Ishani Bose

Flower Power: How Wellbeing Nutrition is Shining The Spotlight on the Therapeutic Properties of Flowers

by Dec 20, 2024Health and Lifestyle

Wellbeing Nutrition has cashed in on the therapeutic properties of a few flowers in some of its products. Want to know more about the therapeutic uses of floral flowers? Well, read along.

For a long time, flowers have been used to express one’s feelings and emotions. That’s why they make for great gifting options. Flowers are the go-to means of expression, whether it’s a congratulatory gift or an offering to express gratitude, love, appreciation, or friendship. Their outward beauty and aroma are a gift of nature that can express, inspire, touch people’s hearts, and even heal. 

Yes, flowers have been used for healing and therapeutic powers for many years. Anecdotal evidence suggests how flower therapy has been extensively used to treat cognitive and physical issues like dyslexia, memory loss, hypertension, insomnia, asthma, and eating disorders, among other things. Wellbeing Nutrition has cashed in on some of its products’ therapeutic properties of a few flowers. Want to know more about the therapeutic uses of floral flowers? Well, read along. 

 

Therapeutic Potential Of Flowers in Wellbeing Nutrition Products 

Wellbeing Nutrition’s team of experts has travelled globally to sustainably source natural ingredients with better potency, digestibility, absorption, and bioavailability – all vital to helping achieve balance and thrive. Flowers are one of the most critical natural ingredients in some of their products. Let’s take a look at these flowers and the products they have been used in below: 

Chamomile

Chamomile is an herbal medicine known to many since ancient times. A member of the Asteraceae family, it is mostly found in two varieties: German chamomile and Roman chamomile.

Its popularity is due to its fantastic health benefits, including relief from muscle spasms, insomnia, gastrointestinal disorders, rheumatic pain, menstrual disorders, and hemorrhoids. Chamomile is used in various forms; its dried leaves make tea, oil, and other concoctions. Chamomile flowers are also used directly or with poppy heads for inflammatory pain or external swelling of the face or due to an abscess or infection. Besides, chamomile flowers as a fluid extract have often been used as a mild sedative to soothe nerves, lessen anxiety, de-stress, and treat nightmares, insomnia, and other sleep problems.

Chamomile supplements come to the rescue to keep up with the fast-paced life we lead today. These supplements are more accessible to carry around and consume than the cumbersome process of brewing a herbal decoction from scratch. The two cases in point are- Restful Sleep Melts and Calm & Relaxation Melts by Wellbeing Nutrition, which consist of chamomile as an ingredient. The chamomile flower extract used in both these variants of Melts has a calming effect on the brain. Chamomile promotes calmness and helps increase serotonin and melatonin levels in the body to eliminate stress and provide instant relief from headaches.

Passion Flower

Scientifically known as Passiflora incarnata, the passion flower is a climbing vine with white and purple flowers. Its chemicals have therapeutic properties that help to calm nerves and induce sleep. Native to the Southeastern United States and Central and South America, these flowers have been traditionally used to help people with sleep. In many parts of the world, people sip a cup of passionflower tea right before bed to get a good night’s sleep.

A 2010 report published in the Phytomedicine Journal suggests that passionflower helps increase the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the brain. GABA is a naturally occurring amino acid that calms the nervous system and reduces brain activity. This results in improved mood, better sleep, calmness and relaxation, and relief from any kind of neural pain. 

Recently, the use of passionflower has been promoted as a dietary supplement as it is known to help with anxiety and sleep problems, as well as for pain, heart rhythm problems, menopausal symptoms, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

This flower is one of the ingredients in Wellbeing Nutrition’s Restful Sleep Melts to help with anxiety and insomnia.

Marigold

We see gardens sprawled with marigolds. But did you know they are a great source of lutein and zeaxanthin, two vital vision detoxifier compounds?

Lutein also reduces inflammation in the eyes, boosts the sharpness of the vision, and protects the retina against light-induced damage. On the other hand, zeaxanthin has the potential to help protect your eyes from harmful high-energy light waves like ultraviolet rays in sunlight.

Zeaxanthin helps give Marigold leaves their vibrant green colour, while lutein provides the flower with petals with their distinct yellow and orange hue. These two supreme ingredients are present in Eye Care Melts and other vital ingredients like Bilberry, NAG, and Lutemax 2020 to help protect your eyes from fatigue and digital strain.

Sweet Violet

This purple flower, also scientifically known as Viola odorata, is usually found in Europe.

Sweet violet has chemicals that help break up chest congestion by thinning mucus. It contains salicylic acid, similar to aspirin’s pain-relieving component, and both the leaves and flowers are used to ease headaches. Known for its anti-inflammatory and soothing properties, this flower reduces respiratory tract infections, liquifies chest congestion and mucus, and relieves other symptoms like bronchitis, stuffy nose, sore throat, and congestion. That is why, this flower is an essential ingredient along with manuka honey, curcumin, mint, ginger, clove, holy basil, and licorice root in Throat Relief Melts, which provides instant relief from respiratory issues like sore throat, cold, cough, and the like without inducing sleep.

We hope you agree that flowers have great therapeutic uses, which are drawn out in the aforementioned Wellbeing Nutrition products. Would you like to give them a try? Get yourselves a pack of your most favoured product now, and let us know of your experience.

References:
  • Chamomile, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, (https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/chamomile)
  • Srivastava JK, Shankar E, Gupta S. Chamomile: A herbal medicine of the past with bright future. Mol Med Rep. 2010 Nov 1;3(6):895-901. DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2010.377. PMID: 21132119; PMCID: PMC2995283. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995283/#:~:text=Chamomile%20in%20the%20form%20of,other%20sleep%20problems%20(33).)
  • Elsas SM, Rossi DJ, Raber J, White G, Seeley CA, Gregory WL, Mohr C, Pfankuch T, Soumyanath A. Passiflora incarnata L. (Passionflower) extracts elicit GABA currents in hippocampal neurons in vitro, and show anxiogenic and anticonvulsant effects in vivo, varying with extraction method. Phytomedicine. 2010 Oct;17(12):940-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2010.03.002. Epub 2010 Apr 10. PMID: 20382514; PMCID: PMC2941540. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2941540/)
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This article was published on Wellbeing Nutrition’s website in 2022.