Osteochondrosis is a disease that has accompanied humans throughout its history. The disease is the cost of bipedal movement. Spinal pain occurs throughout life in 80% of the world’s population. For many patients, they are the main symptomatic manifestation of intervertebral disc pathology. People are increasingly turning to folk remedies for osteochondrosis for safe treatment.
What is osteochondrosis
A dystrophic disorder of the intervertebral disc, which causes disruption in blood supply and spinal function, is called osteochondrosis. Experts call the disease "rejuvenating": if earlier it was diagnosed in people over the age of 45, today, more often, thirty -year -old patients turn to vertebrologists (doctors who specialize in the treatment of vertebrae).
The main symptom of osteochondrosis is the protrusion of fibrous discs into the spinal canal. This leads to destruction of the intervertebral ring, a decrease in the gap between the vertebrae, pinching of the nerve endings, accompanied by severe pain. The main causes of this disease:
- inactive lifestyle;
- prolonged pressure on the spine;
- trauma;
- violation of metabolic processes in the body;
- genetic diseases;
- overweight.
Osteochondrosis can affect the cervical, thoracic, lumbar spine. You should see a doctor immediately if the following symptoms appear:
- acute pain in the spinal space;
- limb numbness;
- frequent muscle cramps and spasms;
- Headache;
- dizziness with sudden changes in body position;
- unpleasant tingling sensation - "goose bumps" on the back.
Treatment of osteochondrosis with folk remedies
Degenerative changes in the intervertebral disc are accompanied by exacerbations that bring serious discomfort to the patient due to severe pain. How to treat osteochondrosis? Folk remedies are an adjunct treatment method for drug therapy and are effective during the recovery period. Only when the exacerbation of the disease is eliminated under the supervision of an experienced physician, it is possible to use drugs in accordance with the prescription of a naturopath to prevent the destructive (destructive) process, to regenerate the tissues of the damaged musculoskeletal system.
Folk remedies are only beneficial with prolonged use. In the treatment of osteochondrosis, the following have proven themselves well:
- heating compresses with ointments made according to folk recipes;
- rubbing with tincture with natural ingredients;
- intake of herbal ingredients;
- bath with the addition of a drug solution.
In order for these measures not to harm the patient, you should remember some rules for using folk remedies. You may not:
- Apply a warming compress to the swollen area during swelling.
- Patients with hypertension (high blood pressure) take a hot bath.
- Use traditional medicine to "remove salt" from the body with osteophytes (growths on the surface of bone tissue), as this does not reduce defective growth.
- Apply your own massage to the diseased vertebrae
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Herbal treatment
For the treatment of osteochondrosis in folk medicine, ingredients are used. You can use the medicinal version of the medicinal plant or prepare it yourself. To prepare a remedy for osteochondrosis, you need to take equal parts of the plant material indicated by the recipe, pour hot water (at the rate of 1 tablespoon spoon collection for 250 ml of water) and cook on low heat for 15 minutes. Strain the resulting gravy. The best results are obtained with prolonged use (at least a month), half a glass per day.
Collection of herbs for osteochondrosis:
- Viburnum flowers, nettle, peony, cloudberry leaves, anise, angelica stems, rope, yarrow, poplar buds. Take every hour after meals.
- Some parts of the available crops are used: wheat, St. John's wort, motherwort, pine (preferably sprouts), lingonberry, blueberry, sage, milk thistle, highlander, lavender. Freshly drunk broth is prepared 6 times a day after meals.
- Calendula flowers, strawberries, birch leaves, any part of chamomile. Take twice a day.
- Melissa, thyme, cinquefoil, banana, rosehip fruit (leaves). The broth is drunk 3 times a day, regardless of food.
Ointment
The basis of ointments made according to traditional medicine recipes are oils, fats from vegetables and animals. Natural materials are able to penetrate the skin and muscle tissue quickly into the structure of the damaged musculoskeletal system. Folk remedies for osteochondrosis of the cervical spine in the form of ointments:
- From bay leaves and junipers. Laurel essential oil can quickly reach the affected areas of bone tissue, stimulate blood flow, enhance cell regrowth. Juniper enriches the ointment rubbed with vitamins and micro -elements, restores metabolic processes. To prepare the medicine you need:
- Dried bay leaf powder with mortar and pestle. For this purpose, it is better to use non -metallic devices.
- Chopped juniper needles are chopped until a homogeneous green mass is obtained using a blender.
- Mix the herbal ingredients with the butter (1 tablespoon of all ingredients).
- Leave the resulting product for 12 hours to activate the biocomponents on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Store in the same place. Rub the sore spots daily in the morning and evening.
- From a hop cone. This plant has anti-inflammatory properties:
- You can buy your own pharmacy collection or dry the plant yourself. Grind with the available powder.
- Mix with lard in a ratio of 1: 1. In this case, the smallest plant particles should be evenly distributed over the base of the fat.
- Apply the ointment to the affected area with a massaging motion three times a day. Make sure you perform the procedure before bed.
- From spruce and turpentine:
- Melt 150 g of lard in a water bath.
- Add 2 tbsp. spoons of beeswax.
- Boil the mixture on the fire for 20 minutes, during which time it will become homogeneous.
- Mix the cooled base with 1 tbsp. spoons of ammonia, try not to inhale its vapors.
- Transfer the ointment to a glass jar. Store in the refrigerator.
- Rub the area where the pain is most often felt daily (no more than 3 times).
- Eggs and vinegar:
- Beat the eggs.
- Mix with 100 g of melted butter, pour 2 tbsp. spoons of vinegar.
- Stir the ingredients to obtain a homogeneous mass.
- Transfer the medicine to a ceramic or glass container. Store in the refrigerator.
- Rub the area affected by osteochondrosis with ointment before bed.
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Rubbing
Folk remedies are effective for osteochondrosis of the cervical spine in the form of rubs containing alcohol. Alcohol can warm the soft tissues of the body quickly, because the active components of the therapeutic agent immediately permeate into the area with damaged cartilage or bone structure. The drug relieves pain and improves regenerative metabolic processes in the affected area.
Vodka, radish, honey, salt
Black radish and honey are actively used in folk medicine for the preparation of medicines for the treatment of influenza, viral diseases and inflammatory processes of the respiratory system. These components also have a therapeutic effect on osteochondrosis, if they are part of an alcohol-based scrub. To provide an effective anti-inflammatory agent for intervertebral disc dystrophic disorders, you need:
- Wash black radish, finely grate without removing the skin.
- Mix 1. 5 cups of the resulting root mass with 1 cup of honey.
- Add 2 tbsp. spoons of table salt (iodized).
- Pour in 100 ml of vodka, stir the ingredients well.
- Allow the medicine for one day to be injected.
- Apply externally as a warmer and pain reliever.
Ginger, ghee, garlic
Ginger and garlic are famous for their rich composition of vitamins, trace elements, phytonutides (plant disinfectants), essential oils. Traditional medicines, which include these plants, relieve swelling and pain, encouraging the regrowth of body tissues. To prepare the milling you need:
- Separate the cloves of one head of garlic from each other and peel them.
- Remove the skin from the ginger root with a knife. It weighs about the same as the weight of peeled garlic cloves.
- Grate the material on a fine grater.
- Add a little ghee to the resulting mass. Stir well.
- Store the product in the refrigerator for no more than 7 days.
- Rub the sore spot as needed.
Grandma's rub for osteochondrosis
Older people know many ways to relieve inflammation in osteochondrosis by using folk remedies. The recipe below is good for people who are not allowed to take oral painkillers. The therapeutic effect occurs after 4-5 times of use. Rub has no contraindications, you can use it unlimited times. Prepare the heating agent as follows:
- crush 10 tablets of analgin;
- mix the powder with 300 ml of medical alcohol;
- add camphor alcohol and iodine to the solution (10 ml each);
- rub on intact, clean and dry skin in areas of the body where pain is felt in osteochondrosis.
Healing bath
With osteochondrosis, bathing with herbal infusions gives a good therapeutic effect. Warm water with herbal ingredients has a relaxing effect on muscles, is able to relieve soft tissue spasms, tension in the spine. A patient with osteochondrosis feels relieved by the fact that the absorption of medicinal plants, entering the skin into the body, relieves the inflammatory process, has an anesthetic effect. Due to the entry into the warm environment, normal blood circulation is restored.
An excellent pain reliever for osteochondrosis is a bath with chamomile, pine and spruce needles, birch leaves. The ingredients can be used together or separately. To provide the solution you need:
- Put 500 g of plant material into the pot and cover with water until it covers a distance of 10 cm.
- The composition is boiled.
- Allow to soak under cover until cool.
- Strain, pour into the tub.
- The optimal procedure time is 15-20 minutes.
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Heat the compress
Treatment of osteochondrosis with folk methods involves the use of compresses based on herbal ingredients. The pain and inflammation that accompanies the disease is overcome by heating the tissue, relaxing it deeply, activating blood circulation and delivering the healing component with blood to the affected body area.
With osteochondrosis, it is recommended to put compresses at night. You need to soak a cotton napkin with the prepared solution. Apply to the sore spot, wrap with plastic wrap and wrap with a warm scarf or blanket. It is believed that the therapeutic effect will be great if the leaves of burdock or cabbage are used instead of the film. The composition of the drug is recommended to be replaced every 3 days. Recipe for compress heating mixture:
- Mix honey juice, vodka and aloe in a ratio of 2: 3: 1. The resulting mixture should be hardened for 12 hours before use.
- Fill a glass bottle of 0. 5 liters with ripe elderberry and rubbing alcohol. Soak for 7 days in a dark place. Strain before use.
- Finely grind, mix with melted honey (1: 1). Store for no more than 2 hours.
- Stir in the flour that is not too steep (200 g) and water. Leave on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for 2 days. Smear the sore spot with turpentine, cover with cake dough, wrap. Keep it until a burning sensation appears. Repeat the procedure every day. The dough can be used 3 times, then another cake is made.
Radish leaves
Carrot leaf compress is an effective remedy against osteochondrosis. This plant contains many useful substances that can get rid of toxins and salts from the body. Freshly cut leaves are used for compresses. It is soaked in boiling water for a while. Place between double -fold towels to remove excess moisture. Apply the sheet to the sore spot with a fine part (always warm). Immediately covered with plastic wrap and wrapped with a fur scarf. The compress is left overnight.
Salt
The healing properties of salt have long been known to the Chinese and Hindus. Then this knowledge began to be used in Europe. Folk remedies for the treatment of osteochondrosis with salt:
- Take a salt bath. 5 kg of salt is dissolved in boiling water. The brine solution is poured into the bath (150 L of water at a temperature of 38 ° C). A 30 -minute treatment can relieve pain. After bathing, it is recommended to drink medicinal tea and sleep.
- A mixture of salt and soda. Rub in half a bar of brown laundry soap. Put 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 3 teaspoons of salt and 100 ml of heated vegetable oil in a water bath. Stir the ingredients until well blended and leave in a dark and warm place for 3 days. The resulting mixture is lubricated in places where pain is felt most strongly in osteochondrosis. This course is 2 weeks. After 5 days, treatment can be resumed.
- Application of salt with seaweed. Salt is dissolved in water (ratio 12: 1), 2 briquettes of dried seaweed are added. Insist 30 minutes. This tool is used in the form of compresses at night.
- Rubdowns (wraps). Add 1 tablespoon to 1 liter of water. one tablespoon of salt, boil, cool. The procedure is performed using a napkin (diaper) moistened with a warm saline solution.
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Folk remedies for internal use
To overcome osteochondrosis, there are many folk remedies, from which the sufferer can choose the appropriate method of treatment. One of the best methods to treat dystrophic disorders of the intervertebral disc is by taking natural remedies by mouth. Food for this must be fractional: 5-7 times a day. Here are some of the following recipes:
- The recipe described above for making a scrub from carrots, honey, salt and vodka is also suitable for eating, 1 teaspoon three times a day, 20 minutes before eating. This course is 7 days. The best therapeutic effect is achieved with the simultaneous use of the agent externally and internally.
- Squeeze the parsley root (250 g), the ingredients (100 g), lemon with the skin (250 g) through a meat grinder. Combine ingredients in a bowl. Put 300 g of honey into the mixture. Gaul rata. Store in the refrigerator. Apply 1 tbsp. spoon an hour before meals for 30 days.
- Grind in equal parts young asparagus beans, tricolor purple grass, birch buds, bearberry leaves, corn stigma. Pour one tablespoon of the herb mixture with boiling water and leave in a covered container for 20 minutes. Take the infusion of 3 tbsp. spoon 2 times a day, regardless of mealtimes for 14 days. Prepare fresh portions every day.
- Remove the green crust from the watermelon, dry in the oven, grind to a powder. Take before meals with water: the first week - half a teaspoon twice a day, the second - 1 teaspoon, the third - 1 teaspoon three times a day.
- Cut 3 kg of walnuts and put in a jar, pour 500 ml of vodka, leave for 2 weeks at room temperature. Use 1 tablespoon tincture a day at any convenient time.
- Boil a glass of chopped sunflower root in 3 liters of water for 5 minutes. Drink 100 g before meals. Store the broth in the refrigerator. You need to drink it in 3 days. This course is 3 weeks.
- Put 4 currant leaves in a thermos, pour 500 ml of boiling water, leave overnight. The liquid must be drunk within 1 day. The course is a month.
- Dried dill seeds (1 cup) pour 500 ml of vodka. Insist 10 days. Drink 1 tablespoon for a month. spoon daily before meals.
- Crush the chopped wood lice ingredients in a mortar until the juices are released. 1 tablespoon pour a tablespoon of raw material with 250 ml of boiling water. Insist for half an hour. Divide into 2 servings. Drink every day for a month.