All Healing Herbs

Kept handy in most South American households as a culinary spice and to stop indigestion; sold as tea bags in most Spanish supermarkets; stimulates the liver, gallbladder, and gastrointestinal tracts, protects and detoxifies, dissolves fats and relieves inflammation and pain; digestive bitter that stimulates secretion of stomach juices; used for indigestion, dyspepsia, gas, stomach cramps, heartburn, ulcers, laxative, lack of appetite, and weight loss; stimulates bile for liver ailments, gallstones, fatty liver, jaundice, hepatitis; slows digestion in the intestines; use for intestinal cramps, spastic colon, inflammatory bowel dis-eases; expels parasites and worms; reduces uric acid production for gout and rheumatism; diuretic for bladder and kidney inflammation; use for cystitis, water retention, prostate enlargement; also tones the heart, increases blood flow to the heart, reduces heart rate, relaxes the blood vessels, inhibits blood clots; cellular protector and antioxidant, mild sedative; used for severe pain, insomnia, dizziness, to treat sexually transmitted infections, malaria, colds, earaches. Anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, tonic, antiseptic, stimulant, diuretic, sedative. No listed side effects; use only ascaridole-free preparations; not for long-term use, never take the essential oil internally; not for use in pregnancy or breastfeeding, with obstructed bile ducts or serious liver or kidney dis-ease; do not use with blood thinner drugs or aspirin; may reduce effectiveness of drugs that are processed by the liver.