For a long time, Indigenous people have been making medicines and cosmetics with natural therapeutic resources, such as yellow birch found in the Quebec forests, reports Cyberpresse.ca.
The therapeutic properties of yellow birch combat different problems such as hypertension and hyperglycemia. According to studies, the plant also has anti-cancer benefits.
Biologist Marie Carrier, founder of Officina, a company that makes therapeutic products, claims that another advantage of birch oil is that it resembles aspirin in that it has anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. Officina muscle balm, made of birch oil, relieves tension and stiffness of muscles.
In Birch-Arnica body oil by Dr. Hauschka, the oil is used to prevent physical muscle tension and to soothe muscle pain.