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Kathy Behling
Is there any medicinal value in feverfew blossoms?
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Greg Boggs
There certainly are! Check out this lesson in the school on Feverfew
Even though the leaf is the most commonly used part, the flower blossom is still used too. In another lesson it says to just harvest the aerial parts of the plant, so I would use all of it together.
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Thank you. I heard in one of the lessons that the leaf was the medicine, which is why I was concerned we’d harvested the wrong part of the plant. If I make a tincture of just the flowers, does that give a different benefit than the leaves?
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Looking up Feverfew on the NIH website I found this in their conclusion
” Flowers and leaves and parthenolide showed significant analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic activities, which confirmed the folk use of feverfew herb for treatment of migraine headache, fever, common cold, and arthritis, and these effects are attributed to leaves and/or flowers mainly due to the presence of sesquiterpene lactones and flavonoids.”
So it seems like you’ll still get a benefit by just using the flowers
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