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Sweet basil ''Italiano classico" (80,0 g)
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Green Basil "Italiano Classico".
Mid-early variety. Plant height 35-40 cm. Leaves are green, with a pleasant delicate aroma and taste, containing many vitamins and minerals.
Used as salad greens, seasoning for soups, meat, and fish; especially suitable for making sauces for pasta dishes.
Basil has tonic properties and improves digestion.
Grown by seedlings or direct sowing in open ground. Sowing for seedlings is carried out in late March – early April.
Sowing in the ground in May or early June.
Planting seedlings in the ground – early June. Planting scheme 30x30 cm.
Prefers well-structured, humus-rich soils. Needs regular watering.
1.0 g = 600-700 seeds.
Mid-early variety. Plant height 35-40 cm. Leaves are green, with a pleasant delicate aroma and taste, containing many vitamins and minerals.
Used as salad greens, seasoning for soups, meat, and fish; especially suitable for making sauces for pasta dishes.
Basil has tonic properties and improves digestion.
Grown by seedlings or direct sowing in open ground. Sowing for seedlings is carried out in late March – early April.
Sowing in the ground in May or early June.
Planting seedlings in the ground – early June. Planting scheme 30x30 cm.
Prefers well-structured, humus-rich soils. Needs regular watering.
1.0 g = 600-700 seeds.
* Basil leaves are used for medicinal purposes.
The aerial part of the plant contains essential oil, tannins, ascorbic acid, glycosides, sugars, proteins, minerals. The composition of the essential oil includes eugenol, methylchavicol, cineole, camphor, ocimene.
Infusion of basil leaves is used for rinsing with stomatitis, tonsillitis, for lotions for difficult-to-heal wounds, and internally as an antipyretic, carminative agent. It is a lactogenic agent for nursing women, and is also used for neuroses, headaches, epilepsy, bronchial asthma, intestinal and hepatic colic, flatulence, lack of appetite, and low blood pressure. Fresh juice of the herb is used for inflammation of the middle ear, eczema, and difficult-to-heal wounds. In large doses, it acts irritatingly.
In folk medicine, it is recommended for gastritis, colitis, rheumatism, cough, whooping cough, and hot infusion of basil is prescribed for inflammation of the kidneys, bladder, colds, runny nose. Fresh and dry leaves are used as a seasoning for various meat, fish, and vegetable dishes.
• 5 g of herb per 250 ml of boiling water, infuse in a porcelain teapot for 15-20 minutes,
drink instead of tea 1-2 times a day for neurasthenia.
• 1 tbsp. herb per 1 cup of boiling water, infuse for 1-2 hours.
Drink 1/3 cup 3 times a day as a sedative for insomnia, migraine.
NB! Basil preparations are contraindicated in ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarction, diabetes mellitus, thrombophlebitis, hypertension.
Bot. syn.: Ocimum americanum L.
