BORAGE - Borago officinalis
Traditional use: fevers, inflammation, adrenal tonic, anti-oxidant
Used as a soothing and anti-inflammatory agent for mucus membranes, especially the digestive system. Borage can also be helpful in removing the mucus and dead cell buildup after fevers, and is stimulating to the adrenal glands. Borage is a refrigerant, meaning it actually lowers the temperature itself, unlike most herbs used for fever, the febrifuges, which heat the body and trigger the body's method of reducing fever, sweating. Both types of fever reduction are useful, but if a fever is dangerously high, febrifuges can raise it too much to be safe before they lower it. Borage is calming and cooling, but also elevating, and has been used against melancholy since ancient times. Borage seeds contain much more gamma-linoleic acid than Evening Primrose. |
