Flowers are well known for all for its beauty and fragrance. So, most of them use it for the decoration purposes and also for the other purposes. But there are many flowers which are known for its usage in medical field from a prehistoric period. It is used for the treatment of many patients; this type of treatment will have no side-effect and no re-bound of the diseases. Now there are many researches going on for this, and also many preferable innovations are also taken under. There are about 10 million species of flowers and almost all the flower have at least one medical property associated with it.
The most of flowers are not only used to cure physical and mental diseases, but also used for the therapy for the beauty aspect also. Many therapists and homeopathies will make use of flowers for treating the diseases in a natural way.
The most common flowers that are well known are also used in medical fields, they are as mentioned below:
a. Sunflowers
b. Roses
c. Lilies and
d. Blueberries.
Most of the therapies are named based on the color of the flowers. For an example Blue therapy, it uses Blueberry flowers for the hormonal disorders like sleep apnea. Olive oil and Sunflower oil are known for positive effect of skin and hair treatments. Olive oil is used for the strengthening the hair root. Where as Sunflower oil is edible oil used for the controlling cholesterol in the human body. Different flowers plays a various roles on the patients based on the patients age and sex.
There are many other flowers which are not known to others which can provide treatment. They are as follows:
1. Pass flora.
2. Meadowsweet
3. Echinacea.
4. Gentian.
5. Chamomile flower and
6. Bach flower
Pass flora has many species, it mainly exists in two forms, some exit as a bushy and some exist as an ornamental. Most of this ornamental species are used for edible flower; this contains many vitamins and rich proteins in it.
Meadowsweet is a wild plant mostly seen in European nations its oil is extracted and used for the ulcer treatment; this is also used in the generation of Aspirin and Ethanol which is used in wide variety of modern medicines.
Echinacea is best selling medicinal flower in the U.S. and it is originated in the Indian nation. But research is going on this flower in Germany. This flower had a nick name called snake root since this flower is used as herbal for snake bite India. After the 20th century the U.S. came to know the importance of this flower and started the cultivation of these plants.
Gentian flower is mostly found in the mountain region areas of the Europe. It has got bitter taste and it is used for Digestion stimulation. It results a medium level effect on the human digestion. It increases the appetite and digestion. It has no side effect, but it has a caution that an overdose will result in the Nausea, which is a type of soothing effect resulting in the severe headache and other effects on brains.
Chamomile flower is a well known for production of the tea. These flowers will exist in two different colors like white and yellow color. This yellow flower has a beautiful pleasant aroma so it is used for extracting the fragrance. The white flower is used for extracting oil, which is used for special distillation. This is also used in the modern medicines.
Bach flower it is mainly used in the treatment of mental disorder. The treatment using this flower was started in recent 1930s. This flower is known as the 12 Healers.
Posted in Uncategorized