Recently, people have increasingly begun to complain about joint health problems; they occur even in completely healthy people. But there are also those that some doctors call age-related. The use of triple cologne for joints can help in this matter - this is an excellent replacement for expensive pharmaceutical drugs advertised. At the same time, medicinal products based on it can be easily prepared at home, and the effectiveness after use will not be long in coming.
Composition and principle of action of cologne
Triple cologne has healing properties due to the essential oils of 3 plants included in its composition - bergamot, neroli and lemon. Additional components are alcohol and water. Alcohol acts as a preservative and solvent for basic substances. It also promotes faster penetration of essential oils through the skin. Water softens the irritating effect of alcohol.
The basic cologne recipe does not include any other additives, but manufacturers include aromatic oils of various plants - sage, geranium, lavender, coriander, etc.
Cologne has several beneficial effects. It acts as an antiseptic, is able to fight inflammation, participates in tissue regeneration processes, and has warming properties. Cologne helps to get rid of pain that occurs due to joint pathologies.
Second half of the 19th century...
The famous cologne began to be produced at the Brocard perfume manufactory. Its founder, Heinrich Brocard, created the technology for producing concentrated essences for perfumes. It was possible to extract more aromatic substances from plants.
Hence the next version: “Triple”, because the content of essential oils in it is three times higher than in perfumes.”
Recipes
To achieve the best effect from using cologne, you can prepare products based on it with the addition of various medications. It is advisable to select medications according to the type of action on the joints - preventing and eliminating inflammatory processes, improving blood flow, regenerating tissue, etc.
Traditional medicine offers various recipes based on cologne that will help alleviate the condition of a sick person.
With iodine and Analgin
Iodine is a good antiseptic that destroys pathogenic microorganisms. Under the influence of iodine, inflammation that develops in subcutaneous tissues is reduced. Analgin is an analgesic belonging to the NSAID group. It blocks the production of prostaglandins, substances that increase the risk of inflammation and pain. Analgin, getting into the source of inflammation, reduces pain and relieves muscle spasms.
To prepare a medicinal tincture you will need the following components:
- cologne - 200 ml;
- iodine (5%) - 40 ml;
- Analgin - 6 tablets;
- pharmacy tincture of valerian - 25 ml.
The last component helps to dilate blood vessels and normalize heart rate. Under the influence of valerian, smooth muscle muscles relax.
The preparation of the medicine begins with crushing the tablets. Then all components are mixed. To do this, you can use a small glass or porcelain container with a lid. After mixing, close the container with a lid and place it in a closet or other place where light does not penetrate. Infusion time is 5–7 days.
The sore spot is rubbed with the prepared tincture, covered with a bandage to prevent air from entering and left for a day. The next day the procedure is repeated. Therapy lasts 7 days.
This treatment is not suitable for those who have trophic ulcers at the site of application of the rub, or the integrity of the skin is compromised.
With ammonia
Cologne will be more effective if ammonia is added to it. When ammonia is applied to the skin, nerve receptors are excited, the signal from which enters the central nervous system. The nervous system, responding to these signals, engages those body functions that ensure the restoration of damaged organs. Under the influence of ammonia, blood vessels dilate, thereby improving tissue nutrition.
To prepare the medicinal composition, the following components are required:
- Triple cologne - 250 ml;
- aqueous solution of ammonia (10%) - 50 ml;
- iodine (5%) - 25 ml.
"Don't really eat o-de-colon"
Only by the beginning of the 20th century did connoisseurs consider that domestically produced cologne had caught up with foreign ones in quality
Photo: Rosinform, Kommersant
By the 1840s, the demand for cologne had grown so much in large cities that enterprising Russians established its production in different parts of the empire. They brought the product in barrels and multi-liter bottles and bottled the cologne into small bottles at the place of sale. And soon, under the guise of cologne, secretly produced alcoholic drinks began to penetrate into shops and fairs. There was no need to pay excise tax for the production and sale of cologne, and bread wine, into which essential oil was dripped for masking, became much cheaper than legally made vodka.
The first to suspect something was wrong were the monopolists in the sale of strong drinks - the owners of the Moscow drinking farm. In 1844, they sent a request to the government Senate to ban the import of cologne to Moscow or allow them to supervise its sale. In April, the Senate turned to the Committee of Ministers for a solution to the problem. He, after considering the case, found “that since the tax-farming conditions do not contain a prohibition on the import of Cologne water from privileged provinces to tax-farming places, the tax-farmers do not have any right to seek such a prohibition.” “Although tax-farmers’ supervision of the actual import of o-de-cologne may be allowed,” the ministers reasoned, “it would be inconvenient to grant them the right to apply seals to the imported o-de-colon and observe the very spilling of it, since this measure without any special need, it could only give rise to oppression from tax farmers.”
But cologne producers were charged with the following obligation: “Upon bringing the o-de-cologne from the factory to the places where they intend to sell onago, at the same time notify the local tax farm office for immediate inspection of barrels and bottles.” “If on the part of the farmer,” explained the Committee of Ministers, “there were doubts that the imported substance, in its composition, is not really o-de-cologne and can be used for sale instead of alcohol or hot wine, then evidence of such -de-colon to be carried out by order of the local authorities, through the medical board.”
“The consumption of wine substitutes, so-called folk cologne and simply cologne has increased more and more”
All subsequent years, right up to the revolution, the authorities had to fight this “so-called folk cologne.” In 1865, they banned the making of incense waters in pharmacies, which were often found selling significant volumes of “cologne.” The medical department's circular read:
“The preparation and sale of cologne and perfume without a doctor’s prescription is prohibited; if a pharmacist, regardless of the pharmacy business, wants to engage, on a general basis, in the preparation of these substances, then this is allowed only in a room separate from the pharmacy with the taking of an established patent.”
“People's cologne” instantly appeared where problems with alcoholic beverages arose: their sales decreased or their prices increased. Thus, State Comptroller State Secretary D. M. Solsky, reporting on a sharp drop in drinking taxes in the Perm, Vyatka, Orenburg and Ufa provinces in 1884 and 1885, wrote:
“The explanation for these fluctuations can be the monopoly sale of wine established in the four named provinces. Several large factory owners entered into an agreement with each other, determined the amount of wine that should be smoked by each of them, distributed the entire region among themselves, squeezing out other traders, and, without fear of competition, raised the price of wine so much that in some areas, instead of 4 rubles .40 k. per bucket, it began to be sold for 6 and even 8 rubles. As a result, within the above-mentioned provinces, the consumption of wine substitutes, the so-called folk cologne and simply cologne, “kumyshka”, etc., increased more and more, to the detriment of wine consumption and government income from drinks.”
But the primacy in the use of “just cologne” instead of alcoholic beverages belonged to... foreign ladies. Cologne women met, for example, in the UK. Since the 1860s, there has been a movement to help alcoholic women from all classes. Hospitals and shelters were opened for them. “Ladies are poisoned mainly by cognac, up to 2 bottles per day; cologne, wood alcohol; the rest drink mostly juniper vodka and gin, which are the cheapest in price,” the head of one of these shelters told the Russian doctor A. M. Korovin, who studied foreign experience in the fight against alcoholism. When voluntarily entering the establishment, women made a promise: “I will not use or keep on me hair rum, cologne, kitchen (methyl) alcohol, or anything else with a positive or probable intoxicating effect.”
Reviews
Ekaterina, 61 years old, Smolensk: “I always keep triple cologne in the house. As soon as I run out, I replenish my supplies. Helps with knee pain that I have been experiencing for many years. My father had the same problem, and he also used this remedy. I prepare tinctures for myself, adding Analgin, valerian, camphor to the cologne - whatever is on hand. I rub my feet at night and sleep well. For joint diseases, cologne is an indispensable remedy.”
Svetlana, 54 years old, Magnitogorsk: “My husband has worked at a machine all his life. As a result, I developed many ailments, one of which was arthritis. I use this cologne almost every day. He rubs them on his feet before going to bed. She says that not only does the pain subside, but she also sleeps well. I read that you can make tinctures. I started doing it with iodine and analgin. My husband said that cologne helps even better this way.”
“This vodka costs a lot”
At the beginning of the 18th century, perfumes had simple names: lavender, lemon balm, fennel, rosemary alcohol. The latter was also called Ungar vodka and water of the Hungarian Queen. In 1719, a box of this fragrant alcohol went to Peter the Great as a trophy.
In the “Table of the ships taken, and how much of which goods were on them...” it was reported that on the ship “Girsh (Elen)” there was:
“12 glasses of red wine, 16 rubles each, total 192 rubles; 15 glasses of white wine, 16 rubles each, total 250 rubles; a box of Ungar vodka; total price 442 rubles. Portions of His Royal Majesty 288 rub. 40.5 kopecks; Mr. General-Admiral portions are 44 rubles. 20 kopecks; portions for the vice admiral are 13 rubles. 26 kopecks; to the officers who took it, 96 rubles. 13.5 kopecks.” At the end of the inventory, its compiler explained why the price of Ungar vodka was not indicated: “some little things are mentioned, Ungar vodka and blue sandalwood... which all belong to His Royal Majesty.”
Apparently, Peter I shared the fragrant alcohol with his entourage, and many liked its smell. And in 1724, aromatics (as perfumers and perfume traders were then called) wanted to establish the production of the Hungarian Queen’s water in Russia. But the king did not allow it. On July 7, 1724, the president of the manufactory board announced a decree signed by Peter I, “On the prohibition of making Ungar vodka in Russia”:
“Permission to make Ungar vodka in Russia should not be given because this vodka is not made from Russian materials. And if such vodka is made from Russian materials, it will only act differently from those made from overseas.”
“Also, it was forbidden to perfume yourself, unless you were using o-de-colon.”
But half a century later, this fragrant water began to be made abroad in such a way that its “action” changed. The French “Commercial Dictionary...”, translated and published in Russia at the end of the 18th century, said:
“Ungar vodka, or the water of the Queen of Hungary, so called, as they say, because of the miraculous effect it had on the Queen of Hungary, is nothing more than strong wine spirit imbued with the quality of rosemary flowers. The great expense for this vodka... is that, instead of trying to bring this composition to perfection, it is counterfeited, and now for sale in shops, for the most part it consists of double vodka with rosemary leaves, sometimes alone, sometimes with flowers, instead that one should only consume flowers, well infused in the best wine spirit; or instead they use vodka, into which they put a little white rosemary oil before putting it into bottles, on which, however, they stick the same pieces of paper that are on whole Ungar vodka.”
Lavender water was also very popular in the 18th century. It is known that commander A.V. Suvorov smothered himself only with odelavand.
These simple, austere fragrances were often in demand then also because they were the only ones that were decent for well-bred persons to use if they were in mourning. For my father and mother it lasted two years, for my husband - three. E. P. Yankova, the great-granddaughter of the historian V. N. Tatishchev, recalled in the 1850s the rules of life of the late 18th - early 19th centuries:
“Widows wore mourning for three years... For the first two years, widows did not powder or blush; in the third year it was possible to brown a little, but whitening and powdering was allowed only after the end of mourning. Also, it was forbidden to smell, unless they used o-de-colon, o-de-lavender and o-de-laren de-gonri, in Russian Ungar vodka, which no one knows about now.”
Story
For a long time, this cologne was considered a medicinal tincture. And only at the beginning of the 19th century, Napoleon Bonaparte created a triple cologne from Cologne water.
Being an educated man, Napoleon issued a decree requiring that every manufacturer of medicinal mixtures reveal the secret ingredients of the products. But the great commander nevertheless left the composition of “Cologne Water” a secret; for greater rigor, he added three ingredients to the other components - nerole, bergamot and lemon. This helped Cologne Water to be used as a perfume. Bonaparte considered this experiment a success, and a few years later the cologne was already popular in high society. This is the official version of the appearance of triple cologne, which could simultaneously be used as perfume, medicinal tincture and “Cologne water”.