Borage (rhymes with courage) flowers are wonderfully fuzzy! And the flowers are a true blue. Borage has culinary uses, but I will not go into those here. Collection of borage for medicinal purposes should be as follows: leaves when young, flowers while in bloom, and seeds after they have matured.
Tea from the leaves is used to dispel melancholy. The tea will also serve as a sedative. It soothes bronchitis, pleurisy, and rheumatism. It reduces fevers, dry coughs, and dry-skin rashes.
Eating the seeds will stimulate lactation in nursing mothers and help a person lose weight. Eating the seeds will retard the aging process and reverse hair loss. The seeds contain omega 3 essential fatty acids which can reduce inflammatory conditions that contribute to heart conditions.
Borage has very high levels of gamma linolenic acid which is effective against cancer.
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