Live in the urban environment, has its advantages and disadvantages. When you live in the city center, surrounded by concrete and asphalt, you can not rest from the noise of cars that pass just below your window. And then, on the other hand, there are only a few steps to the shops, kindergarten, school, post ....
There isn't in smaller place. There you have to go a few kilometers to the first store. But you are surrounded by nature, clean air ...
Thus, I can not describe my excitement when I was in my neighborhood today, I saw the marigold flowers. It's unbelievable that you can find a marigold in January , because it's a summertime plant. But this year is so warm as if we had no winter. The days are beautiful, sunny with real spring temperatures.
For marigold, they say that it looks like the Sun and does not leave anyone indifferent with their color.
For a long time, my family has been using a marigold ..
By this way, I just want to briefly describe some of its medicinal properties.
Latin name: Calendula officinalis
Used: flowers, stems and leaves.
The plant should be collected during shiny days, because its much healthier in that period-from June to late autumn.
Marvelous marigold
Marigold is used in the form of tea, tincture and fats.
Tea cleanses blood and helps with viral inflammation of the liver (hepatitis), it helps if we have urinary infections, stomach and bowel diseases.
A marigold tincture is used for wraps for our wounds, swelling, tingling, blood vessels.
A merigold fat is used to treat wounds, enlarged veins, hemorrhoids, frostbite, burns.
In addition to healing, it is nevertheless an exceptionally decorative plant.
It is easily grown in the garden or in pots.