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Borage
- 2-20-2010
- Categorized in: Natural Remedies

Borage is a plant with blue flowers and stems branched.
It is a plant particularly rich in mucilage, mineral salts (especially potassium), tannins and salicylic acid.
During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance beneficial properties attributed to him in physical and emotional disorders of the heart and even, at the beginning of the twentieth century, it is prescribed in cases of heart failure to relieve fevers.
Healing Properties
Borage-inflammatory properties which make it indicated, in the form of local poultices for the cure of skin rashes, acne, boils and abscesses.
It can be used in cases of flu and fever to induce perspiration. It also helps to remove the urea, uric acid and other waste substances. Therefore, it will benefit those with rheumatic diseases, gout and nephritis.
Similarly, borage seed oil is rich in linoleic acid which has the effect of lowering the rate of cholesterol in the blood.
It is also a hormone regulator that normalizes the ovarian and menstrual disorders.
Folk Remedies with borage
Folk remedy # 1: In cases where the cause requires sweat (in colds and flu) may develop an infusion of borage (10 grams in one liter of boiling water). If complemented with equal parts lime, the results are enhanced.
Folk remedy # 2: For swollen eyes, he should prepare a decoction de5 grams of borage in half a liter of water.
Folk remedy # 3: To strengthen the heart, we can construct a borage tea. This tea also helps to dispel the sadness of hypochondriacs.
Folk remedy # 4: To quickly calm the pain of burns, abscesses, pimples, boils and inflammations can apply a poultice of strawberries, borage leaves. They spend the leaves in boiling water and applied directly on the affected part, as emollients, trying to keep as warm as possible.
In this connection, he, too, an excellent result in very hot poultice of boiled leaves of borage in gout attacks, as it removes the pain.
Folk remedy # 5: In general weaknesses borage is crushed in a stone mortar and eaten with sugar or honey, boiled in white wine blood is purified.
Folk remedy # 6: For women who are breastfeeding, you should grind the seed and take it with white wine, since it stimulates milk production.
Folk remedy # 7: To purify the blood in case of a patient with measles, make a gram of DE30 Infusion borage flowers in a quart of water and take 4 scoops daily.
Recipe for a healthy diet with borage
Tempura Borage
To prepare this recipe for healthy eating must first collect a few leaves of borage, wash and dry.
Then be mixed in a bowl of whole wheat flour with water and a pinch of sea salt to get a good paste diluted. It should soak borage leaves (one by one) in batter and frying them in plenty of hot olive oil.
Then you should also fried zucchini flowers few, previously washed and passed through the paste.
Spring Salad:
This salad should be prepared first washing the lettuce leaves and placing them on a plate. Then add thinly sliced radishes and leaves and flowers of borage. Is flavored with oil, salt and mint leaves.
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