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Bee Balm - Uses and Benefits
Scientific Name: Monarda didyma
Flower Type: Perennial
Bloom Time: Summer
Height: 3'
The Bee Balm plant, Monarda didyma, grows best in full sun but tolerates light shade, and will thrive in any moist soil that is rich in organic matter such as manure, compost, or leaf mold.
It grows from two to four feet tall depending on the variety, and will fit well into your herb garden or can be used for a perennial border planting.
Bergamot, also known as bee balm or oswego-tea, are hardy native American perennials that have been garden favorites for decades. Bee Balm is a very pretty herb with a wonderful fruity, minty aroma. The gorgeous tubular flowers, held like a crown at the top of the 3-4 foot stems in mid and late summer come in a lot of colors including red, pink and purple.
Uses of Bee Balm:-
It includes:-
This is a wonderful tea herb. To make a cup of tea, simply place tablespoon of fresh or one teaspoon of dried Bee Balm leaves and/or flowers in a tea strainer or tea spoon and pour one cup of boiling water over it. Allow it to steep for ten minutes and bring the tea out. Sweeten if you wish and enjoy.
Bee Balm leaves and flowers and stems are used in alternative medicine as an antiseptic, carminative, diaphoretic, diuretic and stimulant. An infusion is medicinal used internally in the treatment of colds, catarrh, headaches, gastric disorders, to reduce low fevers and soothe sore throat, to relieve flatulence, nausea, menstrual pain, and insomnia.
Bee balm is known to stimulate the production of bile. A bee balm extract injected into mice had sedative properties in tests. Very low doses of the extract in combination with a dose of barbiturate too low to sedate a mouse resulted in sleep.
Bee balm also extended the amount of time mice slept after being given a barbiturate. At high doses, the extract had a pain relieving effect. In the test tube, lemon balm extract is active against herpes simplex virus, influenza viruses, Newcastle disease, and several other viruses.
Benefits:
It helps to overcome the following diseases:-
- Nausea
- Digestive problems and upsets
- Vomiting
- Colds and flu
- Coughing
- Antiseptic and decongestant
- Nasal congestion
Doses:-
- The tea is made by pouring 1 cup of hot water over 2 g of dried leaf, steeping five to ten minutes, and straining.
- Two to three cups daily are usually consumed, and there is no limit on the duration of treatment.
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