It is recommended to use lavender as a diuretic and choleretic agent. Dried lavender helps with neurasthenia, insomnia, migraines, gastrointestinal tract pain, headaches, and stimulates the heart muscle. Narrow-leaved lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) Lavender is widely used in the perfumery and soap industry and is included in most French perfumes.Lavender oil is still used in medicine for the treatment of purulent wounds, has bactericidal properties. You can buy lavender flowers and put them with your clothes, as their smell repels moths. The ancient Romans and Greeks used lavender for washing and taking aromatic baths. From the Latin language, the word "Lavare", from which the word "Lavandula" actually originated, is translated as "to wash". Well, "angustifolia" is translated as "narrow-leaf". The Western Mediterranean is considered the birthplace of its growth, and in Russia it grows mainly in the southern part of Europe. It is grayish in appearance with hairs in the form of stars, an evergreen semi-shrub, 20 to 60 cm tall. It has many branched shoots. The leaves are sessile, linear, the edges are bent down. Flowers are collected in flower rings and form spike-shaped inflorescences. Lavender blooms in July-August, usually bluish-purple, rarely white or pink. It has a strong aroma.