Pot Marigolds relieve bowel disease

Beautiful pot marigolds, popularly known as Calendula or simply marigolds, are appreciated and valued as ornamental flowers, but especially for their therapeutic and culinary effects. Just a few people know that their leaves are very tasty and healthy in salads of raw vegetables, and their petals have the same properties as the saffron.

Since ancient times, the pot marigolds were famous for their healing virtues, mainly for the stomach, intestines and liver. Moreover, in many parts of Europe, these plants are nicknamed "flower rain", because they act as a barometer: the day the flowers do not open their corolla in morning between 6 and 7am, it will rain.

Healing virtues

Marigold flowers contain saponins, carotenoids, fatty acids, volatile oils and manganese salts. This chemical composition stimulates the functions of the liver and kidney, and help in the absorption of calcium and iron. In addition, they have anti- inflammatory, antibacterial and healing effect, and therefore are indicated for the treatment of infections, inflammation and skin lesions. Pot marigolds products are recommended in the treatment of many diseases, such as hyperacid gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, inflammation of the colon, liver disease, acne, leucorrhoea, burns, frostbite, purulent wounds, skin cancer, skin ulcers, breast cancer, skin diseases, fungus, osteoporosis, and the list does not end there.

Pot marigolds are used as powder, simple infusions, combined infusions, tincture, essential oil and balm.

Internal Remedies

Combined infusion for ulcers and gastritis

These diseases are treated during eight weeks with a combined infusion prepared as follows: Macerate four tablespoons of flowers into 500 ml of water, for eight hours, and then filter. Add another 500 ml of water and boil for five minutes. After it cools down, mix the tea from the first and second filtering. Consume three cups of tea per day, unsweetened.

Fights colitis

A mixture of powder of pot marigold flowers and St. John's Wort has proven to be a cure for both types of fermentation and putrefaction colitis. Four to six teaspoons per day is administered in cycles of three weeks. Abdominal cramps can also be treated with powder of the flowers, half a teaspoon before and after meals, until pain recedes.

Tincture, good for cholecystitis
Calendula tincture helps calm gallbladder crisis. Take a teaspoon of tincture diluted in water, 15 minutes before each meal. Treatment must last three weeks and has anti-inflammatory effects on the gallbladder, regulates bile secretion, and supports its secretion into the duodenum. It also has a stimulating effect on digestion.

Remedies for external use

Lavage and compresses with calendula tincture are beneficial for varicose ulcers and wounds that heal difficultly. Wash the affected area daily, with a compress sprayed with tincture of pot marigold. To speed up healing, remove the compress after two hours and apply on the affected area an ointment containing calendula. Marigold oil has healing, anti-inflammatory, soothing, antibacterial and antifungal effect. This oil is used as feedstock in the preparation of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals (ointments, creams, gels, lotions, eggs).

Pot marigolds are useful in treating warts. Use calendula tincture or tea twice a day. Cover the area with a gauze. After 10-15 minutes, rinse with warm water.

Do you have heartburn? Drink Calendula tea!
Our stomach lining secretes acid gastric juice containing pepsin, an enzyme that degrades proteins; hydrochloric acid to kill bacteria in the food and promote action pepsin, and intrinsic factor essential for the absorption of vitamin B12 in the small intestine. Sensations of sour and heartburn are often only a transient acid hypersecretion caused by certain foods (fried fat, alcohol and others). If you confronted with this issue, use a natural trick that you heal you: calendula tea. Soak a teaspoon of ground calendula flowers in a cup of water (preferably spring water). Allow soaking for four to six hours at room temperature, or allow infusing for three to five minutes in boiling water. Drink four cups a day with small sips.

Marigolds treat frostbite

If you do not wear gloves and appropriate shoes, you can get frostbite. Frostbite is a condition of the blood vessels that occurs during the cold season as a result of prolonged exposure to cold. In early stages, frostbite is manifested by redness accompanied by a bluish color, swelling and temporary paralysis of the affected area.

If it worsens, ulcers can occur, accompanied by pain and paralysis. Here's what helps:

Marigolds

• Infusion: place 20 grams of marigold flowers in 1 liter of boiling water, infuse it for 10 minutes. The used plants are used as poultices, the strained infusion for baths.
• Tincture: 100 ml of boiling water, add 10 ml of tincture, prepared by macerating for 8 days 20 g of herb in 100 ml of alcohol at 70 degrees. Apply compresses with the tincture.

Celery

Boil 1 medium size celery with leaves and all, for 45 minutes, in 2 liters of water. Put the frostbitten areas in the warm decoction, which can be reheated and use 3 times per day; treatment lasts 3-5 days. Prepare new decoction daily.

Cabbage

Drink a glass of cabbage juice a day between meals until the tissue repairs. Cabbage can be used externally as a compress on the frostbite area.

Sore throat remedies

Cold air has already made its presence; did it make your tonsils angry? Here are some ideas.

• Drink herbal teas made from a mixture of sage, colt’s foot, plantain, field horsetail, St. John’s wort, yarrow, chamomile (make an infusion of all the above) and add a few drops of Swedish bitter.
• Take two baths a day for 25 minutes.
• Apply a poultice of clay and grinded onions on the neck race for 2 hours per day.
• Place your feet in hot water for 30 minutes and take steam baths of chamomile and peppermint or lavender oil at the head and chest.
• Apply neck compresses the comfrey kernel, fenugreek or raw cabbage leaves.
• Do garlic, onion, lemon and oil gargle for 3-4 minutes.
• Gargle with tea as an infusion made of marshmallow, chamomile, marigold, yellow bedstraw, horsetail, sage and thyme.
• Apply warm compresses at night, with infusion of oak bark
• Massage your body with an alcoholic solution of peppermint and lavender.