Leaf, whole plant::bath for fever, boiled with chamomille (Matricaria Chamomilla), tea drunk for childbirth,

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Marigolds are popular and commonly seen annual garden plants that have an interesting medicinal history. Tagetes lucida, T. erecta, and T. patula were important herbs in traditional Aztec medicine and were used ritualistically as sacred herbs offered to Tlaloc, the god of rain who made all things grow. Aztec physicians used marigolds to treat conditions that they thought were due to “excessive cold” influences in the body, such as edema, local swellings, cough with phlegm, fever with chills. Marigold was given as “bitter water” to drink or rubbed on the skin. It also was used as incense and blown into the face of sacrificial victims. Tagetes lucida also was used ritualistically by Mayans and other peoples of Mexico.

Part used::
Leaves, Flowers

Origin:
America

1) Barret, Bruce Economic Botany vol. 48, nro. 1 .-- p. 8-20 1994

2) Hull, Kathleen; Photog. Hull, Meredith /Indiana Medical History Museum: Guide to the Medicinal Plant Garden./ USA: Indiana Medical History Museum. 2010. -- p. 58.