Feverfew

Chrysanthemum by Karl Blossfeldt

Teri and I are often asked what patients can use for Migraine prevention. The answer isn't simple because there are so many different preventive medications - over 100 in fact. This list includes FDA approved Migraine preventive medications such as Inderal Sometimes a plant needs to do just one thing, especially if it does that one thing really well. Nowhere is this more evident than with Tanacetum parthenium aureum, commonly known as golden feverfew. Although it produces pretty, yellow-and-white flowers in Feb. 25, 2005 -- A compound found in the feverfew plant could one day change the way leukemia is treated, new research suggests. The chemical is called parthenolide. It's the active ingredient of the feverfew plant -- also called bachelor's button --- and …but a chemically-altered analog derived from feverfew appears to have anticancer activity against leukemia stem cells. Researchers at the University of Rochester reported this week in the journal, Blood, that dimethylaminoparthenolide (DMAPT) has Ever since reading Grow Your Own Drugs earlier this year I've been looking around the neighborhood for useful plants and herbs. Feverfew derives from Latin word febrifugia, meaning "fever reducer." It has been used in European folk medicine for centuries The tobacco-like plant Nicotiana benthamiana can be used to produce potential anti-cancer drugs. Researchers of Wageningen UR (University & Research centre) discovered which genes in the herb feverfew are responsible for the production of bioactive .

Feverfew that flowering plant belonging to the sunflower family, has been around for centuries in European folk medicine as a treatment for headaches and other ailments. Now new preliminary studies at the Headache Care Center in Springfield, Missouri (NaturalNews) Close to a billion people around the world suffer from migraines at some point or other in their lives. This neurological condition is characterized by vomiting, severe headaches, nausea and photophobia of varying intensities (sensitivity to HOW TO USE FEVERFEW: The dried leaves—and sometimes flowers and stems—of Feverfew are used to make supplements, including capsules, tablets, and liquid extracts. The leaves are sometimes eaten fresh. CAUTION: Feverfew should not be taken by pregnant women. .