Originally from our country, the "flower of the dead", in addition to working as an ornamental plant at this time, also has important healing properties. Get to know the most outstanding ones!
FLOWER OF DEAD OR CEMPOASÓCHIL. Tagetes erecta Linnaeus. Family: Compositae. This is a kind of ancient and widespread medicinal use in much of Mexico, where it is recommended for stomach pain, intestinal parasites, empacho, diarrhea, colic, liver disease, bile, vomiting, indigestion, toothache, intestinal lavage and for expel gases. The treatment consists of cooking the branches, with or without flowers, in incense or fried to apply orally or on the affected part; other forms of use are in baths, smeared, in fomentations or inhaled, sometimes mixed with other plants. It is also said that it is used for respiratory diseases such as cough, fever, flu and bronchitis. The Cempasúchil is located in San Luis Potosí, Chiapas, the State of Mexico, Puebla, Sinaloa, Tlaxcala and Veracruz.
Annual herbaceous 50 to 100 cm high, highly branched. The leaves have veins with serrated edges and their circular flowers are yellow. It has its origin in Mexico and inhabits hot, semi-warm, dry and temperate climates. It grows in orchards and on farmland; It is associated with different types of tropical deciduous and sub-deciduous forests, thorny forests, mountain mesophyll, oak and pine.
