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Ashwagandha: Benefits & Intelligence

🌿Ashwagandha🌿

Withania Somnifera

Ruled by the Sun ☀️

✨It’s a member of the Nightshade Family. It is sometimes called Winter Cherry or Indian Ginseng, due to its importance in Ayurvedic medicine.

✨Geo: Native to India but can be grown in herb gardens across the United States of America. It’s a perennial in warm climates with no frost. Ashwagandha likes sandy or rocky soil, full or partial sunlight, and moderately dry conditions.

✨Edible use: The plant is not generally eaten, but it’s seeds are used in the production of vegetarian cheeses. The leaves are used to make Tea.

✨Other: The fruits are rich in saponins and can be used as a substitute for soap. The leaves repel insects.

🌿An Ayurvedic & Adaptogenic herb used for thousands of years for regeneration, rejuvenation, and as a general tonic. It is highly valued for its ability to strengthen the immune system, balance hormone levels and its anti-anxiety, anti-depressant, and anti-inflammatory properties. It is used for all types of weakness or debility, whether from an illness, malnutrition, old age, overwork, insomnia, or any other case in which the body and its tissues are weak. It is considered calming and clarifying to the mind, and used to promote deep sleep without overly sedative effects. Recently, Ashwagandha was shown to slow the circulation of adrenaline in the bloodstream, making it useful for all types of anxiety, panic, and hypertension. Ashwagandha also has an affinity for the reproductive systems both men and women, and is used in all cases of dis-ease or malfunction of the sexual organs, as well as to improve and tone those systems in already healthy people. It is also used to balance the hormone system, and as an aphrodisiac.

🌿Anti-Inflammatory

🌿Revives Adrenals

🌿Releases Stress by reducing Cortisol levels

🌿Calms the Mind

🌿Combats Depression

🌿Balance Thyroid

🌿Improves Memory

🌿Anti-Aging Benefits

🌿Aphrodisiac

🌿Protects the Heart

🌿Relieves Arthritis

🌿 Anti-Cancer Properties

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DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT A DOCTOR AND THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE. PLEASE CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR OR MIDWIFE BEFORE TAKING ANY HERBS, INCLUDING THE ONES THAT I HAVE LISTED IN THIS POST.