LEMON BALM  

MELISSA OFFICINALIS

General Health

  • Works directly on the thyroid to lessen the output of T3, a common factor in nervous tension

  • Promotes calm and focus

  • Soothes the nervous system in a gentle way

  • Wonderful for treating anxiety

  • Can be used for upset stomachs and gas

  • Great digestive support


Women’s Health

  • Aids in morning sickness, dizziness and headaches during pregnancy.

  • Taken regularly can help regulate irregular periods, eases menstruation pain and can be used as a uterine stimulant during labor to ease the pains of afterbirth.

  • Menopause: helps with hot flushes, depression, anxiety and palpitations

  • After birth:  a decoction poured into a bath and squatted in, may help bring on a delayed period and ease cramps after childbirth.

  • There is a strong sexual connotation with Melissa, especially for women who’ve experienced a sexual trauma (rape, abortion, miscarriage, or gynecological procedure.) In these instances, it helps women rebuild their integrity, wholeness and reconnect to herself. 

Emotional Support

  • Great for habitual worriers

  • Removes surface tension from the body

  • Lemon balm is strongly associated with the the divine feminine and the emotional self.

  • Lemon balm is wonderful for treating worry and healing heartbreak.

  • Great for those who give out too much love. Encourages more of a balance, as well as for those who are unable to receive love.

  • Lemon Balm has a strong association with water, and thus with the emotions and their balance and understanding.

  • Used  to attract romantic love. Eases and opens the heart.

  • Melissa works with the heart chakra, opening this center allowing for love to come in and allows for the possibility of unconditional love to exist.

  • Helps those who need love but are unable to receive, as well as for those who put the needs of others first. Supports those who mother others and need to replenish their own supply

  • When it comes to matters of the heart, lemon balm is your incredible ally. It not only improves circulation and strengthens the heart but it helps open it and become happy. 

  • Wonderful for negativity, or sluggishness or troublesome thoughts. Taken as a tea, it helps lift gloom and despair.

  • Is soothing, strong, warm yet delicate. For those who’ve been feeling a sense of hopelessness and being trapped, Melissa encloses and protects but allows for a sense of space to come into an individual’s life

  • If you find yourself worrying about the future, lemon balm can take the worry away and replaces it with a sense of peace.

  • Used as a tea, it helps lift despair and gloom and helps bring in light into the user’s life.


“I also really love lemon balm, Melissa. It’s actually one of the few plants I take on a regular basis. I have so much love for this plant. I feel so supported having the spirit of this plant with me. Especially in my aura if I’m having a tincture or tea. My favorite thing in the whole world and I recommend this to everyone who is reading this, if you can grow one plant, make it lemon balm. You can harvest the fresh leaves to make a tea and it will be the best thing your lips have ever tasted, especially with a little bit of honey. Lemon balm is so soothing for the nervous system. It’s a very gentle plant.

All of the plants that are named after women, like Melissa, are really, really sacred plants. It’s a plant that’s in the mint family and similar to a weed. All plants in the mint family help heal, susto, which is shock. If anyone has experienced  any shock the first thing you would want to give them is some sort of tea with a mint plant. If you have a child who’s had a bad dream, first thing in the morning give them a mint or lemon balm tea and it’ll help dissolve the shock. The mint and lemon balm plant can grow like crazy and it has an ability to go deeply into the body. People of all ages, small children and pregnant and breastfeeding  women can have lemon balm and mint. I have such a deep love for lemon balm. You can use it dried or fresh and there are lemon balm teas.”

Maggie Harrsen

Synergy

Works well with St. John’s wort.

Use

  • Infusion, Tincture

  • Eat fresh leaves

  • Steep one ounce in a pint of boiling water, covered steep for 15 minutes. Sweeten to taste.

  • Take freely as needed

  • Gather lemon balm before it flowers, when it has a wonderful lemony taste and delightful odor.

Toxicity

None

Caution

Pregnant women should be cautious about using large amounts of lemon balm tincture. May interact with other drugs

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