Description

Monarda didyma/fritulosa

Taste: Slightly spicy, pungent, aromatic

Origin: Turtle island (North America)

Energetics: Warming, drying

Actions and properties: stimulant, digestive, carminative, diuretic, relaxing nervine, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, anti-fungal, stimulating diaphoretic

Systems: digestive system, integumentary system, urinary system, respiratory system, nervous system

Traditional indications: 

• Helps open congested airways
• Lax, depressed tissue
• Promotes local circulation
• Eases sore throats, coughs, colds, fevers
• Upset stomach, gas, bloating, indigestion, nausea, diarrhea, stimulates gallbladder
• Urinary tract infections, bladder infections, Yeast infections
• Nervousness, anxiety
• Burns, sunburns, cuts, wounds, minor infections
• high blood pressure associated with anxiety
• Meniere’s disease, tinnitus

Contraindications/caution: Avoid during pregnancy

Other uses: Can be burned as incense and/or insect repellent