Calendula officinalis is a plant of the family Asteraceae. Southern Europe is considered its homeland , and in our country it is usually grown as an ornamental plant. In total there are over 20 species, in our country - 4. The medicinal calendula grows in bushes, along sea coasts, on rocks, and some species, for example, field calendula and some others grow as weeds.
Calendula officinalis, or marigolds has long been cultivated; Many of its varieties are known, most often terry yellow and orange in all shades. The plant is used as an excellent medicine. It is used in the form of tinctures for rinsing with inflammatory diseases of the pharynx and oral cavity, ointments - in the treatment of ulcers, boils, wounds. Calendula is also used as a food coloring (oil extract from flowers), as well as seasoning for sauces and soups (dried baskets). Well, let's find out what calendula heals and how to use it.
Calendula officinalis - application in traditional medicine and cosmetology
Many of us have known about some properties of this wonderful plant since childhood, when our grandmothers, fans of traditional medicine, did not recognize other remedies for bruises, cuts and scratches, except for tincture of calendula. Also, just after hearing a cough, they immediately prepared infusions of calendula with chamomile and let us gargle. This recipe helps many today when it is necessary to treat throat diseases in children.
Calendula officinalis has a pronounced bactericidal property against many pathogens, especially streptococci and staphylococci.
It is useful to take medications of calendula drug for diseases of the stomach, which are accompanied by severe spasms, diseases of the gallbladder or liver.
In the early stages of hypertension, calendula is taken as tea to normalize blood pressure.
They often use it in the treatment of eye diseases, for example, conjunctivitis, barley, eye inflammation. To do this, pour a teaspoon of flowers 200 g of boiling water. Insist, wrapped, half an hour, carefully filtered. It can be used for lotions, rinsing, compresses for the eyes.
The medicinal properties of the plant were also useful in gynecology. With it, uterine erosion, uterine bleeding, inflammation and bacterial infections, colpitis are treated. To do this, use a solution of calendula 2% (teaspoon of tincture of marigolds per 50 g of water), used in the form of douching.
It has been established that the plant has an antitumor effect, so it should be added to tea (it can be combined with other herbs) both during treatment and for cancer prevention.
The beneficial effect of calendula officinalis has in heart diseases. So, with a violation of the heart rhythm, 2 teaspoons are poured. tablespoons of flowers 400 g of boiling water, insist for one hour, strain. Take 100 g of infusion four times a day.
Calendula flowers have antiseptic, mild sedative, anti-inflammatory, choleretic and antispasmodic effects. In folk medicine, tincture of flower baskets of calendula is used very widely: in the treatment of diseases of the spleen, liver, spasms and ulcers of the intestines and stomach, with gastritis, rickets, skin diseases. Calendula officinalis has been successfully used to heal wounds, ulcers, bruises, boils, in the treatment of liver diseases, with the expansion of veins. Marigolds have also found widespread use in homeopathy.
With thrush in children, diseases of the throat or oral cavity, pyorrhea, gingivitis, stomatitis, as well as with angina, use this recipe: fill the table. a spoon of dried marigold flowers with a glass of boiling water. They insist an hour, wrapping them up well, then filtering. Rinse your mouth 3 times. Or so: a teaspoon of alcohol tincture is diluted with 200 grams of warm boiled water. And rinse their mouth. You can rinse your mouth with a tincture solution to prevent gingivitis and stomatitis, you need to do this in the morning and in the evening, having massaged the gums with your fingers first.
With rickets or scrofula, a teaspoon of calendula is poured 200 g of boiling water. Insist, wrapped, for one hour, then filter. Take a quarter cup three times a day.
For a hypotensive effect, you need to use tincture of nails for a long time 25 drops three times a day. Then headaches disappear, efficiency increases significantly, sleep improves.
There is also a simple remedy for the treatment of gastritis: you need to pour two teas. tablespoons of flowers 400 g boiling water, then insist a quarter of an hour, then strain. Drink the solution during the day.
With dandruff or with oily scalp, rub this mixture: 10 parts of tincture of calendula for alcohol and 1 part of castor oil. If the skin on the head is dry, castor oil and tincture of marigolds are taken in equal proportions.
Those who have long dreamed of getting rid of freckles will appreciate the ability of marigold juice to whiten both small and large pigment spots.
For gastric cancer, a powder of plant flowers is taken three times a day, 0.3 g each, washed down with water. For enemas, use a solution of tincture of calendula 2%.
Such ointment is prepared from tumors and bruises: 10 g of powder from calendula flowers are combined with 50 g of melted base (butter, pork or goose fat, less often with petroleum jelly) and thoroughly ground. Use externally.
As you can see, the list of calendula's healing properties is impressive. Use the recipes in the article and experience the benefits of the wonderful calendula on yourself. Good health!