CHRYSANTHEMUM PARTHENIUM

FEVERFEW: A hardy, strongly scented plant to 2-3′ tall, with many small daisy-like flowers that are used for migraine headaches, fevers, “hysteria,” colds, and “to enable women to have children.” It’s an old antidote for using too much opium. Tonic, aperient. Cuts grease when added in small quantities to food. Reported by biologists at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, to be a source of melatonin.