Lavender flowers can be used internally and externally. Due to their calming effect, they can be taken initially for mild nervous complaints such as restlessness, anxiety, difficulty falling asleep and insomnia. Experience has shown that lavender also helps to calm infants and young children.
Lavender: use for gastrointestinal problems.
Another important area for the internal use of lavender flowers are gastrointestinal complaints. Here lavender helps especially with functional upper abdominal complaints such as:
- Nervous irritable stomach
- Indigestion
- Flatulence
- Nervous bowel complaints
Lavender is also used in Roemheld syndrome. This term is generally used to describe complaints that are due to excessive gas accumulation in the intestines or stomach due to eating flatulent food.
External use of lavender
Externally, in the form of baths, lavender has a positive effect on functional circulatory disorders. Traditionally, lavender oil is suitable as a bath quite generally to improve the condition of exhaustion. The drug is further a component of sedative baths and included in herbal pillows for sleep disorders.
Folk medicinal use of lavender
Lavender was used as early as the 16th century as a nervine, sedative and antispasmodic. In today’s folk medicine, the plant is also used as a stomachic, an antiflatulent, a diuretic and for wound treatment.
In aromatherapy, lavender oil is used to calm – midwives, for example, calm mothers with it during the birth process.
Lavender in homeopathy
In homeopathy one uses, but only very rarely now, the fresh lavender flowers for diseases of the central nervous system. The dried flowers are used in anthroposophic therapy.
Ingredients of lavender
Lavender flowers contain at least 1.5% essential oil. The main components of the oil are the monoterpenes linalyl acetate and linalool, camphor and cineole, each in varying composition.
In addition, the drug contains about 2-3% lamiaceous tannins such as chlorogenic acid and rosmarinic acid, flavonoids and traces of triterpenes and phytosterols.
What indication can lavender help with?
The following indications arise for the medicinal use of lavender:
- Restlessness
- Difficulty falling asleep, insomnia, insomnia.
- Nervousness
- Abdominal pain, upper abdominal pain
- Irritable stomach, flatulence, flatulence, Roehmheld syndrome, gastrointestinal disorders, indigestion.
- Circulatory problems, circulatory disorders
