Cyclamen (Alpine Violet) is a perennial herb of the Mirsinov family, native to North America. Now this flower is widely known as a medicinal houseplant. Having a cyclamen in the house, your health is protected.
The rich chemical composition of the plant and its healing properties, can cure many diseases. The most well-known and effective are the means for the treatment of diseases of the nose. Such drugs have been sold in pharmacies for a long time and have proven to be high among otolaryngologists and their patients.
And also there are folk recipes for sinusitis, which can be easily prepared by yourself at home. But what is necessary to know about cyclamen and the means with it in the composition, so that the treatment does not bring a negative result?
What is the effect on the nasopharyngeal mucosa?
Cyclamen has long been used to treat inflammation of the maxillary sinuses. Previously, cyclamen juice was used in traditional medicine. Now there is a mass of pharmaceutical drugs in which there is this juice. Cyclamen in these products will help:
- reduce inflammation;
- have a calming effect;
- remove puffiness;
- ease nasal breathing.
Chemical composition
For the treatment of sinusitis in the composition of all medicines use cyclamen tuber juice (about all the funds from sinusitis, we wrote here). Tubers contain in their poisonous saponin cyclamine, which, when hydrolyzed, is divided into:
- amorphous saponin;
- dextrose;
- pentose;
- cyclamyretin;
- mulosin;
- cyclose;
- sugar;
- polysaccharide cyclomosine.
Important! If you have ever used drugs in the treatment that included some of the listed components, and this drug caused an allergic reaction, then you should take a test allergy test before you use the drug or refuse it altogether.
Dosage forms and names of preparations based on alpine violet
The most famous and active pharmaceutical drops from sinusitis with cyclamen.
Butter
The drug is available in a glass vial with a pipette. The volume of the bottle is 20 milliliters.
Ingredients: oil extract from cyclamen tubers, grape seed oil.
The tool perfectly cleans the nasal sinuses from mucus and pus, cures polyps, cures runny nose of any degree, relieves headache accompanying sinusitis.
Method of application - drip in the morning and evening 1-2 drops in each nasal passage. Treatment of sinusitis is carried out in 3 courses. Alternate 7 days of treatment - 7 days break.
Contraindications: the period of pregnancy and lactation, age up to 5 years. Side effects with the use of the drug have been identified.
The average price of the drug is 250-300 rubles.
Diluted plant juice for instillation into the nose (concentrate)
The tool is produced in glass or plastic bottles with a convenient lid dispenser. The volume of the bottle is 20 milliliters.
Ingredients: cyclamen tuber juice, purified water.
Method of application - drip 2 times a day, 1-2 drops in each nostril, the procedure is carried out lying down. After the procedure, you can not get up for 10 minutes.
The drug, before use, must be diluted with water as indicated on the packaging scheme.
Contraindications:
- gestation period;
- breastfeeding period;
- age up to 7 years;
- individual hypersensitivity to drug components.
The average price in Russia is 250 rubles.
You can learn all about cyclamen juice in this material.
Neonox
The drug is released in a plastic bottle with a spray. The volume of the bottle is 20 milliliters.
Ingredients: oil extracts of cyclamen, eucalyptus, aloe and kalanchoe, propolis, as well as olive and sea buckthorn oils.
The drug perfectly cleans the maxillary sinuses from accumulated mucus and pus., clears the nasal passages, facilitates breathing, softens and does not dry out the mucous membrane, relieves puffiness.
Method of application - 1 injection into each nasal passage every 3-4 hours.
Contraindications:
- pregnancy;
- breastfeeding period;
- age up to 12 years;
- hypersensitivity to the components in the composition of the drug.
Side effects with the use of the drug have been identified. The price of medicine in Russia is 500-600 rubles.
All the details about this drug can be found here.
Sinuforte
The drug is available in powder form for the preparation of a medicinal solution. Volume - 50 milligrams. The package also has a bottle with special water in a volume of 5 milliliters. Sinuforte is used to treat purulent and catarrhal sinusitis, ethmoiditis, frontitis, sphenoiditis, polysinusitis.
Ingredients: extract and juice of cyclamen tubers.
Method of application: before use, you need to prepare a solution, the agent is allowed to inject into each nostril once a day by pressing the dispenser once. The duration of treatment is 10-12 days.
Contraindications:
- pregnancy;
- breastfeeding period;
- age up to 12 years;
- cystic polypous rhinosinusitis;
- hypersensitivity to individual components.
Side effects with the use of the drug have been identified. The average price is about 2000 rubles.
You can read about the benefits of cyclamen in dosage forms and home cooking in this article, and you can find out about nose drops or eyes called “Cyclomed” here.
How to prepare the medicine yourself?
There are two of the most well-known and effective recipes with homemade cyclamen for the treatment of sinusitis:
Simple composition
Cooking Instructions:
- Take an average cyclamen tuber and wash thoroughly.
- Grate the root into a fine grater.
- The gruel must be squeezed through a gauze, the spin is performed several times.
- The resulting juice diluted with boiled and cooled water in a ratio of 1: 4.
You can use these only in the morning, drip 2 drops in each nostril for 7 days.
From the video you will learn how to prepare drops of cyclamen at home:
Multicomponent
Cooking Instructions:
Squeeze the juice from the washed leaf Kalanchoe into a separate container.- Squeeze the juice from a clean sheet of aloe in a separate jar.
- Wash the cyclamen tuber.
- Grate this root onto a fine grater.
- Squeeze the resulting gruel through cheesecloth.
- Take 2 drops of each juice and dilute it in a teaspoon of olive oil.
Squeeze the juice from the washed leaf Kalanchoe into a separate container.It is necessary to apply such medicine 2 times a day, to drop on 2-3 drops in each nostril.
Precautions and Contraindications
The main contraindications for the use of cyclamen juice and products with it are:
- period of carrying a child;
- breastfeeding period;
- age less than 7 years;
- malfunctions in the circulatory and vascular systems;
- self-diagnosis of diseases of the nasopharynx.
Important! Polypous cystic sinusitis - a complete contraindication to the use of drugs and folk remedies with cyclamen.
Precautionary measures:
- The use of drugs with cyclamen should be immediately stopped if, when instillation of the nose, mucus mixed with blood begins to stand out from it, and the patient feels a strong burning sensation and pain;
- Pure cyclamen juice is poisonous, so after direct contact with it, you should immediately wash your hands with soap and water;
- in using products prepared at home, one must strictly control the concentration of cyclamen juice and dilute it in the permitted proportions.
Conclusion
It is known that agents with cyclamen juice are effective for antritis. But so that such drugs do not harm you, but benefit and guarantee recovery, you should carefully study their composition, dosage, side effects and contraindications.
