Lavender 50gr

Lavandula (common name Lavender) is a genus of 39 species of flowering plants in the mint family. It is native to the Old Continent and is found from Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, southern Europe, northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, southwestern Asia, across to southeastern India. The genus includes annual or short-lived herbaceous perennials, and perennial hemimycelous subshrubs or small shrubs. Leaf shape varies throughout the genus. It is common in some common cultivated species. In others they are toothed or pinnate, sometimes multipinnate and decomposing. In most species the leaves are covered with fine hairs or down, which contain the essential oils. The flowers are in whorls, growing on spikes that rise above the foliage. Some species produce colored bracts at the tops. Flowers can be blue, purple or lilac in wild species, sometimes blackish purple or yellowish. Its action is relaxing, antispasmodic, stimulates circulation, stimulates the nervous system, antibacterial, analgesic, expectorant, choleretic and antiseptic. The flowers are useful for nervous exhaustion and headache, for colic and indigestion, for mouth washes for halitosis, lower blood pressure. Lavender essential oil has a variety of uses such as for insect bites and burns, for massaging the temples and neck for headaches and migraines or for strained muscles, for lice, moths and as an insect repellent, for chest rub in asthmatic and bronchial spasm.