Using Rosemary To Relive Stress
It’s very easy to get stressed out or to be overwhelmed by all the things you have going on in your life but it certainly doesn’t have to be that way. In fact there are natural and easy remedies you can use right out of your home that will make a big difference in how you feel and whether or not you feel nervous, anxious, or stressed out. It may sound amazing to some but there are all kinds of foods and herbs that can help you calm yourself and relax yourself when you’re too stressed or wound up to really be of any good to anyone. Take a good look at the things in your home, your pantry, and your fridge and ask whether they contribute to your stress or support you in living a healthy, stress-free lifestyle. In the meantime you can use rosemary to help combat some of those anxiety problems.
Rosemary is known to call the nerves and relax your muscles and it also boosts the flow of blood to the brain which can help you think more clearly while also improving your memory! Even just being around the herb and smelling it can lower cortisol levels and send us into relaxation mode. It’s also thought that rosemary can stimulate our adrenal glands to provide energy as it simultaneously lifts our mood to relieve stress. The best part of this is that not only are you getting energy to deal what your stress levels but you’re also being relaxed as you do it. There is also a specific compound in rosemary known as carnosic acid that has been shown to stimulate nerve growth and it’s a protein that is vital for this continual growth and maintenance of nerve tissue and helps repair the nervous system.
One of the best ways to incorporate rosemary is to use it in a tea because then you are not only ingesting all the good properties of rosemary you’re also inhaling the essence of it as you drink the tea which is a great way to calm down and still get all the healthy benefits of it. Just blend the fresh rosemary with some warm water and add a bit of a natural sweetener, like some raw honey to it. You can blend in other herbs as well just make sure that they complement the rosemary and wont cancel out an of the good effects that it can have on you. You also want to get into the habit of cooking with rosemary any time you can to provide a sort of ongoing defense to prevent you from getting stressed. Chop up rosemary and sprinkle it over salads, add it to soups, mix it in pizza dough, put it in sauces over pasta, garnish with whole sprigs of it and so forth. Doing little things like this can significantly increase the amount of rosemary you get in your diet and it can make a big difference in your overall health. Eat up that rosemary and enjoy being healthy and stress-free!