Supplements / Traditional & emerging

Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis)

Traditional useEveningTraditional & emerging

Best for: Stress, Sleep

Dose & timing

Dose
300–600 mg standardized extract.
Timing
Evening, or under acute stress.
Review
Reassess after 2 to 4 weeks.
Forms
standardized lemon balm extract

What this supplement is for

  • Mild calming effect in small trials, often paired with valerian.
  • Long traditional use, modest modern evidence.

What to look for in a product

  • Preferred third-party verification: Third-party tested (COA).
  • Common contamination risks: Mislabeling / identity, Pesticide residue.

Where to get it

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Your experience

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We frame these as personal experience, not medical claims. Self-reported subjective outcomes are influenced by placebo, regression to the mean, and parallel lifestyle changes. We’ll never present ratings as equivalent to RCT evidence.

Evidence sources

1 reviewed

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