{"id":1233,"date":"2019-06-30T18:46:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilena.eu\/?post_type=glossary&p=1233"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:49:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:49:43","slug":"bosilek","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/bilena.eu\/en\/glossary\/bosilek\/","title":{"rendered":"Basil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Basil<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Osimum basilicum<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Residence in Bulgaria:<\/h5>\n
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According to unconfirmed data, the herb was brought here by the Asparukh Bulgarians. Basil constantly accompanies the lives of real Bulgarians, it is grown in every house. It grows eternally, ineradicably over Christ's tomb, to point to it as a heavenly sign. Basil is planted and grown here in gardens or in pots in homes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Description:<\/h5>\n
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An annual herbaceous plant with a pleasant, characteristic aroma. The stems are 30\u201350 cm long, four-edged, branched from the base. Leaves are opposite, long-stalked, ovate, 3\u20135 cm long and 2\u20132.5 cm wide, almost entire or sparsely toothed. The inflorescence is interrupted, spike-shaped, formed by small-flowered spines. The flowers are white, rarely pink. The stamens are 4, two longer and two shorter, curved downwards, sticking out from the corolla. When ripening, the fruit splits into 4 black-brown nuts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Usable parts:<\/h5>\n
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Leaves and flowers. Cut off with a sharp knife the entire leafy part up to 20\u201325 cm from the tip downwards, always during abundant flowering<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Collection time:<\/h5>\n
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June - August<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Composition of the herb:<\/h5>\n
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Contains approx. 1.5 % essential oil, which includes methyl halvicol, linalool, cineole, eugenol, geraniol, p-cymol, myrcene. It also contains tanning substances, one glycoside, one saponin, mineral salts, organic acids, etc<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Therapeutic effect:<\/h5>\n
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Basil soothes the soul and body, strengthens heart activity, relieves children's diarrhea. Basil essential oil has a sedative, antimicrobial, anticonvulsant and antitussive effect<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Usage:<\/h5>\n
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For runny nose, angina, uroinfections, colitis, neuralgia, diabetes, ulcer, periodontal inflammation of the oral cavity, toothache, chronic bronchitis, shortness of breath and asthma. Insomnia. It is also used for nephritis, inflammation of the prostate, pain during urination, intestinal infections, flatulence. It helps with pus in the middle ear and periodontal disease. Externally, it is used for washing in case of eczema, wounds, pus in the ears, sore throat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Ways of use:<\/h5>\n
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Internally<\/strong>: 50 g of finely chopped drug is poured with a liter and a half of boiling water, let it soak until it cools down, then strain and drink 100 ml 2-3 times a day - daily dose 300 ml. The same infusion is used for gargling and as an application for edema and eczema. It can also be used in the form of a tincture of 70 % alcohol and 10 % drug, taking 20 drops in a little water, 3 times a day.<\/p>\n

Externally<\/strong>: In the form of poultices for eczema, wounds, sore throat, inflammation of the middle ear. The drug is not toxic, but in large doses it strongly irritates the mucous membranes!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Bulgarian traditional usage:<\/h5>\n
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Basil is a garden flower with very small, white flowers and a strong, pleasant smell that persists even when dried. It gives it an advantage over the other flowers with which it is in dispute for beauty (Alenia, large-flowered peony, Zdravets). Basil is grown in almost every house and accompanies a Bulgarian throughout his life, because it is a flower from which all evil flees. He is sung in folk songs, mostly with the epithets "small, small" and "wound". "Greek basil" is also mentioned, which has larger flowers, but in customs and rites the small one is preferred. Basil is used fresh or dried, but must be in bloom. It is considered "Christ flower", "cross flower". It grows ineradicably over Christ's tomb to point to it as a heavenly sign. In Burgas, it is believed that Basil helps to see the heavenly world on the night before Christmas, because then the sky opens before the eyes of the righteous. A woman who wants to see the miracle roasts a cow and stuffs a sprig of dry Basil into it. If\u00a0righteous, until the morning it leaves and she sees the open sky.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Sliven, there is a belief that this is the only flower that goes to heaven. Basil has an important place in the making of a plant man. Nine sisters passionately desired to have a brother and made a human-like figure out of a stump, placing Basil for hands and dressing it in men's clothes. God heard their fervent pleas, breathed soul into the figure, and so it turned into a man.<\/p>\n

Basil gives extra power to the spell, so fortune-tellers use it during the ritual or place it near them. With Basil they make and break spells, especially for binding, ie. deprivation of the ability to have sexual intercourse. It is worn in the bosom during the Dirty Days for protection from evil forces. The herb is next to the lehussa's bed, they also give her to drink a tincture with sugar in case of a difficult birth. It is used in the water for bathing the baby until the 40th day and in the ritual purification of the lehusa and the family among the Bulgarian-Mohammedans. The placenta is dried on a stalk of Basil when a child is born with a "shirt". She protects against a bullet.<\/p>\n

Basil is associated with youth and purity, and in folk songs a bunch of basil is synonymous with a groom. Bunches of Basil are worn by maidens to attract bachelors and for health. They are exchanged between young people as an official declaration of their love as a sign of future marriage.<\/p>\n

Basil sprinkled around a dying person eases his agony. It is placed in the bath water of a dead person and in the wrists that are placed with him. Popes, perceived as "children of God", are buried with wristbands only by Basilek. When a pregnant woman has to say goodbye to a dead man, she brings him a yellow flower, and takes Basil from his wrists, with which she rubs herself and her baby after birth, so that they will not be as yellow as a dead man. Basil bunches are given to the living for health and to commemorate the dead. Almost every Bulgarian house has dried basil, it is given the most honorable place - next to the icons.<\/p>\n

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The herb is put into the wine while it boils. It drives away all evil, but ritually processed Basil has greater protective and healing power. On Blagovec, a snake is killed, its head is filled with Basil seed and buried in the garden so that the plant will grow through the head. On St. George's Day, a black lamb is slaughtered as a sacrifice and a bunch of the plant is dipped in its blood. On Blagovec, they bring Basilek to the church, which is consecrated by the priest. Maccabee is given a bunch of basil, with which the pope sprinkles the houses, and he is given another, also from Basilek. Against the day of the Cross, women bring bunches of basil to the church, they spend the night there, and at the morning holiday service, the priest consecrates them and takes them home, they are placed on the icon for healing. Basil is burned (smoked) in the hearth to ward off disease.<\/p>\n

With a decoction of Basil in vinegar and salt, goiter and "swallowed snake" (sickness) are treated, and with the juice of its leaves, an earache. Cream ointment is mixed with a sprig of Basil for burns.<\/p>\n

In case of flu, the patient is sprayed over dry basil and rosehip. For a fever, drink a decoction of Basil, wild blueberries, hemp seed, Zdravets, strawberry root, snakeskin, field horsetail and flax seed. For shortness of breath, drink a decoction of Basil, leek and Vetrogon. A decoction of Basil, Fenugreek, Samodivski candles, Savory, Fenugreek is drunk during plowing.<\/p>\n

In Istravci, the lehusa drinks a decoction of Basil, Loboda, honey and the seeds of all cultivated plants in the settlement. For worms in children, they are given coffee made from rye and ricin seeds, boiled in basil water.<\/p>\n

Three-year-old Basil, together with Broch root and Raturov flower, boiled in three-year-old wine, induce menstruation at the critical age. With a decoction of Basil, Peony and Trendafil they wash the children's faces to remove pimples. An aqueous infusion of Basil and vine shoots is recommended for frequent fainting. Basil extract in rose water is dripped into the eyes for sore eyes. Snotty children are incensed with a mixture of basil, sage, sage, bay leaves and other aromatic herbs brought from the Holy Sepulchre. Together with an apple, it is used in the composition of drops for eye pain, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Not to be used by pregnant and lactating women!<\/p>\n

Diabetics should follow a strict diet when using basil.
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Name in English<\/strong>:<\/span>Basil
\n<\/span>Name in German<\/strong>:<\/span>Basilicum
\n<\/span>Name in German<\/strong>:<\/span>herbe royale, Basilie<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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