Lavender

We are talking about the plant, Lavandula angustifolia, in South – France Drome in Provence to the hot and dry nature of this country home.

The true lavender grows especially over the 700 meter while his family Lavandula latifolia, the lower Spijk up staying. At the place where they meet is a child born with the name crossed Lavandula intermedia, the Lavandin.

This sturdy hybrid son felt at home in nature and was in the 20 years by one Mr. Grosso cultivated. Not surprising, because this cultivar is not only more and bigger spikes but also contains more essential oil. Unfortunately, this oil of different composition than that of real lavender.

He is sharper scent of his higher camphor content and is therefore more in soaps and bath products, whereas the ‘Real’ is more medicinally.
Lavender traditionally.

As with many herbs, lavender has been used in antiquity. Dioscorides, Galen and Pliny recommended the “Spijk ‘as a tonic and as a means krampwerend. Matthiolusvwas even a panacea for the one working on the brains, used in epilepsy and against paralysis.

The plant supports the digestive function and warms the uterus, he says. The flowers float in the wine boiled urine from the body. Finally it would also be a good harttonicum.

Peter Nijlandt Based on Dodonaeus advises the authorities as ‘Spica’ bad for nature, lammigheid, lethargy, epilepsy and swoon. For takeoffs of parent-body, and heavy labor of women, Ravelingius covers the navel of the abdomen with Spieckolie same essential oils and massage it the backbone of patients with verkrompen members.

Dodonaeus barrel again inimitable together: “The Lavender is hot and dry in the third degree, and the brains and nerves pleasant.