Often used as a bouquet garni to flavor our homemade dishes, this aromatic shrub has many other properties… Appetite enhancer and body booster, the laurel, formerly revered by the Greeks and Romans, will quickly become one of our best health allies!
What is the laurel?
The laurel, also called laurel noble by translation from the Latin Laurus nobilis, is a shrub that has few requirements except for the heat and the sun that it then knows how to transmit so well to culinary preparations. Logically, it is mainly in the ground around the Mediterranean basin. It is recognized by its dark green, dense and resistant leaves, often used in the construction of hedges in gardens. Less known, the bay leaf also gives round, black berries in spring which, when used dried, have the same taste properties as the leaves.
But if bay laurel is an essential aromatic plant in French gastronomy, it is also renowned for its medicinal properties and widely used in herbal medicine.
The medicinal properties of bay leaf
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