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How to Grow Calendula
How to grow calendula and use it medicinally to heal wounds and cure warts.
The herb calendula is also known as pot marigold.
This unassuming flower earned its Latin name because it was supposed to bloom every month of the calendar.
It earned the name Marigold through a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon version of merso-meargealla or the Marsh Marigold (a different plant from Calendula).
Buy Calendula in Bulk
Buy this herb in individual tea bags from your health food store, and you'll pay about $4 for an ounce or less.
But buy this herb in bulk, and you'll get four times the amount for about the same price.
Four ounces just $2.73
Calendula has been used both for cooking and for medicine since the sixteenth century.
The flowers of Calendula were once used to give cheese its yellow color.
You can use both the leaves and flowers of the herb Calendula.
But make certain you are using Calendula and not another plant that is called Marigold.
There are other plants with the name Marigold, but you want the real thing, so grow your Calendula from seed.
How to Grow Calendula
For the Medicine Cabinet
A poultice of the herb Calendula is useful for curing warts.
Make an infusion of the freshly gathered flowers to ease the discomfort of a fever;
it will promote perspiration, which helps drive the toxins from your body.
The infusion, once cooled, can also be applied externally to help heal wounds.
The next time you have a bee or wasp sting, rub a Calendula flower on the affected area to ease the pain and swelling.
The herb Calendula, applied externally, is also good for treating varicose veins.
In the Kitchen
According to A Modern Herbal (Volume 1, A-H): The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-Lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs & Trees with Their Modern Scientific Uses , ?The leaves when chewed at first communicate a viscid sweetness, followed by a strong penetrating taste, of a saline nature.?
Others describe the herb Calendula as having a tart or bitter taste.
Add it to your salads and soups for a unique flavoring.
How to Grow Calendula
To make certain you are growing true Calendula in your garden, start these from seeds.
The herb Calendula is easy to grow.
Sow your seeds in early spring in a sunny or partially sunny location.
Weed regularly and thin when necessary.
If you sow your seeds in April, you should have flowers in June.
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