You may be familiar with lemon verbena as a popular essential oil, often used to calm anxiety or cleanse the environment. Lemon verbena is native to Chile and Peru. It demonstrates some important healing attributes that you may be unaware of.
Lemon verbena…
- Is said in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) to Support the Spleen and Stomach.
- Is used in both Western and Eastern medicine to build muscle strength. A study published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology indicates that lemon verbena extract reduces muscular damage caused by intense or endurance exercise without blocking the body’s ability to increase cellular adaptation, and thus overall strength.
- Helps treat varicose veins.
- Makes a powerful tonic from the dried leaves that affects organs and metabolic processes.
- Makes an essential oil containing high antioxidant levels.
