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Catalog of Herbs
Published in James A. Duke, Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, 2018
A plaster made from the root is said to be a folk remedy for tumors, and the tincture derived from the flower is said to help liver, stomach, and intestinal cancer in addition to tumors in general.4 Dried flower-heads are used medicinally as anodyne, expectorant, he-mostat, febrifuge, irritant, nervine, resolvent, sedative, stimulant, tonic, and vulnerary. The leaves are regarded as febrifuge, sternutatory, and vulnerary. The rootstock is said to be discutient, diuretic, febrifuge, stimulant, and vulnerary. Arnica is used externally in many home remedies for aches, acne, boils, bruises, skin rashes, sprains, and wounds; and internally as a stimulant and febrifuge. Russians use the herb to promote bile, reduce cholesterol, stimulate the CNS; and to stop bleeding, boils, and inflammation of the genitals, as well as to strengthen a weak heart.10 Homeopathic tinctures are used for abscess, apoplexy, back pain, baldness, bed sores, black eye, boil, brain, bronchitis, bruises, carbuncles, chest ailments, chorea, corns, cramps, diabetes, diarrhea, dysentery, ecchymosis, epilepsy, excoriation, exhaustion, eye, fever, halitosis, meningitis, miscarriage, nose, paralysis, pleurodynia, purpura, rheumatism, rhinosis, sea-sickness, sore feet, sore nipples, splenalgia, sprains, stings, suppuration, taste, thirst, trauma, tumors, voice, whooping cough, and wounds.1094
Arnica
Published in Linda M. Castell, Samantha J. Stear (Nottingham), Louise M. Burke, Nutritional Supplements in Sport, Exercise and Health, 2015
Arnica Montana is a herbaceous plant, native to many regions of Europe. Its flowering heads have been used for medicinal purposes for millennia. Arnica extracts contain sesquiterpene lactones, volatile oils and flavonoids. They are said to have anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial activity. The former property has rendered arnica preparations popular remedies for sports injuries. There are two fundamentally different types of arnica preparations: herbal and homeopathic.
Alternative and Complementary Treatments
Published in Harold G. Koenig, Chronic Pain, 2013
Arnica consists of the dried flower heads of Arnica montana or other Arnica species, which have bright yellow flowers reminiscent of daisies. The underground roots of the plant are sometimes utilized as well. Arnica is used as a general counterirritant, anti-inflammatory, and pain reliever. Arnica formulations may be rubbed into swollen ankles, dislocated shoulders, aching muscles, or arthritic joints. It is available as a liquid for compresses and poultices, an ointment, or a tincture. Arnica-containing creams are popular in Europe. A compress is made using one tablespoon tincture per half-liter water. For use in poultices, the tincture is diluted three to ten times with water. The ointment is used in maximum concentrations of 15 percent arnica oil or 20 to 25 percent tincture. Do not use arnica internally or on broken skin. Safety is not proven and potency of commercial preparations may vary widely.
Anti-inflammatory effect of Arnica montana in a UVB radiation-induced skin-burn model in mice
Published in Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology, 2020
Josiéle da Silva Prade, Eveline Costeira Bálsamo, Franciele Romero Machado, Márcia Rósula Poetini, Vandreza Cardoso Bortolotto, Stífani Machado Araújo, Larissa Londero, Silvana Peterini Boeira, Carla Pohl Sehn, Marcelo Gomes de Gomes, Marina Prigol, Leandro Cattelan Souza
According to Kawakami et al.27Arnica montana is a plant widely used in folk medicine as an anti-inflammatory agent. Topical treatment with Arnica montana has been reported to be able to reduce 1% carrageenan-induced paw inflammation in Wistar rats27. Furthermore, the anti-inflammatory action of Arnica montana gel was demonstrated in rats with acute muscle injury32. The topical use of Arnica montana ointment contains polyphenols with antioxidant activity that can effectively protect the skin from oxidative damage. It is believed that its efficiency in the treatment of wounds and bruises is due to the presence of quercetin, an antioxidant compound33. Quercetin is a natural flavonoid present in plants, capable of increasing vessel resistance and blood supply at these sites, thus reducing the inflammatory process33.
Topical therapies for knee osteoarthritis
Published in Postgraduate Medicine, 2018
In a systematic review reported by Cameron and Chrubasik on the role of topical herbal therapies for treating knee OA, they stated that Arnica gel possibly ameliorates symptoms as effectively as a gel containing NSAIDs, but with no better (and possibly worse) complication profile. Comfrey extract gel possibly ameliorates pain, and Capsicum extract gel will not possibly ameliorate pain or function at the doses analyzed in this report [15].