Passion Flower can be used to assist the problem of Insomnia. How is it prepared and used?!
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Passion Flower can be used to assist the problem of Insomnia. How is it prepared and used?
I don't have insomnia but I do have lots of passion flower and wondered if you can use it as a tea?
Answers: Yes dry it and use it as a tea. It is very good for relaxing too. You can also soak the dried herb in vodka and make a tincture. It can be taken in tea form. It is great for insomnia, anxiety, hot flasshes, high blood pressure and restless leg syndrome. It should not be taken if you are pregenant as it can cause contractions. You should also not take it either if you are TTC. A cup at night could help relax you and calm your nerves but I wouldn't take it often as herbs are medicine. Don't take it for any longer than a week.
Melissa
www.mdherbal.com Most Common Traditional Uses: Insomnia, nervous anxiety, hysteria, nervous headache, neuralgia, epilepsy.
Native to the United States, passion flower is one of the most well-known Western sedative herbs. It is used in many sedative and sleep-aid products in the Western world, especially in Europe.
Passiflora incarnata or passion flower is used in homeopathy:
An efficient anti-spasmodic. Whooping-cough. Morphine habit. Delirium tremens. Convulsions in children; neuralgia. Has a quieting effect on the nervous system. Insomnia, produces normal sleep, no disturbance of cerebral functions, neuroses of children, worm-fever, teething, spasms. Tetanus. Hysteria; puerperal convulsions. Painful diarrh?a. Acute mania. Atonic condition generally present. Asthma, 10-30 gtt every ten minutes for a few doses. Locally, in erysipelas.
Head.--Violent ache as if top of head would come off-eyes felt as if pushed out.
Stomach.--Leaden, dead feeling after or between meals; flatulence and sour eructations.
Sleep.--Restless and wakeful, resulting from exhaustion. Especially in the feeble, infants and the aged. Insomnia of infants and the aged, and the mentally worried, and overworked, with tendency to convulsions. Nocturnal cough.
Dose.--Large doses of mother tincture are required-thirty to sixty drops, repeated several times.
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
Alkaloids Apigenin Carbohydrates
Coumarins Flavonoids Fructose
Glucose Gum Harmaline
Harmalol Harman Harmine
Maltol Plant alcohols Orientin
Raffinose Saponaretin Saponarin
Scopoletin Stigmasterol Sitosterol
Sterols Sucrose Umbelliferone
Vitexin
Today, more than 400 species of passion flower are found throughout the world. The active constituents of passion flower can be broadly classified as alkaloids and flavonoids, supported in their actions by a variety of other constituents, including amino acids, sugars, coumarins, and alcohols (actually sterols).
A decoction of passion flower has been successfully used in bronchial asthma. It has been used in Europe and America as a topical treatment for burns; compresses of the herb have a marked effect on inflammations.
The leaves of Passiflora edulis are used in South America as a diuretic and for hemorrhoidal inflammations. In Brazil, Passiflora incarnata is used as an antispasmodic and sedative. In North America, passion flower is often used as an analgesic and anticonvulsant, with some success noticed in cases of tetanus. In Italy, a combination of passion flower, belladonna, and lobelia is used to treat asthma. In Poland, a proprietary drug for treating excitability, contains an extract of passion flower.
Numerous homeopathic drugs contain passion flower; it is possible that the main sedative activity of the plant is truly homeopathic in nature, being in that respect a function of the harman alkaloid constituents otherwise stimulant in nature.
Passion flower has been commonly used in the treatment of nervous, high-strung, easily excited children; cardiovascular neuroses; bronchial asthma; coronary illness; circulation weakness; insomnia; problems experienced during menopause; concentration problems in school children; and in geriatrics. There is some experimental support for these applications.
Passion flower appears completely nontoxic, and has been approved for food use by the FDA. you can dry it or just put it fresh in a cup with hot water..
if u have loads, then dry some for later...
u r so lucky, I love passion flower, it tastes gorgeous & it's so good for you...I sometimes buy it as a tincture but it's abit expensive. I don't know honestly except i know it smells lovely and it does make me smile then i get a whiff.
But I suggest you do what the soothsayery person said in the answers above mine...and send me some voddie!