All about cyclamen juice: where to get it and to whom it may be useful?
Handsome handsome man - cyclamen. For the first time, its healing properties were mentioned in Georgian sources of the 4th-3rd centuries. BC. Today, doctors recommend treating sinusitis with the juice of the tubers of this plant culture.
It contains a biologically active substance of the saponin group. They come in contact with the mucous membrane, irritate it and cause reflex secretion. The paranasal sinuses are cleaned naturally. Such a miraculous power is hidden in small nodules, but do they help everyone?
You can find the answer to this question and others in this useful article.
What it is?
Florists buy a plant to decorate the windowsill, and traditional healers - to help their patients. Yet in the days of Hippocrates, such juice was valued for its medicinal properties. Modern doctors, although they prescribe it to patients with sinusitis, but only after a thorough examination of the patient and his consultation on all precautions strictly. Uncontrolled administration and self-medication will lead to an inversely proportional result, i.e. he will feel worse.
What kinds of plants do they get juice from? Persian and European cyclamens are grown on the windowsill, the corms of which contain poisonous and caustic juice. It is he who comes in handy for medicinal purposes. It is strictly forbidden to take it inside, while wild pigs eat tubers without harm to health.
Beneficial features
- Stop bleeding.
- Sedative action.
- Antimicrobial action.
- Anti-inflammatory effect.
- Wound healing.
Learn more about useful properties here.
Does the remedy help with sinusitis?
The chemical composition of cyclamen is complex and not fully understood. Experts say that in his tubers there are a lot of saponin, natural oils and organic acids. The plant itself is poisonous due to the presence in the composition of the component - glycoside cyclamine. It contains sugars, bitterness and triterpene flavonoids.
Part of the plant - the tuber is used in the manufacture of medicines. Juice is squeezed out of it, which helps in the treatment of rheumatism, sinusitis, etc.
In addition to sinusitis, the medicine treats sinusitis, fights inflammation in the nasopharynx and relieves diseases of the oral cavity. The most dangerous disease is inflammation of the mucous membrane of the maxillary sinus. It can be two- or one-sided. The sinuses are sometimes damaged. More often, the patient develops sinusitis due to an untreated runny nose or as a complication after flu, measles, scarlet fever.
Important! Dioskirid, being a well-known doctor in ancient Greece, advised his reception to women in labor to accelerate childbirth and to people with low vision. If a person was bitten by a snake, juice is the best antidote.You can read about the remedies based on cyclamen for sinusitis in this article.
What you need to know before using?
Before treating sinusitis with the use of cyclamen tuber juice, they understand a number of important nuances. Since it is poisonous, after applying it, hand washing is a mandatory procedure. Do not ever exceed the dose recommended by the doctor and refuse to take this medication during pregnancy and lactation.
Allergy sufferers should use the plant's juice carefully. Before treating sinusitis with cyclamen juice, make sure that there is no allergy to it. To do this, a few drops of juice are dripped onto the wrist and wait half an hour. If red spots and itching do not appear during this time, drops or ointment will not cause an allergic reaction.
Experts recommend not buying cyclamen root in the market. It is better to grow it at home, but if there is no skill in floriculture, get it at a pharmacy.
Application rules
- Juice is used in the treatment of sinusitis only if the diagnosis is confirmed.
- The patient has no problems with the circulatory system and stomach.
- He does not have polypous cystic sinusitis.
They refuse to treat sinusitis with its help if blood mucus is released from the nose during the procedures. It is also administered if the patient feels pain and burning sensation after his introduction into the sinuses.
Where to get?
Drops in which the main active ingredient is the juice of this plantsell at a pharmacy for 450 rubles per vial. They will not help if you do not combine their administration with external use of the eucalyptus or St. John's wort ointments and inside the chest, anti-infectious or absorbable fees and teas on the nasal sinus area.
How to make a medicine yourself?
If cyclamen grows on the windowsill, a medicine for the treatment of sinusitis is prepared independently. To do this, you only need its root.
Drops from the rhizome of the plant
- Tubers are washed and chopped using a grater.
- The resulting mixture is squeezed and filtered with gauze.
- The resulting juice is diluted with water (1:20). Sometimes the concentration when mixing is different, as the doctor is sure that he will not harm the patient.
The patient should instill 2 drops in the nostril twice a day. It should lie during instillation, and after this procedure, and to consolidate the result, massage your nose and sinuses. After 7 days, the reception is stopped.
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Ointment
- Take aloe juice, onion, Kalanchoe and Vishnevsky ointment.
- Basis - Vishnevsky ointment. It is taken a little more, but the juice of the above plants in a few drops.
- After thoroughly mixing the ingredients, apply the mixture to cotton tows.
The patient holds the flagella in his nose for half an hour for two weeks.
Attention! Not every patient will cure the nose of this plant with juice. The reason is simple: it causes a strong burning sensation. To get rid of a dangerous ailment, at first the drops are greatly diluted with water, and over time their concentration is increased.Precautionary measures
Each patient should remember all the instructions of the doctor about the concentration of juice. If there is too much active substance, it will turn into poison, ceasing to be a medicine. It will provoke negative reactions and cause serious harm to health.
Contraindications
- Pregnancy.
- Lactation.
- Children under 6 years old.
- People who are allergic to the active substances of the plant.
If the patient decided to independently prepare drops or ointment from the root, do not buy it on the market. Sometimes under his guise they’re selling not at all what is needed. It is better to grow a plant at home or buy a root crop in a pharmacy.
Conclusion
Sinusitis is not only treated with modern medications. Some patients still believe that the disease will recede when using the best recipes of traditional medicine. Scientists approved some of them, as a result of which pharmacologists created drugs based on them. One of such miraculous remedies - drops from the juice of the cyclamen plant - the most effective medicine for sinusitis.