3 Surprising Ways to Work With Rosemary as Medicine

0:00Here are three surprising ways to work with rosemary as medicine. Surprise number one. So rosemary can literally make cold hands feel warmer. Most people think of rosemary as a seasoning for potatoes, and it's great for that. But herbalists know it as a warming, stimulating herb. So for example, people with ray nons phenomenon, they struggle with circulation. They often have painfully cold hands. And there was a small pilot study where patients received a hand massage with rosemary, essential oil. And the result was that the rosemary increased the perception of warmth. In herbalism, we often describe plants by what they do in the body. And rosemary is warming and stimulating. And here's what makes rosemary really special. It's warmth is gentle. Rosemary's not going to overheat someone who's already winning warm. Surprise number two. Rosemary can protect you from your own grill. Not that kind of grill. A barbecue grill. So when meats are cooked at high heat, there's compounds that form that have been shown to alter DNA that can lead to cancer.

1:03And in one study, researchers added rosemary extract to meats during cooking. It's high antioxidant content helped prevent those carcinogenic compounds from forming in the first place. That's pretty cool. And this isn't a fluke. Rosemary is often called the queen of antioxidants because of the staggering amount found in its leaves. All right, surprise number three. You don't even have to eat it to benefit from it. Rosemary is famously called the herb of remembrance. Students have been tucking sprigs into their books for centuries. And it turns out that folklore holds up. There's a double blind randomized control trial where students took rosemary for a month, and they showed improved memory, along with reduced anxiety and better sleep. There's also a study in elderly population, as little as 750 milligrams of dried rosemary had a significant benefit on cognitive function. In another study, Alzheimer's patients experience cognitive benefits simply from smelling rosemary. So rosemary isn't a cure for Alzheimer's, but as part of a holistic approach, there's

2:07some really interesting research that looks genuinely promising. Here's what I love about rosemary. Once you understand its energetics, that it's warming and stimulating and gently moving, then all of these uses make sense together. And that's what energetics gives you. Instead of memorizing 100 herbs for 100 conditions, you start to understand how a plant actually works. This is exactly what I teach in my herbal energetics course, and I want to give you a sneak peek. I've written a rosemary monograph. It's one of 60 of the bonus monographs within the course. And this monograph goes deeper into everything that I covered here. So talk about the energetics, the research, how to prepare it, dosage safety. It's all in there. And when you get your free rosemary monograph, I'll also let you know when enrollment for my herbal energetics course opens. Check out the show notes to get your link. As always, thanks for joining me.