Melissa is the most valuable honey plant. During flowering from this plant, bees collect a lot of nectar. And honey turns out pleasant and tasty, it is attributed to the best grades. But this is not the end of the useful properties of lemon balm.
Benefits of lemon balm
The curative properties of melissa have long been known. She was used in ancient Rome and Greece. It perfectly soothes and relieves spasms, and also has a mild hypnotic effect.
Tincture from this plant is drunk with a stomach ulcer. It stimulates the motility of the stomach, has haemostatic and choleretic effect. Therapeutic properties of lemon balm are used in the treatment of heart rhythm disorders of various origins and nervous tremor. Means prepared on its basis, can reduce the frequency of breathing and cardiac contractions. Due to its antiviral ability, this herb helps fight influenza, herpes virus and measles.
Melissa benefits are undeniable for hypertensives, diabetics and women suffering from menstruation disorders, because it has astringent, anti-inflammatory and bacteriostatic effects on the body.
But this is not the end of the useful properties of herbs. With its help you can:
- normalize digestion;
- regulate metabolism;
- restore the work of the brain, heart, liver.
The plant effectively fights against flatulence , nervous disorders, asthma, eczema, indigestion, shingles, acne, fungal skin diseases, stings of bees and wasps. It is proved the benefit of melissa tea for people who suffer from chronic fatigue and melancholy.
Application of lemon balm
In order to use the medicinal properties of lemon balm, the pharmaceutical industry produces medicinal teas and essential oils. But the remedies for treatment can be prepared at home.
Everyone who struggles with excess weight knows about the benefits of green tea with melissa , because it helps to reduce it. Brew it or from ready-made bags, which can be bought at any pharmacy, or add 10 grams of dry or fresh lemon balm to regular green tea. In a day you need to drink at least 3 cups of this tea.
But the medicinal properties can be used not only by making tea with melissa.- Decoction of it, too, is very easy to prepare. You need 20 g of dried raw material to pour 200 ml of warm water and put on a water bath for about 10 minutes. Then cool and strain through gauze.
- Infusion of lemon balm is prepared as follows: 2 tbsp. Spoons of dried flowers and leaves (crushed) of this plant are poured with 400 ml of warm water, the container is tightly closed and left for 4-5 hours. Then the infusion filter.
On the basis of lemon balm make compresses. Her fresh leaves are scalded with boiling water and wrapped in gauze. Such a compress perfectly helps with abrasions, bruises, scratches and skin diseases.
Benefit and harm of lemon balm
Melissa includes:
- tannins;
- resins;
- flavonoids;
- monoterpenes;
- phenylpropanoids;
- phenolic carboxylic acids;
- linalool;
- carotenoids;
- vitamins B1, B2, C;
- potassium;
- magnesium;
- iron;
- zinc;
- nickel.
Thanks to such a rich in trace elements, many mistakenly assume that the treatment of this herb is absolutely safe. This is not true. Melissa can provide the body and benefit, and harm.
This plant and preparations on its basis are contraindicated to people with low blood pressure. The reason is that melissa can further lower it. And when a person with usual or increased pressure just feels a soothing effect, people with hypotension can feel weak, dizzy and may even lose consciousness.