Grow Heartease to stimulate your immune system and improve your circulation. Heartease has scalloped, heart-shaped leaves and violet to white flowers. The crystallized flowers, flavor sweets and liquers and are tossed in salads with the leaves.
All parts contain active ingredients.
Decocted flowers make an eyewash, the leaf tea treats varicose veins. The flower syrup is antiseptic and a mild laxative, and with the leaves treats coughs, headaches, insomnia. The roots treat bronchitis. The leaves are a folk remedy for breast and lung cancer. The aerial parts of Heartease are cleansing and a circulation and immune system stimulant, used for chronic skin complaints.