Cramps of the stomach, the intestine and the matrix, nervous origin. Palpitaciones nervous. Bronchial asthma. Insomnia. Hysteria. Weakness of the heart. Mareos. Cramps. Vomits of the pregnant women
Introduction: The Arabs, in century x, considered melisa as the plant of the heart, as much in strict sense (she was used against any cardiac alteration and to regulate the beat), as in metafórico sense (she recommended myself to recover of badly of loves, the sadness, the downhearts, etc.). The Christian culture ignored, like so many other Arab contributions to the medicinal science, properties of melisa, and was necessary to hope until century xx to rehabilitate our plant.
CHARACTERISTICS: Vivaz is a plant whose aerial part (stem and leaves) dries every year and bring forth new stems with the spring. It grows until reaching a meter of height, with a stem raised, graft from the base, of square section. The leaves are very great (of about 8 cm in length by 5 of width), made oval, with the dentated edges and the strongly marked nerviaciones in the inferior face. They grow of two in two, one as opposed to another one, inserted in the stem in the same point in which they are developed to the flowers or a small carrying branch of flowers. These are yellowish in the beginning, but during the development they are become white or pink. The whole plant gives off pleasant scent that remembers the lemon. It is also known him like toronjil, abeyadera and cidronela.
LOCATION: She is original of the south of Europe, although one is everywhere. Perfectly adapted to the American continent, it appears by the ways, next to the orchards and brooks, coming from left cultures.
HARVESTING: The flowery sumidades are used (extreme of the stems that contain flowers and leaves), that must be cut before the cocoons eclosionen, because when blooming the active substances are lost, and since melisa has them in low amounts, they must take advantage of to the maximum. They are possible to be dried or to be used, directly fresh.
USES And APPLICATIONS: It is used in infusion, although, exceptionally, it does not concern the amount of plant that is used, because she will never be excessive. (We remember that it has little amount of active principles.) Usually they take three cups to the day more, or, although most habitual it is to take an only cup when it is had a little while of excitation and an immediate tranquilizer is needed (melisa acts this as, because with honey he is pleasant to the taste and it exerts an additional psychological effect) does not exist no impediment in taking it like infusion by simple to please since it is an excellent tonic.
Its name evokes the honey: in effect, the bees appreciate their flowers, and the honey that produces with her is of richest (melitta means honey in Greek), but attention: if it displeases to see bees to us in our garden, we avoid to plant melisas.
Hipotiroidismo (a antitiroideo effect of the extracts of melisa has been described). Except for express indication, we recommended to abstain to internally prescribe essential oils during the pregnancy, the lactancia, to smaller children of six years or gastroduodenales patients with gastritis, ulcers, syndrome of the null and voidable intestine, ulcerosa colitis, neurological disease of Crohn, hepatopatías, epilepsy, Parkinson or other diseases.
Not to administer, neither to apply topically to smaller children of six years nor to people with respiratory allergies or well-known hypersensitivity to this one or other essential oils.
Not to prescribe forms of metering with alcoholic content for oral administration to smaller children of two years nor to consultantes in process of etílica deshabituación.
Indirect effect
The sedative effect is preceded frequently by a short period of excitation. The ingestion of 2 essential oil g can cause somnolencia, bradicardia, bradipnea and hypotension.
Precaution/Poisonings
To consider the alcoholic content of the fluid extract and the dye.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
Internal use:
- Infusion: a spoonful of dessert by cup, to instill 10 minutes. Three or more cups to the day.
- fluid Extract (1:1): 30-50 drops, 3 times to the day.
- It tinctures (1:5): 50-100 drops, one to three times to the day.
- dry Extract (5:1): 500 mg, 3 times to the day (1 g is equivalent to 5 g of dry plant).
- Water of melisa (or "Agua of the Carmen"): 5-10 cc, one to three times to the day.
- Juice of fresh plant: 2.5 mililiter, 1-3 times to the day.
External use:
- Alcohol composed of melisa: in form of frictions.
- Infusion: in form of hot baths, like relajante and antidismenorreico.
- Compresas of fresh plant (equímosis, mastitis).
- Juice of fresh plant: in order to palliate the symptoms of punctures of insects.
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