The rosemary Uses
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Use as an aromatic plant
Rosemary has a very strong, aromatic odor and a resinous, slightly bitter flavor, somewhat reminiscent of camphor and eucalyptus. He was used because of its similar odor as a substitute for incense.
Rosemary was part of one of the first distilled perfumes, is combined with the essential oil with alcohol. The mixture was registered in 1370 and was called after Queen Elizabeth of Hungary (1305-1380) “Hungarian water”. According to legend, assured a hermit, who presented the perfume of the queen, it would preserve her beauty until her death.
Cologne still contains rosemary oil.
Use in the kitchen
Rosemary found its first use in religious cults and appropriations of the pharmacist before he held in the kitchen. Rosemary is in the Mediterranean diet (especially in Italy and Provence), an important spice and is part of the Provence-herb mixture. He is also a classic barbecue spices and blends, among other things with meat, chicken, zucchini, potatoes and pasta. Also for dessert is the leaf or rosemary honey application. The Belgian chef Roger Souvereyns appreciates especially the mixture of apple and rosemary. Apple jelly, for example, can be aromatic with rosemary.
Rosemary is or has been temporarily used as a bittering agent in beer.
Use in medicine
Since this is a Mediterranean plant in rosemary, one could assume that even the Greeks and Romans had used him as a medicinal herb. That does not seem, for only Dioscorides brings a hint that “Rosemary had a warming effect.”
Rosemary is in natural medicine as a tea for internal circulation stimulation and used for flatulence, especially when he is stimulating blood flow to abdominal organs and the formation of gastric and intestinal juice. Also affects the drug gall and diuretic and is used as a tea used as an appetizer. At high doses can cause intoxication and convulsions. Daily doses of 6 g leaves for teas, 20 drops essential oil and 50 g for baths should not be exceeded in pregnant women is generally discouraged from taking.
Externally, Rosemary has hyperemia and is therefore used for bathing in both poor circulation, blood flow as also used in gout and rheumatism (such as rosemary as alcohol). Apart from rosemary alcohol can also salve for rheumatism and migraines can be used. As the infusion acts as a disinfectant bath products and promotes the healing of infected, poorly healing wounds.
Rosemary oil has a strong antiseptic effect, a 5.4-fold amounts of carbolic acid (phenol).
In the vegetable sector Rosemary has a tea brewed an antifungal effect on various fungi, and can thus be used as an in-house plant-or gain-medium.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosmarin
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