Tanacetum parthenium

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First time harvesting feverfew 🙂

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Oooo what do you do with it once dry?

24/03/23

Planted these between the pots

At the allotment

Weeded a few from my back garden to move to the allotment for the bees 💚 they are in a pot for now till I find a place for them.

Feverfew is promoted for fevers, headaches, and arthritis; topically (applied to the skin), it's promoted for toothache and as an antiseptic and insecticide. Feverfew has been called “medieval aspirin” or “aspirin of the 18th century.”

Feverfew may increase the risk of bleeding, especially if you take blood-thinning medications, such as warfarin (Coumadin), clopidogrel (Plavix), or aspirin. Ask your doctor before taking feverfew if you take blood thinners. Pregnant and nursing women, as well as children under 2, should not take feverfew.

Feverfew, also known as wild chamomile, has been traditionally used in the treatment of headache and migraine. Since clinical trials have confirmed its effectiveness against headaches and migraine. Feverfew is recommended as a migraine prophylactic.

Side effects might include upset stomach, heartburn, diarrhea, constipation, bloating, and vomiting. Chewing the fresh leaves of feverfew is possibly unsafe. It can cause mouth sores, swelling of the mouth, and loss of taste.

Feverfew generally is given for migraine at a daily dose of 50 to 150 mg of dried leaves, 2.5 fresh leaves with or after food, or 5 to 20 drops of a 1:5, 25% ethanol tincture.

It's great for migraines, unlike most NSAIDs

Tea: Add about a quarter of a cup of fresh leaves and blooms – or 2 tablespoons dried – to a cup of boiling water, allow to steep for five minutes, then strain and cool

You can safely consume feverfew and use it as a topical remedy. However you must process the leaves and flowers before using. Otherwise you may encounter some side effects. These include swelling of the mouth or headaches if you do not prepare the leaves correctly.

Looking a little bit like chamomile, but as you get closer and give it a smell, yikes! It doesn't have that sweet apple smell that chamomile has but instead resembles something more like a dirty sock. It's feverfew! Feverfew is such a pretty flower and it always has a welcome home in my garden.

Feverfew have a lovely evening 🙂

This grows like a weed all over the back of mine drives me potty