Natural Menthol/Peppermint Oil
Peppermint is the source of the commercially and medicinally important menthol.  It is the menthol in peppermint that is primarily responsible for the herb’s beneficial effects, and the oil of peppermint contains anywhere from 50 to 78 percent menthol.  Menthol is an anodyne (to ease or lessen pain) used, especially locally in neuralgia (an acute pain radiating along the nerve branches) and rhinitis (inflammation of the nose).
 
Echinacea
The American Indians are credited with discovering that the roots of the Echinacea contain medicinal properties. Echinacea contains a substance called caffeic acid glycoside which reacts with other substances in the body’s cells and facilitates the wound healing process. In folk medicine, this unidentified substance was used as a “blood purifier”, to cure a wide variety of ailments: rheumatism, streptococcus infections, bee stings, poisonous snake bites, dyspepsia, tumors, syphillis, gangrene, excema, hemorrhoids, and a host of pains and wounds.

Rosemary
Rosemary has long been included in many herbalists stores of remedies. Applied externally, an ointment made from the oil of rosemary is reputed to benefit sufferers of rheumatism, sores, excema, bruises and wounds.
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