Tonic and Memory Sharpener: Extracts from Tulsi leaves act as a tonic for the nerves and may help sharpen the memory.

Skin Health: Tulsi is often used to support skin health and relieve skin infections like ringworm.

Stress: Tulsi is an adaptogenic herb. Adaptogens help the body combat stress and enable it to function normally during traumatic periods. Tulsi helps maintain the balance of the nerves and may boost energy.

Tulsi Health Benefits

This long list of Tulsi health benefits indicates that Tulsi interacts with the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, nervous, renal, and integumentary body systems. Today, it’s generally recognized that Tulsi supports issues related to cardiovascular disease, immunity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, psychological stress, and neurocognition. There is good reason to believe that a whole healthy lifestyle-related approach to optimal health will benefit from support with Tulsi as a health supplement.

We sell Tulsi in a 100 gram size (50 servings) as AHHH! Stress Relief Support. We also sell Tulsi in larger sizes (250 grams to 1,000 grams). To learn more, a good place to start is with the Tulsi FAQ. The FAQ  provides a more comprehensive list of benefits. It contains lots of science-based information about this amazing herb and the equally amazing tea you can make from it.

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