Learn the Traditional Uses and Benefits of Feverfew
Feverfew, Tanacetum parthenium Feverfew is an herb that I highly value for my own use. I have long suffered from migraines and nothing I tried offered any help, until I found this miracle herb. This bushy perennial is a member of the Aster Family and grows along roadsides, on rocky slopes, walls, waste places, and is cultivatedin some home herb and ornamental gardens. It likes full sun or partial shade and dry soil. Also known as Chrysanthemum parthenium, wild chamomile, and bachelor’s buttons. Plant Identification Feverfew grows into a bushy shape, approximately 1 to 3 feet tall. It grows from a taproot, sprouting round, leafy stems. The leaves are yellow-green and pinnately divided into slightly rounded divisions. The upper leaves are more lobed and toothed. The leaves have a distinctive bitter aroma and taste. Flowers appear in June to August, depending on how far north I travel. The flowers are daisy-like, only smaller, with a large yellow disk and short white rays. The center disk...