Holy basil (kgapraw) กระเพรา


It is a popular spot to put herbs in Thai cuisine.


Scientific name : Ocimum sanctum L.
Name family : Labiatae
Local name in Thailand : Kamkga, Kamkgadong, kgaprawkaw, kgaprawdang

Properties of drugs :
Prophylactic blood shortage, Secrete. Help devour fat, Solving have colic, In Holy basil. Beta - Carol Rosenthal T, calcium phosphorus iron and dietary fiber.




Used :
Add to spicy lemongrass soup To help deodorize smell meat from the sea. Sour pork with Thai Basil Sauce Fried crisp with fried fish patty or Add to the mix of fried fish patty. and Traditional hot Jungle curry

Galingale (Krachai) กระชาย


Scientific name : Boesenbergia pundurata (R0xb) Schitr
Name family : Zinggberaceae
Local name in Thailand : kraann raann (Central) kingann (Maha sarakham) wannpraartid (bangkok)

Style :
Galingale plant is highly uncertain about 60 cm. A rootstalk A cylindrical yellow flesh. Fragrant. Fine-grain, Red bract leaves, Leaves large lank and A flower panicle

Properties of drugs :
Use the wind driving the body. Helps digestion. Have a colic symptoms resolve in the stomach. Leucorrhea treatment. Diuretic
Nourish the heart . In Galingale Contain vitamin A. Vitamin B 2 and calcium.


Used :
Add to soup a strong odor, such as meat, fish or beef flavoring is added to fill in such as aromatic spicy curry puff, Traditional hot Jungle curry and noodles with fish curry.

Garlic กระเทียม


Garlic (Kra Tiam) กระเทียม

Scientific name : Allium sativum Linn.
Name family : Alliaceae
Local name in Thailand : Kra Tiam (Central) Ham Tiam (North) Hamkaw (Isan) Ham Ham Tiam (South)

Style:
Is a biennial plant that is underground heads. Each head consists of stacked approximately 4-15 Sort lobe lobe lobe each bract is a gossamer white pink coat in the surrounding environment. Garlic is not the root length; Nature has long flat leaves. Cape narrow leaves late. Leaf base coat Pile A flower panicle White is up a tuft at the tip of the shaft panicle A pungent garlic aroma. Peppery taste.

Properties of drugs :
Effect is lower blood pressure lower cholesterol, fat and sugar in the blood. Garlic contains Eniim waver in play.

Used :
Put in morning glory puff puff puff such as sweet basil or minced Then fry to put on yellow rice soup mixture to enter a northern crackling flavor of noodles. Or the pound with pepper and coriander root is mixed with a fermentation food such as pork in the soup on the insert. Fermentation to grilled chicken. Ingredient in chili and curry.

Citronella grass (Takhrai Hom) ตะไคร้หอม


Citronella grass with volatile aromatic oil. The use mosquito The smell is another one.
Popular Citronella grass a herbal plant. The generalization seems to cook with lemon grass.


Scientific name : Cymbopogon nardus (Linn.) Rendle, Cymbopogon winterianus Jowitt.
Name family : Gramineae.
English name : Citronella grass.
Local name in Thailand : Jakhraimakood, Takhraimakood, Takhraidang



Style:
Biennial plants are several years old isolation bole erect 2 m high from a cluster form a long smooth narrow width 5-20 mm long, up to 1 meter fragrant leaves the seam between the leaf sheath. Plans filed with a spawn, cut out about 2 mm long haired coat bract be intolerant Bract bottom ground stacked. Will curl up when dry. Not a large panicle up to 80 cm long leaf decorated like bract about 25 mm long flower panicle is supporting a separate sect. Each sect has 4-5 sub-panicle panicle dry the unbroken
Citronella grass is similar to most similar to Lemongrass a different smell. Bract leaves and leaf discs. Bract leaves are green Taacrgham of the red-purple leaf plates slightly wider than long and soft. Make ends hang down over the soil cover maroon flower panicle lunge out from the middle of a dry unbroken

Properties
Thai herbal medicine Ridsidwg resolve early in her mouth. (Entrance is cracked Wounded in the mouth), pregnant women eat.
Abortion cause strangulation matrix driving wind in the intestines aircraft was packed Taacrgham insects used in tandem.
Widespread long ago. The oil dissolves in the alcohol mixture of Taacrgham 7.
(70%) of 93 or lower inject fresh leaves soaking in alcohol in 1:1 ratio ทา marginal door.
Closed Open. Or cotton coat hanger out of place next door. Or use the form Taacrgham.
Infix to bruise, place in the corners or under the bed room.

Scientific data. Leaf and bract leaves are aromatic volatile oil, which is Geraniol and Citronellal.
Is a key component. A scavenging effect on insects, especially protect mosquitoes from research found that
Both from a mosquito. Currently there is a jump bite Made to take this type of herbal protect mosquito Olchaen.
Volatile oil smells fragrant lemon grass, startling mosquito popular.

Citronella grass a fragrant volatile oil extracted with 2 species.
Lenabuta derived from a gene in Lanka
And another type is a Mahapengiri varieties from Indonesia. Java area.
Today is widely cultivated in many countries in South America countries such as China.
The Citronella grass from a Java Message geraniol, citronellal with aldehyde.
Total alcohol and no less that 35% when analyzed by how acetylation.
Is the oil from Java types Taacrgham better quality types Lanka.