Purely made from plant sources Made from 100% pure plant sources, Cosnofax™ only contains the herbs listed below, with nothing else added. It does not contain any chemicals, colors, fragrances, preservatives, animal sources or GM compounds.   Myrtus Caryophyllus 84.952 mg Commonly known as cloves. Cloves originated from the Southern Phillipines and the Molluca Islands of Indonesia. Taken from the dried flowers of the clove tree, cloves are well known as an all-purpose herbal remedy. While they are mainly known in the West as a spice, cloves have been used throughout Southeast Asia for thousands of years to cure almost any ailment. It has continued to be a valuable herb for treating a wide spectrum of problems. Clove has been used to make bitter herb preparations more palletable for centuries. It has also been a powerful aphrodisiac used in India. During the reign of the Han dynasty, anyone who planned to address the Chinese Emperor was expected to put cloves in his or her mouth in order to improve bad breath. The oil in cloves has been found to be antibacterial and was once used to treat tuberculosis, scabies, malaria, and cholera. Cloves have been known to ease digestive problems such as colic, bloating, and gas. The same antispasmotic properties that make it suited for the digestive system also aid in the easing of coughs and muscle cramps. While it has roots in Asia, the growth of cloves has extended to Brazil, the West Indies, Tanzania, and Madagascar. Sanchal Salt 84.952 mg Commonly known as black salt. Black salt is considered a cooling spice in ayurvedic medicine and is used as a laxative and digestive aid. It is also believed to relieve intestinal gas and heartburn. It is sometimes used by people with high blood pressure or on low-salt diets because it is thought to be lower in sodium and purportedly does not increase sodium content in the blood. Harad seeds are considered aphrodisiac in ayurvedic medicine and helps lowering blood pressure and inflammation. The reason for this effect can be attributed to sulfurous compounds in Harad which ultimately become part of black salt during manufacturing process. Black salt is appreciated by vegans in dishes that mimic the taste of eggs. It is used, for example, to spice tofu to mimic an egg salad. Ammonii Chloridum 68.070 mg Since ancient times, Ammonii Chloridumhas been used as a perfume and medicine. Indians physicians have long prescribed it as a nervine tonic, carminative, and aromatic addition to medicinal oils and ghees. In Ayurvedic medicine this herb is sometimes called, “divine plant” and is used to counteract the effects of day-to-day stress. Traditionally, it has been used as an air purifier as well. The active constituent in Ammonii Chloridumis jatamansone. This herb has analgesic and stimulant properties. The oil has anti-arrhythmic and hypotensive qualities. Today in Ayurvedic medicine, Ammonii Chloridumis used for treating insomnia, mental instability, and is used as a memory enhancer. As an herbal CNS (Central Nervous System) drug, it is used for epilepsy, hysteria, and convulsions. Due to its anti-arrhythmic activity, Ammonii Chloridumis being tested for its effectiveness in treating auricular flutter. The oil is said to promote hair growth and helps it maintain its color as well. It is believed that the active constituent, jatamansone, can reduce hyperactivity, restlessness, and aggressiveness in hyperactive children. Lake Salt 68.070 mg Natural lake salt is a unique food product, naturally harvested from a 5 million year old salt lake situated in the remote regions of Western Australia, an ecologically pristine environment. The salt is simply skimmed from the surface of the lake, filtered and kiln dried. Thus the natural character and composition of the salt remains undisturbed ensuring it’s distinctive flavour is retained. Zingiber Officinalis 34.035 mg Zingiber Officinalis is a fabulous plant for nausea, poor appetite, and all sorts of stomach disturbances. What we call Zingiber Officinalis is actually the underground stem of a reedlike plant, officially called Zingiber officinalis. It belongs to a family of plants that produce an enormous amount of highly scented oils in their life processes. Turmeric, cardamom, zeodary, and galanga are all members of the same fragrant family. Zingiber Officinalis spreads underground by the same means as crab grass, shooting runners off the central plant in every direction. These runners, which are, in fact, growth tips, are the part we use medicinally. They are collected when they are dormant, before their buds shoot to the surface of the soil and become new reeds. Piper Nigrum 34.035 mg Black pepper oil can be used to help in the treatment of pain relief, rheumatism, chills, flu, colds, increase circulation, exhaustion, muscular aches, physical and emotional coldness, nerve tonic and fevers. It furthermore increases the flow of saliva, stimulates appetite, encourages peristalsis, tones the colon muscles and is a general digestive tonic. Sometimes it is used in place of cubebs for gonorrhoea. As a gargle it is valued for relaxed uvula, paralysis of the tongue. On account of its stimulant action it aids digestion and is especially useful in atonic dyspepsia and turbid condition of the stomach. It will correct flatulence and nausea. It has also been used in vertigo, paralytic and arthritic disorders. It has also been advised in diarrhoea, cholera, scarlatina and in solution for a wash for tinea capititis. Externally it is used for its rubefacient properties and as a local application for relaxed sore throat and some skin diseases. Its oleoresin has bacteriostatic and fungistatic properties. Potassi Carbona 11.345 mg Potassium salts in small doses promote the secretion of gastric juice. Large doses neutralize free acid in the stomach, and, by rendering the chyme neutral or alkaline, interefere with the secretion from the pancreas, liver, and intestines, thereby deranging digestion. The statement that alkaline carbonates given before a meal increase the secretion of gastric juice seems to rest more on clinical interpretation than on experimental evidence, for lower animals, at least. The so-called "law of contraries," taught for so many years, has little foundation in experimental work. The therapeutic results sometimes obtained must be explained on other grounds. Calotropis Procera 11.345 mg The dried root freed from its outer cork layer and called Mudar. It occurs in commerce in short quilled pieces about 1/5 to 1/10 of an inch thick and not over 1 1/2 inch wide. Deeply furrowed and reticulated, colour greyish buff, easily separated from periderm. Fracture short and mealy, taste bitter, nauseous, acrid; it has a peculiar smell and is mucilaginous; official in India and the Colonial addendum for the preparation of a tincture. A yellow bitter resin; a black acid resin; Madaralbum, a crystalline colourless substance; Madarfluavil, an ambercoloured viscid substance; and caoutchouc, and a peculiar principle which gelatinizes on being heated, called Mudarine. Lewin found a neutral principle, Calatropin, a very active poison of the digitalis type. In India the author's husband experimented with it for paper-making, the inner bark yielding a fibre stronger than Russian hemp. The acrid juice hardens into a substance like gutta-percha. It has long been used in India for abortive and suicidal purposes. Mudar root-bark is very largely used there as a treatment for elephantiasis and leprosy, and is efficacious in cases of chronic eczema, also for diarrhoea and dysentery. Soddi Biboras 11.345 mg It occurs as a natural deposit on shores of dried up lakes in Tibet & Nepal. It is purified in milk whey (kanjika). Action :- Diuretic, emmenagogue, astringent, antacid and local antiseptic and sedative. It is also used in loss of appetite, cough, asthma and diarrhea ( with foetid stools) in children. In irritating cough due to an irritable condition of the fauces or pharynix. In bronchitis and asthma of adults. Ferula Asafoetida 5.627 mg Asafoetida has certain medicinal uses and most commonly is used as a digestive aid. It is reputed to lessen flatulence and is often added to lentil or eggplant dishes in small quantities. It is also said to be helpful in cases of asthma and bronchitis. A folk tradition remedy for children's colds: it is mixed into a pungent-smelling paste and hung in a bag around the afflicted child's neck. In Thailand it is used to aid babies' digestion and is smeared on the child's stomach in an alcohol tincture known as "mahahing." John C Duval reported in 1936 that the odor of asafoetida is attractive to the wolf, a matter of common knowledge, he says, along the Texas/Mexico border. Asafoetida has also been reported to have contraceptive/abortifacient activity, and is related (and considered an inferior substitute to) the ancient Ferula species Silphium. Asafoetida oleo-gum-resin has been reported to be antiepileptic in classical Unani as well as ethnobotanical literature.