Lemon Balm
other names: Balm, Sweet Balm, Honey Pant, Melissa officinalis, Linn. Labiatae.

Lemon balm has it’s name because of its crushed foliage, that smells much like lemon. Lemon balm has a benerable past in the was it’s been used as a healing herb and in a drink. Shakespeare also used it in his writing of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR in strewing herb. Shakespeare was not the only one to use lemon balm though. The Greeks long before Shakespeare used the herb, in a different way. In Materia Medica of Dioscorides, people have found that the Greeks would used Lemon Balm against a number of things. They would use them against things like scorpion stings, insects, and dog bites.

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