🔼: [[🛠 Medicinal Plants 🌿]] # Lavender (Lavandula officinalis; L. angustifolia) [^1] Parts used: Flowers and leaves ## Uses - Both relaxing and calming - Eases [[💡 Depression]] and melancholy - Herbal baths for tension, [[💡 Stress]], [[Headaches]], and [[💡 Insomnia]]. - An effective antibacterial, antifungal, and antiseptic. ## Using Lavender - Staph, strep, colds, flus. - Use on its own or with [[Tea Tree Oil]] applied to the skin to treat fungal infections like ringworm or nail fungus, or as an antiseptic douche for yeast infections. - Scrapes, wounds, burns. - Mix with [[🌿 St. John's Wort]], [[🌿 Oats]], and [[🌿 Lemon Balm]] as a [[💡 Tea]] or [[💡 Tinctures|Tincture]] for [[💡 Grief|Grief]], [[💡 Heartbreak]], and [[💡 Depression]] - Tie a few sprigs into a muslin bag and keep in your pillow for sweeter [[💡 Dreams]] or to disinfect and scent clothes drawers. ### Lavender Bath Add to your bathwater - Few drops of [[🌿 Lavender]] [[Essential Oils]] - 1-2 oz dried lavender, tied in a muslin bag Alternatively, rub a few drops of the essential oil onto the fingertips and [[🛠 Self-Massage]] the neck, head, and feet. ## Related - [[On Plant Medicine Dosage...]] - [[🦮 How to Source Herbs]] [^1]: [[📖 ✅ Herbs for Stress & Anxiety - How to Make and Use Herbal Remedies to Strengthen the Nervous System]]