Motherwort
Scientific name: Leonurus cardiaca
Family: Lamiaceae

• Cooling and drying
• Nervine
• Antispasmodic
• Anodyne (painkiller)
• Bitter
• Diuretic
• Anxiolytic (reduces anxiety)
• Emmenagogue

Helps with:

• Irritability
• Anxiety
• Menstrual cramps
• Hormonal agitation
• Insomnia

Motherwort is better as a tincture than a tea because of her bitter taste.

California Poppy
Scientific name: Eschscholzia californica
Family: Papaveraceae

• Antidepressant
• Sedative
• Nervine
• Anxiolytic (reduces anxiety)
• Painkiller

Helps with:

• Stress
• Depression
• Shakiness
• Insomnia
• ADHD
• Teething/toothaches
• Coughing
• Cramps
• Colicky infants
• Headaches
• Painful muscles

Harvest roots, flowers, and leaves during full bloom. Consume young leaves in salad.

Combine with Milky Oats and Motherwort for acute anxiety attacks.

Wild Oats - Oat Straw / Milky Oats
Scientific name: Avena Barbata
Family: Poaceae

• Moistening and slightly warming (seed)
• Neutral (Milky Oats and Oatstraw)

Helps with:

• Stabilizing mood swings
• Anxiety
• Cholesterol
• Stress
• Exhaustion
• Depression
• Transition from addictive behaviors

Seed - Oat flour and oatmeal
Unripe seed - Milky Oats
Stem/leaves - Oatstraw

Oxymel "Acid and Honey" Recipe:

Oxymels give support to the immune system and the digestive system along with other medicinal constitutions of whatever herbs are added.

In a sterile glass jar add apple cider vinegar and equal proportions (volume) of oat straw.
Shake daily for 4 weeks.

Use a double boiler over low, heating just until warm for 6 hours a combo of raw local honey with a 2:1 ratio of dried Rose.

Strain and combine equal parts of the 2 creations.

Lemon Balm
Scientific name: Melissa officinalis

• Cooling and slightly drying

Helps with:

• Calming nerves
• Anxiousness
• Depression
• Digestion
• Seasonal disorder
• Mild sedative
• Colic
• Herpes
• Insomnia
• Cognitive health
• Heart palpitations
• Antiviral
• Spasmodic cough
• Inflammation

Combine with St. John's Wort, Chamomile, Linden, Rose, and Tulsi

NOTE: Always ask your healthcare provider before incorporating herbs into your diet. Children under 1 should not use Oxymel due to the honey. Do not use Motherwort during pregnancy until labor is starting since she strengthens uterine contractions.