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We love to share sustainable, accessible, cheap (or even free!), holistic options we find that enhance wellness. Nature offers solutions to all of the human body's "problems", and we want to reconnect you to these roots! Knowing your options for real THRIVAL empowers you to take responsibility for your health into your own hands. Whether you take this info with you into the garden or wilderness, or you choose to order our beyond organic, super sustainable tea blends (or both!), we wish you happy healing.
With that in mind, we are sharing the incredible healing properties of the delicious, fragrant herb LEMON BALM with you today:
Lemon balm is a beautiful aromatic relative of mint with tons of super powers! We have huge patches of lush lemon balm in our garden this year. It's a hardy plant that needs very little maintenance, and bees really love it (hence its alternate name, bee balm). Given the declining bee population, it's great to plant some things that help out our little winged friends...because if the bees die, we all die too.
Lemon balm is well known for its ability to relieve stress, but it's also a superb anti-viral! New research suggests compounds in lemon balm have the capacity to eradicate the herpes virus and reduce the severity of outbreaks.
We add it to our food & activated water, dry it for tea, and are making some potent tinctures as well to utilize its healthful benefits. It is also a great addition to homemade beauty products for its skin-soothing benefits.
Plant medicine has been respected and used effectively for thousands of years. We hope you're inspired to experiment with lovely lemon balm for yourself!
http://www.herbwisdom.com/herb-lemon-balm.html
https://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/9-benefits-of-lemon-balm/
http://www.umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/herb/lemon-balm
https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/products/lemon-balm/profile
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I used lemon balm to help heal my last shingles episode. Worked very well with neem oil and monolaurin!
That's a really great testimony, @misskateabate! How long did you take it, and at what concentration? So great to hear you've regained your health!!!
Honestly, I'm not sure what concentration I took. I used a few homemade creams that contained lemon balm and they were helpful on the shingles themselves. I used it for about three months. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing! We've had great success using colloidal gold, aloe, and other herbs for shingles. It's wonderful to hear testimonials for natural plant remedies!
What concentration would you recommend for shingles bumps? I did use colloidal, but it was silver, not gold, and it still seemed to help.
hmm.. I should look for some in the garden and then put it in my water - thanks for the tip!
i do need this now - much stress these days :)
they call this citroen melissa here - lemon melissa :)
funny name :)
Melissa is an alternate name for it here too; "melissa" means "bee" in Greek, and refers to how the plant attracts bees! We love to put it in our water, it's delicious and very soothing. Enjoy, @englishtchrivy!
Lemon balm is super easy to propagate you don't even need rooting hormone just cut off 6 to 8 inches or so just below a node and snip away the lower leaves then place in a glass of water in a sunny window. In a few weeks or sooner you will see tiny little roots starting to grow once the roots are a few inches they are ready to transplant.
Thanks @jetjockey! Yes lemon balm is a great plant to propagate! Just like mint, it grows as a runner as is super duper hardy. Once you have some established, it really loves to spread! Sharing it with friends and family who want to plant their own gardens is a great use for it when it's time to prune it back, because as you point out it's so easy to start.
Great article on Lemon Balm! You really covered all the angles, bro!
Thanks, @wethesheeple1776~*~
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Kabayan .. please help me ..please .. im a stage4 acancer patient this food can help me?
See our reply to your other comment @maurain1525. Blessings~*~
Wisdom!
Knowledge is power~*~
Nature has your remedies.
True! Even pharmaceuticals are inspired by plants.
I love to know which plants can replace some of the most commonly used medicines. Killing the herpes virus is one of them, thanks for sharing. Upvote and resteem.
Yes it's a pretty big deal to find a plant that can remedy/relieve "uncureable" conditions. Thanks for your support, @pf-coin!
Oh what a plant!! Another great thing about lemon balm is that once you have a plant already growing, more plants will sprout and grow themselves without having to seed or transplant at all. This is a great post--some truly powerful information shared for optimal health. Thanks @gardenofeden!
Yes it's super healthy and super easy to grow. It makes sense for every herb garden to include it! Thanks for the input, @everlove!
Very helpful article. Thank you!
You're welcome, @lgfurmanczyk!
Thank you for the content. I always want to know more about Lemon Balm.
You're welcome, glad we could add benefit for you!
Love this type of info! will be following for sure, keep it coming!
Awesome, grateful it is well received! We will bring more and more, as these are some of our favorite topics, @steemtobefree!
Great stuff!!!
Agreed!
It would be nice to patch up with you as I also know good about preventing many diseases through foods.
I will also start sharing the health benefits of foods.
Keep it up !
That's valuable information to share, @cryptokraze! Food has the potential to heal and activate true health, and more people need to know they have the power to make healthy choices!
Yes we have to replace medicines with foods. I will be sharing that particular stuff you might be interested to look at.
Very informative post, thanks @gardenofeden
You're welcome, @crisgojar!
Great post!! Keep it up :)
By the way, I'm following you now
Cheers
Cool, thank you @brnofre!
How to make lemon valm but more importantly... How did you get that steemit emoji in your headline! ???🐋😲
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Thank you oh garden of heaven🐍
Well you didn't know, and now you know!
Does lemon extract to the same? Thanks for posting this very informative.
Lemon extract is from the lemon tree, which is a different plant than lemon balm. Lemon balm essential oil is an excellent way to get the healing benefits of this herb, and tinctures (= extracts) are another way to utilize it. Lemon balm is a great herb that can be eaten raw, added to food, or made into tea as well. There are lots of ways to get the healing powers of plants into your system!
Wow! I never knew! Thank you!
Thanks for the gif!!
I wish you a happy day possible support.....
Thanks @tohamy7!
Thanks for sharing! Who knew lemon balm could be so beneficial. I'll definitely have to experiment with this :)
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Kabayan .. please help me ..please .. im a stage4 acancer patient this food can help me?
Greetings, @maurain1525! While we don't give medical advice, we can testify to our experience that lifestyle changes, including using plants in the diet and as teas, tinctures, and oils, can reverse and eliminate disease. Highly recommend that you cut sugar out of the diet, and consider alkalizing and oxygenating your internal environment!
There's tons of research out there that shows people how to beat cancer. Blessings~*~
You're welcome, @cryptodata! It's super healing as well as pretty tasty, and it smells GREAT!
Well written and informative. Thank you for posting this. Steem On! :)
Thanks, @firepower!
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I have been putting some lemon balm in my water to help relieve stress! It works really well.
Awesome, that's one of our favorite uses for it too!
Thanks! I'm going to try and find some room in my garden for this.
Great, it's a super valuable addition to any garden because it's delicious, super healing, and great for the bees! It does like to spread, so keep that in mind, @garden-to-eat!
lovely
Thanks for great info, looking forward to more Plant Medicine post....keep the coming :)...many thanks..much Peace2U:)...upvote & follow
You're welcome, @plantbasedlife!!
Thank you @plantbasedlife!
Beautiful Post! Thank you and please continue :)
Thanks @sadyena! We intend to keep it coming!
The @gardenofeden has always and continues to KILL IT in the best of ways on Steemit! I love it!
Thanks, @apollomission! Spreading the word!! !
I woulds love to plant lemon balm at my house, but i live quite far north so the tempratures are quite low. Can i grow this outside in the summer with an avrage temprature of 8 celcius?
Good question, @egh. It's said lemon balm can survive -30 celsius conditions. https://www.growveg.com/plants/us-and-canada/how-to-grow-lemon-balm/
nice, thank you :^)
anything else to be noted? like, waterting cycles or such?
Great article
Thank you @infinity-owl!
Your post are very uplifting, do continue
I really enjoyed this post. Herbs are such wonderful, natural healers! To add to the list of benefits of Lemon Balm, it's gentle calming effects are very soothing for cranky kids! Upvoted, following and looking forward to more of your posts.
Thanks for your input, @eyeofthestorm! Lemon balm is really awesome for calming, and it smells great and is delicious so it appeals to children as well!
agreed completely... :-)
here is this steemit-post on health ( morning rituals ) everyone shud be doing it....for our own best ..
https://steemit.com/life/@ronyy/do-this-and-u-can-stretch-your-life-years
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Kabayan .. please help me ..please .. im a stage4 acancer patient this food can help me?
See our reply above @maurain1525. Blessings~*~
This is also great for a natural mosquito repellent, when citronella is not available. This is a very informative post. Thank you for the insight. I just planted several of them at my house and will incorporate this information into my usage of the plant!
Thank you for this excellent article @gardenofeden. Followed + upvoted & looking forward to more great content! Very nicely done.
hm didn't know all this thank you!