The daisy-like feverfew was once believed to have been used to save the life of someone who had fallen from the Parthenon, the temp of the goddess Athena on the Acropolis in Athens, hence its scientific name parthenium. Feverfew was used to treat menstrual cramps in young women in Greek medicine, and also for colic, inflammation fever, insect bites, psoriasis, toothache, vertigo and arthritis in the Middle Ages. Currently feverfew is among the world's bestselling herbs, used primary to tre ...(more)