🌲Russian & Siberian Folk Medicine
Linden Blossom (Lipa)
Tilia cordata
About Linden Blossom (Lipa)
Linden Blossom (Lipa) (Tilia cordata) is a herb used in the Russian & Siberian Folk Medicine tradition to help with Cold, Fever, Anxiety, and High Blood Pressure. The flowers are the part 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
Flowers · internal