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Action
Stimulant, diaphoretic, anti-spasmodic
Oil is carminative and tonic.
Uses:
For Fevers: Use with with ginger, sugar, cinnamon. You can
also use a tea or decoction made from the leaves as a diaphoretic
in fever.
For disordered menstruation, for congestive and neuralgic
forms of dysmnorrhoea, for dropsical conditions caused by
chronic malaria: Use herb with black pepper.
For vomiting and diarrhea: It is carminative and tonic to
the intestinal mucous membrane.
For colic, flatulence, fever, catarrh: Use an infusion of
leaves with pudina, black-pepper, dried ginger and sugarcandy.
The lemon-grass oil is useful as a carminative in flatulent
and spasmodic affections of the bowels, colic, and gastric
irritability. It is also used in treating cholera with obstinate
vomiting, by controlling vomiting and aiding the process of
reaction. Use 3 to 6 drops of lemongrass oil on a piece of
sugar cube or in emulsion.
For painful affections - lumbago, chronic rheumatism, neuralgia,
sprains, etc.: Mix lemongrass oil with an equal quantity of
pure coconut oil. Use it externally as an embrocation or liniment.
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