Marigold

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History
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Marigold (Calendula officinalis) is a hardy, one-year plant. The plant blossoms from June till and with September (sometimes yet longer) with orange/ yellow disk flowers of 4 until 7 cm section. The flowers have at the end of their flower leaves three teeth.

The leaves are green, hairy, and peddel like from form. The leaves its whole side. The stems of Marigold is green, subdivides juicy, angular, and covers with her. The plant becomes between 30 and 50 cm high.

The seed of Marigold is beige, 5 mm long, formed as an apostrophe with a knobbelige backs bone.

Place.
Molar for Marigold a sunny spot.
Ground.
Marigold grows the best on fine leem soil only can on the most ground from the feet, except of if it too a lot of water stands.
Increase.
Sow the seed in the spring, this can to spot or hoard.
Cultures.
Plant Marigold from on 30 until 45 cm.

Marigold is one of the most multi-purpose herbs. He is popular as cheerful garden flower, round its cosmetic and culinary applications, as a paint plant and because of be many therapeutic qualities.
Because these hardy one-year plant the whole year through appears to blossom, got they the botanical name Calendula. Candendula has been diverted indicates by the Latin word "Calenda" what each first day of the month. The name gives thus at that the plant on the first day of each month blossoms.
The old Egyptians valued the plant already because of her rejuvenating qualities. In Europe is the plant long uses in soups and stoofpotten and round butter and cheese to colour. In American civil wars, physicians used wound to treat on the battlefield the Marigold open with.
Marigold is also associated with the saint virgin Maria. In England is the plant with queen Mary associated in the 17e century. The English name for Marigold is also "Marigold".

Dry flower leaves colour at melanges to give.

Cook the flowers for a dull yellow paint matter.

Join the flower leaves closed at creams and a bath for cleaning, cure and the softer make of the skin.
Click here to read how you self creams make.

As a medical herb, one uses the (dried) flowers.

Working and character.
Strengthens the defence, antiseptic, blood set pen, inflammations brake, anti-fungal, detoxifying, cramp relaxing, wound whole.

External.
- The best means against skin problems, with name lit wounds, winter hands and rash.
- Use the tincture by all possible painful and lit spots and mould infections.
- Use the cream by rash, varicose veins, rough skin, painful anus, spruw and as a lip ointment.
- The oil-extract Use by dry rash.
- A Marigold compress helps by inflammations. Make a compress of gold flowertea or tincture for lit spots on the skin, painful nipples and painful eyes.

There its many crèmes and put ointment on of Marigold available Calendulan Crème and Calendulan put ointment on of VSM its of this an examples.


Internal.
- Use a strong tea or a diluted tincture as a spool means by painful gums and throat pain
- Tea or tincture Take by swollen lymph glands, childhood diseases, lit almonds, gastritis, gall-bladder problems, painful menstruations, cellulites and after operations.
- Use it with grease root by vergroeiingen and stomach ulcers and with sage against flu.

Quantity.
Uses to wish. By childhood diseases each two hour a half head tea of three or four flowers pulled in a head boiling water.

The ethereal Marigold oil is not everywhere available, because the flowers yield oil only small quantities. A Marigold oil extract becomes uses about that sleepiness. It can be mixed good with the most flowers and citrus fruit oils.

Ethereal oil (little ), bitters matter ( calenduline), Carotene, Flavonoids (chlorogeniene acid, quercitine glycosides with rutine, narcissi), Mucilage, Pentacyclic alcohols (arnidoil, brain, calenduladiol, erythrodiol, faradol, heliantriol C and F, longispinogenine, ursatriol), Saponins, Sterols.

Weathered not Marigold with Tagetes-kinds. These flowers (among them Africans) have other qualities and do not may internal become uses.
The most ethereal oils cannot be taken in without risk.

The flower leaves liberally round a saffron colour and a something do not use to give sharp taste (that of saffron) at rice, fish and meat soups, soft cheese, yogurt, butter, omelettes, milk courts, cakes and sweet breads. Join 1 teaspoon (5 cc) flower leaves closed at fish and wildbraad. Garnish pâté and fruit salads with good flower leaves.

Scatter the leaf through salads and stoofpotten.

There its different ornamentals of Marigold to obtain. "Orange King" (height 40 cm) and "Ball's Lung Orange" (height 70 cm) are beautiful, strong snijvarianten, just as "Rays or Sunshine" has colour that beautiful mixed (of yellow till dark orange).

Literature

[1]. Britton, Jade & Kircher, Tamara; - De healing power of herbs - First busily; Groningen:
TextCase (2000). ISBN 90 , 5764 , 030 , 9
[2]. Bremness, Lesley;- the complete naslagwerk SEASON for the cultivating and use -
Fifth busily; Wooden: Of Reemst Publisher (2000). ISBN 90-410-0158-1
[3]. Shaw, Nun;- herb medicine - First busily; Cologne: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
(1999). ISBN 3-8290-1511-9
[4]. Dr. C. Norman Shealy; - Encyclopedia of the Natural Medicines - First busily;
Groningen: TextCase (1999). ISBN 3-8290-1713-8
[5]. Rüdt, YOU.; - Therapeutic and poisonous plants - First busily; Zutphen:
B. V. W. J. Thieme & Cie (1973). ISBN 90-03 94630 , 2



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