Lavender Is A Home Remedy For Many Ailments

I love lavender. Chances are you do too because lavender is very popular. Just take a stroll down the aisle of a store’s display of room air fresheners. One scent you will always see there is lavender. The scent of those products are usually a synthetic or man made fragrance made to smell like the real lavender. The actual lavender plant smells so much better than the fake synthetic stuff. You'd be amazed how good it smells.The real lavender herb is a powerful plant. It’s Latin name is Lavandula angustifolia. It’s origin is found in the Mediterranean area. It’s now grown worldwide. The properties of the lavender plant are antibiotic, antiseptic, antiviral, and anti fungal. What does that mean? It means lavender:

• Kills microorganisms and cures infections
• Destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues.
• Destroys viruses.
  
• Destroys or prevents the growth of fungi.

Lavender is powerful enough to be used as a natural remedy for many different ailments. However it does not have dangerous side effects. Neither do germs build up a resistance to it as they do synthetic antibiotics. Lavender is a natural medicine.

Lavender as other herbs, is processed in different ways to produce various forms of the herb. To produce lavender tea, the leaves or flowers of the plant are dried and chopped. It is then packaged and sold as bulk herbs or put in tea bags. Herbal capsules or tablets are produced by processing the leaves to form a powder that is then pressed into tablets or poured into gelatin capsules. Herbal extracts are another form of an herb where water and other ingredients are added to form a liquid concentrate of the herb. The most potent form is to make an essential oil of the leaves. This is a process of removing the natural oils from the plants and bottling it. Manufacturing companies add natural lavender to their products. Lavender is used in perfumes, lotions, cleaning products, air fresheners, even in candies and edible products.

When using herbs it is important that they are done so properly. Herbal teas are perhaps the most gentle way to take herbs. Essential oils is the most powerful. Essential oils are usually sold in dropper bottles. The essential oil is dispensed one drop at a time. In other words a little goes a long way. Most essential oils should not be applied directly to the skin. A carrier oil needs to be added to them before being used on the skin. Some carrier oils to use are Jojoba, Sweet Almond, and Grape seed. Coincidentally, lavender oil is the only essential oil that's absolutely safe to use directly on the skin without having to use a carrier oil.

No matter which form of lavender you use, it is simply powerful. The list of ailments lavender remedies is very long. It’s really too long to cover them all in one article. Some of the things lavender is effective against are:

•     Abdominal cramps
•     Abscesses
•     Acne
•     Asthma
•     Athlete’s foot
•     Boils
•     Burns
•     Bruises
•     Colic
•     Cuts, scrapes & wounds
•     Dandruff
•     Depression
•     Earache
•     Eczema
•     Headaches & migraines
•     High blood pressure
•     inflammation of the skin
•     Insect bites & stings
•     Insect repellent
•     Insomnia
•     Lice
•     Muscle aches & joint pain
•     Nausea
•     Poor circulation  
•     Psoriasis
•     Ring worms
•     Stress & tension
•     Sunburn

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