Taste: Lemon balm
For children: from 1
year
Infusion and taste of
tea:
Lemon balm pickle has a
light yellow-green color and a very pleasant, herbal-lemon flavor and aroma. It
is excellent on hot days as ice tea, but also when you need to warm up the
body. You can sweeten it with honey or dextrose.
Instructions for
preparation:
Pour lemon balm with
water at a temperature of 100 °C in the ratio of 2 teaspoons per 0.5 l.
Add 1 tablespoon extra
for making tea in a teapot.
After pouring, let it
infuse for 10 minutes, then strain.
You can add honey and
lemon to taste.
You can drink tea hot or
cold.
Melissa officinalis
(Latin melissa officinalis) - if it weren't for the excellent healing
properties of lemon balm, we wouldn't even know it existed. It is difficult to
find something nice about her appearance. The tiny flowers bloom gradually,
they are rare, the whole plant is not very attractive and unsuitable as an ornament.
The advantage is that it smells beautiful and in the form of direct consumption
(leaves) or teas it is very soothing (so it has sedative effects).
Effects on health:
The great popularity of
lemon balm now that life is full of stress is easy to understand. However, the
good properties of lemon balm have been known for a long time. The famous
physician and naturalist Paracelsus called it the elixir of life, apparently
because it is an extraordinary medicine for calming the entire organism. We
have more such plants, but lemon balm affects not only the nervous system and
psyche, but also heals all organs of the body affected by disease changes due
to stress. It relieves spasmodic contractions caused by nervous tension, calms
the beating of the heart, respiratory and digestive organs. It calms children's
coughing fits (together with motherwort), relieves stomach cramps and blocked
winds, helps against vomiting during pregnancy.
It is an excellent sleep
aid (for children as well as for the elderly). A cup of honeysuckle infusion,
sweetened with honey, replaces a sleeping pill while benefiting the whole body.
Tea is completely
harmless, we can drink it daily.
Effects of the plant:
• restlessness, stress,
anxiety, psychological tension
• insomnia, waking up at
night
• pychic exhaustion
• feeling of heart
palpitations
• heart rhythm
disorders, mild cardiac arrhythmias
• digestion, digestion -
stomach cramps
• coughing fits,
whooping cough
• bloating, blocked
winds
• nausea in pregnancy,
vomiting in pregnancy
• headaches
• migraine
• cold sore (herpes) -
an antiviral herb
