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Health Benefits of Calendula Tea

Aroma ChaiTea Blog: Health Benefits of Calendula Tea

We love calendula (Calendula officinalis) for its beauty and its many medicinal properties. Calendula is so is low-maintenance that there may be no easier flower to grow in your garden! Spring is the best time to start growing calendula. It takes only 45-60 days from seed to flower. The best part is that you will have to seed it only once! Calendula is annual and readily self-seeds.

 

Well, what to do with the flowers once you have them?

Add them into a cream, oil, gel, compress, tincture, or tea; eat calendula in salads and stews; and more. Calendula is the plant that can do it all! Herbalists have known the calendula flower's benefits for centuries, and now the science is beginning to back those claims. Did you know that The FDA has approved calendula for use as a spice and ingredient in cosmetics, soaps and shampoos, body creams, and wound treatment, both internally and topically?

 

Aroma ChaiTea Calendula in the Garden

5 Health Benefits and Uses for Calendula Tea

Calendula tea may be one of the easiest ways to utilize this potent medicinal plant. Calendula is known for its antioxidant, antiviral, astringent, and anti-inflammatory properties.

  • FACE WASH/TONER – The acids held within the calendula's oils have potent antimicrobial and antiviral effects, making this a healing tea for acne and breakouts.
  • MOUTH RINSE – Due to its powerful antibacterial and antimicrobial properties, calendula reduces gum inflammation and fights against cavities. Rinse and gargle to ease and heal canker sores, ulcers, thrush, or use just as a preventative mouthwash.
  • MENSTRUAL REGULATOR – Drinking calendula tea may help induce the menstruation and prevent or ease menstrual cramps.
  • IMMUNE BOOSTER – Calendula is antimicrobial, which means it slows or kills infection and prevents it from spreading. Calendula can strengthen the immune system's ability to fight off infection.
  • ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRINK - Calendula boasts anti-inflammatory compounds, such as flavonoids and linoleic acid, and effectively reduces the inflammation.

How to Dry Calendula

Because of its promotion of menstruation, it’s advised for pregnant women to avoid calendula teas as well as breast-feeding women and even those seeking to get pregnant, as it can potentially cause miscarriage due to the highly potent pro-menstruation effects.

 

Our Herbal Infusion Inflammation Aid contains calendula among other powerful anti-inflammatory herbs our Altai family foraged for in the Siberian Taiga.

 

 

Aroma Chaitea. About Calendula

 

 


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