Clove is a dried flower bud native to Indonesia.
Tasty spice in our kitchens, it hides many other virtues, especially for better health!
So what are cloves good for? Breathing, digestion, muscle pain...
The medicinal properties of cloves are numerous:anti-inflammatory, antibacterial... So what are its health benefits?
Let's see 5 of its therapeutic benefits that will allow you to improve your health naturally and inexpensively.
Clove has local antiseptic and anesthetic properties. And eating or sucking on a raw clove can be beneficial.
Indeed, our ancestors chewed a few cloves to fight against bad breath, but also to prevent dental infections.
Faced with dental pain and while waiting for your visit to the dentist, you can make yourself an infusion of cloves. Then perform mouthwashes with it.
Or, what I prefer, use clove essential oil on a cotton swab and massage the tooth and the painful gum.
You can also drop a crushed clove at your tooth, but the very concentrated taste is not very pleasant.
After a slight tingling sensation, the pain should subside.
You will be able to get cloves very easily.
In what radius can you find it? Either at the supermarket in the spice section (€2.57 for a 23g bottle at Auchan) or online.
In case of muscle pain or rheumatism, the importance of cloves is well established.
You can try the painkiller massage oil recipe or try the clove-based one.
Because the clove has an anti-inflammatory virtue. It can also relieve your muscle, joint and rheumatic pains.
For this, you add about 10 drops of clove essential oil to 30 cl of vegetable oil (jojoba or sweet almond).
You massage the painful areas with this preparation three times a day. Pain should be relieved within 48 hours.
You will find clove essential oil in your organic store or here on the net.
Clove is a well-known tonic. You will be advised in case of intense fatigue or physical and intellectual exhaustion.
To stimulate your immune defenses and your memory, put 1 drop of clove essential oil on a sugar.
And you will take it twice a day, until the symptoms are relieved.
This remedy should be avoided in pregnant women, to avoid any risk of contraction.
Clove is not only antiseptic, but also antibacterial.
In herbal tea, ground or crushed, it is frequently used against urinary tract infections such as cystitis, kidney stones and stomach aches.
For example, to improve digestive disorders, you can infuse 3 to 8 cloves in a cup of hot water for 10 minutes.
You can drink this infusion by adding honey and cinnamon to soothe the slightly strong taste of cloves.
I couldn't forget to tell you about the apple of amber. It has two very interesting effects. First of all, an apple of amber is an orange (rarely another citrus fruit) with a bunch of cloves stuck in it.
The orange will release its citrus scent where you leave it. But above all, coupled with cloves, it will have the property of repelling insects. Especially flies and moths!
You will put your amber apple on your worktops, in your cupboards or you will simply hang it after having surrounded it with a ribbon.
Good smell and repellent guaranteed!
Warning! There are contraindications to cloves. As we saw above, it can represent a danger for a pregnant or breastfeeding woman. It is also not recommended for people suffering from hepatitis or hypertension. And it is also dangerous to give it to children under 12.
