Tiliae flos

Tiliae flos, refers to the dried inflorescences (lime blossoms) of Tilia cordata monographed by Commission E and the HMPC.

Tiliae flos is a drug used in herbal medicinal products for the treatment of colds and mild mental stress.

HMPC monograph: Traditional-use: Colds, mild stress phenomena

ESCOP: not processed

Commission e-monograph: Colds, coughs

Traditional medicine: Only the summer lime tree (flowering time June), the winter lime tree (flowering time July) and its hybrid, the Dutch lime tree (flowering time early July) are used medicinally. Therapy: Sweating cure for feverish infections.

Tiliae flos contains approx. 1 % flavonoids, approx. 10 % mucilage (polysaccharides), approx. 2 % tannins, essential oil and caffeic acid derivatives.

Tiliae flos has soothing and expectorant effects.

Tiliae flos is used for colds, dry irritating cough and to help with mild mental stress.

For children under 12 years and over 4 years only against colds, from 12 years for colds and light mental stress.

The daily dose of the drug is between 2.0 and 4.0 g according to its preparation and is mostly taken in the form of hot tea infusions.

There are no known adverse effects.

There are no known contraindications.

There are no known interactions with other drugs.

Lime blossoms are often confused (or even mixed) with the blossoms of the silver linden, as this tree is much more common as an avenue tree, but its medicinal efficacy is much lower.

1. Ammon H et al (2014). Hunnius pharmaceutical dictionary. Walter de Gruyter GmbH Berlin/Boston p 1787.
2. Schilcher H (ed.) in, Leitfaden Phytotherapie, Urban & Fischer Verlag (2016) Munich, p 206.
3. https://arzneipflanzenlexikon.info/linde.php.
4. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/herbal-monograph/final-community-herbal-monograph-tilia-cordata-miller-tilia-platyphyllos-scop-tilia-x-vulgaris-heyne_en.pdf