Effects
- Promoting blood circulation (hyperemic).
- Warming
- Analgesic
- Skin irritant
Indications
- Rheumatic complaints, soft tissue rheumatism.
- Painful, inflammatory, degenerative diseases of the musculoskeletal system, muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, spine or intervertebral discs.
- Muscle tension, movement pain, lumbago, stiff neck, sciatica.
Active ingredients
- Preparations with ammonia
Nicotinic esters:
- Benzyl nicotinate
- Ethyl nicotinate
- Methyl nicotinate
Heat pads
Vegetable rubefacients
- Cayenne pepper, capsaicinoids, capsaicin, nonivamide.
- Essential oils, e.g. rosemary oil, turpentine oil, camphor, horse ointment.
- Pungent substances, e.g. mustard
- Acids, e.g.formic acid
- Franzbranntwein
- Camphor