A fragrant, herbal plant is essential oil. Thanks to the oils that are contained in lemon balm, it is used as a condiment for all kinds of dishes, and for making drinks. Mint tea is known all over the world. The enchanting scent of lemon balm with delicate lemon flavor, relaxes, and gives the body strength, improves mood. The plant is added to the delicious cakes and pastries.
The chemical composition of the plant is medicinal. Melissa leaves contain: carotene (thanks to it vitamin A appears in the body), essential oil with lemon flavor, ascorbic acid, copper, organic substances. Seeds of the medicinal plant contain many oils.
Therapeutic properties and application of lemon balm
Melissa herb has medicinal properties that help in the treatment of various diseases. In medicine, the plant uses leaves or shoots (the upper part), and different medicines are prepared from a dry product.
Preparations, with the addition of lemon balm, are used to treat various diseases.
- The leaves of the plant have a soothing, antispasmodic, analgesic effect. They excellently treat diseases of the digestive tract, hypertension, flatulence.
- From melissa make tinctures. The drug is used to treat tachycardia, vegetovascular dystonia , arterial hypertension. A plant helps to treat asthma.
- Melissa infusion is recommended for people with sleep disorders, it is a sedative against irritability.
- Thanks to the medicinal properties of the plant, its juice is used to treat diseases. Accept it with neuralgia, violation of substances, anemia.
- Juice from the leaves of the plant helps in the treatment of diseases of the digestive tract.
- Melissa juice perfectly fights with fatigue, improves appetite.
- Melissa juice is used to treat constipation: the juice of the plant, diluted with water, is used for washing with hemorrhoids.
- Widespread use of lemon balm found to treat gum disease, it is used for rinsing.
- This plant, thanks to therapeutic actions, has been used for many years to treat obesity and diabetes and for the treatment of gastritis and ulcers.
Useful, medicinal properties and contra-indications of lemon balm for women
Melissa is quite popular with women, because it can normalize the menstrual cycle, and during pregnancy helps with toxicosis .
Another great tool for losing weight, it improves the metabolism, leads to the purification of the body.
Melisa will relieve swelling, and helps to remove excess water from the body. Tinctures of lemon balm help to produce breast milk in mothers during lactation.
However, there are cases when there are contraindications for pregnant women with melissa, so you should consult your doctor before using lemon balm and not forget about the individual characteristics of each organism.
The plant has contraindications - it lowers the pressure, so it is not recommended to use lemon balm with low pressure. And also you can not use various broths and infusions on open wounds.