# Passion flower

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** Passiflora incarnata, Passion flower
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Key Actions: Aids sleep, Relaxant, Relieves pain, Sedative.
Parts Used: Aerial parts.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Cautions: Rarely, can cause allergic.

## Symptoms by System

### Extremities
- Passiflora, Passion flower Passiflora incarnata Used long before the arrival of europeans in the Americas, passiflora’s calming, relaxant qualities are quickly apparent upon taking the herb, and underlie its many uses.
- Passiflora is most often employed to relieve anxiety and nervousness and to aid sleep, its use in this respect confirmed by clinical trials.
- medicinal uSeS Part used Aerial parts key actions Aids sleep • Relaxant • Relieves pain • Sedative anxiety, nervousness, racing heart, headache Rarely producing drowsiness, passiflora takes the edge off worry and anxiety , bringing relief to symptoms such as a racing heart and tension headache.
- A mild analgesic, passiflora can help with migraines and neuralgic pain associated with toothaches, for example.
- Sleep disturbance, spasmodic pain Safe and non-addictive, passiflora is a key sleep remedy , often enabling one to relax and slip off into sound sleep.
- Its relaxant and antispasmodic activity , which is commonly overlooked, can also be used for conditions such as leg cramps and period pains.
- PASSIfLoRA InCARnATA key information Safety ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ traditional uSe ★ ★ ★ ★ reSearch ★ ★ ★ ✩ beSt taken aS Tincture ✓✓✓ Capsule, tablet ✓✓ doSage C (see pp.44–45) often uSed with Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) cautionS Rarely, can cause allergic reactions.
- See also pp.42–51.
- dried aerial parts aerial parts are used to make relaxing infusions Native to southern US, Central and South America, passiflora is today cultivated extensively in Europe.
- tiNcture tincture is analgesic and antispasmodic 173 A key sedative remedy, passion flower (Passiflora incarnata) was first brought to Europe from Brazil by Jesuit priests.
- The complex structure of the flower was taken to signify Christ’s passion.