Clove

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Your Dentist Loves It

Family: Myrtaceae; (includes Myrtle, Eucalyptus)

Genus and Species: Eugenia Caryophyilata or Syzygium Aromaticum

Also known as: Clavos, Caryophyllus

Parts used: Dried, powdered flower buds

Step into any spice shop, take a deep breath, and enjoy the rich, warm aroma that fills the air. Chances are the dominant fragrance is clove, one of the world’s most aromatic healing herbs.

Step into your dentist’s supply room, though, and things smell quite different. But chances are clove oil is one of the items on the shelf. It’s a dental anesthetic-and more.

Ancient Breath Freshener

Clove is the bud of a highly aromatic tropical evergreen tree. During the Han dynasty (207 BC to AD 220) those who addressed the Chinese emperor were required to hold cloves in their mouths to mask bad breath. Traditional Chinese physicians have long used the herb to treat indigestion, diarrhea, hernia, and ringworm, as well as athlete’s foot and other fungal infections.

India’s traditional Ayurvedic healers have used clove since ancient times to treat respiratory and digestive ailments.

Clove first arrived in Europe around the 4th century A.D. as a highly coveted luxury. The medieval German abbess/herbalist Hildegard of Bingen recommended the rare herb in her antigout mixture.

Magellan’s Voyage

Demand for clove (and other Asian herbs) helped launch the Age of Exploration. Magellan’s flotilla brought some back to Spain in 1512 when the explorers completed their first voy~ age around the world.

Once clove became easily available in Europe, it was prized as a treatment for indigestion, flatulence, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. It was also used to treat cough, infertility, warts, worms, wounds, and toothache.

America’s 19th-century Eclectic physicians used clove to treat digestive complaints and added it to bitter herb-medicine preparations to make them more palatable. The Eclectics were also the first to extract clove oil from the herbal buds They used it on the gums to relieve toothache.

Contemporary herbalists recommend clove for digestive complaints and its oil for toothache.

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