Balm can refer to:
- Liniment, a topical medical preparation
- Melissa (plant), a genus of plants, particularly the species commonly known as balm in the United Kingdom or Lemon balm in the United States
- Monarda, a genus of plants commonly known as bee balm
- Elsholtzia ciliata a species of plants sometimes known as Vietnamese balm
- Balm of Gilead, a medicinal resin from the North American species Populus candicans
- Balsam of Mecca and other medicinal resins (compare Balm of Gilead (disambiguation) )
- Myroxylon
Famous quotes containing the word balm:
“Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,
Th’indifferent judge between the high and low.”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
“Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole
There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sinsick soul.”
—African-American hymn-writer. “There Is a Balm in Gilead,” l. 1-2.