Marigold healing.

 Calling her a calendula officinalis as famous by healing effects and decorative, all summer they are pleasure  us as sunflowers . Multiply  by seeds, enjoying a humidity , fertile, soil , good light parts, as decorating lots of bed flowers, cultivating in many farms. Within all summer preparing flowers, preparing fresh opened baskets, cutting in a base of flower, dry,as putting by thin layer under canopy,  on air, without sun rays entering, first days flowers needing stir up, dryness is ending, if in pressing on inflorescences they are disintegrating.

 Keep in paper boxes or packets till 2 years, time is flying, thus put date on boxes or packets.. Keeping theirs till 2 years.

Rich as vitamin C , flavonoids, carotenoids, mucus, tannins, bitter tastes, clear coloured flowers are rich more with carotenoids. As antiseptic, anti inflamed, bacterial, healing effects. Thanks for spasmodic  effects  that remedy relaxing smooth muscle for stomach, bowel, exciting secretion activity, for cholagogue , gall forming, cardio tonic and hypotensive effect.

 Externally remedies and infusions using for gargles and lotions in gums bleeding, inflammations, parodontitis, angina, tonsillitis, at gynaecology herb using for syringes for uterine neck erosion, trichomonad  colpitis, fresh juice, tincture, ointments are use in injuries, burns, boils.

As inside preparations prescribing as anti-inflammatory, healing, spasmodic, cholagogue as in gastritis, ulcer stomach, bowel small, colitis, enterocolitis, effective mixture with chamomile, yarrow and calendula, but take note these mixtures in increasing cholagogue effect.

 Substances in flowers increasing metabolism exchange in skin, sedative, fight irritation, inflammation ,thus entering in structure for lotions, creams, rubbing and lotions are with infusion lowering pores and oiliness on a face as in oily seborrhoea, acnes, pimples, spirit tincture before apply on skin dilute of one tea.sp. tincture in glass of water. Leg baths with infusion cooked of 2 tbl.sp. flowers in one l. of water, disinfecting effect having on cracked skin of heels, between fingers. In oily head of hairs , dandruff, hairs falling out use for 2-3 times/day rub skin of head with mixture of ten parts spirit tincture calendula and part of castor oil, if skin of head is dry use mixture of 2 parts spirit.tinct. Calendula  and part of castor oil.

Infusion of flowers use 20 gr or 2 tbl.sp. mixture in enamel dish, add 200 ml. of hot boiled water, close lid, warm 15 min on water bath, filter, press. If in infusion, need to add boiled water, lead till 200 ml. Cool in place keep infusion for 2 days, use warm as on doses by prescribing. Pharmacy selling and manufacturing spir. tincture, with containing ointment caryophyllene  5 and ten percents for curing dermatitis, eczema , trophic ulcers, raw of remedies using in stomach ulcers, small bowel, chronic gastritis on acuting time, and self cure avoiding, just doctor defines which remedy matches for you in every concrete case.

By Guseinova, ca

ndidate for pharmacy science.