All Healing Herbs

Kitchen spice and flavoring for pickles, soups, vinegars, and many other foods; rich in calcium, minerals, and fiber; used for healing since Roman times and longer; major indigestion remedy and stomach soother for infants, children, and adults; use for gas, colic, overeating, dyspepsia, hiccups, intestinal spasms and cramps, constipation, breath freshening; relaxes the muscles of the digestive tract; increases breast milk, can be given for infant indigestion through the breast milk when eaten by the nursing mother, promotes babies’ sleep; also used for wound healing (powder of burned seeds used externally), coughs, colds, flu, headaches; reduces sweating; new research lists it as a chemo-protective food that can neutralize some carcinogens and pollutants (cigarette smoke, charcoal grill smoke, and smoke from burning trash); stops the overgrowth of bacteria, yeast, and mold; source of calcium to reduce bone loss and osteoporosis. Stimulant, aromatic, stomach soothing, antispasmodic. No known cautions or drug interactions, but can cause dermatitis and sun sensitivity in some people; high in salt content.