Feverfew

Gender: Masculine

Planet: Venus

Element: Water

Chakra Colour: Indigo

Medicinal Uses: Feverfew is commonly used to prevent migraines (for which fresh feverfew leaves may actually be better), the ancients also recommend it for melancholy and depression. It can help in cases of dizziness and vertigo, and may ally nerve pain, offering cooling, analgesic relief to affected areas. The ancients also praise it highly as a woman’s herb, effective to regulate menstruation, bring on delayed periods, expel the afterbirth, and cure inward and outward inflammations of the female reproductive organs, especially a hardened or prolapsed uterus. It also used to be used for coughs and fevers. Externally it was applied as a cosmetic agent to remove spots.

Magical Uses: Feverfew is planted around the house for purification and protection. In ancient folklore it was believed to grow from leftovers that had been ritually set aside at the Christmas dinner table and had been thrown out into the garden a few days later. An amulet of feverfew can be worn to prevent all afflictions to the head and to keep one’s bearings straight.

Other Names: Altamisa, Bachelor’s Buttons, Chrysanthème Matricaire, Chrysanthemum parthenium, Featerfoiul, Featherfew, Featherfoil, Flirtwort Midsummer Daisy, Grande Camomille, Leucanthemum parthenium, Matricaria

Contraindications:  Do not use if you are currently using an anticoagulant /antiplatelet drugs, medications that can harm the liver or Hepatotoxic drugs such as acetaminophin, amiodarone, statin drugs or during pregnancy.

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