Moderately cooling. Pungent, aromatic, slightly bitter. Carminative, stomachic, tonic, nervine, antispasmodic. Lavender flowers are a stomachic and carminative that relieves Melancholic gas, distension, bloating and flatulence and helps eliminate putrefactive bacteria from the intestines. The leaves and stems, or spikes, can be used as an anti-Melancholic bitter digestive tonic similar to Yarrow.