Natural Medicinal Plant Marigold

The marigold is valued in pharmacy and natural medicine alike.

The marigold is not only used in ointments and tinctures, but also in foods.

However, only the flowers are effective, not the leaves. In addition, marigolds pretty plants that could also decorate your garden or balcony!

What can marigold do?

The marigold is not only a pretty garden plant, it can also do a lot for you and your health. Their active ingredients are used successfully for generations to

• Inhibit inflammation,
• Reduce swelling and
• promote wound healing.

Because of these properties, ointments, tinctures and infusions with marigold are used to treat the following diseases or injuries:

• Stomach and intestinal ulcers
• Skin injuries
• Inflammation
• Bruises
• Rashes
• Skin irritation

The active ingredients that help against the ailments mentioned above have been researched and definitely support healing.

The marigold in folk medicine

Folk medicine or folk medicine is medical knowledge that has been passed on from generation to generation, but has not been scientifically confirmed by studies.

The marigold also finds its place there against numerous ailments, ailments and diseases and is an integral part of folk medicine, for example

• Sweat-inducing applications, for example against colds
• Herbal Laxative Blends
• Relaxants
• Worming
• Menstrual cramps and
• Liver disease

It has not been medically proven to be effective, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work. As with many remedies in folk medicine, it always depends on a try, whether the marigold can help you or not.

Try it!

application

You can buy marigold flowers at the pharmacy to make your own infusions and tinctures.

There are also creams, ointments and gels that contain active ingredients from calendula, but you should get good advice from the pharmacy, especially with regard to the amount of the active ingredients of the flower contained in the end product.

Not every ointment that says “with marigold extract” contains enough to be really effective!

• Quickly absorbed ointments and cooling gels help against bruises and swellings, but a compress from a concentrated infusion can also be very helpful.

• A diluted tincture or a strong infusion, which is best drunk lukewarm and regularly distributed throughout the day, can help with stomach ulcers.
• Tinctures or dipping baths help against skin complaints such as boils or inflammation, in order to regularly wet the affected skin area.
• The yellow flowers are also suitable for coloring food. This is used, for example, with butter or some cheese to make them look appetizing yellow.
• Dried flower petals can also be used as a cheap substitute for saffron, because they too color dishes, for example rice, yellow, but without the taste characteristic of saffron.

The yellow petals are only used in tea mixes to give the mix a nice look, the taste of the blossoms is not very intense.

Plant protection products in the home garden

If you call a garden your own and garden there without the use of poison or chemical pesticides, you will surely know that the roots of the marigold secrete an active ingredient that helps against pests.

In particular, nematodes, a type of roundworm, feel repelled by this active ingredient. This is also one of the reasons why marigolds used to grow in every vegetable garden and are still an integral part of so-called cottage gardens today.

If you also want to protect your vegetables from nematodes, always put a row of marigolds between your vegetables, especially those that are likely to be attacked by nematodes.

Marigolds also help prevent nematode infestation in window boxes or in flower beds, which in extreme cases can lead to the death of all of your summer flowers.

The marigolds themselves are also an attractive splash of color in your summer garden!

Weather forecast with the bloom

The marigold can not only heal and drive away pests, but also quite reliably predict bad weather. For this reason, flowering used to be an important indicator for farmers, for example when it came to determining when the optimal time was to mow hay or to bring in the harvest or sowing.

If bad weather comes, usually rain, it folds its flowers together much earlier than other plants.

With a look at the flowers, you can still easily see today whether it is worth firing up the grill in the garden or rather preheating the oven in the kitchen …