Calendula is popular in ointments, salves, or creams for various skin problems, such as eczema, skin rashes, bed sores, diaper rash, varicose veins, bruises, burns, and sore breasts. The tea is used locally for sore throats, slow-healing wounds, or leukorrea and internally for fever and swollen lymph glands. The tea or tincture is beneficial for the healing of ulcers in the digestive tract and to ease gallbladder inflammation and enlarged, sore lymph glands. An extract of calendula flowers (combined with allantoin) was shown to dramatically accelerate the healing of surgically-induced wounds and prevent infection.This is a 2 oz. amber dropper bottle of tincture steeped in harmony with the moon cycle. It contains: 80% alcohol & 20% spring water. Taken by the dropperful. Instructions are provided.

More from Jackie R.:"The original surgery was in November of 2007 and Wanda is doing physical therapy and trying to get strong enough to be fitted for a prosthesis but she's almost 82 and it's very hard for her. So she spends most of her day in bed and, because of that, subject to bedsores and yeast infections. Sue uses the tincture - applied just with a cotton ball - on any small spot that looks like it could turn into a bedsore and she's been able to keep Wanda from getting any large sores since I brought her the tincture a few months ago. It's great because it's so nicely concentrated and Sue doesn't have to brew the tea for compresses anymore.

I bought a bottle for myself also, and my husband, who has been working on a ship in the tropics, came home this last time with some itchy red bumps on his body. We applied the tincture for a few days and the bumps went away. I also have used it on pimples (despite my advanced age - 58 - I still occasionally get them - yuk!) and on bug bites and it clears them right up. This stuff is great!

So yes, you should definitely pass this information along. The older I get, the more I realize that medical doctors really don't know much about healing - they mostly know about disease and medications. So people like you who provide products that help heal are very important! Since diabetes is so rampant in our society, more people need to know that calendula is the herb that will help heal those big sores that diabetics often get. Our only regret as a family is that we didn't know this before Wanda had to have the amputations - if we had known it before, she would still have two intact legs. Please, please, do let people know."

Thanks again,
Jackie R.(7/08)

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