Plant Witchery: Discover the Sacred Language, Wisdom, and Magic of 200 Plants - Juliet Diaz 2020

Lemon Balm Melissa officinalis
A Compendium of Plants

ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES

happiness, abundance

Lemon balm, being a member of the mint family, smells exactly like that—lemon mint. She is also called Sweet Melissa because of her ability to attract bees (mélissa is Greek for “honeybee”). She attracts people, too, leading to her use in perfumes and aromatherapy.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

Lemon balm is the main ingredient in Carmelite water, an alcoholic extract developed in medieval Germany to relieve headaches and anxiety, and to be used as a perfume since bathing wasn’t always an option. Carmelite water is still available today. Lemon balm is praised for her ability to counteract depression, to balance the emotions, and to bring a good night’s sleep.

MAGICAL PROPERTIES

Lemon balm is excellent for emotional wellness. She supports you at the beginning of relationships by attracting love and friendship, but she can also comfort you at the end of a relationship by bringing peace, helping you find closure. She will do the same for you across all of your life experiences, supporting you during any challenges or shifts. She is perfect for any self-directed Magical workings, as she will boost your spiritual growth.

Lemon balm is a powerful abundance plant because of her high, happy, and healing vibration. Add her to any abundance spell to lift that energy right up. Keep her next to you while you pray, meditate, or do any spiritual work, and she will help you raise the energy within in the room, and within yourself. Sprinkling lemon balm in your bath will lift negative energies off your auric body, pulling them into the water.

PLANT WISDOM

Lemon balm is soft-spoken with a gentle message, so you must be very quiet and still when listening to her, or you may miss her words of wisdom. She urges you to do more, to go for your dreams. When you dream of lemon balm, you are considering taking a leap—you may often see her at the edge of a cliff in dreams, or as you fall from an endless sky, gaining the courage to fly.