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Common Name: Passionflower
Latin Name: Passiflora incarnata

Excerts from The How to Herb Book

Acts as a mild sedative; relaxing
Calming for high blood pressure.
Useful in nervousness, insomnia, headaches.

Has been used in the following:

Alcoholism	Headache, nervous
High blood pressure	Insomnia-sleep
Nerves

Excerpts from Nutritional Herbology

Homeopaths have used Passion Flower to treat pain and insomnia. Herbalists have had great success using it to treat imbalances of the nervous system including insomnia, nervous tension and stress headaches. Besides being an excellent herbal sedative, Passion Flower relieves smooth muscle spasms. This makes it useful for treating spasmodic dysmenorrhea, colic, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, blood pressure, and epilepsy.

Passion Flower also has an antifungal principle called passicol that shows intermediate killing power on candida species.

Passion Flower is high or very high on the following nutrients:

Chromium	Magnesium
Niacin	Phosphorus
Potassium	Protein
Vitamin A

Excerpts from Practical Herbalism

According to Ellingwood, Passion Flower is, “specific for wakefulness, disturbed sleep from mental worry, and exhaustion from cerebral fullness and from excitement, especially with feebleness. Anemic patients are relieved by it, also the wakefulness of infants and the aged. It is not usually efficient if the wakefulness is caused by pain, nor when the patient is in full strength. Nervous excitement, and irritation with muscular twitchings, evidences of approaching convulsions in childhood, with marked cerebral fullness are indications, and it is given at any time preceding or during convulsive paroxysms if it can be swallowed. It is indicated in convulsions of any character.”

In addition, he recommends it for “convulsions of childhood, severe spasms, epilepsy, chorea, tetanus, hysteria, persistent hiccough, and the sleeplessness of tuberculosis.”

Indicated Usages - Internal:

Anxiety	Convulsions
Cough	Headache
Hiccough	High blood pressure
Hyperactivity	Insomnia
Muscle tension, spasms, twitches	Stress
Neuralgia	Parkinson’s
Restlessness	Sciatica
Seizures	Tachycardia

Indicated Usages - External:

Boils, cuts, bruises

Rheumatic pains

From Our Reading and/or Experience...

We use Passion Flower often in tea and tincture combinations pertaining to any nervous or sleeping issues. It is also used for high blood pressure. Of course, it can be used in many other types of remedies. For instance, it can easily be made into powder, and used as such in capsules.
It can be used to benefit anyone: men, women (including before, during or after pregnancy, and nursing), children and animals.
It can be used as often as you would like, and in any way you choose.
As is the case with most herbs, Passion Flower should be stored in a dark, dry, and cool place.