Lemon Verbena(fits): A Backyard Remedy Ready For Tea To Support Your Healing

Often cultivated as a house plant, you may more likely find lemon verbena in a home garden, or even your own backyard, long before you find the healing leaves within a warm cup of tea. Though commonly planted, the leaves are not sipped in a cup as readily—and we think that this should change, because the leaves are teeming with so many healthful properties. Lemon verbena is a vibrant green leaf also known as beebush, or ‘cedron’ in Mexico. The leaves are so named because of their citrusy fragrance—‘like lemon’. Many benevolent benefits can be found within these beautiful leaves, benefits with the potential to soothe the whole body, whether the tea is made fresh from the leaves of your own garden, or from a box of fragrant leaves hand selected by us. Just like lemons, they provide many cleansing properties that clear out impurities and protect from malaise, calm the brain, and support detoxifying. We call the plant Lemon Verbenafits, and so may you after you start sipping the tea from this healing leaf.

For Your Stomach

Very helpful for digestion, the tea is soothing for the stomach and digestive tract. Lemon verbena tea can reduce stomach pain, cramps, bloating, and even promote loss of weight, lowering appetite after you drink. Instead of constant dieting, try a more sustainable route: sipping! Working in tandem with greater hydration, you will notice even more weight loss by sipping this leaf, because lemon verbena works to reduce fat accumulation in the body.


For Your Brain

The leaves can also help soothe the nervous system from overactivity due to stress and anxiety. In Mexico, its calming properties are utilized to help with insomnia and promote a restful night sleep.

Muscle Recovery

For athletes, and for everyone who aches from the endeavors of the day, the tea helps to replenish muscles that have been overexerted, to heal them after overworking. Lemon verbena also has the potential to help those with muscular damaging diseases such as multiple sclerosis by reducing inflammatory activity.

Immunity

The leaves also work microscopically with antioxidants that help increase the body’s immunity, and protect against oxidative damage which causes cellular degeneration and disease. In addition to helping protect from severe disease with free-radical-protective activity, the tea also helps with illnesses of the every day. For common colds, lemon verbena helps to clear the sinuses and open respiratory passages, like their eponymous refreshing scent of citrus, with the help of Vitamin C. Antioxidants within the leaves also help to reduce inflammation, which is essential when recovering from sickness when our body is overheating and feverish, helping to cool us down—even with a warm cup of tea.

For Aches Caused By Inflammation

The leaves’ antioxidant complex of phenolyic acids also work together to help reduce the inflammation that causes osteoarthritic pain. These leaves are soothing for the inflammation that ails both the mind and the body, and like every delicious tea, for the soul, warming you like a hug, and clearing out the heaviness of the day, with a cup of love that is decidedly lemony.

Taste The Lemon Verbenafits

The flavor of this tea is citrusy, oh so lemony, and delicately sweet, well complemented with mint, hibiscus, and ideal for detoxing. Enjoy responsibly, by leaving a response below telling us how you enjoy your lemon verbena tea, or the lemon verbenafits you hope to gain with this newfound tea leaf.

Tea happy!

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