Lemon Balm ( Mellisa ) ( Perennial ) Element: Water Magical Powers: Love, Success, Healing, and Strength. Culinary: This herb is most delicious in sauces, custards, syrups, jellies, fruit drinks, punches and make a beautiful garnish. Put fresh leaves in salads and salad dressings. Medicinal: Lemon Balm has wonderful calming properties, It is also used to cure chickenpox, cold sores, stings, rashes and shingles. Lemon balm relieves chronic fatigue syndrome and can be helpful in treating migraines. The tea helps to control high blood pressure, melancholia, helps with goiter, hyperthyroidism and graves disease. Infuse as a tea to ease insomnia, also for chronic bronchial catarrh, feverish colds, and tension headaches it has a mild antidepressant action and has a calming effect for treating over-anxiety, to assist in controlling hysteria, and panic attacks. Cosmetic: Drinking mellisa tea will help purify the body from inside. You can add a leaf to furniture polish. Rub on bee hives to attract new bees and keep the old ones there. Close page to exit or Return to Herbs Page Return to Home . |
