2nd day: Basil

I have lots of basil. Two rows worth of basil, and I have put many pint containers of pesto in the freezer, and I dried a lot, but I would like to see if it is useful medicinally, so I am looking through Marvel. So far, I've tried One Search, and found a book on URSUS about it, but I want the information now. So I tried refining the search and only came up with recipes.  Then I tried TA: Food Science & Technology Abstracts , and got a page that said

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and I have no clue where to go from there.

So, I'll try another idea.

I tried One Search for basil, medicial herb, and I refined search to "Items with full text online."

 

Oooh...here is what I want- in a ProQuest article:

An easy way to preserve basil is freezing. Pour a small amount of olive oil into a food processor; add fresh basil leaves and process until the mixture has a pastelike consistency, recommends "Prevention's New Foods for Healing." Then freeze the mixture in ice cube trays and store the frozen cubes in a freezer bag.

And:

o make a stomach-soothing tea, try Basil-Ginger Tea from "Savoring Spices and Herbs" by Julie Sahni: Bring 1 cup bottled water to a boil in a small saucepan. Add cup basil leaves and a quarter-size slice of fresh ginger. Continue to boil for 1 minute; then add 2 heaping tablespoons green tea leaves and 1 tablespoon honey. Turn off the heat, and let the tea brew for 2 minutes. Strain the tea, cool and refrigerate it for at least 2 hours. Serve it with or without ice.

This tea also can provide some relief for colds.

That's from

COUSIN OF MINT, BASIL ALSO HAS MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: [SOONER EDITION]

Pittsburgh Post - Gazette [Pittsburgh, Pa] 09 July 1998: E-5.

 

When I tried another article, the link brought me to:

You searched for: ISSN: 0715-5832 Document Title: Volume: Issue:

No results found.

So, what I am wondering is, why don't I just use Google?  What is the advantage of Marvel?  Is it because I can then have access to magazines I otherwise would have trouble finding?  I'm going to do another blog post about looking for articles about Olmecs, because my son was looking for articles about them, and I ended up ILLing an article from NG from Bangor about them.