Description of species
It is a herbaceous, perennial, bushy-branched, up to 1 m high and fragrant, which increases the uncultivated land, through clearings in the forests of oak and are cultivated as a medicinal plant and melifera. It has a quadrangular airline strain, covered with bristles that is seen opposite leaves, petiolate, with oval limb, corded base and toothed edges.
White-yellow flowers, white or lilac are short pedicel and reunited in axillary whorls; calyx is bilabiate, hairy and corolla, longer than calyx, has lobbied convex upper lobe and the lower lobe curved down androceul of 4 stamens arched entire plant has aromatic lemon taste and smell. Blooms from June to August.
Vegetable product used
In therapeutic purposes are harvested during the flowering leaves (Folium Melissae) that dries in a thin layer of tin-roofed bridges and well ventilated. The product has a pleasant lemon scent becomes stronger by rubbing the leaves between his fingers.
Active ingredients: volatile oil rich in citric acid, caffeic and a bitter principle.
Pharmacological Action
The leaves of lemon balm essential oil because they have antispasmodic and sedative action and caffeic acid, tannins and bitter principles are responsible for the actions choleretic, carminative and stomachic this vegetable.
Uses
Infusion administered 1% (about 200-500 ml tea per day) especially in children, digestive disorders after meals, in spasms and intestinal colic in biliary dyskinesia and chronic colitis.
It is a herbaceous, perennial, bushy-branched, up to 1 m high and fragrant, which increases the uncultivated land, through clearings in the forests of oak and are cultivated as a medicinal plant and melifera. It has a quadrangular airline strain, covered with bristles that is seen opposite leaves, petiolate, with oval limb, corded base and toothed edges.
White-yellow flowers, white or lilac are short pedicel and reunited in axillary whorls; calyx is bilabiate, hairy and corolla, longer than calyx, has lobbied convex upper lobe and the lower lobe curved down androceul of 4 stamens arched entire plant has aromatic lemon taste and smell. Blooms from June to August.
Vegetable product used
In therapeutic purposes are harvested during the flowering leaves (Folium Melissae) that dries in a thin layer of tin-roofed bridges and well ventilated. The product has a pleasant lemon scent becomes stronger by rubbing the leaves between his fingers.
Active ingredients: volatile oil rich in citric acid, caffeic and a bitter principle.
Pharmacological Action
The leaves of lemon balm essential oil because they have antispasmodic and sedative action and caffeic acid, tannins and bitter principles are responsible for the actions choleretic, carminative and stomachic this vegetable.
Uses
Infusion administered 1% (about 200-500 ml tea per day) especially in children, digestive disorders after meals, in spasms and intestinal colic in biliary dyskinesia and chronic colitis.
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