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Lavender






          What a lovely plant! I just love it's wonderful colour and smell.

          Lavender is a great decoration for your home or in the garden. It is also a very useful plant. It attracts butterflys, bumblebees and other bugs so it is good to have it in a garden.
          It is a very interesting spice. Parasites and insect repellent. And of course an excellent remedy for many diseases and conditions.
                                                                                                                                          

                    
As a remedy, lavander is used for : tea, oil, tincture, vinegar, herbal bags, cream and essential oil.





Tea                     

It is made from flowers ( fresh or dry ) and  has interesting, intense smell and taste of lavender. I like to add honey in my lavender tea. It has taste like a candy. Reminds me on a hot summer days.

Lavender tea is good for:
relaxing,
calming nerves,
insomnia,
headache,
digestion ( it enhances digestion and helps with flatulence ),
liver,
cold and infection of respiratory system.


To make tea, boil one cup ( 2 dl ) of water and pour it over one teaspoon of lavender flowers. Cover and leave for 2 or 5 minutes ( for fresh flowers leave less than 2 min ). Strain and drink few cups a day. For stomach problems and flatulence it is better to drink unsweeten tea.







Tincture

Tincture is good for rheumatic pain in the muscles and joints, for insect bites, Skin itching. Rub the painful areas with the tincture. For insect bites just apply the tincture or make a compress.

Making the tincture
         You can make it just from flowers or flowers with little bit of stems.
Put the flowers ( fresh or dry ) into Glass Jar and pour alcohol over it. Close the lid and leave it in a sunny place for 2 weeks. Shake the jar from time to time.

After 2 weeks, strain the tincture and pour it in a Dark Glass Bottle. Keep it in a dark, dry and cool place.





Lavender oil

Good for relaxing muscles, neck pain, skin ( helps to regenerate the skin ), arthritic and rheumatic pain. For skin problems apply the oil on the skin, rub it gently. In other cases massage the painful areas with oil for some time.

Making the oil
Take the fresh  flowers and put them in a glass jar. Pour over extra virgin olive oil so that it covers the flowers. Close the jar with a lid and leave it in a sunny place or near some heat source for 14 days. Shake it from time to time. Strain the oil and keep it in a dark glass bottle, in a cool, dry and dark place.




Drying  and keeping lavender
                                                                                
       Pick the lavender by cutting their stems, useing a knife or a scissors.
For tea, it is best to cut short stems, below the flowers. They will dry faster than long stems.

 To preserve more curative properties, crush the dry lavender before making the tea. Or if you want to make tea only from flowers, pull them off from the stems.

After picking, place the lavender on a clean cloth or a paper, in thin layer, or make a little bouquet ( in that case, cut longer stems ) and hang it  upside down.
You can dry it outside ( in the shade ), or inside ( away from sun or heat source ).

       






      Keep the dry lavender in a cool, dry and dark place. Best in a paper bag or a glass jar.










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