Passion Flower

Passionflower is a relaxing nervine, often combined with other nervines to reduce stress and tension and to aid sleep. It helps to quiet mental chatter. The herb is widely acknowledged to be a good medicine for anxiety, tension, irritability and insomnia. Its gentle sedative properties produce a soothing and relaxing effect, reducing nervous energy and panic and making it a mild and non-addictive herbal tranquilizer comparable in some ways to valerian. Occasionally it is prescribed for convulsions. Passionflower has valuable painkilling properties and is given for toothache, period pain and headaches. Passionflower is used for restless agitation and exhaustion, with or without muscular twitching and spasms. Its ability to reduce anxiety makes passionflower valuable for many nervous states, and is used to treat conditions as diverse as asthma, palpitations, high blood pressure and muscle cramps. In each case, its antispasmodic and tranquilizing properties are the key to its usefulness, reducing the over activity responsible for the disorder