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Plant Feature! Lemon Balm Uses & Benefits

By Carly Klassen and Alex Jean from Simply Alex Jean Do you have a special relationship with a plant? Something that has called to you? For me, lemon balm is one of those plants that has cropped up spontaneously in the past few places I’ve lived. I read not too long ago that plants often grow where you need them to. (I’m sure that I read this in the book Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, but my recent searches have me hardpressed to find where exactly I synthesized that idea from.) I looked up what lemon balm was traditionally used for and the first thing that came up for me was stress and anxiety. I think that those two...

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