Natural Therapies. A Miracle Of The SummerThe Arnica (The Queen Of The Medicinal Herbs). Some years ago, I met the heaven here, on earth. I met a real piece of heaven, located at Piatra Craiului, where, at the mountain lawn, there are millions of flowers floating on the warm summer breeze; it is a pl...

Natural Therapies

A Miracle Of The SummerThe Arnica (The Queen Of The Medicinal Herbs)

Some years ago, I met the heaven here, on earth. I met a real piece of heaven, located at Piatra Craiului, where, at the mountain lawn, there are millions of flowers floating on the warm summer breeze; it is a place where the rocks are embraced by the blue sky, where springs of clear water ooze through the huge steep peaks. In the mountains, hidden from the human sight, there is a clearing where you can meet no human being. In order to reach this place, you should climb the abrupt mountain, cross a common spruce wood, with a lot of trails left by bears and wild boars; at the border of the wood, the clearing appears in an incredible brilliance. There, you can see only yellow fields of globeflowers, sprinkled with arnica golden corolla. It is true that during the last four years the queen of the medicinal herbs has not bloomed as it used to, and that pollution affects it as much as it affects many other species that have dramatically stopped growing in the mountains of our country. At Piatra Craiului, the leaves and the roots of this plant have not disappeared, even though they hardly bloom, in places, appearing to be waiting for some better periods. With its smell -a mixture of suavity and force- , the arnica seems to insinuate the existence of some mysterious, beneficent nature forces. This is the flower that the Romans used to heal the wounds got in fights, the Dacian people put in their elixirs for getting cured and for a long life; the secret of