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The Benefits of Basil
Sweet basil! Who doesn’t want to eat tons of basil during the summer time? (Although we are getting so close to fall! I can taste the cinnamon and cloves!) Pesto is one of my favorite things to eat during the summer time! Besides being ridiculously delicious it has been used medicinally throughout human history. Herbalist Juliette de Bairacli wrote in her book that Basil has an affinity for men and it was fed to the princes of France. I thought this was interesting because I know from my aromatherapy classes with Herbalist Kathi Keville that in Italy if a couple got into a fight that the lady would leave out…