Health Benefits of Holy Basil
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7. Protects Against Cardiac Disease
Cardiovascular diseases comprise a cluster of conditions, including high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, congestive heart disease and others. In many cases, it's believed that inflammation may play a key role. Holy basil may help treat these conditions and impact their effect on cardiac disease by reducing inflammation.
Holy basil may influence cardiac disease by lowering the blood's cholesterol levels, lowering high blood pressure and preventing clots in blood vessels.7Sharma V. Chanda D. ‘Ocimum: the Holy Basil Against Cardiac Anomalies.’ The Ocimum Genome, www.researchgate.net/publication/328069487.
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