Rosemary- Not Just for Cooking

By Paul King


While the herb rosemary is found in a variety of culinary dishes, it also has health benefits in addition to it's great taste. Certain types of digestion disorders can be helped when those suffering from it eat it. It can also help to ease headache pain.

The two main ingredients that are helpful and also give benefits to your health are caffeic acid and rosemarinic acid. Both of these ingredients perform as antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agents. Because of these two active ingredients, rosemary is successful in help with heart disease, liver disease and asthma.

There are a few different ways that you can begin introducing rosemary into your daily diet so that you can gain all of the benefits that this herb has to offer. You can begin by adding this herbs leaves to your soups and other stews in addition to your meat and fish dishes. You will give your food a unique flavor and can enjoy the benefits that this aromatic plant has to offer. This will also taste great on lamb, pork and beef. Your digestive system will thank you for this especially if you suffer from a digestive disorder.

You can also add the leaves to a cup of tea for added flavor and advantage. Try adding a bit the next time you make frittatas or omelets. This also tastes very delicious when added to a roasted chicken. An easy way to create a butter for your bread is to mix rosemary leaves with olive oil. What a great snack!

This can also help people who suffer from Alzheimer's disease due to the way it helps with brain circulation. The plant can also help with being an antibacterial and it helps skin conditions by promoting blood flow.

Introducing rosemary into your diet can also help your gallbladder by producing higher amounts of bile and it can also help with IBS symptoms like bloating and intestinal cramping. Because rosemary can flush out yeast causing bacteria's it is great for fighting yeast infections. Due to the fact that it reacts as a fungicidal it can also destroy cells infected with yeast and it destroys candida yeast as well.

By adding rosemary to your diet you will begin to notice how much better you feel and you will be doing your body a lot of good. This will not require you to make a drastic change but rather a small one as you can add just a bit of rosemary to your tea and food.




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