Parts Used
Leaves, seeds.

Properties
Digestive aid, may have slight sedative effect, antibacterial (seeds)

Common Uses
Use in tea to aid digestion: steep a teaspoon of dried leaves in a cup of hot water. Leaves may be used in cooking, fresh, frozen, or dried. Chop them for use in cooking, or add whole leaves to salad. Seeds have been used in a poultice for healing skin sores.

Locating and Handling
Leaves are usually available at grocery stores in the spice section (dried) or in the fresh vegetable area. Also grown easily from seed.

Caution
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Origin
Native to India, Africa, and Asia.

Early Herbal Notes "MEDICAL VIRTUE-- It is aromatic, and, like other plants of that class, invigorates the system, and produces good in leucophlegmatic habits, especially chlorosis, or the green sickness, and the king's evil."