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Carey Thornton, Seattle Tilth Educator
If you are lucky, calendula may be blooming in your garden with its cheerful yellow and orange blossoms. Calendula flowers have long been used as a traditional healing medicine as it soothes dry, irritated skin. Calendula can help regenerate skin cells when applied to a scratch or burn. You can harness the power of calendula and make a simple skin healing salve at home.
Recipe reprinted with permission from Seattle Tilth.
Ingredients:
For calendula-infused medicinal oil
For calendula salve
Directions:
For calendula-infused medicinal oil
For calendula salve
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Carey joined us in the Rochdale Room in December 2015 to teach a class on making Herbal Salves and Infusions.
To make this salve, calendula oil was first drained into a bowl. You can also add other healing herbs to the mix before adding oil, like comfrey, renowned for its healing properties.
The plant pictured above, on the left, is narrowleaf plantain, a healing medicinal "weed" that may be growing in your backyard. If you harvest your own plants, be sure you can identify them with certainty, that they won't be overharvested, and that they grow in an area that's not exposed to toxic sprays, runoff, or car exhaust.
Carey filled 1oz jars with warm salve. The color will lighten as it cools and solidifies.
Dried chamomile and rosebuds ready for home medicine making, plus some leftover calendula oil.
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Keywords: Herbalism, DIY
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