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What is it?
The brilliant orange-yellow flowers of Calendula officinalis flowers, extraordinarily potent when used in the right way for the right purpose.
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DRIED SLICED PETALS
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DRIED FLOWERS & PETALS
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How has it been used?
“Calendula is a remedy that should follow all surgical operations” (Thomas Bartram)
Calendula is the subject of one entire book on my shelf and has been revered for many centuries by many cultures. Internally Calendula has been widely used for digestive disorders where the tissues have become sore or broken, including such serious conditions such as gastric and duodenal ulcers.
Externally Calendula has been and still is used for any kind of condition where the skin is broken and the body needs help to heal itself.
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Personal experiences
I use Calendula widely for people who are not healing themselves after injury or illness as they should. It can stimulate and support the healing process and when you use it in the right way the results can be quite remarkable.
Calendula combines with Cleavers and Poke root when there is a need to support a cleansing and self-healing process after injury, surgery or disease.
For direct tissue healing on a damaged gut wall Calendula works best in a tea form with Comfrey leaf and Plantain.
As a strong compress for open skin problems such as ulcers, wounds, weeping eczema etc. take a handful of Calendula flowers, place in hot water, steep for at least 15 minutes and then strain. Soak a cloth in the 'tea' and apply over the damaged skin with another towel over the top. Leave on for at at least half an hour and use often (up to 3 times a day) if required. The Calendula compress will rapidly stimulate healing so it is imperative that the wound is kept clean so that no debris is sealed within as the skin closes over.
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Excerpt from Felter & Lloyd's Kings Dispensatory from 1898
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Dr. William J. Clary, of Monroeville, Ohio, writes me as follows, in relation to Calendula:
"As a local remedy after surgical operations, it has no equal in Materia Medica. Its forte is its influence on lacerated wounds, without regard to the general health of the patient or the weather. If applied constantly, gangrene will not follow, and, I might say, there will be but little, if any, danger of tetanus. When applied to a wound it is seldom that any suppuration follows, the wound healing by replacement or first intention. It has been tested by several practitioners, and by one, is used after every surgical operation with the happiest effect. You need not fear to use it in wounds, and I would not be without it for a hundred times its cost. It is to be made into a saturated tincture with whiskey diluted with one-third its quantity of water; lint is saturated with this, applied to the parts, and renewed as often as it becomes dry." The statement of Dr. Clary has stood the test of time, and now hundreds of advocates of calendula endorse it. |
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