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Aloe Vera (Aloe vera syn. Aloe barbadensis)
fatty acids that are helpful for the stomach, small intestine and colon. It naturally alkalizes digestive juices to prevent over acidity - a common cause of indigestion. It helps cleanse the digestive tract by exerting a soothing, balancing effect.
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Butterfly Pea Flower (Clitorea Ternatea)
It helps the growth of your hair. In Thailand, they include this flower in Shampoo and conditioner for its black color substance helping you
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Chilli
without chilli Thai food would not be what it is today. A shrub like herb, its adds the spice to most Thai dishes. It has many different species and come in colors of yellow, red or green all of which contain capsaicin, a biologically active ingredient beneficial to the repiratory system, blood pressure and the heart.
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Cinnamon
There is only one type of cinnamon used in Thailand and it is obtained from the Cassia tree. It is used mainly in meat dishes, particularly in Massaman curry.
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Citron
Citron is a round dark green fruit. Its thick, very aromatic skin is used for flavoring. Sour orange juice and orange peel would make the best substitute.
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Cloves
Cloves are the dried flower buds of an evergreen tree native to the Molucca Islands. They are almost as expensive as saffron because crops often fail. More popular in Western cooking that Thai, its oil is antiseptic. Cloves are used in massaman curry and to chew as a relief for toothache.
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Coconut (Cocos nucifera)
It is one of the important ingredients in Thai curries and dessert. Its ripe fruit produces a sweet and refreshing juice. Coconut Oil is used to treat stiffness when combined with others mixture.
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Coriander
Coriander is another important ingredient of cooking, with Thai kitchens being the only ones that uses its roots as well. Adding a distinct flavor to food, it is often used for seasoning.
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Cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
Benefit from the natural healing properties of cucumber, rich with hydration and vitamins.
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Cumin
Cumin seeds are used mainly to make curry paste for curry dishes. A small shrubbery herb, its seeds look like caraway and fennel. It releases its aroma on being heated. It also serves as bitter tonicm carminative, stimulant, and astringent.
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Deodorant Stone
The stones have been used in Thailand for hundreds of years as a body and foot odour prophylactic, as a cure for pimples and minor skin complaints, and as a water purifier. Chanin's are not selling the stones as water purifiers due to the time and financial commitment required to get it approved for that purpose. The combination of mineral salts has a fairly unique property of preventing bacterial growth. Because of the large molecular structure there ids no absorption into the skin. It leaves no toxic residue or by products.
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Galangal (Languas galanga)
Its color is similar to ginger, but more whitish. Mostly used in Thai soups and curries. The fresh roots are used traditionally to relieve digestive ailments and cure skin diseases. In spa treatments, it is used in body wrap helping the slimming process.
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Garlic
The kingdom is practically overflowing with garlic plants. Whole cloves, smashed garlic and garlic oil are used in almost every Thai dish. A herbaceous plant with underground bulbs, ot adds a distince flavor to food. It is a natural cholesterol-lowering agent.
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Ginger (Zingiber sp)
Ginger is good for relieving coughs, stomachaches, muscle soreness, exhaustion and boosting blood circulation. It is good for used in massage oil or bathing for its smoothing and warming effect.
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Ivy Gourd Leaf (Coccinia grandis)
Pieces of vines or cuttings, bird-dispersed seeds, probable dispersal by feral pigs. On Guam, only one sex of the plant is present (male), so spread is entirely by roots, pieces, and cuttings. The shoot tips are used in Asian cooking, so long-range dispersal is often the result of introduction by humans.
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Kaffir Lime Leaf (Citrus hystrix)
The kaffir lime leaves are a very popular spice in Thailand; their characteristic flavour appears in soups, stir-fries or curres (see coconut for a list of other ingredients to Thai curries). Strongly lemon-like. Although many people judge the fragrance crude, dominating and penetrating on first contact, most will find it uniquely refreshing after having grown accustumed to it. Kaffir Lime helps to tone the skin. Benefits include the soothing of sore and sching muscles, and easing of respiration with the ingredients camphor, menthol, and the reduction of tension through the heat and aromatic properties of the herbs.
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Krachai
Having no English name, Krachai is also a member of the ginger family. It looks like a bunch of yellow brown fingers and is mostly added to fish curries or peeled and served as a raw vegetable with the popular summer rice dish, khao chae.
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Lemon Grass (Cymbopogon citratus)
The fresh taste of lemon grass is typical for Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka. The spice is most popular in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and on the Indonesian islands. In Thailand, finely ground fresh lemon grass is added to curry pastes (see coconut). Its fine fragrance goes well with poultry, fish and sea food.
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Lime (Citrus sp)
Lime has a very strong sweet citrus smell, which is help stimulating and refreshing the body. Its oil should be applied very gently for bathing or massaging as it may irritate your skin. If applied as a poultice, it will help breathing problems.
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Marsh Mint
Fresh leaves of this herbaceous plant are used to add flavor, as a vegetable and sometimes also eaten raw. It is quite often used as a mild antiseptic and local aneathetic. This mint ( Mentha arvensis) is similar to the mint used for mint sauce in England.
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Menthol
"Phimsen" or Menthol has a sharp and strong mint smell. It helps refreshing mind, and ease respiratory problems, coughs, blocked sinuses, sprains, and similar conditions.
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Mint (Mentha sp)
Mostly it is used to garnishing the Thai dishes. With its refreshing smell, it is used in many treatments like foot treatment and body wraps.
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Nut Meg (Myristica fragrans)
It is an amazingly wonderful spice with numerous uses. Mix with massage oils, and use as a ligament to treat muscular & joint pains. Can also be added to baths, etc.
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Pandan Leaf
Its long narrow green leaves are used for flavoring and adding color to the different dishes. A very unique herb, there is no near substitute for its unique flavor.
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Papaya (Carira papaya)
In Thai cuisine, papaya is used in many ways, in Salads, or the ripe fruit acid from its peel can helps softening the meat. It also helps exfoliate and smoothes the skin when apply its fruit to your skin.
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Pepper
Pepper is a branching, peremmial, climbing plant from whose fruiting spikes both white and black pepper used as a spice and condiment, pepper contains a 2-4% volatile oil. Therapeutic uses are as carminative, antipyretic, diaphoretic and diuretic agents.
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Plai (Zingiber sp)
External use as anti-inflammatory for sprain and muscular pain, wound healing, therapeutic massage and for a steam bath
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Sea Salt
Natural Salt is an essential element in the diet of not only humans but of animals, and even of many plants. Use of natural salt is as old as human history. Natural Salt is one of the most effective and most widely used of all food seasonings and natural preservatives.Natural salt is source of 21 essential and 30 accessory minerals that are essential to our health.
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Sesame
Identical to sesame seeds the world overm in Thai cooking it is used for its oil and for flavoring. These tiny seeds are very rich in protein.
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Shallot
Shallots or small, zesty, Thai red onions are sweet and aromatic. An essential ingredient in many Thai dishes. It adds a special taste to the food. It also helps to alleviate stomach discomfort.
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Spring Onions
These green onions are used for garmishing soups and salads and sometimes as vegetables.
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Sweet Basil (Ocimum basilicum)
"Horapa" or Sweet Basil is used extensively in aromatherapy for ailments such as stress, migraine, colds and hay fever.
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Tamarind (Tamarindus indica)
You can make a drink from it with a tablespoon of tamarind pulp and a tablespoon of sugar mixed in a glass of water and ice. But be careful about how much you drink because it can be a mild laxative. In Thailand, the wood of the Tamarind tree is the best cutting board because it is soft for the knife and you frequently cutting boards made from flat cuts from a tree 4 inches thick and up to 3 feet in diameter.
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Thai White Mud
Thai White Mud (Din So Pong) was traditionally used ad talcum powder after shower. It offers cooling, healing and protecting natural body and face treatment for centuries. Not really like a mud but more like a thick white chalk, it effervesces in water also has pleasant smell and traditionally. Din So Pong helps draw out impurities, heals wounds, clears rashes.
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Tumeric (Curcuma domestica)
Called Khamin in Thai. This orange-colored rhizome is dried and crushed to form a powdered spice and coloring for many kinds of food. It is used in herbal medicine to treat stomach discomfort and in traditional cosmetics for skin care. When crushed, the oil the rhizome yields is an efficient natural moisturiser and it also has antiseptic properties.
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Egg Yolk
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