Healing Gardens

Feverfew "Tanacetum parthenium"

Family: Asteraceae

Actions: anti-inflammatory, vasodilator (to the head), relaxing nervine, digestive bitter, emmenagogue, analgesic, expectorant, diaphoretic

Energetics: bitter, pungent, cool, drying, relaxing, and stimulating.

Indications: migraines, wind/cold paralysis, epilepsy, fibroids, PMS, atonic uterus, chronic cold/bronchitis, vertigo, nervous hysteria, inflammatory type arthritis

Parts used: herb