Lavender: What uses does it have?
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It is also used as a medicinal relief for ailments from headaches to insomnia.
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Originally an inhabitant of the Mediterranean countries, this perennial herb has long been recognized for its exotic perfume and medicinal properties. Used in past by the ancient Romans for its healing and antiseptic qualities, the name itself comes from the Latin "lavare" or "to wash". Tibetans still make an edible lavender butter to use as part of a traditional treatment for nervous disorders. Today, the essential oil of lavender is widely used across Europe and North America for a number of illness and medical problems.
Lavender is just a beautiful herb in your garden. It has gray-green, pointing leaves that grow in a bushy, spreading manner. It is crowned with tall spikes of beautiful pale violet flowers during summer. As an ornamental flower, lavender is unique, sporting exotic fragrance, beauty and a rich harvest of sweet smelling blooms. Old English Lavender, a popular inhabitant of a cottage garden, can grow up to two to three feet high, producing fragrant grayish leaves and blue/purple flowers. The more compact variety Hidcote, has darker blue flowers, grows to around a foot high and is very pretty in any flower or herb garden. The easiest way to propagate lavender is to cut softwood cuttings in the spring. However, as lavender benefits from a light pruning in early autumn, these clippings make excellent new plants too, as long as you protect them from frosts and winter bite.
Lavender - http://www.aromatherapy-blends.net/lavendar-aromatherapy.htm
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M$1) Fragrance; used in saops, lotions, shampoo's, candles and laundry soaps
2) Medicinal Studies; insomnia, alopecia, anxiety, stress
3) Being studied in the antibacterial and antiviral properties
4) Massages; Lavender soothes and relaxes the body during a massage
5) Acuputure and Chiropratic Manipulation
6) Aromotherapy; slows the nervous system down, improves sleeping quality, stables your mood, betters your concentration
7) Lavender also helps patients with headaches, nervousness and exhustion
8) Used to treat skin ailments such as; fungal infections, wounds, eczema and acne
9) Hair growth; when applied and massaged onto the scalp
Available forms
1) Aromatherapy
2) Bath gels
3) Extracts
4) Lotions
5) Soaps
6) Tea
7) Tinctures
8) Whole Dried Flowers
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M$· Fragrance and beautiful color.
· Heals burns, bruises, frostbite, dermatitis and swelling.
· Medically recommended for cystitis, vaginitis and leucorrhoea.
· The flowers and leaves are used in salads and savory jellies.
Learn more about the lavender herb here:
http://www.healthresultstoday.com/lavender.html
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To make tea place two teaspoons of dried lavender in a teapot and steep with boiling water for 3-5 minutes.
When brewed into a tea it calms and soothes, removing stress, anxiety, headaches, and can also help cure an upset stomach.
Place a handful of dried flowers in a cheesecloth bag and put it under your pillowcase.
This will help you sleep more soundly, lavenders main use is for its soothing properties, by putting it under your pillow you can use those properties to sleep better and feel more rested in the morning.
Make the tea explained above and let it cool, pour it over your scalp and hair after shampooing and conditioning.
Lavender helps reduce dandruff when used this way.
Place lavender in a mortar and pestle with a couple drops of babyoil.
This can be applied to bugbites and sunburns to soothe and relieve the itch.
Pamplet from the aromatherapy store I work at.
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