Melissa Officinalis
Lemon balm
Cultivation: c.org. bio
Certificate: EU-Organic
Medicinal Lemon balm officinalis is one of the oldest used herbs. Its name comes from the Greek word Melissa (bee), as bees really like this plant. Dioscorides treated dog bites and gout with it already in the 1st century, while his contemporary Pliny of Rome used it as a hemostatic.
It gained great popularity in Europe in the Middle Ages, and was already used as a medicinal ingredient. This plant was also the main ingredient of the "elixir of life" widely used at that time. Its aqueous extract, lemongrass water, was used in folk medicine as a sedative and pain reliever. It is also credited with a rejuvenating effect. Lemon balm (honeysuckle) is a popular plant in medieval monastery gardens; According to Paracelsus, of all the plants that grow on earth, Melissa is the best medicine for the heart. And he also claimed that he managed to make an extract from this grass that rejuvenated old women as well.
In his new Hungarian garden with grass and flowers. Lippay says:
"A Melissa greatly strengthens and comforts a person's heart: especially when food anxieties come to him in his sleep. It drives away sorrow and melancholy: if it is boiled into wine and drunk for so many days. Which is also very clean for a person."
Main features in brief:
- Improves blood circulation, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiseptic
- Reduces fever, hot flushes, sweating, improves the respiratory system Insect repellent, soothes and soothes burns and stings,
- Strengthens the immune system, detoxifies, affects the spleen and the thymus gland
- For muscle pain, muscle weakness, increases circulation
- For headaches, nervous exhaustion and neuro-vegetative disorders, calms, cleanses and awakens
- Skin tonic, energizing, cleansing, soothing, rejuvenating, anti-cellulite, especially beneficial for problematic skin types.
