How do you use the passion flower vine for Health. How is it extracted? Leaves or Flower?

Question

I have a Passion Flower Vine and would like to now how I can use it for Home remedies

Answer 1

Long before drugstores, Native Americans would pound and boil passionflower's twining roots into poultices to treat boils, cuts, earaches, and even liver problems. The Cherokee used the leaves and sweet, yellow fruits as food treats.

NOTE: Passionflower: You shouldn't take it everyday for more than 2 weeks at a time without checking with an herbalist. DO NOT take this herb is you are pregnant or think you could be.

You can use it to beat stress. Passionflower is a tranquilizer. It has sedating effects. It also wards off hot flashes, tension headaches, migraines, high blood pressure, heart palpitations, and anything else related to stress. Passionflower doesn't leave that narcotic hangover feeling either.

Passionflower also eases muscles and fatigue, boots moods, soothes upset stomachs, and helps some people with asthma - especially when tension triggers an attack.

The leaf, stem, or vine of passionflower can be used when brewing tea. How to make: Just steep 1 or 2 teaspoons of the dried herb in a cup of boiling water. Wait about 20 minutes, then strain out the herbs before drinking. You can drink up to 3 cups of this tea a day.

To use passionflower to ease muscle tension, the daily recommended dose is 20-30 drops of tincture in a glass of water or juice. Drink up to 3 glasses a day.

Harvesting tips: gather the fruit in the summer - when its ripest. The fruit turns yellow when ripe.

Storage tips: DO NOT freeze passionflower. The fruit only last a week in the fridge crisper drawer. Place the dried portions in an airtight container in a cool, dry place.

I hope this helps you....I tried to figure out how they make the extract (tincture) but they don't tell you in this book. They do say however, that you can go to any herb store and buy the extract...they say its a little pricey, but the shelf-life is 5 years!