Winter savory has been purported to have antiseptic, aromatic, carminative, and digestive benefits. It is also used as a fungicide, dentifrice, rubefacient, diaphoretic, perfume, carminative and sudorific. It has been used in herbal medicine as a carminative and anti-inflammatory. In Ethiopian herbal medicine, the seeds are used as a tonic, carminative, and laxative. The caper was used in ancient Greece as a carminative. The boiled green root is a potent carminative to reduce flatulence or dyspepsia. In India, the roots are considered a tonic, carminative and emmenagogue. The decoction exhibits actions like carminative, laxative, thermogenic, diuretic, lithontriptic, expectorant and demulcent. By the 1770s, Dalby's Carminative and many other English medicines were also North American hits. Furthermore, the bark is used as a(n) carminative, stimulant, astringent, antiseptic, antifungal, and antiviral property. It was also used as a carminative herb by Native Americans to treat excessive flatulence. The bulb has carminative, expectorant, sedative, antitussive, pectoral and tonic qualities. It is also a carminative, which means it reduces the gas associated with beans. The root is used in rheumatism, the leaves are a carminative. Bitter digestifs typically contain carminative herbs, which are thought to aid digestion.