Calendula, Marigold

Caltha
Me tog gur gum མེ་ཏོག་གུརགུམ་ (Tibetan Medicine)
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Picture Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491

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Botanical name:


Calendula officinalis

Parts used:


Flower

Temperature & Taste:


Warm, dry. Pungent

Classifications:


2L. EMOLLIENT
3A. SUDORIFICS & DIAPHORETICS.   3C. ALEXIPHARMIC.   3D. CORDIALS & CARDIACS.   3E. DIURETIC.   3G. EMMENAGOGUE
4c. CARDIAC

Uses:


1. Moves the Blood, Clears Stasis, Eases Pain:
-strengthens the Heart and circulation
-Headaches or chronic Pain of a fixed nature
-promote Menstruation; painful, scanty or clotted Menstruation
-promotes Birth and Afterbirth
-poor circulation, arterial or venous: varicose veins
-chronic ulcers, chronic sores, slow-healing wounds
-Pain, inflammation and tumors with blood stagnation
-Nodes, Cysts, Scrofula, Lymphadenitis, Swellings, chronic Skin lesions, Tumors
-Cancer: Cancer of Liver, Uterus, Breast, Stomach, Intestines, Soft Tissue (anti-cancer effects demonstrated)

2. Resists Poison, Promotes Sweat:
-Fevers; Tetanus
-promotes expression of Rashes
-boil, carbuncles, rashes, acne, especially when dark-colored
-Syphilis, Gonorrhea
-abscess of the Lungs (Tibet)

3. Clears Liver Heat, Opens Obstructions:
-Hepatitis, Liver disease, Liver congestion or hardness
-Jaundice

4. Benefits the Stomach and Bowels:
-Internal Ulcers, Gastritis, Colitis

5. Externally:
–chronic Ulcers, Bed Sores, Varicose Veins, Fistulas, Phlebitis, Frost Bite, Burns, Scars and Surgical Wounds
-swellings including Lymphadenoma and Scrofula.
-wash is good for Vaginal abrasions.
-ointment or Vinegar-tincture reportedly has cured many cases of chronic Varicose Veins with constant application for 4-6 weeks.
-Calendula leaf juice in vinegar makes a good wash for hot swellings
-Calendula juice or fresh herb paste is a good application to Warts, Corns and Callouses.
-the leaf juice is also applied to Toothache (Salmon)
-fresh Calendula flower rubbed onto a Bee or Wasp sting is said to be an ‘admirable remedy’.
-as a wash to strengthen the Sight

Dose:


INFUSION or BRIEF DECOCTION: 3–9 grams; 1 oz. decocted in 500mls of water can be taken in tablespoonful doses.

Substitutes:


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Main Combinations:


1. Cardiac, for Palpitations, Fainting, Melancholy etc.: Calendula with … available in PRO version
2. Myocarditis, Calendula with … available in PRO version
3. Loss of Speech after Apoplexy, Calendula with … available in PRO version
4. Paralysis, Calendula with … available in PRO version
5. To promote Menstruation, Calendula with … available in PRO version
6. Tumors, Cancers, Calendula with … available in PRO version
7. Lymphatic Cancers: Calendula with … available in PRO version
8. Cancer tea: Menyanthes, Hops, Calendula, … available in PRO version
9. Increase strength, Calendula, … available in PRO version
10. To preserve from Plague and Epidemic diseases, Calendula with … available in PRO version
11. To expel Small Pox and other spotted Fever, Calendula … available in PRO version
12. Chicken Pox, Calendula with … available in PRO version
13. Chronic Gastritis, Colitis, or Duodenal Ulcer:
i. Calendula with … available in PRO version
ii. Calendula with … available in PRO version
iii. Calendula with … available in PRO version
14. Stomach Ulcers, Calendula with … available in PRO version
15. Gastric bleeding and Urinary Stones, Calendula with … available in PRO version
16. Hayfever, Catarrh, Calendula with … available in PRO version
17. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Calendula, … available in PRO version
18. Gout, Calendula with … available in PRO version
19. Amenorrhea, decoct Calendula … available in PRO version
20. Varicose Veins, Calendula with … available in PRO version
21. Bruising, Trauma, combine Calendula with … available in PRO version
22. Gingivitis, Calendula, … available in PRO version
23. ‘Scarless Healer’: Calendula with … available in PRO version

Major Formulas


Decoction for Apoplexy (Countess of Kent)
Tincture for Paralysis
Powder for Cold Diseases of the Head (Renodeus)

Cautions:


1. Best avoided in Pregnancy.
2. Not used in Bleeding disorders

Main Preparations used:


Distilled Water, Vinegar Tincture, Conserve of the Flowers