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Lime Tree | | Name : | Lime Tree | | Botanical : | Tilia Europoea | | Synonyms : | American basswood
American linden
Bast tree
Common lime
Lime tree
Linden
Linden flower
Spoonwood
Wycopy
| | Family : | Tiliaceae | | Parts Used : | Flowers and leaves, inner bark | | Habitat : | Found in the eastern United States and in Canada; moist soil, in woods and forests, in uplands and valleys from Quebec to North Dakota and south to North Carolina and Oklahoma.Also planted in cities of this area. | | Description : | ---Description- | | Constituents : | The flowers contain a fragrant, volatile oil, with no colour, tannin, sugar, gum and chlorophyll.
The bark contains a glucoside, tilicin, and a neutral body, tiliadin.
The leaves exude a saccharine matter having the same composition as the manna of Mount Sinai. | | Uses : | Lime-flowers are only used in infusion or made into a distilled water as household remedies in indigestion or hysteria, nervous vomiting or palpitation. Prolonged baths prepared with the infused flowers are also good in hysteria.
In the Pyrenees they are used to soothe the temporary excitement caused by the waters, and M. Rostan has used them with success against spasms. The flowers of several species of Lime are used.
Some doctors prefer the light charcoal of lime wood to that of the poplar in gastric or dyspeptic disturbances, and its powder for burns or sore places.
If the flowers used for making the tisane are too old they may produce symptoms of narcotic intoxication. | | Dosage : | Bark, leaves and flowers, dried in the shade.
Infusion: steep 1 tsp. flowers or leaves in 1 cup water.Take 1-2 cups a day. | | Safety : | Frequent consumption of flower tea may cause heart damage. | | Myths : | In Europe, many legends and superstitions are centered around these trees.Linden wood was used for carving sacred works of art, and the linden tree, which was the village tree, played an important role in the life of early Europeans.Thus it was only natural that special curative power was ascribed to these medicinal trees.
Among the Germanic peoples the linden was a 'sacred' tree for people in love, the tree that brought fertility and prosperity.In the Middle Ages, people carved images of the Virgin Mary and figures of the saints from linden wood, calling the wood lignum sacrum, sacred wood. |
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