Another blessed herb: viola odorata, not so well known.[cooling, good for hot days]
Viola odorata: used as a tea it is an excellent herb to give for fevers.[has an explicit cooling effect and cause light sweating]It is useful for bronchitis and chronic nasopharyngeal catarrh. It has been used as a mild analgesic to relieve cancer pains.[lung cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, breast cancer [as compresses ]

It may even prevent metastases and is given after operations for this purpose. In case of a throat tumour [epithelioma of the tonsil] has been described to be healed by drinking the tea and using compresses ! Probably hard to believe for modern doctors and i myself have not seen such a thing.

The famous medieval Italian medical school of Salerno declared about viola odorata: “to dispel drunkenness and repel migraine……form heavy head it takes the pain, and from feverish cold delivers the brain”. Can anything be better? I have used viola at the beginning of my practice much more and I tend to start using it again, often together with sambucus and tilia [equal parts]