Symmetry Products with Marigold:
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Other names for marigold include: calendula, garden marigold, and pot marigold.
This plant is native to southern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean and now grows in many parts of the United States and Canada. Marigold has been used for centuries to aid in healing skin, apparently without causing problems. Only the common deep orange-flowered variety is of medicinal value. It has been asserted that a Marigold flower, rubbed on the affected part, is an admirable remedy for the pain and swelling caused by the sting of a wasp or bee. A lotion made from the flowers is most useful for sprains and wounds, and water distilled from them is good for inflamed and sore eyes.
Parts Used:
The flowers and leaves.
Leaves. - Gather only in fine weather, in the morning, after the dew has been dried by the sun. Flowers. - The ray florets are used and need quick drying in the shade, in a good current of warm air, spread out on sheets of paper, loosely, without touching each other, or they will become discolored.
Medicinal Action and Uses:
Marigold is chiefly used as a local remedy. Its action is stimulant and diaphoretic. Given internally, it assists local action and prevents suppuration. The infusion of 1 ounce to a pint of boiling water is given internally, in doses of a tablespoonful, and externally as a local application. It is useful in chronic ulcer, varicose veins, etc. and was once considered to have as much value as an aperients and detergent in visceral obstructions and jaundice. Marigold flowers are also in demand for children's ailments.
An infusion of the freshly-gathered flowers is employed in fevers, as it gently promotes perspiration and throws out any eruption - a decoction of the flowers is much in use in country districts to bring out smallpox and measles, in the same manner as Saffron.
The leaves when chewed at first communicate a viscid sweetness, followed by a strong penetrating taste, of a saline nature. The expressed juice, which contains the greater part of this pungent matter, has been given in cases of costiveness and proved very efficacious. Snuffed up the nose, it excites sneezing and a discharge of mucous from the head. The leaves, eaten as a salad, have been considered useful in the scrofula of children, and the acrid qualities of the plant have caused it to be recommended as an extirpator of warts.
Common doses of marigold:
Marigold comes as an ointment of 5% flower extract, an infusion, and a mouthwash.
Some experts recommend the following doses:
- As an ointment, apply to the skin.
- As a tincture or tea, take 1 to 4 milliliters orally daily.
Uses of Marigold herb:
- As an antiseptic
- As a skin treatment during aromatherapy
- Bedsores
- Chapped lips
- Leg ulcers
- Skin inflammation
- To aid digestion
- To promote skin healing
- Varicose veins
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