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Basil leaves

Basil leaves (or commonly known as Tulsi in Asia) is a herb that is liked for variety of its uses. Basically, it is used for treating medicinal illness and diseases.

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Undoubtedly, treating an ailment by natural and organic items is better than anything else. Let us see in how many ways basil can be used for treating ailments:

  • Its leaves have the ability to improve memory.
  • They are used for strengthening the stomach and thus, improving the digestive system.
  • Boil basil leaves with tea and drink in rainy season as a safeguard against dengue and malaria fevers.
  • In cases of fever, the juice of basil leaves helps in bringing down the body temperature.
  • In cases of bronchitis, these leaves mobilize the mucus and relieve the ailment.
  • Chewing the basil leaves can help in cold.

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Herbal Remedies

1. Aloe Vera :

This herb has its own reputation worldwide. It is widely used as an herbal medicine from the oldest time. It is having extraordinary features of curing diseases.

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It is having a long history for its usage. Its beneficial effects on health and beauty resulted in its vast usage both in internal and external remedies.

The internal side of the leaves of the plant is having a gel which is widely used in several diseases.

The leaves are used in the treatment of burns. The aloine (milky liquid) is used as a laxative.

This plant is having about 20 minerals and it is very effective in regulating human metabolism, to accelerate the immune system, purifies the body from toxins, have antiseptic and disinfectant qualities and also have stimulating the cell renewal process. is vastly used in asthma, arthritis, inflammation of lungs, constipation, obesity, skin infections, sprains, anemia, and diabetes and cholesterol control.

2    Garlic :

This plant belongs to Africa and central Asia. It was originally discovered and used by Greek and Romans. Garlic has earned a good name as a best natural medicine. Garlic contains important antibiotic components, vitamins and minerals. It has many therapeutic effects as antibacterial, antiseptic, digestive properties, antihypertensive, diuretic and cancer curing qualities.

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Constipation Symptoms

Constipation is having more than one explanation. It is a condition where the colon is filled with hard stool and mostly very dry in nature which causes passing of the stool becomes very difficult and unnatural.

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It causes infrequent evacuation, a dull feeling to pass the stool, irregular habit forming in defecation and unsatisfied, incomplete bowel emptying.

It is very serious that constipation causes straining in some persons and eventually resulting in the bleeding of the rectum. Rectal defects appear in severe cases. In a medical condition called irritable bowel syndrome, constipation alternates with diarrhea. Age is normally connected with this habit of constipation and as the age grows bowel movements is slowing down and constipation begins to appear.

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Constipation

Constipation is having more than one explanation. It is a condition where the colon is filled with hard stool and mostly very dry in nature which causes passing of the stool becomes very difficult and unnatural.

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It causes infrequent evacuation, a dull feeling to pass the stool, irregular habit forming in defecation and unsatisfied, incomplete bowel emptying. It is very serious that constipation causes straining in some persons and eventually resulting in the bleeding of the rectum. Rectal defects appear in severe cases.

In a medical condition called irritable bowel syndrome, constipation alternates with diarrhea. Age is normally connected with this habit of constipation and as the age grows bowel movements is slowing down and constipation begins to appear.

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Infant Constipation

Constipation is a condition of the digestive tract or system in which the feces are formed hard and the person experiences difficulty in passing or expelling it from the rectum.

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This condition can also be called as irregularity of the digestive system. When there is lack of ability in colon to hold the water from the available content of the colon, the feces forms in to hard one and naturally the colon absorbs the maximum water from the colon content and the stool becomes harder. Too slow movement of the food content through intestines makes the colon to absorb too much water from the feces and they become hard again and become dry resulting in constipation. Painful defecation occurs in severe cases of constipation.

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