You can make tea from catnip.
You can make catnip tea by adding boiling water to the dried catnip plant leaves and steeping the catnip tea for 10 minutes.
Catnip tea, herbs and tinctures are also sold in health food stores, pharmacies and grocery stores for human use.
The catnip tea helps to improve sleep, digestion, and more, however the research on catnip's effect on humans is very limited.
Catnip is also known to be soothing, so some people enjoy drinking a cup of catnip tea to relax.
Catnip is safe for human consumption in small amounts, but people should not consume it in excess.
Catnip plants grow quickly and will readily replace what you remove.
However, they are more likely to regrow stems than single leaves, so to harvest, cut off entire stems close to the base of the plant.
Then you can remove individual leaves and allow them out to dry on a screen or drying tray.
The odor of the catnip leaves and stems is almost camphor-like with hints of thyme, sage and mint.
It is redolent of other members of the Lamiaceae family such as thyme, sage or pennyroyal.
The taste of the fresh plant is aromatic, slightly bitter and astringent.