Melissa officinalis

Melissa officinalis

Melissa officinalis: Description. A perennial herb, a plant with a pleasant myagkoopushennoe lemon scent. Stems quadrangular, branched. The leaves are opposite, ovate, serrate, pubescent. Flowers bilabiate, white, bell-shaped calyx. Stamens four, a pestle. Fruit - four nuts in the cup. Plant height 50-120cm.
Flowering time. June - September.
Habitat. In the wild form grows on bushes and forest edges. Cultivated in plantations of medicinal plants in the gardens.
The applied part. The leaves and tops of the stem with flowers.
Collection time. June-September, in time of flowering.
Melissa officinalis: Effects. Spazmaliticheskoe, analgesic, diaphoretic, stimulant, laxative. Effect on the nervous system similar to valerian. Enhances the activity of the digestive organs, stimulates appetite, reduces nausea, vomiting, relieves gas from the intestines, stops spasms, relieves heart pain and shortness of breath, strengthens and calms the nervous system, and overexcitation of sexual activity (calms and controls), regulates menstruation, improves metabolism, lowers blood pressure, strengthens the heart muscle, slows the breathing rate.
Melissa drug: Application. With neurosis, hysteria, migraine headaches, shortness of breath, sleeplessness, melancholy, nervous when excited, frightened, grief, nervous debility, neuralgia, neurosis, gastric, intestinal colic, flatulence, vomiting in pregnant women, hemorrhoids, constipation, painful menstruation, asthma, anemia , beriberi, pain in the heart, tachycardia, angina, arteriosclerosis, vertigo, tinnitus. When a toothache, gum disease - rinse infusion. Headaches, high blood pressure, blood, paralysis, rheumatism, gout, polyarthritis. If skin rashes, ulcers, bruises, boils - externally.
Method of application.
1. 2 tablespoons lemon balm herbs to 2 cups boiling water, 4 hours. Drink 1 / 2 cup 3 times daily before meals. For external use only the infusion of a double quantity of grass - with skin lesions.
2. 10-15 g of herb per 1 cup boiling water, leave. I drink about a tablespoon 3 times a day.
3. Herb lemon balm, and 70 ° alcohol (1:3), to insist 10 days. Take 20 drops to 1 / 3 cup water. Outwardly long rastirok rheumatism, gout, paralysis, arthritis.
Contraindications. Hypotension (low blood pressure).