Arnica mountain - useful properties, application and contraindications

Arnica mountain is a medicinal perennial plant with beautiful yellow flowers. The plant looks like an ornamental plant, but in addition to its external beauty, its flowers have excellent healing properties, they make infusions and decoctions to maintain health and cure diseases.

As you can guess from the name, arnica grows on mountain meadows in the Carpathians, dry meadows in the Baltic, it is still possible to meet it in Polissya in Ukraine. As a true beauty, arnika is capricious and demanding. This plant needs clean, well-moistened air, sunlit open spaces.

The plant faithfully serves people since the 11th century. Ancient Greek physician Dioscorides appreciated him, called the plant a sneezing flower. And indeed, the leaves and flowers of the mountain arnica cause sneezing, thereby freeing the nasopharynx from the accumulated mucus. And the ancient healers with the help of arnica saved the soldiers and the ordinary people from wounds and bruises, and removed inflammations of the skin.

Our contemporaries also use arnica to get rid of a variety of ailments.

Biochemical composition of arnica

Resins, tannins, cinnarin, organic acids - fumaric, lactic, malic, formic, angelic, essential oils, flavonoids are 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 useful for the organism and trace elements.

Mountain arnica - application

In modern medicine, the plant is used to treat a variety of diseases. Apply it for influenza, bronchitis, convulsions. With its help, treat joint diseases, concussion, epilepsy, used as a diuretic for heart disease, especially with hypertrophy, often affecting people who are experiencing strong physical activity.

According to specialists of traditional medicine, mountain arnica is able to strengthen brain activity, to clarify the brain.

Included in the plant pharadiol helps to eliminate hemorrhages. And arnitsin expands coronary heart vessels, improves the functioning of the heart muscle.

Still used arnica as an anticonvulsant, in gynecology - to enhance uterine contractions. The plant also helps lower blood pressure, has anti-sclerotic properties.

Preparations based on arnica are used to accelerate the rhythm of the heart, they are able to tone the spinal cord and perfectly strengthen the nervous system. They also act as a sedative, anesthetic, blood-stopping agents that help to heal wounds. In addition, drugs from arnica have choleretic, diuretic, anti-inflammatory properties.

Very interesting is the effect of plants on the brain. Arnica, the application of which has a pronounced tonic effect on the spinal cord, at the same time depressingly acts on the cortex of our brain. Therefore, we must remember that in small doses of drugs from arnica stimulate the central nervous system, and large doses suppress convulsions.

As lotions and moist compresses, 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 inflammatory and wound-healing remedy.

Influence of means from arnica on peripheral circulation causes their application for treatment of diseases of eyes, vessels and lungs, with hemorrhages and traumas.

Use mountain arnica also for the treatment of stomach ulcers, nocturnal enuresis and dysentery.

Decoctions of arnica help in the treatment of gout, bloody diarrhea, bronchitis, as well as gastric diseases and flu.

Valuable drugs from this plant and for the ability to lower blood levels of cholesterol.

Alcohol tincture from flowers is consumed inside with various bleedings, for example, nasals. With external use helps tincture with pain in muscles, dislocations and fractures. Effectively, this tool and with inflammation of the veins, with gastrointestinal ailments. External water infusion of arnica flowers is very effective for rashes on the lips or skin, furunculosis, small cuts, small abrasions, bruises, rheumatism, lumbago, bruises, various pustular skin diseases, light burns and frostbite.

Arnica is used in hypertension, myocarditis, thrombophlebitis, angina pectoris, sclerosis, heart failure, and it is also effective in recovery and rehabilitation after strokes and heart attacks.

Dentists recommend the use of the plant for inflammation of the gums and oral cavity. To do this, rinse and rinse the oral cavity with arnica. And the whole point is that the mountain arnica perfectly enhances blood circulation, thus stimulating the resistance of the oral mucosa. For these purposes, you can simply drink tea with arnica.

Precautions in the treatment of arnica

Arnica mountain found wide application in medicine, which allows the use of the plant for the treatment of a variety of diseases. But it should be noted that Arnica is a toxic plant. Use it with caution. 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 apply the curative properties of arnica, consult with a doctor.

Health to you!