Short YouTube video (Dr. Nicole Cain) introducing lemon balm (Melissa) as a supportive herb for 'depressive anxiety' and demonstrating a simple herbal blend combining lemon balm with hawthorn berry and lavender to create a calming 'bliss blend'. The clip emphasizes identifying lemon balm by opposite veined leaves and a lemony scent and suggests its use to help symptoms of depression and anxiety.
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There are eight.
Types of anxiety, and one of the eight types is called depressive anxiety. And I want to show you one of my favorite plants that can really.
Help the.
Symptoms of depression and anxiety in depressive anxiety. Are you ready to show them?
Let's go.
This is a.
Plant called lemon balm. Lemon balm, or melissa is a really wonderful plant and it's useful to help with depression and anxiety. And you can tell.
That it's lemon.
Balm because you have these green leaves that have lots of veins in them and they grow opposite each other. So if you look at the stem and you really get in there, you can see that the leaves grow opposite. And one of the telltale signs that this is lemon balm is when you rub the leaves of the plant and you smell the leaves, it actually has this wonderful lemony scent to it.
So let me show you how we make it into medicine. This is lemon balm, otherwise known as Melissa. Here's one of my favorite mixtures is putting in a little bit of lemon balm with the heart happy boosting hawthorn berry and the anti anxiety mood lifting lavender. Mix them in the right ratios and you have yourself a peaceful.
Bliss blend.
My favorite way to dose my tinctures with lemon balm is three big squeezes three times a day to lift depression and calm anxiety. Herbal medicine really works. You just got to give the herbs some time to take effect.