Bay Leaves
KSh 500.00
Bay leaves add a subtle, woodsy, and tea-like flavor and fragrance to dishes. Key ingredient in stocks, soups, sauces, stews, and slow-cooked legumes and meats.
They are removed before eating due to their stiff texture and because they do not break down during digestion.
Benefits
- Improved skin and hair health
- Better digestion, and
- Reduce inflammation and pain
- Support immune system
Considerations/ Risks:
- Bay leaf could potentially slow down the nervous system; When combined with anesthesia and other medications used during and after surgery, this might slow down the CNS too much. Stop using bay leaf as a medicine at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.
- Large amounts of bay leaf might cause sleepiness and slowed breathing. Some medications, called sedatives, can also cause sleepiness and slowed breathing. Taking bay leaf in large amounts with sedative medications might cause breathing problems and/or too much sleepiness.
- Bay leaf might lower blood sugar levels. Taking bay leaf along with diabetes medications might cause blood sugar to drop too low. Monitor your blood sugar closely.







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