The plant is traditionally used in the symptomatic treatment of neurotonic states of adults and children, particularly in the minor disorders of sleep. It is also employed in disorders of the digestive sphere. Melissa has, in fact, a soothing, antispasmodic and carminative action, so that it can be called a "nervina tendency carminative" plant (Weiss). Its use is particularly indicated in the so-called "gastric neurosis" that is in the gastric disorders of psychosomatic origin, or even when there is a framework of general irritability, difficulty falling asleep and tachycardia on a functional basis. As you can well understand it is an excellent remedy for neurosis, and for its therapeutic qualities is particularly useful prescription in overweight subjects with bulimic tendencies and forms of somatization in the stomach.
Nutraceuticals
- essential oil (0.05%): monoterpeniche aldehyde, citronellal ....
- Phenols acids (rosmarinic acid)
- Flavonoids (quercitroside, rhamnocitrina, 7-glucosides dell'apigenolo and luteolo)
- Etereosidi of monoterpenes and aromatic alcohols ....