🪻Slavic & Eastern European Folk Medicine
Linden (Lipa)
Tilia cordata
About Linden (Lipa)
Linden (Lipa) (Tilia cordata) is a herb used in the Slavic & Eastern European Folk Medicine tradition to help with Fever, Common Cold, Anxiety, and Insomnia, among 1 other condition it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Tilia cordata (small-leaved lime, occasionally littleleaf linden or small-leaved linden) is a species of Tilia native to much of Europe. It is found from Britain through central Fennoscandia, to central Russia, and south to central Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, the Caucasus, and western Asia. In the south of its range it is restricted to high elevations.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal