Savory

Savory is a herb that is used to flavor food and used for making medicines. It is also used in pickles and to spice up some food preparation. People take summer savory for coughs, sore throat, and intestinal disorders including cramps, indigestion, gas, diarrhea, nausea, and loss of appetite. People with diabetes take it to relieve frequent thirst. It is also used as a tonic and as an aphrodisiac to increase sex drive.

There are two kinds, winter and summer savory. It is well known as a kitchen garden plant.

It is a sovereign remedy for the colic, and the iliac passign; keep it by you all the year, keep it dry, make conserves and syrups of it for your use, and take notice that the summer kind is the best. They are both of them hot and dry, especially the summer kind, which is sharp in taste, expelling wind from the stomach and bowels. It is very beneficial to take during pregnancy. It is a good expectorant, reamoving tough phlegm from the chest, and improving the breathing.

The juice dropped into the eyes, removes dimness of sight, if it proceed from thin cold humours distilled from the brain. The juice heated with oil of roses, and dropped into the ears, removes noise and singing, and deafness. Outwardly applied with wheat flour, like a poultice, it gives case to them. It also takes away the pain that comes by stinging of bees, wasps.

Savory is rich in tannin, linalool, 1-borneol, x1-pinen, cymol, and carvacrol. These chemicals in savory can protect you from intestinal and lung infections, as well as renal infections. Savory leaves and tender shoots contain high quality chemical compounds that are known to have anti-oxidant, disease preventing and health promoting properties. Along with these anti-oxidant properties, the herb is also rich in dietary fiber that helps in the reduction of ldl or bad cholesterol and increases hdl or good cholesterol levels.

Savory can be used in teas along with coltas foot and chamomile and sugar to heal flu.

For those with anemia, the bitter compounds in savory can be healing and can act as a powerful tonic.

A tincture made with savory can be used in small amounts to cure the symptoms of rachitic children.

Rheumatoid patients who suffer from high fevers can dab savory on the affected aread to cure the painful symptoms.

Savory alcohol can act a good disinfectant and can be used to treat skin infections and wounds.

Infusions made with savory can be used to heal convulsions and edema in pregnant women.

Among the summer savory medicinal uses, it is also known to be an appetite stimulant and as a tonic to help prevent and cure diarrhea and well known to be an aphrodisiac.

Rubbing a branch of summer savory is known to ease the pain of a wasp or a bee bite.

The reason for this is that summer savory contains oil named carvacrol, which is known to be antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory, and anti-microbial.

Recent studies have suggested that this oil can help reduce sinus infections.

It has been used as an expectorant to clear the lungs as well.

It can cure mild sore throats and is also being used by diabetics to cure thirst.

Due to its aromatic flavor, it can be used as a salt substitute for people on low sodium diets.

The leaves of the savory plant contain many essential volatile oils like thymol and carvacrol and also linalool, camphene, caryophyllene, terpineol, myrcene and many other terpenoids.

Carvacrol helps to prevent the growth of bacteria like bacillus cereus and e.coli.

Out of all the oil content in the herb, thymol has been scientifically proved to be having antiseptic and anti-fungal properties that helps the bodyas immune system to improve drastically.

Savory leaves and tender shoots carry incredibly high-quality chemical compounds that are known to have been anti-oxidant, disease preventing and health promoting properties. In addition, dietary fiber in this herb helps reduce ldl or bad cholesterol while increasing hdl or good cholesterol levels.

Savory leaves contain many essential volatile-oil phenols such as thymol and carvacrol, as well as linalool, camphene, caryophyllene, terpineol, myrcene, and other terpenoids.

Thymol, one of the important essential oils, has scientifically been found to have antiseptic, anti-fungal characteristics.

In addition, another phenolic compound, carvacrol in savory inhibits the growth of several bacteria strains like e. Coli, and bacillus cereus. Carvacrol, therefore, has been used as healthy food additive for its anti-bacterial properties. It also gives pleasant tangy taste and marjoram like flavor to the food.

Savory herb is an excellent source of minerals and vitamins that are essential for optimum health. Its leaves and tender shoots are one of the richest sources of potassium, iron, calcium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, and selenium. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps controlling heart rate and blood pressure. Manganese is used by the body as a co-factor for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase. Iron is required for red blood cell formation.

The herb is also a rich source of many important vitamins such as b-complex group vitamins, vitamin-a, vitamin-c, niacin, thiamin and pyridoxine.

Dry savory provides 1.810 mg of vitamin b-6 or pyridoxine; furnishing about 130% of rda. Pyridoxine keeps up gaba (soothing neurotransmitter) levels in the brain, which has stress-buster function.

Vitamin c helps the body develop resistance against infectious agents and scavenge harmful, pro-inflammatory free radicals.

Vitamin a is a fat-soluble vitamin and antioxidant that are required maintaining healthy mucus membranes and skin and is also essential for good eye-sight. Consumption of natural fruits rich in flavonoids like vitamin a, carotenes helps protect from lung and oral cavity cancers.

Dry savory herb has amazingly high levels of vitamins and minerals. Just 100 g of ground dry herb provides (% of recommended daily allowance):- 120% of dietary fiber, 25% of niacin, 130% of vitamin b-6 (pyridoxine), 83% of vitamin c, 177% of vitamin a, 474% of iron, 210% of calcium, 94% of magnesium, and 265% of manganese but no cholesterol.

Savory oil is highly concentrated and is recommended in treating nausea, gout, headaches and rheumatism.

This herb also contains dietary fiber which is useful in controlling and maintaining cholesterol levels.

The dietary fiber helps to reduce bad cholesterol and helps to increase good cholesterol levels.

The flowering shoots of the savory plant contain many anti flatulent and antiseptic properties.

Savory are excellent source of potassium, iron, calcium, magnesium, manganese, zinc and selenium.

Potassium plays an important role in the functioning of the cells and body fluids and monitors heart rate and blood pressure.

The manganese content can be used by the body as co-factor for the antioxidant enzyme superoxide dismutase.

The iron present in the herb is used up by the body for the formulation of red blood cells.

One can also make small pouches of savory that is steamed and heated and then apply these pouches to inflamed areas.

These pouches can also help relieve oral pain as well as cramps.

Using distilled and tepid savory water helps to relieve the symptoms of bronchitis as well.

The shoots and leaves of the savor plant are alslo a good source of antioxidants, therefore prevent many diseases and promote overall good health. The herb is also a good source of various vitamins, such as b-complex group of vitamins, vitamin a, vitamin c, thiamin and pyridoxine.

Savory, in its dry form, provides 1.810 mg of vitamin b-6 or pyridoxine, furnishing about 130% of rda. Pyridoxine is very essential component and plays a crucial role of keeping up the levels of gaba in our brain, which helps as a stress buster.

The vitamin c present in savory makes the body resist various kinds of infectious agents and scavenge harmful, pro-inflammatory free radicals.

Vitamin a, on the other hand, is a fat-soluble vitamin and an antioxidant that helps in maintaining healthy mucus membranes and skin and is also important in improving the vision.

Consumption of savory also protects you from lung and oral cavity cancer, due to its rich vitamin a content.

Savory infusion can also be used in hot small amounts to heal edema and convulsions of pregnant women.

You can also receive desired result, by using the infusion to treat diarrhea and nervousness.

Tea brewed with savory can be used to treat internal health problems such as tuberculosis, uterine contractions, coughs, gastric problems, colic, urine retention to even headaches and rheumatism.

It can treat urine retention, relive mild digestive problems, sore throat, gastric disorders, cough, headache, liver and the kidneys, colic and uterine contraction.

Savory can also prove to be very effective against flu, if mixed in tea with chamomile and coltas foot, sweetened with sugar candy.

Savory tea mixture makes the body immune to all the infections and flu.

Apart from the tea mixture, savory juice mixed in a proportion of 1 to 7 along with sugar syrup can also be used as a flu fighter.

One spoon of this mixture should be taken each hour for effective healing results.

Savory tea, with the essential oil of savory can be used to treat intestinal worms.

The rich sources of vitamin in savory are able to ensuring good health and improving our immune system.

Savory might help and protect your body against common illnesses and infections.

Furthermore, the antiseptic qualities of savory offer protection against intestinal infections and parasites.

Savory's powerful antiseptic action can improve liver and kidney functions too.

Savory can reduce a headache and helps to regulate the gaba levels in the brain to handle the stress.

Savory can be used as a tea during the cold and flu season.

This herbal tea can reduce the chance of catching a cold or flu.

The soothing oils in savory can reduce the cold and flu, sooth sore scratchy throat and cough.

You can also mix savory with chamomile, mint leaf and black currant to strengthen the fighting cold and flu power.

Mixture between black currant and savory can help you to sooth convulsive cough.

Savory tea used to relieve digestive upset, flatulence, diarrhea, and support digestive tract.

You can use savory as a tonic to help prevent and cure diarrhea.

Since savory has a mild diuretic, it can treat conditions that affect the urinary track and even tuberculosis.

Besides, drinking savory as a tea can help maintain a healthy liver, bladder and good internal health.

Savory can be used to treat abdominal pains, menstrual pains or abdominal cramps.

You can infuse 200-250g of savory in3 hours for making herbal bath.

Put the boiled savory in the bath water and take a regular bath for 15-20 minutes though.

Savory alcohol can act a good disinfectant and can be used to treat skin infections and wounds.

People with oily skin can use savory in facial steams and baths for stronger skin.

You can infuse 20 gram of savory in 500ml of water for treating greasy complexions.

Used the water in small amounts and applied to the skin for 15-20 minutes.

Delicate, pleasantly aromatic summer savory is one of theapopular culinary herb widely employed in the eastern european and american cuisines. Botanically, this annual herb belongs within the mint family of lamiaceae, and known scientifically as satureja hortensis.

The herb is well tolerant of different climatic conditions and requires good sunlight to flourish. It reaches about 40-60 cm in height. Its sister variety, winter-savory, known as satureja montana, has sharp, pungent flavor and hence, less preferred in cooking.

The plant bears dark green, smooth leaves and small purple color flowers. Winter savory has similar growth characters; however, it features rather extensive branching, hard and woody stems. Several wild cultivars exist, apart from the garden savory. Satureja douglasii or yerba buena is one of the herbs that has been in use by the indigenous americans of california and alaskan regions as herbal tea.

Satureja thymbra, is another wild herb that grows in mediterranean and middle eastern countries and is known for its high essential oil; carvacrol and thymol contents.

Savory herb contains many important essential oils, which are found to have anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal applications.

As in thyme, distilled tepid savory water is used for throat gargling to help relieve sore throat and bronchitis symptoms.

The constituents in this herb part, especially the flowering shoots, has been anti-septic, carminative (anti-flatulence), digestive (helps digestion), expectorant (help clear throat), stomachic and anti-rheumatic (relieves joint pain) functions. (medical disclamier).

Avory leaves, fresh or dry, can be employed in cooking. Its parts have a slight peppery and tangy taste with marjoram like flavor. This herb has very good blending qualities.in order to keep the fragrance and flavor intact, savory herb is generally added at the last moment in cooking recipes. This is because, prolonged cooking might results in the evaporation of its essential oils.

Fresh summer savory leaves are being used as a garnish in salads.