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Catnip Tincture
$33
Ingredients:
Organic Catnip, Organic Cane Alcohol
Benefits: antibacterial; antispasmodic; diaphoretic; immune support; nervine; treating cold, flu, fevers, and headaches; digestive health; menstrual health; fights infections; relaxant; helps with stress and anxiety; mood enhancement; nicotine and drug withdrawal.
Catnip
Catnip has documented use across a wide variety of cultures: Europeans used it for cramps, aches, fevers, and chewed it to relieve headaches; the Chinese for chest complaints and to attract good spirits. It is an excellent herb to treat colds and the seasonal flu, especially in children; it increases sweating and so can help flush out a fever.
Catnip is also a great herb for calming the nervous system and assisting the body to get a good night of sleep by reducing tension, anxiety, and hyperactivity; it also helps normalize digestive disturbances, from colic to flatulence, diarrhea to stomach cramps. It can also help with period pain, tension headaches, and with drug and nicotine withdrawal. It is also a potentiator, increasing the effects of other herbs it is used with.
It is uplifting without being stimulating, used by the indigenous of both the old world and the new world. It is high in vitamin C
A fun fact — catnip affects not only house cats but large cats too. Perhaps it would be wise to keep some on you if you find yourself in the jungle; it is even used in some zoos to calm down lions and tigers.