Passion Flower
Passion Flower has been shown in small scale studies to Compare very well to Drug Therapy for Anxiety without gross side effects.
By Tom Wolfe R.H (AHG)
Tom is a Smile Herbalist and gardener for “PassionFlower Farms”, Smile Herb Shop’s Small Farm Business.
♦Note: R.H. means Tom is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild (AHG)
Passionflower Oh Passionflower what a lovely gift you are to me. As your name suggests you are a living incarnation of “Passion Flower: She Who Changes”.
Thirty years ago in the 1990’s you came into my life with healing beauty and have been a faithful Friend ever since. In our first meeting in the 1990’s your Flowers alone restored a difficult memory from my childhood (age of 5) and you in your sweetest grace continued healing through the ongoing years at Smile. When you relaxed me better that any Friend ever had before … my heart had to study whatever Western Medicine knew of your calming touch.Turned out studies knew quite a bit. Systematic review of nine clinical studies reported “reduced anxiety levels following the administration of Passiflora incarnata preparations”
The following dosing is a beginning advice amount … for your body to find the optimal amount of Passion Flower that suits your fancy:
Here by the way are 3 other Blogs written by other Smile Herbalists of the Relaxing Nature of Passion Flower
Passionflower Tincture would be dosed at one milliliter (30 drops) for every 50 pounds of body weight