Prickly Lettuce ( Lactuca serriola ) 1/2 L Container

🌱**Prickly Lettuce (Lactuca serriola)** is a traditional European and North American medicinal plant, often called “wild lettuce,” valued for its gentle nervine and sedative properties. Historically, it was used to calm the nervous system, ease restlessness, and support sleep, earning a reputation as a mild, natural relaxant.

**Primary actions** include nervine, mild sedative, antispasmodic, and digestive tonic effects. Prickly lettuce is commonly used for insomnia, anxiety, nervous tension, muscle spasms, and digestive discomfort. Its milky latex contains compounds that support relaxation without heavy sedation, making it useful for nervous or overstimulated individuals.

**Affinities** include the nervous system, digestive tract, and muscles, with a strong relationship to tension, agitation, and restlessness.

**Energetically**, prickly lettuce is cooling, calming, and gently relaxing. It softens nervous tension, quiets the mind, and restores balance to an overstimulated system.

**Contraindications:** Generally safe in moderate doses. Avoid high doses or concentrated latex preparations without guidance, and exercise caution alongside strong sedatives or alcohol. Not recommended during pregnancy.

**Growth cycle:** Prickly lettuce is a biennial plant that emerges in spring as a rosette, producing a tall flowering stalk in its second year. It thrives in disturbed soils, roadsides, and gardens. The plant flowers in summer with small yellow blooms and produces seeds in autumn before completing its life cycle.