{"id":1852,"date":"2020-07-03T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T09:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/84.18.216.250\/~herbalreality\/?post_type=herb&p=1852"},"modified":"2025-04-14T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:38:47","slug":"limeflower","status":"publish","type":"herb","link":"https:\/\/www.herbalreality.com\/herb\/limeflower\/","title":{"rendered":"Limeflower"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":1382,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","beyondwords_generate_audio":"1","beyondwords_project_id":"47224","beyondwords_content_id":"859124cd-5b77-4ce8-907b-4a3dce41ad52","beyondwords_preview_token":"62e12bb6-a0ed-4628-954b-c94298c1450c","beyondwords_player_content":"","beyondwords_player_style":"","beyondwords_language_code":"","beyondwords_language_id":"","beyondwords_title_voice_id":"","beyondwords_body_voice_id":"","beyondwords_summary_voice_id":"","beyondwords_error_message":"","beyondwords_disabled":"","beyondwords_delete_content":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","beyondwords_hash":"","publish_post_to_speechkit":"","speechkit_hash":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":"","speechkit_error_message":"","speechkit_disabled":"","speechkit_access_key":"","speechkit_error":"","speechkit_info":"","speechkit_response":"","speechkit_retries":"","speechkit_status":"","speechkit_updated_at":"","_speechkit_link":"","_speechkit_text":""},"tags":[79,83,53,42,54,43,1896,49,47],"conditions":[696,694],"sustainability":[1576],"sense":[18,17,27],"western_action":[1007,997,1017,1018],"chinese_action":[],"ayurvedic_action":[],"energetics_action":[1499,1498,1382,1490,1494],"region":[1893],"class_list":["post-1852","herb","type-herb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-anxiety","tag-aromatic","tag-cold","tag-digestion","tag-flu","tag-indigestion","tag-linden","tag-stress","tag-sweet","conditions-nervous-system","conditions-cardiovascular-system","sustainability-green-sustainability-status","sense-bitter","sense-aromatic","sense-sweet","western_action-diaphoretic","western_action-antispasmodic","western_action-nervine","western_action-relaxant","energetics_action-astringent","energetics_action-bitter","energetics_action-cool","energetics_action-relaxing","energetics_action-sweet","region-western-herbs"],"acf":{"last_reviewed":"20200703","herb_author":null,"banner_text":"Limeflower eases stress and anxiety, and soothes the nervous system","latin_name":"Tilia<\/em> spp.","pseudonym_name":"Tilleul","family_name":"Malvaceae","herb_summary":"The flowers from the lime tree provide a relaxing tea that has been used for centuries as a home remedy for feverish colds and other respiratory infections. Also known as linden, this tonifying herb supports the heart, circulatory and nervous systems, providing relief from anxiety and tension.","key_benefits":"Restlessness and anxiety\r\nFeverish colds\r\nCirculatory problems","how_does_it_feel":"The best way to taste the qualities of limeflowers is use them (and the attached pale green leaf-like bracts) to make a strong tea, preferably in spring when the flowers are out and you can collect them fresh from the tree. You will be struck by the gentle almost incense-like fragrance, with resin-like taste that leads to a sweet, slightly acrid and weakly bitter middle taste and then a lingering floral fragrance.\r\n\r\nDistilling these qualities we have a remedy that is gentle yet with some power.","hdif_image_1":11817,"hdif_image_2":13637,"hdif_image_3":11818,"hdif_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0azqjLIdChc","sense":[17,18,16,27],"what_can_i_use_it_for":"Limeflowers can relax and help encourage sleep, particularly where an individual may be affected by nightmares or night sweats. It will reduce stress, anxiety and symptoms such as palpitations. It is also often classed as a herb suitable for use in the treatment of children.\r\n\r\nIts main tradition for use in Europe has been as a tea in colds and respiratory infections where feverish symptoms are setting in. Feeling chills then hot, with a raised body temperature are all signs that the body is rolling out major defences. Rather than simply taking a paracetamol or other suppressing medication it may be better to take advantage of this response and help the fever do its job. Limeflowers tea will help steady the process, stop the temperature rising too high, induce sweating at the appropriate place in the fever cycle, and reduce irritation and other tension symptoms. You will need to take to bed or sofa for a couple of days or so but the payoff will be a stronger immune system in the face of future cold attacks.","into_the_heart_of":"Limeflower calms the nerves and relaxes the blood vessels and muscles. It improves the peripheral circulation, lowers the blood pressure and encourages healthy sweating (diaphoresis) during a fever.","tradtional_uses":"Limeflowers were most often used in popular health care as a fever-managing remedy, applicable to any member of the family from the very young (even infants) to the very old. They were among the first choices across Europe for the home management of feverish colds and infections, used as a tea to flatten the temperature curve without suppressing the beneficial work of the fever in combating the infection. Limeflowers were also highly prized as home relaxants, used in much the same way chamomile tea, to calm restlessness, irritability, particularly in children and in symptoms of anxiety. It has been used as a specific remedy in Germany for influenza in children.","what_practioners_say":"

Circulation<\/h3>\r\nUsed in hypertension, palpitations, arteriosclerosis and any heart based condition which is exacerbated by stress or anxiety. Modern practice has also seen the potential of limeflowers in the treatment of other disorders of the circulation: varicosed veins, phlebitis, migraine and auto-immune attacks on the vessel walls, such as arteritis. It has long been used in England and France as a remedy in migraines and other headaches, cases where a \u2018soothing\u2019 effect on the vessel walls would be reinforced by a background relaxation and spasmolytic effect. The vasodilatory action will also reduce any constrictory tone in peripheral vessels.\r\n

Nervous<\/h3>\r\nUsed in insomnia, especially among children, for recurrent nightmares, anxiety symptoms such as palpitations, mild depression, and stress-induced migraines.","research":"There is no published clinical evidence for the benefits of limeflowers, but authorities like the German Kommission E and ESCOP all support the use of limeflowers in managing colds and fevers.","did_you_know":"There has been a long popular tradition in France and other European countries to go as families to collect the limeflowers in spring and dry them for use by all the family throughout the year.\u00a0Tisane de tilieul<\/em>\u00a0was the standard family remedy for colds, fevers and restless children.","additional_information_right":{"illustration":8712},"additional_information_left":{"botany":"The limeflower or \u2018linden\u2019 tree is a large, canopy tree that can reach heights of up to 30m. It will naturally grow in pasture, gardens, woodland and meadows and is common throughout Europe, being a native across the temperate Northern Hemisphere. Its leaves are alternate, petilate ovate, with a serrate edge and sharp apex.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe parts used in teas and medicines are the creamy white flowers on long stems out of characteristic pale-green lance-shaped leaf-like bracts (a bract is part of a flower that resembles a leaf). The flowers are a creamy white and produce a sweet, light scent reflecting their taste.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAlternate botanical names: <\/b>\r\n\r\nThere are around 45 species of lime tree around the world, some of which may be supplied as one of the three accepted species<\/span>","common_names":"