Lilac or Syringa vulgaris blooms in spring its flowers, leaves offer wonderful culinary and medicinal properties.
I like to use some of the flowers on my salad in small quantities because they can be laxative. Flowers can be made into syrups, lemonades, ice creams, doughnuts and jelly.
Leave and flower can be use as salve, facial cream, shampoo and medicinal massage oil.
Lilac flowers have pain relieving properties and great used in an oil massage especially for any articulation issues. The leaves and flowers calm fever and are great bitter tonic for the digestion. Help the liver and can be useful for kidney stone. The leaves bring the blood pressure down so good to take for high blood pressure. They are also astringent so can help for diarrhoea; and as a skin tonner for the face.
Lilac leaves and flowers also have antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. They can be use internally or externally to heal wounds, and treat skin issues such as acne or eczema and help digestion.
Lilac leaves and flowers can be used as an infusion or infused in oil or water to create a topical treatment for skin issues.
