Common Mallow ( Malva mauritiana sylvestris) 1L Container

🌸 **Common Mallow (Malva mauritiana)** is a gentle, soothing plant long valued in European and Mediterranean folk medicine for its ability to calm irritation and restore balance to inflamed tissues. Traditionally used for coughs, digestive discomfort, and skin conditions, mallow has been a staple herb for softening, protecting, and nourishing the body.

**Primary actions** include demulcent, emollient, anti-inflammatory, and mild laxative effects. Common mallow is commonly used to soothe the respiratory and digestive tracts, ease dry or irritated coughs, support gut inflammation, and calm urinary or skin irritation. Its high mucilage content makes it especially useful when tissues are dry, inflamed, or sensitive.

**Affinities** include the lungs, digestive tract, urinary system, skin, and mucous membranes, with a strong relationship to dryness, heat, and irritation.

**Energetically**, common mallow is cooling, moistening, and gently relaxing. It softens tension and excess heat while replenishing depleted or irritated tissues, making it suitable for both acute and long-term use.

**Contraindications:** Very safe and well tolerated. Due to its mucilage content, it may slow the absorption of medications—take separately if needed. No known serious contraindications when used appropriately.

**Growth cycle:** Common mallow is a fast-growing annual or short-lived perennial that thrives in disturbed soils, gardens, and roadsides. It emerges in spring, flowers through summer with its distinctive purple-violet blooms, and sets seed readily, often returning year after year.