Arnica (Nelsons Arnica 30c (Aah-nicker) - 84)

Member Name: January

Product:	Nelsons Arnica 30c (Aah-nicker) - 84
Date:	24/07/05 (1948 review reads)
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Advantages: Aids healing

Disadvantages: none

I have used Arnica for many years and have great faith in it's healing properties. I always think this is one of the essential homeopathic remedies to have a good supply of, as you never know when you might need it. It's a common remedy and most people who have an interest in homeopathy will have come across it at some time or other.

You can buy Arnica in the health shops in tablet and cream form.
A small bottle of Nelson's Arnica 30c tablets which you usually get 30 will cost around £3.50. These can also be bought at the health shop, or Holland and Barretts if there's on near you. They come in a light green plastic tube which has a twist top dispenser which you twist and click the bottom of the tube to deliver one tablet into the palm of your hand. The tablets are white and small.

Now you might not know this but Arnica is a plant.
It's common names are leopards bane, mountain tobacco and sneezewort.
It's a perrenial plant which grows to about ten inches high and has yellow flowers much like a daisy. Perrenials grow all year round, which is great as this stuff is essential to have in your supplies if your into homeopathy or alternate medicines.
It's native to Northern Asia and Siberia and on the mountain slopes of the Andes. It can also be found in parts of America and throughout Europe.
The Swiss mountain climbers used to chew it to help stop muscle pains when they were climbing.
The dried leaves have also been smoked as a for of tobacco, hence one of it's common names and the flowers when inhailed cause you to sneeze, which is how it got the name sneezewort.

It's the whole plant which is used in homeopathic remedies, a tincture can be made by pounding the leaves, root and flowers to a pulp. This is then mixed with alcohol and left to stand for eight days, before being strained and used.

The tablets can be taken for eye strain and skin conditions like eczema or boils.
As well as Whooping cough and for children who wet the bed due to nightmares. Gout, tooth extraction, after childbirth, after an operation, rhematic joints and shock.
This makes it a great herbal remedy for anyone who has had a nasty fall or accident as it will help to calm you down as well as being a great healer of cuts.

I was living in Wales for a while in a caravan and we had pulled into an old quarry, there was lots of boulders of welsh slate around and going out one day in the rain, I slipped and as I put my arms down to stop my fall I caught my left arm on a small boulder.
This cut my wrist very badly but being over 12 miles from the nearest town, I had to act quickly to stop the bleeding.
I went back to the caravan and promptly passed out.
My hubbie cleaned and bound the wound and when I came around he gave me two Arnica tablets to take. The pain subsided and the shakes from the shock went away. In the morning I took the bandage off to clean the wound and was surprised to see it had already started to heal.
I was lucky enough to have not been cut too deeply and my hubbie had put steri-strips on the wound, as I refuse to go to hospital for stitches.
I took two Arnica tablets three times a day for a week and now if you look at my wrist you can hardly see the scar, it is so faint you have to be told it is there before you can notice it.
Since this accident I have always had a good supply in my herbal remedy box.

Arnica is best suited to people like me who refuse to believe they are ill and won't give in until they are down and out.
The solemn person who hardly ever seeks medical advice.
I like this one and it really does work wonders, for bruises alongside comfrey it's one of the best.
I have used this for all the scapes and bruises for myself and children over the years and now use it on the grandchildren when they fall over.

Summary: I can't imagine being without it