Top Folk Remedies from Around the World

You say that Germans use marigolds for health benefits. Calendula officialis is sometimes called pot marigold, but it is a very different plant from the bushyblossomed, pungently scented marigolds of the Tagetes genus that we are probably more familiar with. Tagetes can be used as a flavoring and colorant, but it doesn’t have the medicinal properties that calendulas have. —Kristin Vichich Hancock, Michigan