Common melilot - a perennial herbaceous plant from the legume family, popularly also known as yellow melilot or sweet clover. The plant has a strong coumarin scent. This medicinal herb is considered a honey-producing plant. Melilot honey is first-rate and has excellent taste.
Melilot possesses exceptional healing properties: it is used for hysteria, headaches, and migraines. The plant also helps with respiratory diseases. Coumarin, found in melilot, contributes to increasing blood pressure, improving circulation, and brain function. It has sedative properties and helps with irritability, neurasthenia, and melancholy.
In the sauna, melilot emits a relaxing aroma - the sweet scent of blooming meadow herbs. It is used as an infusion by pouring water with melilot onto sauna stones, and its branches are added to various wooden whisks. Or you can simply hang such a small whisk under the ceiling and enjoy the scent of summer.
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