Arnibol Arnika gel

Arnica Montana flower, a perennial plant known to the people as a wolf’s bane, leopard’s bane and mountain tobacco that grows on mountain pastures of Central Europe with a cold and humid climate above 1000 m above sea level. It contains numerous active principles of sesquiterpenic lactones, essential oils, flavonoids. Active principles, and above all Sesquiterpenic lactone helenalin, have antimicrobial, antiphlogistic, antiinflammatory, analgesic and antirheumatic activity.

The Devil’s claw root (Harpagophytum procumbens), plant from the sesame family originating in South Africa. For its application in Europe we thank to the German physician and botanist Oto Heinrich Volk, who discovered her remarkable effect in Namibia during the Second World War. It was named after the root, which reminds of the claw. It contains heterozygous harpagoside and acuteoside that have anti-inflammatory and mild analgesic effect.

The Comfrey root  (Symphytum officinale), a weed known also as a comfrey common, a knitbone, or a black wort. It grows on wet meadows in Central Europe. This plant has long use in traditional medicine and helps with bone fractures, growth on bones, vertebra damage, hardening in gout, bunions, bone ache. It contains essential oils, tannin, mucus and rare substance allantoin, which stimulates growth and proliferation of cells and regeneration of tissue, helps in inflammation of the tendon and joints, hematomas and swellings.

White Willow bark (Salix alba), Deciduous tree that grows predominantly in Southern and Central Europe as well as in North America. In traditional medicine, white willow bark is used because it contains flavonoids, tannins and phenolic glycosides, the most important of which is salicin having anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. In the 19th century salicin was isolated by a French chemist Leroks, that in modern medicine served as a prototype for acetylsalicylic acid.