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                                   ³Bergamot³
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    (Citrus aurantium) is a small tree that resembles the lemon and the
    orange. Its flowers have a nice odor and the fruit is a pale lemon color.
    It is grown in southern Italy and France. The rind yields an oil that is
    used perfumery and in inhalers to help one get to sleep*. This oil is
    a greenish-yellow liquid, neutral, faintly acidic, and has a very
    characteristic fragrant odor and an aromatic, bitter taste. When added
    to sweet almond or coconut oil and applied externally it Increases the
    skins susceptibility to sunburn.

       To make a pleasant sleep pillow, mix rose leaf, rosebuds, geranium
    leaf, and pledgets of cotton scented with a few drops of oil of neroli,
    bergamot and geranium rose.


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                                ³Bergamot, Wild³
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    (Monarda punctata) also called horsemint or bee balm, is the strain of
    Bergamot found in the Americas. Its properties differ, as it contains
    more citric acid then Bergamot*.

        The tops and leaves of horsemint are used as a stimulant and as a
    diuretic*. In a decoction*, the dose is several teacups or two to ten
    drops of the oil a day. It is also used as a diaphoretic and is taken
    for flatulent colic*, nausea, rheumatism*, and diarrhea*.

        Vinegar of bergamot is useful as a scalp wash for dandruff.