Gladstar profiles 33 common healing plants and includes advice on growing, harvesting, preparing, and using herbs in healing tinctures, oils, and creams. This is a great stomach soothing, anti-viral concoction, perfect to take when you feel like you’re coming down with a cold or bug. I have a great potful that I trim back and take to work, share with neighbors, family and use myself.

I just found out this morning that we have about 5 medium plants of lemon balm in our garden in Aruba and they keep on growing. I have a bunch of lemon balm waiting for my attention, and I could use that sleepytime herbal syrup due to some menopause-related sleep problems (I also have hormone-related blemishes that it could help with! Further, lemon balm is used for making perfumes, in cosmetics, and in furniture polish manufacturing. Ideally the tea should be covered while it infuses – if you are using a cup rather than a teapot then place a saucer over the tea while it brews.RENEWABLY SOURCED AND COMPOSTABLE We’re moving to a new eco-friendly Natureflex™ film for our clear herb bags. You’ll learn about the health benefits, flavor profile, and techniques for harvesting so you can brew the best cup of lemon balm tea.

But herbs and supplements are not monitored by the Food and Drug Administration and there may be issues with purity, quality, or safety. Stash it in the refrigerator for around 2 weeks and take whenever you’ve been around germy people, feel a little run down or think you might be catching something. I just went through and sniffed my collection of tinctures and they have varying smells – some of the oldest ones just smell like strong alcohol, while some of my newer ones have varying degrees of earthy, plant smells.Read on to find our favorite lemon balm recipes and discover the flavor of this lemony and minty tea. Lemon balm is a perennial herb in the mint family that’s hardy in zones 3-7 and easy to grow in any garden. I started with one plant purchased from my local garden center and not only did it spread to form mounds across about 1/3 of the side of my house, but I find little seedlings everywhere when I weed my garden (Including in places wayyyyyy far from it. I live in the desert in Arizona with an abundance of wildlife that likes to snatch up plants so I grow mine mostly indoors in a grow tent with 300 watts of light and my Lemon Balm plants and Peppermint Plants have just take off like you wouldn’t believe.

We grow our organic lemon balm here on our farm and harvest it carefully by hand to ensure minimum bruising of the leaves before they are dried – which helps give our Lemon Balm Tea a clean, clear flavour. safety note: If you’re growing your own lemon balm, and using the dried leaves for tea, there is little side effect risk.If you’ve sprayed anything on or near your lemon balm (even if it’s an organic agent like neem oil or even soapy water), I’d give it a good rinse as well. This is my least favorite method because most ovens don’t get below 170 degrees and lemon balm should ideally be dried at 95 degrees to maintain its potency.