Every aspect of life is better when you are healthy!

We love to share sustainable, accessible, cheap (or even free!), holistic options we find that enhance wellness. Nature offers solutions to all of the human body's "problems", and we want to reconnect you to these roots! Knowing your options for real THRIVAL empowers you to take responsibility for your health into your own hands. Whether you take this info with you into the garden or wilderness, or you choose to order our beyond organic, super sustainable tea blends (or both!), we wish you happy healing.

With that in mind, we are sharing the incredible healing properties of the delicious, fragrant herb LEMON BALM with you today:

Lemon balm is a beautiful aromatic relative of mint with tons of super powers! We have huge patches of lush lemon balm in our garden this year. It's a hardy plant that needs very little maintenance, and bees really love it (hence its alternate name, bee balm). Given the declining bee population, it's great to plant some things that help out our little winged friends...because if the bees die, we all die too.  

Lemon balm is well known for its ability to relieve stress, but it's also a superb anti-viral! New research suggests compounds in lemon balm have the capacity to eradicate the herpes virus and reduce the severity of outbreaks. 

We add it to our food & activated water, dry it for tea, and are making some potent tinctures as well to utilize its healthful benefits. It is also a great addition to homemade beauty products for its skin-soothing benefits.

Plant medicine has been respected and used effectively for thousands of years. We hope you're inspired to experiment with lovely lemon balm for yourself!

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