Description
VALERIAN (Valerian officinalis)
Properties
- Powerful stimulant – Increases energy
- Sedative – Relaxes the nervous system
- Anti-spasmodic – Relaxes the nerves & reduces muscular contraction
- Lowers blood pressure
- Relaxant
- Anti-convulsant
- Anti-tumour
- Aromatic
- Tonic – Improves functions of the body
- Anodyne – Helps to relieve or reduce pain
- Nervine – Has a calming effect on the nerves, relieving anxiety
- Emmenagogue – Promotes greater menstrual discharge when taken hot
- Carminative – Aids expulsion of gas from the stomach & prevents developing in the first place
Uses
- Relieves flatulence – Very good for healing & prevention of fermentation of gas; Good for digestive problems & urinary tract disorders
- Eases pain
- Safe relaxant – Reduces nervous tension & anxiety
- Useful in hysteria
- Useful for any stress-related condition
- Calming effect on the mind & muscle-relaxing effect on the body
- Relieves palpitations, panic & tremors
- In combination with other herbs – Helps to dilate blood vessels – Lowers blood pressure
- Useful remedy for insomnia, whether caused by anxiety or over-excitement
- Helps relax over-contracted muscles – Helpful for shoulder & neck tension; Easing muscle spasms & backache
- Relieves period pain & symptoms of menstrual tension
- Treatment of epilepsy
- Anti-tumour effects – May play a role in the treatment of cancer
- Externally & Internally – Healing applied to sores & pimples
- Useful in colic
- Useful in low fevers; to break up colds & for gravel in the bladder
- Oil of Valerian – Remedy for cholera
- Strengthening eyesight – Especially when it is weakened by want of energy in the optic nerve
Combinations
- Lemon Balm; Hops; Passion Flower & Scullcap
