Passionflower or Passion Flower is a plant native to North America, found mostly in the Midwest and Southeast. Passionflower has been used as folk remedy to treat anxiety. Studies show extracts of passion flower have anti anxiety and aphrodisiac properties.

Passion Flower Benefits
lists long as this herb is a great stress buster. Commonly known as maypop, these are dark colored flowers which are used as medicinal products. The herb is generally taken to combat insomnia, stress and anxiety, blood circulatory issues and weight gain. Completely non-addictive, passiflora is a highly recommendable herb in case you are having disturbed nights, panic and restlessness.

Using passion flower can help you to get a good night’s sleep without those side effects that leave you feeling hung over and groggy.

Passion flower is one of the best herbal remedies you can use to help get you through stressful times filled with anxiety. For many years passion flower was used by Native Americans to treat external problems such as wounds and injuries. It was also used to treat ear infections. But its most common and successful use was that a drink to soothe the nerves.

Passion flower is often combined with other calming herbs in tea blends, including valerian, lemon balm and hops.

Use water infusions to produce skin and hair washes and other personal care products. The dried herb can also be used in bath bags and in herbal sachets.

Benefits and Uses of the Passion Flower:

• Traditionally, passion flower has been used for its sedative effect. Due to this effect it has been used as a herbal sleep aid and is considered a good herb to relieve anxiety.
• Historically, it was also used to treat gastrointestinal spasms.
• Passion flower has a hypotensive effect (lowers blood pressure) and also relieves tachycardia (fast heart rate.)
• The anti-spasmodic effect makes this herb useful in treating the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, seizures, and hysteria.
• This herb has also been used to treat nerve pain and shingles.
• Asthma, especially with a high level of spasmodic activity, responds well to passion flower use.
• It can be combined with valerian, hops, and Jamaican dogwood for an effective herbal insomnia treatment.
• Passion flower may also have a mild aphrodisiac effect.
• Passion flower has been used to treat some of the symptoms accociated with ADHD (ADD).

Active Compounds: Passion flower contains a variety of flavonoid compounds and cyanogenic glycosides. P. incarnata is one of the species in this family of plants that contains harmala alkaloids.