Calendula for your health and beauty

They say that once, very long time ago, on light there lived a weak and frail boy, but he grew up and became the famous healer who disinterestedly helped people curative drinks from herbs. The angry sorcerer with whom he involuntarily competed heard about this kind person, and decided to exhaust it. She invited the doctor to herself on a visit and hocused him the poisoned wine. When he reached a settlement and felt that he just about will quit this world, the healer asked to dig to the earth a nail from his left hand under the sorcerer's window. People satisfied its request, and the flower, bright as the sun grew on this place. The sorcerer saw it and flashed in too moment, and there is no trace left from her evil spirit. And the golden flower called in the people a nail still treats people for many diseases.

Calendula medicinal or a marigold – Calendula officinalis L. – an annual grassy plant from family of a thistle family. Height of the oblistvenny branchy trimmed stalk from 40 to 80 cm. The lower, wider oblong soft leaves kind of dress a trunk. Top smaller. Golden-yellow or orange flowers are collected in baskets by diameter to the 4-8th.

The calendula from June to fall blossoms. Semyanka fruits in the form of a nail. Ripen since July to frosts. In the territory of Russia meets only in a cultural look on beds, lawns, in gardens. Sometimes runs wild. Loves damp, solar, open places.

For the medicinal purposes collect inflorescences during blossoming. Dry raw materials on the attic or in the fresh air in a shadow, under a canopy, displaying a thin layer and often overturning. Flower baskets contain: vitamin C, carotene, essential oil, pitches, slime, organic acids and bitter substances.

The first about salutary properties of a calendula were written in the 1st century AD by the Ancient Greek doctor and the philosopher Dioskorid, the author of pharmacology of "Materia medica". It applied medicines from calendula flowers at diseases of a liver and gall bladder, at jaundice, spleen diseases, stomach spasms, at stones in a bladder, at cough, a hypertension, cardiac neurosises, a scrofula, rickets, at wounds, cuts, ulcers.

Paid tribute to curative properties of a calendula and the doctor of the 11th century of Ibn Xing.

In Medieval Europe the crushed flowers of a calendula were registered inside at diseases of a female reproductive system.

The calendula was a favourite flower of the queen Navarre Margarita Valois.

The modern medicine uses calendula tincture on alcohol as antiseptic for rinsing of a throat at quinsies and for healing of wounds and cuts. Tincture is on sale in drugstores.

Traditional medicine uses a calendula in the form of tinctures and infusions as anti-inflammatory, bactericidal, spazmolitichesky, bile-expelling, soothing, disinfecting, wound healing, dermatotonichesky means.

In the form of lotions at cuts, bruises, burns, seborrhea, a furunkuleza.

For syringing at an erosion of a neck of the uterus and colpitises.

For rinsings at periodontosis, bleeding of gums and the milkwoman at children.

Broths apply inside at liver diseases, gastritises, stomach ulcer and a duodenum, ulcer colitis.

- Broth: To fill in 2 tablespoons of the crushed baskets to 1.5 glasses of boiled water of room temperature, to insist 8 hours. To filter, drink in the equal portions on an empty stomach, for the night and in intervals between food.

Apply calendula infusion as as bile-expelling.

- Infusion: To fill in 2 tablespoons of the crushed flowers with 1 glass of boiled water, to heat on the boiling water bath of 15 minutes, to cool, filter, accept ¼ glasses 3-4 times a day.

The calendula is long since applied in cosmetics.

- Lotions and wipings by tincture and flowers infusion reduce a time on a face, reduce fat office. To fill in 1 tablespoon of the crushed dry raw materials with 1 glass of boiled water, to boil 5 minutes, to draw half an hour, to cool, filter, wipe a face in the morning and in the evening.

- At pimples and eels to impregnate a gauze with this infusion and to put on a face for 20-25 minutes. Not to wash.

- If the oily skin then bought in drugstore tincture of a calendula gets divorced boiled water 1:1 and is used as lotion.

- That skin gained dullness and smoothness, use water rubdowns for a face and a body. 1 teaspoon of the dry crushed flowers is filled in with a glass of abrupt boiled water, insisted within 20 minutes, cooled, filtered. The face is wiped with a wadded tampon, a body a soft sponge.

- At fat seborrhea and for giving to hair of silkiness and gloss. To fill in 4 tablespoons of flowers with 1 liter of boiled water, to insist 1 hour, to cool, filter, rinse hair after washing. At dandruff and a hair loss to rub infusion in head skin.

- At oily skin of a hairy part of the head and a hair loss and for stimulation of their growth. To mix 2 tablespoons of pharmaceutical tincture of a calendula about ½ teaspoons of castor oil and to rub in head skin for half an hour before washing.

- At dry skin on 2 tablespoons of tincture 1 tablespoon of castor oil undertakes.

The calendula is used in the food industry as natural dye for cheeses, margarine, oil, some drinks. In cookery fresh flower baskets are put in soups, added to salads, strew with them sandwiches, from them cook tinctures.

Magicians advise for attraction of happiness in private life always to keep several dried flowers of the bright orange calendula which is sewn up in a linen sack in the house.