There is not a single herb that can completely cure spinal diseases..

Osteochondrosis and scoliosis are outside the competence of herbalists and healers.

No matter what your friends and neighbors tell you, unfortunately it is so..

But herbs can complement, mitigate or enhance the effect of drugs and the work of a chiropractor.. In addition, it is herbs that are best used as mild cleansers that free the body from salts and toxins, as immunostimulants.. In a word, herbs are an excellent addition to the generally recognized therapy for spinal diseases..

However, before talking about herbs, I would like to separately recall the general rules for a healthy diet and diet for diseases of the spine.. “Your food should be medicine, and your medicine should be food,” Hippocrates advised his patients.

Oddly enough, different people have completely different ideas about healthy eating.. It would seem, how can one argue about the obvious facts: the human body in a harmonious ratio should receive all the necessary proteins, fats and carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. And it’s necessary: \u200b\u200bthere are supporters of various kinds of extreme refusals from one or another product, even in the concept of “harmonious ratio” there are a lot of discrepancies!

In diseases of the spine, as in any other diseases, the basic recommendations for a healthy diet are slightly adjusted.. The diet is made taking into account the peculiarities of the development of problems with the spinal column, so some foods included in the diet of a healthy person are limited, some are highly recommended.

For people suffering from osteochondrosis and scoliosis, it is best to completely abandon canned foods and replace them with fresh or frozen foods that do not contain salt and sugar.. Rich broths, both meat and fish, as well as smoked meats, fatty sausages and sausage cheese, it is advisable to exclude from your diet, replacing them with vegetable and milk soups. Tea and coffee are best replaced with juices and herbal teas.. Great coffee substitute - chicory. Its regular use will strengthen the joints, relieve the "

In diseases of the spine, it is recommended to use vegetarian soups (borscht, cabbage soup, vegetable, potato, with the addition of cereals, dairy, okroshka, beetroot); dairy products (milk, sour milk drinks, cottage cheese, sour cream, yogurt); vegetables - in increased quantities, raw and in any culinary treatment, limiting only salted and pickled; fruits, berries, dried fruits, honey, non-chocolate sweets, jam, marmalade, marshmallow, marshmallow.

In diseases of the spine, meat, fish and mushroom broths, sorrel, spinach, legumes, liver, kidneys, tongue, brains, smoked meats, sausages, salted fish, canned food, caviar, salty and spicy cheeses, mushrooms, cauliflower, chocolate,.

As for herbs, fruits and berries, traditional medicine offers people suffering from osteochondrosis not too many recipes, but they all work great and have been tested for centuries.. The principle of operation of all these drugs is approximately the same: traditional medicine cleanses the body, removing salts and toxins, frees cartilage and joints from deposits, stimulates the immune system and increases the body's defenses.

Known as a good remedy for chronic back pain, the so-called "

Young, light green shoots of spruce or pine are carefully cut off, slightly dried in a dark place and passed through a meat grinder several times, for the last time any greens are added to the coniferous mass - spinach, parsley, dill, celery, basil. Add some salt and stir. The resulting paste is put into small jars, leveled and lightly smeared with vegetable oil on top.. Stored in a cool place, used as a sauce for almost any dish.

At any time of the year, lingonberries with apples in their own juice will be useful for people suffering from diseases of the spine.. For 1 kg of lingonberries, 0.5 kg of apples, 1 glass of sugar and 2 glasses of water are required. Lingonberries are sorted, washed, put in a saucepan, poured with water and put on fire.. Boil for 3-5 minutes, then fold the berries into a colander. Sliced \u200b\u200bapples and sugar are placed in the resulting fruit drink, the mixture is boiled for 5-10 minutes, after which the lingonberry mass is added there and rolled into jars.

In late autumn, just before the frosts, it is worth preparing burdock roots. They are useful not only for compresses and rubbing. From this plant you can make a delicious jam that has many useful properties.. The roots are carefully removed from the ground, cleaned, washed thoroughly, the outer part of the root is removed, cut into slices no more than 0.5 cm thick.. 4 hours are added to 0.5 l of water. tablespoons vinegar essence or juice of 2 lemons. Bring to a boil, put the prepared roots and cook until thickened (about 2 hours).

In diseases of the spine, after the recommendation of a doctor, rubbing with oil or alcohol tincture of a golden mustache can be used.. Oil prepared from the golden mustache is perhaps the most pleasant preparation to use.. You can cook it in two ways.

Cut the leaves and stem of callisia, squeeze the juice out of them. Dry the remaining cake, finely chop, pour olive oil in a ratio of 1: 1. Insist in a dark place for 3 weeks. Strain. Store the resulting oil in a dark glass container in a dark place..

Grind the mustache of callisia, pour olive or sunflower oil in a ratio of 1: 2, simmer in the oven for 8-10 hours at a temperature of 30 C. Strain the mass, store in the refrigerator.

Use only freshly harvested leaves and stems to make butter.. It is not necessary, as it is sometimes advised, to keep the cut plant for 3 days in the refrigerator: in this case, all biological substances will simply freeze.

To prepare a tincture from a golden mustache, callisia mustaches themselves are taken, that is, its long horizontal shoots. In folk practice, the habit has taken root to measure the number of these shoots with " Grind 30-40 joints in a porcelain cup, pour 1 liter of vodka. Infuse the medicine for 15 days in a dark place. Once every 2 days, take out the dishes with tincture and shake it. The finished tincture will acquire a lilac color.. Strain it and store it in a dark, cool place..

With oil or tincture, it’s good to self-massage the spine. It is carried out standing: put your feet shoulder-width apart, smear the massage area with oil and stroke the spine with the back of your hand. You can’t move your hand up and down: the hands of both hands should alternately slide from the lower back along the spine towards the shoulder blades.

Our native herbs, although less well known today (how can ordinary nettles or lingonberries argue with the hype that has now risen around the golden mustache! ), however, like everything native, it is no less useful. And even more - it’s not in vain that they say that houses and walls help. When rubbing and massaging the spine affected by osteochondrosis, the following fees are used.

In equal parts, they take crushed leaves of nettle, peppermint, common lingonberry, chamomile flowers, St. John's wort, horsetail, birch buds, flax seeds, corn stigmas. All ingredients are thoroughly mixed, pour 1 liter of boiling water and leave for 2 hours in a warm place. Rubbed into the skin during spinal massage, 1/2 cup per procedure.

Birch buds, elecampane rhizomes, stamen orthosiphon, St. John's wort and chamomile flowers are mixed in equal parts. Pour boiling water and insist in a warm place for 2 hours. Rubbed into the skin during spinal massage, 1/2 cup per procedure.

Nettle has a good reputation in the treatment of osteochondrosis: they simply look after sore spots, and apply freshly picked stems and leaves, and make a vodka infusion: 1 kg of stinging nettle roots are washed, finely chopped, placed to the top in bottles and pour 0.5 liters of vodka. Insist in a dark place for 12 days, shaking every day. Take this infusion as inside at night, 1 tbsp.. spoon, and externally - for rubbing and massages.

In some cases, when the massage procedure is painful, or when you want to take a break from rubbing without wasting time, you can use compress recipes based on fresh comfrey root. They are offered by the famous healer Gennady Vasilyevich Ignatiev, who specializes in the treatment of diseases of the spine..

Rub fresh comfrey root on a fine grater, mix with sour cream in a ratio of 1: 1, make applications (compresses) from the mixture on the spine area for 40 minutes daily for 10 days.

Grind fresh comfrey root in a meat grinder, pour honey in a ratio of 1: 1 and let it brew for several hours. Take orally 1 tbsp.. spoon daily in the morning on an empty stomach for 10 days. After a 10-day break, repeat the course, take another break for 10 days and take the course for the third time.

Dakhovsky A. , Stogova N.

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