Description: - Annual
- Small shrub, purplish stems, olive/purple leaves with serrated edges, purple/pink flowers.
- Pinch out flowering shoots regularly
Culinary Uses: - Leaves have a spicy aroma add fresh to salads, fruit dishes, jellies, preserves, sweet breads.
- Use in Thai cooking, stir fry, hot peppers, chicken, pork, beef.
- Ingredient of Ethiopian spice mixtures.
- Soak seed in water cooling drink.
- Preserving: paint both sides (leaves) with olive oil freeze/ store in olive oil with salt/ dry-pack with salt.
Parts Used: Medicinal Uses. It is said that: - Antiseptic clears bacterial infections
- Lowers blood pressure and blood sugar levels. Help low libido and negativity
- Digestive system relaxes cramps, spasms
- Nervous system tonic for stress.
- Respiratory system asthma, sinus, flu
- Immune system rheumatism, arthritis
- Externally: Skin infection, mouth ulcers, stings and bites
Other Uses: - Good companion plant repel flying insects keep Tomatoes pest free
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