Alkanna tinctoria Wax salve 40ml

Alkanna tinctoria

Wax ointment with regenerative, anti-inflammatory and healing action. It helps to heal wounds and also in traumatic solutions of skin continuity.

Alkanna tinctoria, is a biennial plant of southern Europe that belongs to the boraginaceae family.

The root of the plant, which is usually large, produces a red dye from its bark.

History

The properties of this substance were recorded since the time of Dioscorides. Father of Pharmacology who lived in the 1st century AD.

The first reference to the beneficial and healing properties of the root of the plant Alkanna tinctoria is made in the work “On Medicine”. There it is mentioned as a medicine for the treatment of wounds and burns.

The root of the plant, which is usually large, produces a red dye from its bark.

One of the main components of its root is alkanin. A pigment readily soluble in oils and alcohols that gives an intense purple color.

Uses

It is given in traumatic solutions of the continuity of the skin. Burns, dull ulcers of various causes but also in ulcers from venous stasis and ulcers from lying down.

It also helps with Bazin’s erythema sclerosus and hemorrhoids.

Composition: Natural beeswax, olive oil, Alkanna tinctoria, Chios mastic

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