- Mental performance. Early research suggests that taking one 1,600 mg dose of lemon balm improves mental performance.
- Colitis. Early research suggests that taking a combination of dandelion, St. John’s wort, lemon balm, calendula, and fennel for 15 days reduces pain and improves bowel function in people with colitis.
- Depression. Early research suggests that taking lemon balm with fertilized egg powder does not improve depression symptoms compared to taking fertilized egg powder alone.
- Restlessness (dyssomnia). Early evidence suggests that 1-2 tablets once or twice daily of a specific combination product providing 80 mg of lemon balm leaf extract and 160 mg of valerian root extract (Euvegal forte, Schwabe Pharmaceuticals) might decrease symptoms in children under age 12 whose restlessness is so extreme that it needs medical attention.
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Early evidence suggests that adding 30 drops of a product containing lemon balm, spearmint and coriander three times daily after meals for 8 weeks to standard treatment reduces stomach pain and discomfort in people with IBS.
- Mental illnesses that cause physical pain (somatization disorder). A product containing valerian, passionflower, and lemon balm seems to improve symptoms of depression and anxiety in people with mental illnesses that cause physical pain.
- Loss of appetite.
- Stomach and intestinal discomfort with bloating and gas.
- Spasms.
- A thyroid condition called Graves' disease.
- Promoting menstrual flow.
- Female discomforts.
- Cramps.
- Headache.
- Toothache.
- Sores.
- Tumors.
- Insect bites.
- Nervous stomach.
- Hysteria.
- Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
- Other conditions.
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