The Health Benefits of a Chrysanthemum

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This is an aromatic plant that grows up to 60 cm high. Its flowers have different colors, it has red, white, purple, yellow and other colored heads. Its leaves are ovate in form. Most people use this plant for ornamental purposes.

In boiling the whole plant including its roots is good for:

• headache 
• can relieve colds and inflamed respiratory tract
• can use also for boils, whooping cough and rheumatism. 

By extracting juice from flowers is good for fevers and painful menstrual flow. The flowers can be made as tea and can expel gases and pain in the stomach. It can also give tone and vitality to the body. The oil from the plant is for fungal infection and abdominal pains.