The Ringelblume (Calendula officinalis), also garden Ringelblume, gold, dead or student flower mentioned, is a plant type from the family of the basket bloom plants (Asteraceae).

Plant

It becomes high up to 50 cm, is a one year's krautige plant, and has an upright, branched with broad, feltlike behaarten sheets. The bloom conditions are filled depending upon sort and lightyellow to dark-orange colored. The bloom time is enough from June into October/November, if the first stronger frosts arise.

The seeds can be removed and be sown in the following from spring in April May. Under favorable circumstances this happens also without human intervention, the seeds winters on the spot and germinates in the following spring.

The Ringelblume feels sticky and has a conspicuous flavour. From the female edge blooms small, inside geringelte fruits develop.

Use

In the kitchen

The Ringelblume becomes as coloring means of cheese, butter and other food related, in former times was a popular means the falsification of Safran. Blooms and young sheets are edible.

In the Pflanzenheilkunde

With wounds and inflammations welfare-end effect of the Ringelblume in the form of ointments used. The antibacterial characteristics of the Ringelblume prevent that injuries and open wounds catch fire and pus. There is a similarity between the effect Arnikas and the Ringelblume, which are used both with wounds, bruises, Furunkeln and excursions. The sheets can hold a component of many maintaining skin creams for falsifying the Safrans and in the Kosmetik are them.

In the people medicine the Ringelblumenbutter in such a way specified, a mixture from same parts of crushed blooms and goat butter was very popular. As well as this mixture is with open leg, inflammations both at the mouth mucous membrane and in the throat area helps belly pain and joint and muscular pains lindern.

At irregular period one week before the calculated beginning of the rule should be drunk twice daily Ringelblumentee. For 1 l water one needed 3 EL of petals. Blows, crushed brings warts to disappearing, if one rubs them in daily with it.

Ringelblumentinktur helps new skin with the education after sun fire. For a Tinktur one lets 5 - 7 accumulated EL in 1 litre take off to good Branntwein. After 3 to 4 weeks the mixture is abgeseiht.

In the symbolism

Ringelblumen symbolize beauty and beauty as well as faithful love with many peoples stand the Ringelblume as a cemetery flower in high reputation; it is a symbol for the imperishableness, because it flowers sometimes the whole summer and autumn over and one can see still the gold-yellow bloom heads to Christmas.

In the superstition

It is the flower, which one classical-proves for the question it loves me, it loves me not used. Picking the flowers is to out-swear to however thunderstorms. The Ringelblume is to be able to be used also for the dear pointing saying in the dream: It is dried together with summer herbs, converted husbands and with honey and vinegar to an ointment. Young women laid the ointment on, before they went to bed and called the holy Lukas to let dream they about their large love.

In the literature

William Shakespeare writes into a winter fairy tale:

Here have you flowers!

Lavendel, Minze, Salbei, Majoran.

The Ringelblume, which passes away with the sun

And crying with it rises.

Related links

• The Ringelblume - Calendula - article on the Internet sides of the Bavarian broadcast

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