Arnica mountain is a medicinal perennial plant with beautiful yellow flowers. The plant looks like an ornamental, but in addition to its external beauty, its flowers have excellent healing properties, they make infusions and decoctions to maintain health and treat diseases.
As the name implies, arnica grows in mountain meadows in the Carpathians, upland meadows in the Baltic, you can still meet it in Polesie in Ukraine. As a real beauty is supposed, mountain arnica is capricious and demanding. This plant needs clean, well-humidified air, sunlit open areas.
The plant faithfully serves people since the 11th century. Even the ancient Greek doctor Dioscorides appreciated it, called the plant a sneezing flower. In fact, the leaves and flowers of mountain arnica cause sneezing, thereby relieving the nasopharynx from the accumulated mucus. And ancient healers with the help of Arnica saved warriors and ordinary people from wounds and bruises, and removed inflammation of the skin.
Our contemporaries also use arnica to get rid of a variety of ailments.
The biochemical composition of arnica
Resins, tannins, cynarin, organic acids - fumaric, lactic, malic, formic, angelic, essential oils, flavonoids were found in the plant. Arnica is rich in vitamins, especially in it there is a lot of ascorbic acid and carotene. There are also proteins, fructose, inulin, sucrose, choline, alkaloids and other substances and trace elements useful for the body.
Arnica mountain - application
In modern medicine, the plant is used to treat many diseases. Apply it with flu, bronchitis, convulsions. With its help, joint diseases, concussion, epilepsy are treated, they are used as a diuretic for heart diseases, especially with hypertrophy, which often affects people who experience intense physical exertion.
According to experts of traditional medicine, mountain arnica is able to strengthen brain activity, clarify the brain.
The faradiol that is part of the plant helps eliminate hemorrhages. And arnitsin dilates the coronary heart vessels, improves the functioning of the heart muscle.
Arnica is also used as an anticonvulsant, in gynecology - to enhance uterine contractions. The plant also contributes to lowering blood pressure, has anti-sclerotic properties.
Arnica-based drugs are used to accelerate the heart rhythm, they are able to tone the spinal cord and perfectly strengthen the nervous system. They also act as a sedative, analgesic, and blood-stopping agent that helps to heal wounds. In addition, medicines from Arnica have choleretic, diuretic, anti-inflammatory properties.
The effect of the plant on the brain is very interesting. Arnica, the use of which has a pronounced tonic effect on the spinal cord, at the same time has a depressing effect on the cortex of our brain. Therefore, it must be remembered that in small doses, preparations from arnica stimulate the central nervous system, and large doses inhibit seizures.
As lotions and wet compresses, the flowers of the plant are applied externally. They can be used to treat abrasions, bruises, bruises, bruises, boils, burns, pustular skin diseases, trophic ulcers and frostbite as an anti-inflammatory and wound healing agent.
The effect of arnica agents on peripheral blood circulation determines their use for the treatment of diseases of the eyes, blood vessels and lungs, with hemorrhages and injuries.
Mountain arnica is also used to treat stomach ulcers, nocturnal enuresis and dysentery.
Decoctions of arnica help in the treatment of gout, bloody diarrhea, bronchitis, as well as with stomach diseases and flu.
They appreciate the preparations from this plant and for the ability to lower blood cholesterol.
Alcohol tincture of flowers is used internally for various bleeding, for example, nasal. With external use, tincture helps with muscle pain, dislocations and fractures. Effectively this remedy and with inflammation of the veins, with gastrointestinal ailments. The externally water infusion of Arnica flowers is very effective for rashes on the lips or skin, furunculosis, small cuts, small abrasions, bruises, rheumatism, lumbago, hematomas, various pustular skin diseases, light burns and frostbite.
Arnica is used for hypertension, myocarditis, thrombophlebitis, angina pectoris, sclerosis, heart failure, and it is also effective in the recovery and rehabilitation after strokes and heart attacks.
Dentists recommend using the plant for inflammation of the gums and oral cavity. To do this, rinse and rinse the mouth with arnica. And the thing is that mountain arnica perfectly enhances blood circulation, thus stimulating the resistance of the oral mucosa. For these purposes, you can just drink tea with arnica.
Arnica Cautions
Mountain Arnica has been widely used in medicine, which allows the plant to be used to treat many diseases. But it must be borne in mind that arnica is a toxic plant. It should be used with caution, as the slightest errors in the manufacture of drugs or an overdose can lead to complications of the disease instead of healing it.
Before you begin to use the medicinal properties of arnica, be sure to consult a doctor.
Health to you!