The essential oil of melissa is obtained from Melissa officinalis, a plant of the Labiate family. Known for its numerous properties, it is digestive, sedative and rebalancing, also useful for pressure, digestion and to calm anxiety. Let's find out better.

Properties and benefits of the essential oil of lemon balm

Rebalancing hormone system, used for problems related to menopause.

Digestive, taken after meals, lemon balm helps digestion, stimulating gastric activity and relaxing the stomach walls.

Sedative, it exerts a relaxing action on the nervous system, calms tension and anxiety and all psychosomatic manifestations related to these conditions, such as palpitations, headache, gastritis.

Cardiac, its solar energy tones the heart, regulates blood pressure, conditions of anxiety and stress and therefore their effects on the circulatory system.

Description of the plant

Lemon balm is a perennial herbaceous plant with wrinkled leaves similar to those of mint with a pleasant lemon scent. The flowers are white or pink with a tubular bilobed calyx. Melissa is native to the Mediterranean area, but now it grows spontaneously throughout Europe.

Part used

The leaves and flowering tops

Extraction method

Steam current distillation

Note

Heart and head note: fresh, citrate, slightly herbaceous fragrance

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Use and practical advice on Melissa essential oil

For digestive use: 2 drops of essential oil in a teaspoon of honey to be dissolved in an herbal tea or in a cup of hot water, to drink after meals.

For insomnia : 2 drops in a carrier oil to be massaged on the temples and on the abdomen to calm, relax and induce sleep. Also excellent in the diffuser in the bedroom.

For hot flashes : add 2 drops to the bottle of sage mother tincture to be taken regularly to calm hot flashes from menopause.

Contraindications of Melissa essential oil

Lemon balm has some side effects . It is not recommended for use in thyroid hormone based therapies, it could lead to paradoxical effects with states of agitation.

Background

The name Melissa in Greek means Ape. In ancient times these insects had a sacred value linked to the productive energy of honey. According to tradition, Melissa also participated in this transformation process.

It was considered a medicinal plant capable of supporting the heart, the nervous system. Paracelsus had called it an elixir of long life. The Discalced Carmelites in the seventeenth century had elaborated a melissa distillate which they called Anti-Hysterical Water indicated to calm anxious states, hysteria and support sleep.