LEONURUS CARDIACA

FAMILY: LAMIACEAE

“There is no better herb to drive melancholy vapours from the heart, to strengthen it and make the mind cheerful, blithe and merry.”
— Culpepper

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MOTHERWORT: It’s also very bitter with a pungent smell. A tall, hardy perennial (dormant in winter), it easily grows almost anywhere. Likes sun.

It’s a sedative, antispasmodic, emmenagogue, cardiotonic. Used by “mothers” since the Greek Empire in amenorrhÅ“a and dysmenorrhÅ“a. Not to be used without supervision during pregnancy. A valuable medicinal herb.