Levitaven

Cryolatte

Relief and protection for tired legs

Levitaven Criolatte based on St. John's Wort oil (10%), Aescin and Sweet Clover gives a pleasant sensation of coolness, effectively protecting the skin.

The solubilized active ingredients are more easily absorbed.

Hypericum oil protects the skin from injuries, Escin exerts a vasoprotective, anti-inflammatory action and, combined with Sweet Clover, guarantees an anti-edema effect.

THE HYPERICUS

(hypericum perforatum)

APPEARANCE: it is a spontaneous plant easily found in uncultivated and sunny fields. It is a perennial plant, with a woody and branched stem, which can reach a height of about 1 m. The leaves are opposite oval, characterized by the presence of translucent glands that contain the active principle called "hypericin"; it is from this peculiarity that the name "perforated" derives. The five-petaled flowers are intense yellow, also ending with vesicles rich in hypericin, dotted with black, abundantly grouped in a corymb and bloom between May and September. The fruit is enclosed in a capsule. Branches and inflorescence give off a pleasant smell.

HISTORY AND ETHNOLOGY: its therapeutic and magical properties have been known since ancient times. For the Greek doctors Hippocrates and Dioscorides its name would mean "above the world of the Underworld" and is mentioned in the treatise De Materia medica, as a plant with healing and emollient properties on damaged skin; from the Middle Ages, "popular" medicine attributed it with apotropaic properties, that is, protective from evil and the influences of evil spirits, hence the name of scacciadiavoli herb. The plant is also called St. John's wort because June 24, the saint's holiday, is the best time of the year for harvesting, as it is the longest day (it is the summer solstice) and the herbs reach their maximum intensity of their properties. The night of San Giovanni is defined as magical, it is the night of devils, witches, of the encounter between the sacred and the profane, in which cosmic energies are radiated into the earth, plants, stones and morning dew. In several countries of northern Europe, on the day before it was customary to bring with you a twig of St. John's wort and other herbs, as an amulet against the evil witches, and during the night, in addition to the collection of plants, it was customary to dance around the fire, encircling his head with hypericum leaves, which at the end of the rite was thrown on the roof of the houses, as an instrument of protection from lightning. It is therefore evident that popular medicine has always considered health as a psychophysical integrity and as a defense of a propitious existential condition in its entirety and has established a close connection between the psychic, somatic, behavioral and relational dimensions, recognizing the person in his mind-body-society unity.

NEW APPLICATIONS: Hypericum has been intensively studied in the last thirty years and consequently the use of the dry extract, taken orally, has been proposed as a regulator of mood in mild-moderate depressive forms and oil in different dermatological formulations.

Hypericum oil is obtained from the maceration of the fresh flowers of the plant under controlled conditions, in this way the constituents responsible for the therapeutic activity are extracted, in particular:

hyperforin and its analogue adiperforin (0.2-4%)

Hypericin (0.06-0.4%)

Essential oils, flavonoids (rutin, qquercetin), tannins

The phytocomplex, in particular hypericin and hyperforin, has been attributed antimicrobial properties, in particular towards Gram positive and anti-inflammatory bacteria, due to the interaction of hyperforin with cyclooxygenase-1, an enzyme involved in the amplification of the inflammatory response.

Another biochemical mechanism of hyperforin, useful in dermatological formulations, is the activation of a specific receptor (TRPC6-Transient Receptor Potential Channel) which stimulates the proliferation of epidermal cells.

Thanks to these antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and regenerating properties of the epithelium, hypericum is able to restore the balance of the epidermis following stimuli that cause erythema, inflammation, itching, excoriation.

Hypericum oil is used by Igea Farmaceutici in the formulation of

Levitaven Criolatte, moisturizing milk enriched with Aescin and Sweet Clover, formulated to relieve the feeling of tired legs and protect the integrity of fragile skin.

Levitaven Derma, dermoprotective emulsion, formulated to protect the skin characterized by inflammation, hypersensitivity to irritating stimuli, itching and consequent abrasions

Format: 150ml bottle