An herb named kalimus that is an anti-oxidant.?!
Question:
An herb named kalimus that is an anti-oxidant.?
Heard about it on the History channel on a show about Nostradamus.
Answers:
Calamus
is a POWERFUL nauseant, stomachic, anthelmentic, stimulant, emetic, expectorant, carminative, antispasmodic and nervine sedative.
"Rhizome is used in the cure of host of diseases such as epilepsy, mental; ailments, chronic diarrhoea and dysentary. It is used in incense sticks and dhup and is widely used as insecticide for lice, bedbugs, worms etc"
as for medicinal use:
typically it is applied topically but can be taken internally in VERY SMALL DOSAGES as a soothing demulcent for the gastrointestinal system. Traditionally used to feed the brain and nervous system. NOT FOR USE DURING PREGNANCY. it has been know to help expell tape worms and other parasites.
i believe Nostradamus wrote at length about it in his "The Elixirs of Nostradamus"