The closest relative of asters and chrysanthemums, but only less pretentious, it has long been used by people for medicinal purposes. It's about calendula. Unpretentious flowers of bright yellow or orange color amaze the imagination with their beauty and strength, which their nature endowed.
Calendula found its application initially from healers and herbalists. Today, the plant is recognized by traditional medicine. Decoctions of bright flower baskets are used for lotions on the eyes with conjunctivitis and the presence of barley. A decoction is prepared as follows: pour a spoonful of inflorescences with half a liter of boiling water and infuse for 40 minutes. The oral cavity and throat are rinsed several times a day with tonsillitis, stomatitis and some other diseases.
Calendula has found use in anti-cancer therapy. Once it was even called a plant against cancer. In the treatment of gastritis, miracle calendula is also widely used: 2 tablespoons of flowers are filled with half a liter of boiling water. Wrap up for 15 minutes. Infusion is drunk during the day.
If oily scalp and dandruff have deprived you of peace and sleep, here too the calendula, the use of which is simply necessary, will become your assistant. Mix 5 teaspoons of the plant’s alcohol solution with half a teaspoon of castor oil (both are sold at each pharmacy). Rub the resulting composition into the scalp before each wash, the result will be noticeable very soon, after several procedures.
With a rapid heartbeat, calendula (the use of a decoction: two tablespoons of flowers and two glasses of boiled water, infused for an hour) will help to cope with heart rhythm disturbances. Drink strained broth four times a day in half a glass.
Calendula tincture for gargling is considered one of the oldest recipes of traditional medicine. Along with it, this wonderful plant was added to teas for the prevention of atherosclerosis, for shortness of breath and a tendency to edema, at high pressure. But hypotensive drugs are prohibited from calendula, as they are contraindicated in pregnant women.
The soothing effect of the medicinal plant is highly appreciated. It must be added to sedation. Calendula is also indispensable in the treatment of peptic ulcer, and in any degree of severity. It strengthens the walls of blood vessels and stimulates cell regeneration, drives bile and is used in the treatment of urolithiasis, it will restore the cycle and relieve pain during menstruation. And since calendula is well combined with other medicinal plants, it is easily included in the compositions of various fees. One of these fees will help to cope with a very delicate problem. For hemorrhoids, prepare the following infusion: take 10 g of herbs of calendula, yarrow, sage, peppermint, chamomile, black poplar buds, add a shepherd's bag in the same amount and 15 g of the following medicinal plants: elecampane root , nettle grass . Cooking a decoction. 1 third of a glass of infusion is taken.
But in addition to decoctions, ointments and plasters, there is also calendula oil, the use of which is also well known. It has a bitter taste, yellow-orange color and a characteristic herbal odor. The wound healing effect allows the use of oil for the treatment of wounds, the disinfecting property makes it indispensable for cuts and scratches, soothing and softening properties are necessary for the use of calendula oil in cosmetology, while caring for sensitive skin. The range of use of calendula oil is very wide: from prickly heat to furunculosis, from varicose veins to hemorrhoids, from burns to diathesis.
If you are the owner of sensitive skin, then when making your own massage oil, it is best to take calendula oil as the basis. It is ideal for you.