Top Facts About Treating Sports Injuries with Helychrisum Essential Oil

Sports injuries can ironically be inspiring. In the film "The Karate Kid," the protagonist Daniel, barely able to stand after suffering a knee injury, uses the "Crane Kick" to defeat his nemesis. Also, who can forget "Brian's Song," in which pro football player Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) supports his friend Brian Piccolo (James Caan), who develops cancer. In the real world, sports injuries can also be devastating. That is why you should consider these facts regarding the use of helychrisum essential oil for treating sports injuries:

1. Helichrysum essential oil contains:

a) di-ketones, which have a regenerative effect. Huge amounts of di-ketones are found in helychrisum oil alone.
b) neryl acetate, which has a calming effect that can lower stress of the tissues located where the injury occurred.
c) a high proportion of anti-inflammatory sesquiterpene hydrocarbons. This compound disperses free radicals.

2. Studies have revealed that the mere smelling of natural aromatic oils, such as helychrisum essential oil, can help you to sleep better, focus better, improve your mood. All of these effects can have a positive effect on the athlete suffering from sports-related injuries.

3. In acute injuries, the oil is effective in quickening the healing process of common injures associated with sports. However, it should never replace traditional medical care.

4. The unique chemical composition of essential oils from individual plants provide the oil its healing features. For instance, helychrisum essential oil is distilled from the Helichrysum Italicum flowers. The oil includes a very effective blend of compounds that are anti-inflammatory, anti-free-radical (anti-oxidant), tissue regenerative, and anti-hematomatic (active against blood clots).

5. The effects of essential oils cannot be explicated via merely the effects of their individual parts. In other words, the overall effect of the oil is more significant than the effects of its components.

6. After a sports injury occurs, in the "primary injury," cells become damaged. In fact, the very construction of cells of connective tissue is altered. The cells can become so severely harmed that they die. Afterwards, a need emerges for them to be grown again. Bruising and swelling results in: a) a reduction in the supply of blood to nearby cells, and b) the obstruction of oxygen, nutrients and waste traveling between the cells. This results in an increase in free radicals, and the formation of the "secondary injury." The key is to reduce the damage and death of cells via this second injury. That is where helychrisum essential oil becomes useful.

7. The species of the Helichrysum italicum flowers is significant in creating the helychrisum essential oil. The most effective species are "Everlasting" or
"Immortelle."

8. When helychrisum essential oil is applied to a sports injury quickly enough, it can prevent hemorrhaging. Furthermore, it is valuable in reducing joint pain.