LAVENDER
This medicinal plant, also known as LAVANDULA OFFICINALIS, contains chemical properties that are unpleasant for the taste, these are the bitter principles.
1-Botanical Name.
The botanical name of this medicinal plant is: LAVANDULA OFFICINALIS.
2-Synonyms.
Botanists also call it true, wardrobe lavender.
3-Flowering And harvest periods
Its flowering period is limited between May and early October and its harvest period between July and September. .
3-Active Substances.
Essential oil, tannins, bitter principles. coumarin, resin.
4-The Used Part.
The flowering tops.
5-Medicinal Properties.
It is antiseptic, antispasmodic, carminative, cholagogue, healing, diuretic, stimulating and sudorific. .
6-How To Use?
— To combat asthma: drink 3 cups per day of an infusion of 20 g of flowering tops in a liter of hot water.
— To counter bronchitis, cough, colitis: drink 2 glasses per day of an infusion of 50 g of lavender for 1 liter of boiling water, infuse for 10 minutes.
— To counter rheumatism: rub the painful joint with lavender oil already prepared as follows: 3 days of maceration in full sun 40 g of lavender in a liter of olive oil, then filter.
