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Heart Views : The Official Journal of the Gulf Heart Association logoLink to Heart Views : The Official Journal of the Gulf Heart Association
. 2019 Jan-Mar;20(1):34. doi: 10.4103/HEARTVIEWS.HEARTVIEWS_35_19

Flowers to Grow for Use as Medicine

Rachel Hajar 1,
PMCID: PMC6524421  PMID: 31143387

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Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul. Flowers have been used in medicinal applications around the world for centuries. In herbal medicine, flowers and their extracts are used to treat a wide range of ailments. These extracts are in many cough and cold products and are thought to help promote sweating for treating fevers. However, this claim has not been proven scientifically.

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