Calendula flower is the medicinal plant of 2009. Growing modestly on the wayside, however would deserve a lot more attention: the calendula flower. It is an enrichment for any medicine chest and should even help love birds.

One can use calendula flowers in naturopathy for next to all kinds of skin-insuries and skin-infections. Also small burns, sunburn and eczema can be treated with the powers of calendula flowers.

The generic game calendula flower: Calendula is derived from the latin 'calendae' which is the first day of the month. For centuries the calendula flower had a high reputation as the 'weather-predictor' for farmers, because it closes its petals when bad weather with rain is on the way.