Categories: flower, pharmaceutical

Application: Pharmaceutical

Hepatoprotective, respiratory tract infections

Linden is a large decidious tree, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. Its flowers are used in herbalism for colds, cough, fever, infections, inflammation, high blood pressure, headache (particularly migraine), and as a diuretic (increases urine production), antispasmodic (reduces smooth muscle spasm along the digestive tract), and sedative. New evidence shows that the flowers also have hepatoprotective properties. Moreover, linden leaf causes sweating and increases urine production, linden wood can be used to treat gallbladder disorders, cellulitis (inflammation of the skin and surrounding soft tissue) and, when burned to charcoal, it can be ingested to treat intestinal disorders and used topically to treat edema or infection such as cellulitis or ulcers of the lower leg.