Avena Botanicals Lemon Balm eases tension, supports digestion, promotes a calm, focused mind, and benefits healthy immune function. Uplifting to the spirit!*
Lemon Balm is a friendly aromatic mint family plant from the Mediterranean region of the globe that boasts a generously bright and sweet lemon flavor known to enchant children and adults alike! The plant has the unique qualities of being both uplifting and relaxing, measured by the interplay of abundant aromatics on the body and senses. Some say Lemon Balm tastes of sunshine!
This deliciously diffusive tincture brings ease and balance to the nervous system, helping to relieve feelings of overwhelm, quiet the mind, and support sound sleep. Lemon Balm has a cooling and refreshing quality that supports mental clarity and focus while uplifting the spirit! The soothing digestive support of this plant helps to calm an occasional nervous belly and serves as a digestive aid around meals. Lemon Balm supports a healthy immune response.
Garden Notes: Honeybees love Lemon Balm. We hand-harvest baskets of Lemon Balm from our Biodynamic gardens when the plant is flowering. Immediately following harvest, we infuse the fresh aromatic plant into organic alcohol, where the vibrant essential oils are gracefully extracted.
Taste / Energetics: sweet, slightly sour, drying, cooling, soothing, diffusive.
Actions: aromatic, immune-supportive, digestive, carminative, nervine tonic, relaxing nervine, and nootropic.
When to reach for it: When you need rejuvenation, whether from the summer heat, an irritating phone call, or a menopausal hot flash. As a way to calm, center, and connect with self and others. When you have butterflies in your stomach. During long days. While reading, studying or working. In the evenings. When seeking delight, ease, and refreshment.
Botanical Name: Melissa officinalis
Part Used: Fresh lemon balm leaves and flowers
Ingredients: Certified Biodynamic and Organic Lemon Balm, Certified Organic Pure Grain Alcohol, Springwater
Suggested Use: Add 10-20 drops (.5-1ml) to 1 ounce of water 1-3 times/day or as directed by your healthcare practitioner.
Avena Botanicals values simplicity and the traditional ways of hand-crafting herbal products. They use simple tabletop tools instead of large, mechanized machines and they do not mass-manufacture.
This holistic and spiritually alive system of organic agriculture enlivens the soil, water, and plants along with the soul, spirit, and consciousness of humans. Biodynamic preparations and practices create herbal products that can benefit body, mind, and spirit and connect individuals to the source of their sustenance.
Since their inception in 1985, they have used no synthetic ingreidents, additives, or solvents of any kind in their herbal products or farming practices. Their on-site production facility only uses 100% biodegradable cleaning supplies.
Avena's products are produced on-site in their custom-built facility. You can take an herb walk through their gardens in the summer, while seeing smellIing baskets of herbs and flowers going into the facility, it doesn't get any more local than this.
Creating gentle, organic, high-quality herbal products that promote good health is their goal. They produce their products in small batches to ensure that their freshness and efficacy meet their high standards.
Avena's gardens are open to the public for a few select events each year. They are a peaceful sanctuary for people (and pollinators) to enjoy, learn in, and experience the gifts of nature. They host a handful of herb walks, classes, and retreats each summer, often accompanied by refreshing botanical sun tea.
These values remain constant in their thoughts, words, and actions. They care deeply about the health and well-being of the people and plants they serve and take extra care as they harvest the herbs and create products.
Despite the modern world's technological advances, many people around our planet remain unhappy and disconnected from nature. Avena's peaceful gardens, retreats, and hand-crafted herbal products assist people seeking to live in harmony with nature and with the spirit that connects all living beings.
They aim to create a working environment that embodies balance, health, and wellness. They ring a bell at noon for any staff who chooses to stop and meditate for 5-10 minutes. Their weekly staff meetings are held outdoors in summer and in a room overlooking the garden in winter. As a staff, they share yummy potlucks, birthday cakes, inspiring books, and garden walks.
Avena Botanicals is the first Demeter Certified Biodynamic farm in Maine. Biodynamic agriculture is a holistic and spiritually alive system of organic and ecological practices and philosophies based on the teachings of Dr. Rudolf Steiner. One of the core beliefs and practices of Biodynamic agriculture is to help heal the Earth.
Their hand-gathered herbs come into Avena's drying rooms and are immediately weighed and laid onto large screens. Most of these herbs are grown in Avena's three-acre gardens. They also collect a few herbs from nearby islands and meadows.
Over five hundred pounds of fresh, hand-gathered herbs come into Avena's apothecary annually and are thoughtfully prepared into herbal tinctures, elixirs, glycerites, and oils. Over 70% of these herbs come directly from Avena's Demeter Certified Biodynamic gardens. Their herbs are fresh, aromatic, sweet, bitter, pungent, and beautiful.
Avena's gardens have been purposefully planted with protective hedgerows and flowering plants that offer nectar and pollen to dozens of pollinators. Shimmering ruby-throated hummingbirds and various butterflies, honey bees and native bees fill our gardens with an array of colors, sounds, and personalities. The presence of pollinators fills hearts with joy and gratitude.
FDA Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.