Treatment of bronchitis with folk remedies

Chronic bronchitis is an inflammatory disease of the bronchial tree, which is caused by prolonged exposure to some unfavorable factors.

External influences include smoking, pollution of the ambient air, work in conditions of occupational hazards, climatic conditions, epidemics of viral diseases. Internal factors include diseases of the nasopharynx, acute respiratory infections, acute bronchitis.

The disease has a progressive nature, as a result of which mucus formation and drainage function of the bronchial system are disturbed. The main symptoms of the disease are cough with phlegm, dyspnea.

Chronic bronchitis can be primary, being an independent disease; And secondary, when the disease develops against the background of other lesions, pulmonary and extrapulmonary.

Symptoms of bronchitis

Characterized by coughing with sputum, shortness of breath. In addition, there are symptoms of a general nature - general weakness, sweating, fast fatigue, increased body temperature with exacerbation of the process.

The clinic distinguishes between non- obstructive and obstructive variants of the course of the disease.

Cough with non-obstructive bronchitis is accompanied by a small amount of sputum separated, watery, mucous. When the disease worsens, sputum may become purulent. If the sputum becomes small and it is difficult to clear the throat, then one can think that the course of the disease becomes obstructive. At the same time, a cough changes, it becomes an unguarded, unproductive, accompanied by shortness of breath. Some patients have hemoptysis. To the appearance of this sign it is necessary to be treated very carefully, since it can be the first manifestation of lung cancer, as well as bronchoectatic disease.

Folk remedies for bronchitis

• 500 g of crushed bulbs, 400 g of sugar, 50 g of honey mixed and added 1 liter of water. Cook the mixture on low heat for 3 hours, cool, filter and pour into a bottle. Take 1 tablespoon 4-6 times a day.
• 10 g of dried and chopped mandarin peel pour 100 ml of boiling water, insist, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 5 times daily before meals. It is used as an expectorant for bronchitis and tracheitis.
• 1 cup of rubbed onion pour 1/4 cup of vinegar, rub through 4 layers of gauze, add 1 cup of honey, mix thoroughly until smooth. Drink 1 teaspoon every 30 minutes. The drug is used to treat bronchitis, laryngitis, with a strong cough.
• Licorice naked (root) - 30 g, plantain (leaves) - 30 g, violet trichrome (grass) - 20 g, mother-and-stepmother (leaves) - 20 g. Two tablespoons of the mixture is poured into a glass of boiling water, heated in a water bath 15 minutes, cool, filter and bring the volume to 200 ml. Drink 1 / 4-1 / 3 cup 3 times a day for tracheitis.
• A tablespoon of the dry crushed rhizome of spring primrose is poured with a glass of boiling water, heated for 30 minutes in a boiling water bath, stirring occasionally. Cool at room temperature for 30 minutes and filter. Take 1-2 tablespoons 3-4 times a day before meals. The drug is especially effective in the chronic form of bronchitis.
• Thyme (grass) - 5 g, fennel (fruit) - 5 g, mint (leaves) - 5 g, medunica (grass) - 20 g, mother-and-stepmother (leaves) - 20 g, clover (grass) - 5 grams G, plantain (leaves) - 10 g, althae (root) - 10 g, licorice naked (root) - 10 g. A tablespoon of the mixture is brewed with 2 cups of boiling water. Drink 1/2 cup 4 times a day.
• 10 grams of thyme pour a glass of boiling water, heated in a water bath for 15 minutes, cool 45 minutes, filter, squeeze and bring the volume to 200 ml. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
• When bronchitis, especially acute, it is recommended to drink 4 times a day tincture (30 g per 100 ml of alcohol or a glass of vodka) for 40-50 drops or juice of fresh yarrow herb 2 tablespoons 4 times a day.
• Grasshopper herb - 4 parts, birch buds - 1 part, oregano grass - 2 parts, nettle leaves - 2 parts - 1 part. Two tablespoons of the ground mixture pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, boil for 10 minutes. Infuse, wrapped, for 30 minutes, then strain. Drink 1/3 cup a day after meals.
• A tablespoon of chopped grass horsetail field brew 2 cups of boiling water, insist 2-3 hours. Take 1 tablespoon 5-6 times a day.
• Devyasil (root) - 10 g, primrose (root) - 10 g, mother-and-stepmother (leaves) - 10 g. Two teaspoons of mixture pour a glass of boiling water and boil for 5 minutes. After 15 minutes, cool. Drink infusion should be with bronchitis in small sips in 3 divided doses during the day.
• 2 tablespoons chopped turnip pour 1 cup boiling water. Infuse, wrapped, 1-2 hours. Take 1/4 cup 4-5 times a day. Juice and infusion from turnip apply for a sharp cold cough, hoarseness of voice, chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma.
• Tea made from 40 g of buckwheat flowers in 1 liter of boiling water facilitates dry cough.
• Bronchitis is well treated with porcine "health", that is, the internal lard from the intestines, which has the appearance of a mesh. This greasy mesh is put in a bowl and placed in a warm but not hot oven or on a very light fire, so that the bacon drained off the mesh. The melted fat is drained and placed in a cold place. 1 dessert spoon to dilute a glass of hot milk and drink in small sips. For external rubbing in the chest, it is necessary to mix this fat with turpentine and rub it into the chest to dryness.
• Grasshopper herb grass, leaves of mother-and-stepmother, three-tone violet grass, large plantain leaves, chamomile flowers, herb and spring primrose roots, anise ordinary fruits, licorice roots bare - 1 part, althea roots of medicinal - 2 parts. Infusion or broth to take after eating 1/3 cup 3 times a day with dry bronchitis.
• Fennel of ordinary guinea fowl is 100 g, honey bee is 200 g. The fruit of the viburnum is cooked in honey for 5 minutes. With tracheitis and bronchitis take 1-2 tablespoons 4-5 times a day, washed down with warm water.
• The root of the drug althea is 2 parts, the licorice root is bare - 2 parts, the pine kidney is 1 part, the sage leaf is medicinal - 1 part, the fruits of the anise are ordinary - 1 part. A tablespoon of the mixture should be poured overnight in a thermos with a glass of boiling water, drain in the morning. Take a tablespoon 4-5 times a day as an expectorant for bronchitis.
• The roots of the drug althea - 4 parts, the leaf of the mother-and-stepmother - 4 parts, the grass of the oregano - 3 parts. A tablespoon of collection pour a glass of boiling water, insist 20 minutes, drain. Take 1/2 cup 3-4 times a day.
• The roots of the drug althea - 40 g, the roots of licorice naked - 25 g, the leaves of the mother-and-stepmother - 25 g, the fruits of fennel ordinary - 15 g. Take in the form of a warm infusion or broth for 1 / 3-1 / 4 cup 3-5 Once a day with acute and chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia, cough.
• 2 tablespoons of fresh butter, 2 yolks, 1 teaspoon of wheat flour and 2 teaspoons of honey mixed thoroughly. Take with cough and bronchitis 4-5 times a day before meals.
• Kidneys of ordinary pine - 40 g, leaves of plantain large - 30 g, leaves of mother-and-stepmother - 30 grams. Take in the form of a warm infusion of 1 / 3-1 / 4 cups 3 times a day for infectious diseases of the bronchi, bronchial asthma, Whooping cough.
• The roots of the drug althea - 40 g, the roots of licorice naked - 15 g, the fruit of fennel ordinary - 10 g. A tablespoon of collection pour a glass of cold water, insist 2 hours, boil 5 minutes, strain and take 1/3 cup 3 times a day.
• Grass thyme creeping, leaves of mother-and-stepmother, roots of althea medicinal - 2 parts; Fruits of dill fragrant, leaves of a sage medicinal - 1 part. 20 g of collection pour 200 ml of water, heat in a boiling water bath for 15 minutes, cool 45 minutes, drain, bring boiled water amount of infusion to the original volume. Take 1 / 4-1 / 3 cup 3-4 times a day.
• 300 g of honey, 0.5 cups of water and a sheet of finely chopped aloe to cook over very low heat for 2 hours. Cool and mix. Store in a cool place. Take a tablespoon 3 times a day. The medicine is often prescribed for children.
• To facilitate sputum removal, it is very useful to take the juice of cranberries, mixed in equal proportions with honey.
• In a half-liter bottle of wine put 4 large sheets of aloe. Insist 4 days. Take a chronic bronchitis for 1 dessert spoon 3 times a day.
• Boil 1 liter of water, put 400 grams of bran in boiling water. Remove from heat and cool. Strain and drink throughout the day is quite hot. To improve the taste, you can add burnt sugar (white sugar or honey in this case is not recommended).
• Aloe juice - 15 grams, pigs or goose pigs - 100 grams, butter (unsalted) - 100 grams, honey - 100 g, you can add cocoa - 50 g. Take 1 tablespoon per cup of hot milk 2 times a day.
• Take an enameled pan without cracks (the other dishes do not fit), pour in a glass of milk and pour 1 tablespoon of sage. Cover with a plate. Boil this mixture over a low heat, let it cool down and drain. Boil again, covering the plate. Drink hot before bedtime. When using, you should beware of drafts.
• With bronchitis, pneumonia, hypertension in combination with other products, a decoction of raisins is recommended. Preparation: 100 g raisins to grind (you can pass through a meat grinder), pour a glass of water and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain and squeeze through gauze. Take several times per day.
• 2-3 tablespoons of flax seed pour 1.5 liters of hot water and shake for 10 minutes, then strain. In the resulting liquid, add 5 teaspoons of licorice root, 1.5 teaspoons of anise, 400 g of honey (preferably lime) and mix thoroughly. Cook the mixture for 5 minutes, let cool, strain and take 2/3 glass 3-4 times a day before meals.
• A glass of fresh carrot juice is cultured with a few spoons of honey. Take 1 tablespoon 4-5 times a day.
• Lime blossom, elderberry color, dry berries and raspberry leaves, sage leaves to mix in equal proportions. Two tablespoons of the prepared mixture pour 2 cups of boiling water and allow to stand under the lid for an hour. Drink warm infusion before bedtime. It is used as a diaphoretic and expectorant for bronchitis, catarrh of the upper respiratory tract, colds.
• When chronic bronchitis is recommended tea from the stems (fruit stalks) of cherries. A teaspoon of dried and chopped peduncles to brew a glass of steep boiling water, let it brew and drink several times a day. Tea also has an easy diuretic effect.
• A teaspoon of kidney pine should be boiled in a glass of water in a closed vessel and infused for 2 hours. Drink in 3 divided doses during the day.
• A tablespoon of small lime-flowered flowers should be poured with 1 glass of boiling water. Insist, wrapped, 1 hour, strain. Take 1 glass 2-3 times a day for colds, bronchitis, coughs, headaches, pulmonary tuberculosis.
• Grate the black radish and squeeze the juice through the cheesecloth. Mix well 0.5 liters of juice with 200 g of liquid honey and drink 2 tablespoons before meals and at night before going to bed.
• Grasshopper herb - 4 parts, birch buds - 1 part, oregano grass - 2 parts, nettle leaves - 2 parts - 1 part. Two tablespoons of the ground mixture pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, boil for 10 minutes. Infuse, wrapped, for 30 minutes, then strain. Drink 1/3 cup a day after meals.
• Tooth cloves garlic and 1 teaspoon of flower honey thoroughly chew until it is completely chopped 3 times a day.

Diet

With acute bronchitis the patient, first of all, needs to be sweated ; For this, he should drink 3-4 cups of a decoction of some sweatshop (sage, mint, lime blossom, elderberry and honey). Very effective tea with the addition of raspberry fruits (dry or frozen, but not jam). A few days to starve, use only orange juice with water, until acute attacks cease. Then, to facilitate the separation of viscous sputum with a dry cough, it is good to drink whey in a warm form or take several times a day 2 tablespoons of decoction of anise seeds with honey (a glass of water - an incomplete tablespoon of aniseed seeds, 1 teaspoon of honey, a pinch of baking soda ). Drink the juice of onions, which is a good expectorant. To gradually switch to a balanced diet. From drinks it is recommended that lemon water without sugar. Instead of tea and coffee, it is better to pour hot milk with honey and a pinch of soda; Honey should be boiled beforehand, since without boiling it strengthens the cough.

Traditional means of treatment of bronchitis

• Treatment of chronic bronchitis is performed on an outpatient basis or in a day hospital for the selection of adequate bronchodilator therapy, sputum analysis, determination of the optimal method of therapy. However, in certain cases the patient can and must be hospitalized in a hospital.
  Such cases are:
  • Exacerbation of bronchitis with the addition of other previously unobserved symptoms (such as a change in the character of dyspnea, the appearance of a cough with purulent sputum), as well as ineffectiveness of the therapy and the presence of severe concomitant diseases;
  • Changes in cardiac activity in connection with the present disease;
  • Necessary rehabilitation.
• In the treatment of patients with exacerbation of chronic bronchitis, the following measures are very important: smoking cessation, reducing the impact of harmful environmental factors (job change, if there are production hazards, change of residence).
• Before the beginning of drug therapy the following measures are taken:
  • Periodic coughing up of sputum after a deep exhalation in a convenient sputum for the sputum. This is the so-called positional drainage;
  • Vibration massage, during which it is recommended to cough up phlegm;
  • Manual therapy.
• The main drugs in the treatment of chronic bronchitis are bronchodilators - M-holinoblokatory with possible addition vadrenomimetikami.
• Glucocorticosteroids are used for severe disease and with no effect on bronchodilators.
• From expectorants are used acetylcysteine, bromhexine, ambroxol, potassium iodide, etc. An expectorant effect is inhalation with essential oils, a solution of sodium chloride, sodium hydrogen carbonate.
• When microbial flora is found in the sputum, patients are prescribed antibacterial drugs. But antibiotics should be prescribed only after determining the sensitivity of the pathogen to the antibiotic.
• Patients with chronic bronchitis are recommended physiotherapy (iontophoresis, diathermy, quartz on the chest).
• Recommended breathing exercises.
• Climate therapy is shown - in the pine forest, in the steppe, mountain climate, in the resorts of Crimea, Kislovodsk.