uses of clove (laung)

The clove tree is a middle sized, evergreen tree. Clove is the dried unopened flower bud having many medicinal virtues. The flower buds are at first of a pale color and gradually becomes green, after which they develop in to a bright red, when they are ready for collection.

Botanical name : Syzgium aromaticum

Action : Anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antifungal, antioxidant, great for dietary, topical and aromatic use, antihelmintic, expectorant, etc.

Uses of clove :

• The aromatic oils of clove have a stimulant and irritant effect. Clove can increase blood circulation and raise a person's temperature slightly.
• Clove can be used to promote the flow of saliva and gastric juices. cloves can help to relieve the stomach pain, nausea, vomiting.
• Licking the powder of fried cloves mixed with honey is effective in controlling vomiting.
• It can relieve the pain in chronic rheumatism, muscular cramps, toothache and lumbago.
• Chewing a clove with a crystal of common salt eases expectoration, relieves in the throat and stops cough in pharyngitis, inflammation of the pharynx.
• 3-5 drops of clove oil mixed with honey and clove of garlic helps alleviate the painful spasmodic cough in tuberculosis, asthma and bronchitis.
• It is used to treat hiccough.
• It's great to keep on hand for cleaning and numbing small cuts and scraps.
• Cloves are of course an important cooking spice and clove oil can used to prevent food poisoning, as it is able to kill some food-borne bacteria.
• Cholera : 4 grams of cloves are boiled in 3 liters of water until half the water has evaporates.
• Asthma : 1 tsp of decoction prepared by boiling 6 cloves in 3o ml of water, taken with honey, thrice a daily.
• Earache : clove sauted in a 1 tsp of sesame oil and 3 to 5 drops of this warm oil put in to ear.
• Stye : clove stub rubbed in water and then applied over the stye.
• Headache : A paste of clove and salt crystals in milk is common for it.
• Its oil is used in the manufacture of perfumes, soaps, bath salts and as a flavoring agent in medicines.

Contraindication : Pregnant woman, people with kidney or liver problems, who have bleeding disorders, taking blood thinners should not use clove oil.