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CALENDULA OFFICINALIS
N. O. --- Compositae.
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Latin, Caltha officinalis, C. sativa, C. vulgaris, Flos omnium mensium, Solseginum aureum, Solis sponsa. Verrucaria ;
English, Garden marigold, Marigold ;
French, Fleur de tous les mois;
German, Ringelblume;
Vernacular/b>, Gul-i-Ashrafi.
A annual herb with fibrous root. The stem is straggling 6 to 18 incehs, with numerous bushy branches, striated, green,
succulent, pubescent. The leaves are oblong, acute, somewhat succulent, broad, and a little cordate at the base, the
upper lanceolate, the margins entire often hispid with short hairs. Flower-heads are large, terminal, solitary, upon each
branch, yellow or orange. The flowers appear the greater part of the summer and fall, closing toward night ; are
mucilaginous and have a disagreeable odour.
Found in :-
Native of France and southern European fields and cultivated grounds generally. It is now widely cultivated
in Pakistan and India; where it abundantly grows and flowers in winter, due to tropical atmosphere.
Introduced into homoeopathic pactice :-- |
By Dr. Franz in 1838. Archiv. XVII. 3, 179.
( Allen’s Encyc. Mat, Med. II. 419; X. 405.)
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