What does the tincture contain?
Herbal-based sedatives have a number of advantages over expensive antidepressants. A huge advantage of such products is the lack of addiction. Therefore, many patients try to choose natural medicines to restore the normal state of the nervous system.
A soothing tincture made from 5 herbal tinctures: hawthorn, peony, valerian, motherwort and peppermint will help eliminate the symptoms of stress and depression. There are also other combinations of sedative mixtures, for example, instead of mint, some people prefer to use Corvalol drops or eucalyptus tincture. But still, the first recipe is considered safer and more effective.
Magic calming complex
What components are included in a complex sedative? The complex consists of the following tinctures:
- hawthorn;
- valerian;
- peony;
- motherwort;
- Corvalol.
Each of the components has a beneficial and gentle effect on the nervous system and is used to calm and normalize its functioning. Then why do you need a mixture of 5 components? Everything is very simple. If there is a place for chronic stress in your life, you are “haunted” by insomnia or interrupted sleep with heavy dreams, and your mood changes literally at the click of a finger - a soothing tincture of one of the herbs simply cannot help you. Its effect will be too weak.
In this case, a complex will help, which includes tinctures of peony and motherwort, valerian and hawthorn, and Corvalol. The components enhance each other's action and provide a pronounced calming effect. At the same time, compliance with the recommended dosage eliminates addiction. And the list of contraindications for this herbal complex is quite small.
Indications for use
It is recommended to use a complex sedative in the following situations:
- Disorders of the nervous system of moderate severity;
- Depressive states;
- Hypertension;
- Panic attacks, chronic anxiety and fear;
- Moderate to mild neurasthenia;
- Excessive nervous excitability, sudden mood swings - from severe irritability and aggression to apathy;
- Chronic stress;
- Serious sleep disorders (insomnia, light, weak sleep with heavy dreams);
- Tachycardia, arrhythmia.
A “cocktail” of tinctures prevents the formation of blood clots, improves cerebral circulation, and helps recover from strokes and heart attacks.
Contraindications and side effects
The mixture has few contraindications. You should not use the sedative complex in the following cases:
- Individual intolerance to plant components, ethanol;
- Pregnancy and breastfeeding;
- Taking the complex is prohibited for children under 14 years of age;
- Low pressure.
Exceeding the dosage is manifested by the following symptoms:
- nausea;
- headache;
- general weakness.
When should it be taken?
Modern life constantly presents various surprises (and they are not always pleasant), makes us experience worries and negative emotions. Every difficult situation is a serious blow to the nervous system. Problems with work appear in the form of insomnia, constant feelings of fatigue, and depression. Constant nervous tension leads to neuroses of varying severity. Of course, the most convenient option for eliminating the described symptoms is to take tablets with a sedative effect. But it is worth considering the side effects of therapy with strong antidepressants.
Soothing tinctures (alcohol), which can be purchased at any pharmacy, also have a pronounced calming effect. Their cost is significantly lower than that of sedative tablet drugs, and is available to absolutely every patient. It is recommended to use a mixture of alcohol pharmaceutical tinctures in the following situations:
- arterial hypertension;
- functional nervous system disorder;
- depression;
- sleep disturbance (insomnia);
- stress;
- constant feeling of fear and anxiety;
- nervous excitability;
- neurasthenic disorders of mild to moderate severity;
- heart pathologies (arrhythmia, tachycardia).
What are the benefits of a 5-ingredient mixture of soothing tinctures?
Several years ago, a doctor prescribed me such a sedative mixture when my heart began to play havoc. The week of taking it had a pretty positive effect.
A mixture of tinctures of valerian, motherwort, hawthorn and peony with the addition of Corvalol has excellent calming properties, helps with insomnia, stress, relieves nervous excitement, irritability, regulates vascular tone, lowers blood pressure, improves cerebral circulation, prevents the formation of blood clots, useful after heart attacks and strokes , with hypertensive crisis, with tachycardia.
♦ By the way, I advise you to read how to provide first aid for a hypertensive crisis.
This benefit is due to the fact that the mixture contains tinctures of beneficial herbs, which in themselves have a good calming effect, and together their properties are enhanced.
Let's look at them briefly.
Valerian . This plant has been used for medicinal purposes since the 1st century BC. At that time, valerian was used as a diuretic and against suffocation. Already in the Middle Ages, valerian became a popular remedy for calming the nervous system.
Nowadays, it has been experimentally proven that valerian relaxes smooth muscle spasms and reduces excitability. That is why it is so actively used as a sedative for severe experiences, stress, nervous excitement, insomnia and epilepsy.
Hawthorn . It is useful primarily for the heart, as it dilates the coronary vessels, as well as the vessels of the brain, normalizes the rhythm of the heart, increases its supply of oxygen, eliminates various unpleasant sensations in the heart area, reduces the level of cholesterol in the blood and the excitability of the nervous system, and improves metabolism.
Hawthorn is also used for shortness of breath, dizziness, insomnia, and is also useful for women in menopause.
Peony . Peony preparations are also an excellent sedative, and also have an anti-inflammatory, bactericidal, analgesic and tonic effect.
In Chinese and Tibetan medicine, peony is used to treat nervous and cold diseases, gastrointestinal tract, lungs, metabolic disorders and even tumors.
Motherwort . Motherwort preparations are very similar in their effect to valerian preparations and even surpass it.
Motherwort herb enhances the calming, anti-inflammatory effect of the other components of our mixture. It lowers blood pressure, regulates the activity of the gastrointestinal tract, and is useful for cardiovascular neuroses, heart defects, neuralgia, and cough.
♦ You can see more detailed information about motherwort tincture, what it helps with and how to use it correctly.
Corvalol . Corvalol has an additional sedative effect. It relieves spasms and is indicated for neuroses, insomnia, tachycardia, and increased excitability.
Listening to the opinions of my readers, and I myself learned some new information, I want to make additions to the originally written text.
Now there are opinions that supposedly Corvalol is harmful to health. I think this is not justified. It is unlikely that our pharmaceutical industry would produce drugs that are known to cause harm. But this is purely my personal opinion.
I use Corvalol in this mixture, since this tincture serves as an ambulance for minor heart ailments and I like it more than Corvalol alone.
But, in principle, you can not add corvalol, but use only four components, or you can replace it with chestnut tincture.
Horse chestnut . Preparations from this plant strengthen blood vessels and cleanse their walls of cholesterol, reduce blood viscosity, prevent blood clots, have anti-inflammatory, analgesic and sedative properties, and also relieve swelling, prevent heart attacks and strokes.
♦ I advise you to get acquainted with the properties and uses of horse chestnut and its tincture.
How does hawthorn tincture work?
The price of this popular pharmaceutical alcohol-based sedative is 18-25 rubles (25 ml bottle). Despite such a low cost, the tincture has a fairly pronounced sedative effect. The effect is due to the presence of beneficial substances in the plant itself. For example, the leaves contain various acids: caffeic, neotecephalic, acantholic, chlorogenic. The fruits also contain organic acids, tannins, pectin, fructose, and essential oils.
The greatest value of hawthorn is ursolic acid. It has antimicrobial, cardiac stimulating, vasodilating, anti-inflammatory and hepatoprotective effects. It has also been established that this substance is part of collagen and can stimulate the process of skin regeneration. With high levels of glucose in the blood, allergies, atherosclerosis, weakness of the heart muscle, and nervous exhaustion, hawthorn tincture can help. The price of a sedative is 120-140 rubles.
Use of a mixture of tinctures for the heart and blood vessels: indications and contraindications
No matter how hard people try to maintain health until old age, at some points they are affected by negative external factors that destroy the heart and nervous system. There are folk ways to protect the body from irritants, maintain a calm state, help with the appearance of neuroses, pressure changes, cardiac arrhythmia, vascular congestion, get rid of sleep disorders and stop taking random events in life to heart.
An effective mixture of pharmaceutical tinctures
A common and effective mixture of tinctures to support the functioning of the heart and nervous system consists of 5 tinctures of beneficial herbs:
- Hawthorn (100 ml).
- Valerian (100 ml).
- Motherwort (100 ml).
- Peony (100 ml).
- Mint (50 ml).
You can add eucalyptus tincture in an amount of 25 milliliters.
Mix the pharmaceutical preparations, pour them into a dark bottle, add a few dried cloves. Leave for 5-10 days, stirring occasionally.
The medicine is taken five times a day 20 minutes before meals. The recommended dose is 25 drops. You can drink the mixture with a small amount of water. For non-acute symptoms or a healthy heart, it is not necessary to drink the drug daily for prevention. Can be used in case of stress, heart pain or nervous shock.
Taking the mixture
Beneficial properties of the tincture mixture
A cocktail of tinctures has a lot of useful properties:
- Brings blood pressure back to normal.
- Calms.
- Relieves cramps and spasms of blood vessels.
- Effectively fights varicose veins.
- Eliminates congestion in the veins.
- Helps improve blood circulation in the brain.
- Prevents the development of blood clots in blood vessels.
- Enhances hematopoiesis.
- Serves as a preventive measure against tumors.
The use of a mixture of herbal tinctures to strengthen blood vessels and the heart with Corvalol helps patients calm down, fall asleep in case of insomnia, relieve stress, and overcome nervous overexcitation. The composition regulates the tone of the heart muscle, can strengthen the vascular system and lower blood pressure, improves blood supply to the brain, and prevents the formation of blood clots. The remedy is recommended after nervous experiences and stress, during the rehabilitation period after heart surgery, strokes, heart attacks, with frequent shortness of breath, hypertension.
The benefits of a mixture of herbal tinctures for the heart and blood vessels are due to the fact that it consists of useful ingredients, which individually have an excellent calming effect on the body. Therefore, their complex gives an enhanced effect.
Valerian tincture
The plant was used for therapeutic purposes 2 thousand years ago. At that time, valerian root served as a diuretic and helped against suffocation. And during the Middle Ages, the plant was used as a heart remedy to help calm the nerves.
Valerian
Modern doctors have experimentally proven that valerian helps relieve spasms of smooth muscles and reduces excitability. Therefore, it is so actively used as a sedative for stress, painful anxiety, nervous overexcitation, and sleep disorders.
Hawthorn tincture
The drug is useful for the functioning of the heart, as it increases the diameter of the heart vessels, ensuring normalization of the heart rhythm, activating its oxygen saturation. Taking hawthorn helps to overcome chest pain, eliminate symptoms of tachycardia and arrhythmia, reduce dangerous cholesterol levels in the blood, reduce excitability, and improve metabolism.
Hawthorn
Hawthorn is recommended for people who often experience dizziness, shortness of breath, sleep poorly, and for women during menopause as an element of drug treatment.
Peony tincture
Peony-based medicines are excellent sedatives. Peony-based tincture fights the spread of pathogenic bacteria in the body, relieves inflammation, relieves pain, and tones the body.
In oriental medicine, peony is used to treat colds and nervous diseases, ailments of the respiratory system, digestion, cancer, and metabolic disorders.
Motherwort tincture
Motherwort is one of the best tinctures for reducing blood pressure. The effect is in many ways similar to valerian preparations and even surpasses them. Strengthens the effect of the remaining components of the mixture. Motherwort tincture normalizes the functioning of the digestive system, has a positive effect on the heart, and helps in the treatment of heart defects, neuroses, and neuralgic pathologies. Recommended for fighting cough.
Motherwort
All herbal tinctures are sold at the pharmacy. They are inexpensive and not in short supply.
Contraindications
Since the mixture contains alcohol-based tinctures, it is strictly forbidden to give them to children. The drugs are not recommended for people suffering from alcohol addiction, breastfeeding and pregnant women.
Without fanaticism, the product should be used by people who often drive, or those whose profession requires keen attention. After all, sedative tinctures have a pronounced sedative effect.
Important! Since medications made from hawthorn fruits and motherwort herbs have a lowering effect on blood pressure when used long-term, these medications should not be used frequently or for a long time by people suffering from hypotension.
Unique properties of peppermint
In addition to the incredibly fresh aroma of mint, the medicine has unique healing properties. The leaves of this plant contain useful substances such as ascorbic acid, menthol and carotene. The medicinal herb can relieve spasms during colic, stop the development and growth of pathogenic microorganisms, eliminate allergic skin reactions, disinfect surfaces, relieve headaches caused by worries and stress, and increase performance.
You can purchase mint infusion at the pharmacy or prepare it yourself. To do this, crushed fresh leaves of the aromatic herb are poured with alcohol in a ratio of one to two and left in the refrigerator.
Cocktail or mixture of five ingredients
Each of the medicinal plants has a specific effect on the body; the advantage of herbal preparations is the possibility of their combination in the form of collections or complex tinctures. Unlike medications obtained chemically, their interaction does not produce toxic compounds, and the components do not lose their activity.
Hawthorn
A popular recipe for strengthening the nervous and cardiovascular systems is a “cocktail of 5 herbs.” You can prepare it yourself from the following ingredients:
- valerian rhizome,
- peony,
- hawthorn fruits,
- motherwort grass,
- mint leaves.
If you use pharmacy tinctures of 25 ml, then the first 4 components take 4 bottles each, and one bottle of mint tincture is enough. This makes 425 ml of the mixture. 10 clove buds are placed in it and placed in a dark place. The composition is completely ready in 15 days.
A single dose is 25 drops, the frequency of administration is three times. You can drop it onto a piece of sugar or into warm water. It is best to drink an herbal cocktail 20 minutes before lunch and dinner, and then half an hour before bedtime.
If increased heartbeat and heart pain bother you in the morning, you can add it before breakfast.
Reviews from patients who have undergone treatment with these tinctures indicate effectiveness in the following conditions:
- tachycardia,
- changes in blood pressure,
- headaches and heart pains,
- neurosis,
- varicose veins,
- cramps of the lower extremities,
- dizziness,
- unsteady gait,
- general weakness in old age.
Peony tincture
Another component of the soothing mixture of pharmaceutical tinctures is peony evasive. The plant is known for its unique abilities to restore good mood and eliminate the slightest signs of psycho-emotional stress.
A sedative tincture of 5 tinctures almost always contains this ingredient, which increases the production of endorphins, normalizes the functioning of the nervous system, and has a positive effect on the general condition. The pharmaceutical product also has anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, sedative, antispasmodic and analgesic effects.
Components for creating sedative tinctures
Along with the well-known five plants, a ready-made tincture of Corvalol or eucalyptus can be used as a supplement or as a replacement for mint. In some formulations it is proposed to use hawthorn flowers, hop cones, thyme or oregano in 1.5 parts.
Few people know that yarrow can have the same medicinal effects as valerian. Even dill seeds, which are so familiar to us in the kitchen, are also included in the list of soothing ingredients. The necessary components are purchased at the pharmacy, which are alcohol tinctures of individual herbs.
They need to be mixed, and this mixture will be a new broad-spectrum drug for the treatment and support of the nervous system. Typically, tinctures are mixed in equal proportions or according to the specified conditions of administration. How to take this product is written on the packaging of each component.
Mixing individual components in different proportions helps to choose the right option that best suits the needs of the body and nervous system. This mixture is similar to an herbal mixture. It is better to drink sedative tinctures before bed, but if the need arises during the day, the dosage regimen is normal.
How to prepare the tincture?
A soothing tincture made from 5 tinctures of pharmaceutical herbs is easy to prepare. First of all, you should purchase bottles with alcoholic infusions of medicinal plants. The products must be mixed in a separate container. This could be a bottle with a screw cap or a small dark glass jar. Each drug will require 20-25 ml. After mixing the components, the infusion should be placed in the refrigerator for several hours, after which the product will be ready for use. Apply the tincture a teaspoon at a time, mixing with a small amount of clean water. It is recommended to start therapy with 10 drops and gradually increase the dose. Duration of treatment is 2-4 weeks.
It should be remembered that medicinal alcohol tinctures have their own contraindications and are not suitable for every patient. Therefore, it is recommended to first consult a therapist, neurologist or cardiologist regarding sedative therapy.
Popular tinctures based on 5 herbs with a calming effect
Nowadays, you can often come across advice that suggests using not just one medicinal plant, but several to prepare tinctures and decoctions. Such alcohol tinctures work no worse than using the components separately. Ready-made tinctures for further mixing can be purchased at pharmacies.
- A mixture of eucalyptus, motherwort valerian, peony and mint.
Calming tinctures can be easily mixed. For example, you need to purchase in advance at the pharmacy products based on mint, peonies, valerian, eucalyptus and motherwort. As for the proportions, you will need 2 parts each of valerian, peony and motherwort tinctures, as well as only 1 part of a eucalyptus-based product. After thorough mixing, you are allowed to drink a spoonful of the product 3 times a day. The procedure must be performed 20 minutes before eating. It is recommended to take the medicine with water. This recipe is very common, but should not be used too often.
Eucalyptus-based alcohol tinctures are mainly used externally. If you often take them orally, it will cause side effects: digestive problems, nausea. Eucalyptus has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties, so you should not drink this tincture too often.
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- A mixture of valerian, hawthorn, motherwort, peony and corvalol.
A product prepared from alcoholic tinctures of hawthorn, peony, motherwort, valerian and corvalol has a calming effect. The resulting balm is considered very effective. Individually, the components are very useful, but not everything that has a good effect individually will also have a positive effect on the body together. This is due to the fact that some drugs cannot be combined.
In this case, concerns may be caused by mixing tinctures of valerian and hawthorn alcohol. Although, on the other hand, both of these components are also found in official drugs prescribed by doctors. In addition, now not all doctors perceive this mixture as incompatible. However, Corvalol also contains barbiturates. Mixing them with herbal medicines is undesirable, because the resulting composition will have too strong an effect on the nervous system.
- A mixture of diphenhydramine, tinctures of mint, valerian, hawthorn, motherwort.
Tinctures of medicinal herbs can easily be mixed with dimetrodol. However, if they are prepared on the basis of moonshine, then you need to strictly monitor the dosage. You will need no more than 1-2 tablets of diphenhydramine, which must be dissolved in a mixture of herbal tinctures. You will need 10 ml of products based on hawthorn and mint, as well as 20 ml of tinctures of valerian and motherwort. If you use this particular mixture, then the treatment should be gradual. It is recommended to start with small doses. In addition, it is imperative to monitor your own well-being.
- A mixture of hops, peony, oats, lemon balm and valerian.
Herbal tinctures are very effective, especially if mixed correctly. You can make a herbal mixture based on valerian, oats, hop cones, peony roots and lemon balm leaves. All components must be mixed in equal proportions. If desired, you can add a little motherwort. This soothing tincture will be ready only in a couple of weeks. Then the liquid must be filtered. It is best to take the medicine at lunch and before going to bed at night. The recommended dose is no more than a teaspoon.
Sometimes people experience increased heart rate if they make a tincture of several herbs with sedative properties. In this case, it is better to avoid using alcohol, vodka and moonshine to prepare such products. You can only get by with regular water decoctions. In addition, if sedative tinctures are used incorrectly, they can cause a completely opposite effect, so they can only be used after the doctor’s permission.
