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Lemon Balm Tincture
$33
Ingredients:
Organic Lemon Balm, Organic Cane Alcohol
Benefits: Calming; antiviral; antidepressant; anti-anxiety; carminative; soothes digestion and gastrointestinal disorders; relieves tension; fights infections; improves mood; antispasmodic.
Lemon Balm
Lemon Balm has been cultivated for over two thousand years in the Mediterranean, where it has long been used for a wide range of ailments — helping with anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders; calming a stressed-out nervous system; fighting off colds, flus, and fevers. Paracelsus claimed it could completely revitalize the body, and Ibn Sina recommended it ‘to make the heart merry.’ One St. Hildegard of Bingen, an 11th-century herbalist from present-day Germany, said “Lemon Balm contains within it the virtues of a dozen other plants.”
Lemon Balm helps calm nervous stomachs, colic, and heart spasms; it’s also a carminative, helping to dispel gas. Due to its relaxing properties, it is a helpful sleep aid, It is gentle enough to be given to children, and has been used since ancient times to calm the heart and body. Nicholas Culpeper considered it to be able to open obstructions to the brain and expel melancholy vapors from the heart and arteries.
Lemon Balm has also always been associated with certain spiritual properties as well: used in spells to heal broken hearts and attract romantic love. For aspiring alchemists, it was often one of the first plants to be tinctured.