Rosmary (Rosmarinus Officinalis) is a well known herb used for both medicinal and culinary purposes. It’s two most active ingredients are Caffeic Acid and Rosemarinic Acid – both have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant agents. Perhaps not so well known, is its beneficial effect on the liver. Rosemary has been found to stimulate the liver to make it work more efficiently, make an individual feel better and more energetic. Furthermore, it can help improve kidney function significantly and help to preserve the essential minerals sodium, potassium and chlorium.
Choleretic is an agent that stimulates the liver to produce more bile, while hepaprotective refers to the protection of the liver. Both of these are effects of Rosemary. Scientists have found that there is a significant increase in bile flow and a significant reduction in plasma liver enzymes when extracts are given as a pretreatment before carbon tetrachloride. This was shown by using lyophilized ethanol and aqueous extracts of young sprouts of rosemary.
Rosemary also has anti-tumorigenic effects in that it inhibits Killer B cell activity, as well as induced mammary tumorigenesis and carcinogen DNA adduct formation in mammary epithelial cells. Rosemary effects the central nervous system by stimulating the CNS, respiratory and locomotor activity (found in mice); it effect the skin by stimulating the skin, improving circulation and improving hemodynamics in occlusive arterial disease; and effects smooth muscles by inhibiting contraction of the tracheal smooth muscle seen in respiratory illness or asthma.
You can use Rosemary when cooking by adding it to chicken, fish or bean dishes; adding it to tea and using when sick or if you have a respiratory illness; and always use it as a functional food – not as medicine. Rosemary can be incorporated to a lot of other meats and vegetarian dishes as well.
To be honest, my boyfriend has Cystic Fibrosis which is a Respiratory and Digestion disease that targets not only the lungs but the liver and kidney as well. I’m wondering if there is any significant research with Rosemary and CF – although at first glance the only Rosemary + CF research on google relates to a person named Rosemary.
(http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-remedies/herbs/rosemary-health-benefits-00145.html)
(http://www.morgellons-disease-research.com/Morgellons-Message-Board/complementary-alternative-therapies/2698-health-benefits-rosemary.html)
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