Bay leaf is favorite spice and a long time has a special place in our kitchen. But few are those who know that the leaves of this Mediterranean evergreen tree can be used for many health goals, not only for food preparation. You can use these leaves for preparations of medicinal oil, which possesses excellent health properties. Today we will discover more about this product, and method of its application.
Health benefits:
- To reduce pain
- Calms the nervous system
- Enlarge and induces sweating
- To strengthen the immune system
- Stimulates mental activity
- While it can be used to treat varicose veins and painful joints
Ingredients:
- 30g bay leaves
- 250ml olive oil
Preparation:
First, you should slice bay leaves and pour them with olive oil. Put the mixture into a glass bottle, close tightly and let it stand in a dark and cool place for 14 days. Stir the bottle from time to time. After 3 weeks, drain the laurel oil through gauze and transfer the oil into another bowl. Keep it in a cold room.
Laurel oil as a medicine
- If it is necessary, heat the oil on vapor. Massage sick joints thoroughly with this oil.
- Besides for treatment of joints, laurel oil is also used to treat inflammatory lymph ulcers, migraine, and diseases of the ears. If you have severe headaches you need to massage the temples whit this oil. Thus, the pain will disappear very quickly.
- Laurel oil can replace aspirin, it is able to reduce the increased body temperature.
- It also helps in removing pain in the stomach and intestines, normalize liver function and kidney function and improves appetite.
- Also, laurel oil is good for preventive measures. It has the ability to increase resistance to infection, that’s great when it comes to strengthening the immune system.
- You can use laurel oil to prepare a lotion for relief from skin problems. This lotion is very effective in fighting with acne and blackheads.
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