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“Henna” is such a plant

“Henna” which is the plant of the loosestrife department. The scientific name “low Sonia rice Lumi’s” (Lawsonia inermis). As for the fame, the Indian name is called “Mehendi”,”camphire” in Japanese name “Henna” .

I grow wild mainly in the good soil of the drainage that the west Asia whole area, the sun such as India, Nepal, Pakistan glare down well. A tree of “Henna” reaching height approximately up to 7.6m in total length. I spend time of about three years and grow up and I leave 20-30cm using 150cm or more as an indication and am harvested.

Two pieces are fluent in a symmetry for a branch, just soak the leaf of the form such as the spearpoint, and the size of the leaf is 2cm in length, an oval of around 1cm in width. And I let the flower which is high in a slightly big fragrance of about 6mm bloom into a bunch form. The petal which a color turns into to pink or red from cinnabar red from white is an impressive plant.

About “Henna”

“Henna” which played its part which is more important in traditions such as civilization, health, the physical decoration than thing ancient times more than 5,000 years.

・As a plant dyeing a thing
・As makeup giving glory to a face and health in the case of an event of a ceremony and the celebration
・As a precious plant playing its part as the medicinal herb
・As a symbol of the custom to protect people from a bad thing more

In the Ayurveda that is Indian old tradition medicine, the people have a feeling of awe in “Henna”, and it is to the plant which it stream down it as “the all-around medicinal herb” which nature brings carefully in the present age and can continue.

It is a condition of “AAA rank Henna” with highest quality “AAA rank Henna”

I will be active to be able to know the effect effect of “Natural Henna” to many of you along Indian tradition medicine, teaching of the Ayurveda more.

1. Coloration ingredient Lawson is included in “AAA rank Henna” more than 1.8%.
2. “AAA rank Henna” brings sand close to 0% limitlessly, 0.02%
3. “AAA rank Henna” does not use all pesticides, chemical fertilizers, insecticides during cultivation either.

※I meet a condition of “Henna” of the AAA rank mentioned above, and, only in “Henna” which cleared the following analysis test, nature “Henna” workshop authorizes “AAA rank Henna”.

Test items

Diamines test	Arsenic test	Picramic acid test
General mold bacteria test	Diamond green test	Sand test
Heavy metal test	Lawson content	Bacteria test

Difference with “AAA rank Henna” and “general Henna”

In “Henna”, grade parts by quality finely. It is evaluated by a collection place of “Henna”, a part (leaf, stem, root) of “Henna”, content of coloration ingredient low Sonia, the way of facilities and preservation of the factory.
“AAA rank Henna” is usable in not only the hair coloring but also body art. It is safe only to a thing to use for skin, and the feature is that I am superior in the coloration. It is said that a component of low Sonia who is the coloration ingredient is double of general “Henna”.
Because most are supplied to Europe, in “AAA rank Henna”, there becomes a little quantity that is precious, and is imported in India by Japan.
I think that you can understand that you use “AAA rank Henna” once, but the treatment action to use characteristics, safety, the coloration state, hair and a scalp is different from general “Henna” imported until now markedly.
Generally the price becomes more expensive than a commercially available thing, but is not high at all when I think about color durability every safety and once that I took a long view of, maintenance of the youth of the hair by the high treatment effect.

Characteristic	General Henna	AAA rank Henna
Color	Yellow ocher – brown	Beautiful greenish brown
Incense	The fragrance is not so good	Fragrance to feel at ease such as the medicinal herb
Particle	A powdery particle is coarse (fiber-like) ※Not only the leaf but also a stem and the root are mixed	A particle of the law of nature powder is smooth ※I use the part of the leaf of Henna
Eutexia	It is hard to melt and is easy to become the ball	It is easy to melt and is easy to do it into paste form
When I applied it to hair	It is hard to attach to hair, and refuse is easy to fall	It is easy to attach to hair, and the refuse is hard to appear, too
The coloration to hair	The coloration to hair is low （there are few components of low Sonia）	The coloration to hair is good （there are many components of low Sonia）

Standard of “AAA rank Henna”

・It contains it more than 1.7% of low Sonia
・Sand 1% or less
・An examination of general bacteria passes
・An examination of arsenic mixture passes
・An examination for heavy metal passes
・An examination of Escherichia coli passes
・An examination for PPD passes
・An examination of Picramin acid mixture passes
・An examination of diamond green mixture passes

Effect of “Henna”

The ingredient called Lawson included in “Henna” had sterilization, a medicinal herb effect called the anti-inflammatory hemostasis action and has been handed down when there was an effect for the prevention and the treatment such as a poultice, ointment, hemostasis, a burn, an eruption, dermatopathia, a bruise, the menstrual irregularity from ancient times. I am superior in letting a nerve tense at the same time relieve and bring relaxation action.
The effect is made use of in the medical world.

Though an ingredient called “Lawsonia Alba” in “Henna” removes the toxin of the liver, according to the article of Mr. Indian scientist “B. K. Chandan” announced in February, 1990, it is reported by effective thing and “Henna” that sleep is deepened.

A red pigment called lasting Lawson of “Henna” includes protein and a characteristic to react. The Indian people who paid their attention to this came for coloring hair or skin it for a long time using “Henna”. Let alone a role as the medicine, “Henna” is used habitually in doing a living wealthily.