Lemonbalm
Botanical Name: Melissa officinalis
Unani Name: Badranjboya
Taste: Cold, sour, dry, lightly bitter
Mizaj: Heating & Drying to the second degree
Actions: sedative, anti-depressant, digestive stimulant, relaxes peripheral blood vessels, promotes sweating, relaxing, restorative for the nervous system, antiviral, antibacterial, carminative, antispasmodic.
Culpeper: (Lemon Balm) cheers the heart & mind by purging melancholy.
Therapeutic Uses:
- Leaves - depression, digestive complaints from worry and anxiousness, feverish colds, external painful sores.
- Essential oil - depression
- In general for brain-related illnesses
Dosage/Applications:
- Infusions - digestion, depression, influenza
- Tinctures- 5-10 drops
- Compress - painful swellings
- Ointments - sores, insect bites, etc
- Infused oils - massage for depression/asthma, bronchitis
Reference:
Chishti, Ghulam Moinuddin. The Traditional Healer's Handbook: A Classic Guide to the Medicine of Avicenna. Inner Traditions/Bear, 1991.
Ody, Penelope. The Complete Medicinal Herbal. Dorling Kindersley, 1993.
Abascal, Kathy & Yarnell, Eric. (2004). Nervine Herbs for Treating Anxiety. Alternative and Complementary Therapies. 10. 309-315. 10.1089/act.2004.10.309.
Culpeper, Nicholas. Culpeper's Complete Herbal: Consisting of a Comprehensive Description of Nearly All Herbs with Their Medicinal Properties and Directions for Compounding the Medicines Extracted from Them. W. Foulsham, 1952
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