Health benefits of cloves

Cloves are very useful in both culinary seasoning and herbal medicine. Medicinally, clove is considered a warming herb. Cloves are the dried flower buds that have red color and sweet fragrant taste due to the presence of eugenol.

Eugenol has made them subject of numerous health studies showing benefit for the prevention of toxicity from environmental pollutants such as carbon tetrachloride, prevention of digestive tract cancers, and treatment of joint inflammation.

Clove is a good source of manganese, calcium, magnesium, vitamin K, vitamin C, phytosterols, flavonoids, omega-3 fatty acids, tannins and volatile oil containing eugenol.
Here are a great uses for cloves:
*Temporarily treat bad breath and toothache
*Treat conditions of cold and stagnation
*It stimulates metabolism and decrease weight
*Relieve upper respiratory infections
*Reduce inflammation
*Treat scrapes and bruises
*Improve digestion
*Enhance sexual health
*Treatment of appetite loss
*Treatment of vomiting
*Relieves stress depression, anxiety and insomnia
*It boosts immunity
Health benefits of cloves 

Medicinal uses of safflower

Safflower (Carthamus Tinctorius L.) seeds are primarily cultivated for the production of edible cooking oil.

The flower can be made into tea that induces perspiration, considered effective against colds and certain cases of hysteria.

The major potion of safflower oil contains serotonin derivatives that have been proven to show strong in vitro antioxidants activities and to exert various biological effects on plasma and liver lipid status.

It was widely used in ancient, Ayurvedic and Greek medicine. The flower stimulates interferon production improves coronary and cerebral microcirculation and breaks up blood stagnation.

In Chinese herbal medicine, safflower is considered a vasodilator, a substance that causes blood vessels to open up. Chinese physicians believe that safflower helps nutrients get to the hair follicles.

It also relaxes and stimulates the uterus. It is used in the treatment of amenorrhea, arteriosclerosis, blood clots, coronary heart disease, constipation, delayed menses, fever, high cholesterol, hysteria, measles, miscarriage, seizures and tumors.

In Korea, safflower seed oil is used as an herbal medicine for the promotion of bone formation and treatment of osteoporosis and rheumatism.
Medicinal uses of safflower