Useful properties and contraindications of cyclamen-based drugs, such as oil, ointments and other dosage forms

Most people for some reason do not even try to understand that it’s not at all necessary to go to the pharmacy and spend huge amounts of money on medications. After all, most of the drugs can be found in your own cottage or on the windowsill. A striking example is the familiar cyclamen plant.

More than five centuries ago, Paracelsus uttered a phrase that homeopaths love: "Dose makes poison a medicine." Being a poisonous plant, subject to precautions and dosage, cyclamen is an effective treatment for sinusitis, pertussis, headaches, etc. If you exceed the dose, serious health problems will arise.

What cyclamen drugs do they sell? What do they treat? How to use them correctly?

Beneficial features

Cyclamen is a plant that blooms in skillful hands when other indoor plants are resting. He is not only a decoration for the windowsill, but also a cure for ailments. Suitable for the treatment of sinusitis, sinusitis and all thanks to a unique rhizome.

A florist will not raise a hand to destroy a single specimen in order to cure a runny nose. Without hesitation, residents of the south of Russia (areas on the coast of the Azov and Black Seas, foothills of the Caucasus, Krasnodar Territory) will let the tuber to prepare medicine.

Cyclamen has a special chemical composition. Examining its rhizome, we discovered a derivative of saponin - cyclamine. When subjected to hydrolysis, it breaks down into sugars, glycosides and sapogenin.

The composition and hidden all the beneficial properties of this amazing plant:

• Sedative.
• The provision of antimicrobial action.
• Anti-inflammatory effect.
• The effect on the heart is similar to digitalis preparations.
• Healing a runny nose.
• Use for sexual disorders and problems in this area. They successfully treat impotence and restore the menstrual cycle.
• Getting rid of joint pain, gout and rheumatism.
• Help with stomach pain or problems with the bladder.
• A cure for insomnia, nervous breakdowns and headaches.
• The fight against hair loss.
• An effective antidote for snake bites.
• Help in the treatment of infectious diseases.

Some scholars argue that the list above is incomplete. If you dry the tuber, and then burn it, mix it with vinegar and grease the sore spots, asthma, freckles and even cracks in the skin will disappear.

Use in traditional medicine

For the most part, cyclamen is a component of traditional medicine. Although traditional medicine does not refute its effect on the body in the fight against sinusitis, doctors rarely prescribe medications based on it (for pharmacy and home remedies based on cyclamen for sinusitis, read here). Patients accidentally stumble upon medicines made on the basis of the juice of this poisonous plant, and are surprised when they recover. What kind of medications are we talking about?

Pills

On a note. Despite the fact that they proved the effectiveness of cyclamen juice in the treatment of sinusitis, tablets or dragees with it for oral administration are not released.

The reason lies in the toxicity of this plant. If the doctor advises to treat the disease with drops that contain it, he will prescribe Sinupret tablets (50 pieces - 349 rubles).

An integrated approach to treatment has a faster secretolytic, secretomotor, anti-inflammatory effect and frees the sinuses and upper respiratory tract from nasty congestion.

Ointment

In the treatment of sinusitis prepare an effective tool based on Vishnevsky ointment. It is prepared from Vishnevsky ointment, cyclamen root, aloe juice, onion and honey. The consistency of the finished medicine is liquid, but many consider it to be an ointment.

To prepare the product, take aloe juice and onion. Vishnevsky ointment (25-60 rubles) and honey are added to it, mixing in a consistency of 1: 1. At the very end, the cyclamen root is added. After mixing all the ingredients, apply the ointment in the sinuses. Ointments are saturated with cotton swabs, which are then inserted into the nose for thirty minutes.

It has a powerful antiseptic and regenerative effect. It acts on the focus of inflammation, gradually fettering pathogenic bacteria.

Since cyclamen and onion are in the composition, not all patients withstand thirty minutes of exposure. Slightly exceeding the concentration of the root, they burn their mucous membrane, complicating the treatment.

Plant-based treatment in homeopathy

A herbaceous plant from the family of primrose - cyclamen is used in homeopathy. First proposed its use S. Hahnemann. When do homeopaths recommend treatment with it?

Indications for use

• Depression. If a person seeks loneliness, suffers from evening dizziness and headaches, cyclamen juice will help. He will again cope with his tasks at work.
• Swelling of the mammary glands. Many young women notice that they swell a couple of days before menstruation, notice discharge from the chest on their blouse or shirt.
• Menstrual irregularities. With frequent menstruation, when a woman will notice dark blood discharge and complain of severe abdominal cramps, cyclamen juice will be advised.
• Itching in the evening.
• Frequent hiccups.
• Acne
• Gastritis with nausea, an unpleasant odor and smack in the mouth.
• Hemorrhoids, when the nodes inside and when the bowel is empty, the patient suffers from severe pain.
• Frostbite.
• Strabismus.
• Joint pain.
• Sinusitis and sinusitis.
• Spurs on the heels that prevent an active lifestyle.

In folk medicine

Cyclamen is a houseplant that helps in the treatment of many diseases. Because of the toxicity use it carefully. Also do not forget that it causes a strong allergic reaction in allergy sufferers and poisoning due to overdose.

If you exclude allergies and use it with great care, then cyclamine - the main biologically active substance in tubers, irritates the mucous membrane, has an irritating effect and causes increased reflex secretion. As a result, the paranasal sinuses are cleansed.

Knowing the benefits of cyclamen, they grow it in the Caucasus. When the ground part dies after flowering, the tuber is dug up and divided. Part of it is allowed to make useful medicines for sinusitis, and another is again planted in the ground until new leaves appear.

Oil

On sale in pharmacies there is cyclamen oil, the price of which is 250 rubles. It is a powerful remedy that relieves infections in the nasopharynx. It has a mild effect on it, unlike an aqueous solution of cyclamen juice.

Why does not the mucous membrane dry out, but, on the contrary, get wet? Because in the process of making oil, the main component is grape seed oil, to which is added an oil extract of forest cyclamen tubers. It is in the tubers that the miraculous power is hidden. They return youth and health by acting on hidden mechanisms in the body that will lead to self-purification, removal of all pus accumulated due to sinusitis.

Unlike oil extracts, grape seed oil is hypoallergenic. It takes the beneficial effect of cyclamen deep into the sinuses. Cyclamen oil acts gently, but still take some precautions.

Important. When prescribing oil to a child, the doctor will advise you to mix it with vegetable oil in a 1: 2 ratio to make sure there is no allergy.

Both adults and children use the oil the same way. They instill 1-2 drops of this medicine into each nostril in the morning and in the evening, without ceasing to massage it outside for 10 minutes. The duration of the course is 7 days.

Contraindications

• Lactation.
• Pregnancy.
• Children under 5 years old.
• Do not use after expiration date.

Tincture

From cyclamen at home, prepare a tincture. To prepare it, you will need a crushed root of this plant and 100 ml of boiling water. The ingredients are mixed, covered and insisted for an hour. Pre-boil another 250 ml of water. She is diluted with infusion. To 250 ml of cold water take 0.5 tsp. infusion. The course of treatment with tincture is 7 days. Frequency of use - 4 times a day, in two drops.

Extract

Neonox nasal drops are made from cyclamen extract for 550 rubles / bottle. Due to the properties of the plant, sinusitis and rhinitis are treated. Sometimes it is prescribed to prevent the ENT diseases. The risk of developing an inflammatory process in the nose after it is reduced.

Drops with cyclamen extract are for topical use. Shake the bottle before using them. Adults instill 1-2 drops every three hours. Ten days later, treatment is stopped.

Before applying it for the first time, do a test for sensitivity. For this, one drop is instilled into one nostril. If after 20-30 minutes a person does not sneeze, you can use it to treat sinusitis.

A more detailed review of drops, oils, and other cyclamen-based medicines can be found in this article.

Contraindications and warnings

Cyclamine is the main active ingredient in cyclamen juice. It has a toxic effect. This fact is taken into account by pharmacologists, releasing new drugs for free sale in a pharmacy. Doctors do not recommend their use for children under 5 years of age, and homeopaths - under seven years of age, as well as young ladies in position or nursing mothers.

Attention: Swelling of the mucous membranes - a reaction to an excess of the dose of the drug. It also occurs in allergy sufferers. In this case, they refuse to use it without having tried the effect on themselves.

Typical Overdose Symptoms

1. Nausea and vomiting. In vomit, blood discharge is noticed.
2. Headache.
3. Severe dizziness.
4. Fever.

Conclusion

The birthplace of cyclamen is Asia Minor and the Mediterranean. Thanks to well-coordinated breeding work, it is also grown at home. An important role in the research of scientists was played by the fact of the therapeutic effect of tubers visible on the soil surface in a pot.

This tuber is an effective medicine for the treatment of sinusitis, sinusitis due to the presence of cyclamine, saponin and other trace elements.