Genus: Calendula
Common name: Calendula officinalis. Marigold. Pot Marigold.
Family: Compositae (Daisy, Aster, Sunflower or Asteraceae)
This cheery flowering herb is one of the easiest garden plants to grow in sunny temperate climates. Its golden yellow or orange blossoms are composed of single ray florets that surround the central disc florets. The petals are edible and can be eaten raw in salads or dried and used to flavor broths, soups, and tea. Calendula petals have been used as a dye to color cheese, butter, or fabrics. Calendula cream or ointment is used topically for soothing cuts, sunburn, irritated skin, diaper rash, and insect bites, and it helps promote healing by reducing inflammation. Besides having anti-inflammatory properties, calendula is an antioxidant, antiseptic, antifungal, antimicrobial, antibacterial, and antiviral. That’s a lot of good properties packed into such a pretty plant!
Homeopathic Calendula can be used topically as an antiseptic wash, or as a cream, lotion, or ointment. It is wonderful for surgical incisions, open cuts, lacerations, and skin wounds that are painful and suppurating. It can control bleeding. When taken internally as a homeopathic remedy, it can prevent infection and promote healing.
Keynotes:
- Excessive pain or weakness out of proportion to the injury
- Nausea due to pain or weakness
- Chilly
- Frequent colds in damp weather
- Easily fatigued
- Nervous, irritable, restless, easily frightened or startled
- Sensitive to noise
- A sense of an impending calamity
- Useful after tooth extraction to reduce bleeding
- Promotes healing of an episiotomy or tears during childbirth
- Helps prevent scarring
- Intense inflammation after injury to muscles or tendons, when Bryonia doesn’t help
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