Calendula

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Welcome to the Row by Row gardening show the best dadgum gardening show on the internet where we talk about gardening a little bit of cooking and growing your own food now sit back and enjoy pot marigolds that is not The marijuana pot but we're talking about pot marigolds, which is one name for the flower we love so much called calendula Calendula, calendula.

If you don't know how to spell it, it's C-A-L-E-N-D-U-I, excuse me, D-U-L-A, calendula.

And it's one of our favorite fall flowers around here.

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right, so let's get in.

Calendula is a flower slash herb.

Medicinal, culinary, but just simply a beautiful flower that performs extremely well for us here in South Georgia during the winter, fall, and spring.

And what about other ones from the bedding area?

You've got the English marigold, haven't you? Calendula.

Okay.

See, you call it calendula.

So this is Stephanie Georgia saying thank you again for spending your valuable time with me as we have journeyed through this wonderful month of August on botanical medicine for first aid.

We have just finished the fifth Monday in this series on Materia Medica Mondays, and Calendula was how we ended this course.

this series actually and if you want to learn more make sure to check out the links in the program notes you will be directed to the Living Pharmacy School and you can choose from all sorts of courses there if you want the botanical medicine first aid that's very well marked so you click on that and you have until midnight tonight to take advantage of 50% off on September 1st which is tomorrow the price will increase and even if you buy it at this last late date you can you know use the course as long as you want to It has some wonderful handouts, ideas on how to assemble a kit, make your own remedies, how to use plants in the wild.

Obviously, you have to identify properly.

You know what that is? Now you're going to feel really bad because you don't know what that is.

Calendula.

It is calendula.

This is

Prince Mix Calendula.

This plug right here, again, is three weeks old and we're going to be selling calendula for the very first time for fall planting.

Is that a picture of calendula? It

The homeopathy certainly helped.

I just thought this is really, really making me live the lived experience of how different life would be if the doctors on this ward and the nurses on this ward knew about Arnica, knew about Staphysagria, knew about Calendula.

You know, it doesn't take a huge amount of remedies to really have a mind blowing impact.

So, yeah, I'm even more like I see that hospital experience as just making me more determined on my mission to get

It becomes identity, continuity, and the right to remember what the land once taught.

Calendula supports skin healing with modest evidence.

Calendula is the kind of plant people grow because it looks cheerful, then keep because it proves useful.

Its bright petals have been used in salves and creams for minor cuts, dry patches, and irritated skin.

Research suggests calendula may support healing by calming inflammation and encouraging tissue repair, though the evidence is generally modest rather than dramatic.

It is not a miracle rescue.

It is a steady helper that makes discomfort less sticky and recovery feel smoother.

Calendula also shows why topical herbs can be easier to study and use responsibly.