Common Name: Lemon Thyme
Botanical Name: Thymus citriodorus
Culinary Uses of lemon Thyme
Add to food before cooking to add light lemon and thyme flavours.
Infuse with balsamic vinegar and olive oil for use as a salad dressing.
Growing Lemon Thyme
Grow in full sun in well drained alkaline soil
Medicinal Uses of Lemon Thyme
Important! Do not use of herbs for medicinal purposes without consulting your medical doctor. Herbs have medicinal qualities and can react with other medication.
Aids digestion of fatty food.
As tea (infusion) it is good for relieving a hangover, coughs, sore throats and insomnia and helps resist infection
The infusion may also be used in the bath or as a facial steam for spots and dandruff as it helps resist infection.
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