(Calendula officinalis)
🌼 This beautiful and potent flower is used throughout Europe, China, India, and Africa as a common ingredient in cosmetics, creams, lotions, shampoo, eyewashes, gargles.
🌼 Calendula is used to treat skin conditions, such as wounds, burns, ulcers, swellings and inflammation.
🌼 Calendula is also used internally as an antispasmodic, cleansing and detoxifying herb to treat jaundice, gastrointestinal spasms, and inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth, throat and gastrointestinal tract.
🌼 Calendula contains multiple phytochemicals including triterpenoids, flavonoids, coumarines, quinones, volatile oils, carotenoids and amino acids that exhibits analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-tumour and antioxidant, antipyretic, hepatoprotective, anti-spasmodic, spasmogenic, carminative, and antiepileptic properties.
