lavender Lavendula Regal splendour
The garden is smelling nice now.
Lavender has a connection to witch-craft and sorcery. Lavender was believed by the Tuscans to counteract the evil eye.
Taken orally, lavender oil was credited with being a restorative and tonic against faintness, palpatations of a nervous sort, weak giddiness, spasms and colic. It was used to increase appetite, raise the spirits and dispel flatulence. It was also used for hysteria, palsy and similar disorders and acted as a powerful stimulant.
Gerard, author of Herball or Historie of Plants(1597), mentions using distilled water from the lavender flowers or oil made from the flowers and olive oil to treat palsy with the statement that doing so will "profiteth them much."
Macerating the oils of lavender and rosemary, with cinnamon bark, nutmeg, and red sandal wood in wine for seven days produces tincture of red lavender which was once a popular medicinal cordial. "Palsy Drops", a once well-known compound, was made from lavender with rosemary, cinnamon, nutmeg, red sandal wood, and spirits.
Rubbing a few drops of lavender oil on the temples is said to cure nervous headaches. Tea brewed from lavender flowers was often prescribed as a treatment for headaches from fatigue or weakness.
One early British work mentions that the lions and tigers in the Zoological gardens "powerfully affected by the smell of lavender water and become docile under its influence."
Researchers are finding many of the medicinal attributes that have been paired with lavender throughout the centuries to be valid. Essential lavender oil has been scientifically found to be a powerful antiseptic that can kill typhoid, diphtheria, streptococcus, and pneumococus bacteria. And it is actually an effective antidote for some snake venoms.
The antiseptic powers of lavender were well known and bundles of the dried herb would be burnt and left to smolder as a fumigant in a sickroom. (No date was given for this practice but the original source implies that the practice continues in the present day.)
Most of the remaining of the earlier medical uses lavender and lavender oil also appear to be founded upon fact with perhaps the notable exception of it being protection against the evil eye - that remains unproven.
lavender Lavendula Regal splendour
The garden is smelling nice now.
Lavender has a connection to witch-craft and sorcery. Lavender was believed by the Tuscans to counteract the evil eye.
Taken orally, lavender oil was credited with being a restorative and tonic against faintness, palpatations of a nervous sort, weak giddiness, spasms and colic. It was used to increase appetite, raise the spirits and dispel flatulence. It was also used for hysteria, palsy and similar disorders and acted as a powerful stimulant.
Gerard, author of Herball or Historie of Plants(1597), mentions using distilled water from the lavender flowers or oil made from the flowers and olive oil to treat palsy with the statement that doing so will "profiteth them much."
Macerating the oils of lavender and rosemary, with cinnamon bark, nutmeg, and red sandal wood in wine for seven days produces tincture of red lavender which was once a popular medicinal cordial. "Palsy Drops", a once well-known compound, was made from lavender with rosemary, cinnamon, nutmeg, red sandal wood, and spirits.
Rubbing a few drops of lavender oil on the temples is said to cure nervous headaches. Tea brewed from lavender flowers was often prescribed as a treatment for headaches from fatigue or weakness.
One early British work mentions that the lions and tigers in the Zoological gardens "powerfully affected by the smell of lavender water and become docile under its influence."
Researchers are finding many of the medicinal attributes that have been paired with lavender throughout the centuries to be valid. Essential lavender oil has been scientifically found to be a powerful antiseptic that can kill typhoid, diphtheria, streptococcus, and pneumococus bacteria. And it is actually an effective antidote for some snake venoms.
The antiseptic powers of lavender were well known and bundles of the dried herb would be burnt and left to smolder as a fumigant in a sickroom. (No date was given for this practice but the original source implies that the practice continues in the present day.)
Most of the remaining of the earlier medical uses lavender and lavender oil also appear to be founded upon fact with perhaps the notable exception of it being protection against the evil eye - that remains unproven.