News for February 2025!
What happened in February 2025 at Phyto-info… we tell you everything!
Hello everyone 🌿
The chamomile adventure begins. We are currently conducting our research. We’ll start with the big one. In fact, feverfew is not really a chamomile; it looks very similar in terms of flowers, but you can’t be fooled by observing the leaves. Botanically speaking, it is not a chamomile since it is a Tanacetum (its Latin name), but it nevertheless shares some benefits with its false cousins. More specifically, it is the worst enemy of migraines and painful periods.
We have known about feverfew for millennia, but we have let it fall into oblivion mainly because of its taste, it must be said, a little strong, and also because of the pharmaceutical luxury in which we live. It was forgotten until 1973…
That year, the wife of a Welsh doctor who had suffered from chronic migraines for over fifty years decided to try feverfew on the advice of a young farmer who had used it in his family for generations. History does not tell us how she met this young man and, remember, the husband was a doctor. So on one side we have a doctor husband who is powerless in the face of his wife’s distress, and on the other side a wife who is looking for remedies, shall we say, slightly off the beaten track. In short… curious about the rather beneficial results, indeed the migraines disappeared, the husband and his colleagues undertook serious studies on feverfew. These revealed what we already knew: a notable effectiveness in managing migraines 🤔
Added plants 👏
- Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium)
Dive into the world of chamomile, and discover how to use the large one on our platform.
New pictogram 👏
We added a pictogram for inhalation, you know, the herbal tea that you don’t drink but breathe in. Inhalation is not done with feverfew, but it is done with Roman and German chamomile. More info next month 🥰
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