Treatment of radiculitis folk remedies

Radiculitis is a common disease of the peripheral nervous system, in which the bundles of nerve fibers that depart from the spinal cord are affected, the so-called spine cord roots. The most common cause of sciatica is osteochondrosis (the deposition of salts in the joints of the vertebrae), in which the intervertebral discs lose their elasticity and squeeze the roots.

Manifestations of sciatica

The most characteristic manifestation of radiculitis - pain along the course of the nerve roots, a violation of sensitivity, sometimes motor disorders.

Usually the disease develops sharply, but in many cases it passes into a chronic form with periodic exacerbations. Depending on the site of lesion of nerve fibers, different forms of radiculitis are distinguished. The most common lumbosacral radiculitis, in which pain is localized in the lumbosacral region, buttocks with recoil in the thigh, shin, foot. Pain increases with movement.

Lumbosacral radiculitis with the predominance of lesions of the roots of the sacral region, from which the sciatic nerve is formed, is called sciatica. In sciatica, the pain spreads along the sciatic nerve (to the buttock, the anus of the lower leg and thigh, the heel).

With cervico-brachial radiculitis, pain is noted in the back of the neck, shoulder, scapula, is strengthened by turning the head, moving the arm, coughing.

Thoracic radiculitis is quite rare and is manifested by pain in the intercostal spaces.

Treatment of radiculitis folk remedies

• Peel and grate the black radish. Lay a thin layer of radish on a cotton or linen cloth and cover with another piece of cloth on top. Put the bandage on a sore spot, wrap it on top with a tracing paper or parchment and tie it with a warm kerchief. Keep the compress for as long as possible. You will feel how slowly the waist is warming up. Sometimes 2-3 procedures are enough to let the pain go.
• 2 teaspoons of dried shredded kidneys of the sedge are poured 1-1.5 cups of boiling water, aged for 15 minutes and filtered. Drink 1/3 cup 3 times a day. You can use this recipe: 1-2 teaspoons of kidneys pour 1/2 cup of 40% alcohol, insist for 7 days and filter. Take 20 drops 3 times a day.
• Pour 50 ml of water and dissolve in it 1/4 tablets furatsilina, boil well, until the drug dissolves. Then add 1 tablespoon of honey to the resulting solution and mix thoroughly. Take common mustard plasters, dip them into a honey solution of furacilin and apply on the lower back. After 5-6 minutes, remove the mustard plasters, and cover the remainder of the solution on the skin with a plastic wrap, secure and wrap with a woolen shawl. In this bandage, sleep all night and remove it in the morning.
• A very effective way is to apply raw potatoes to a sore spot.
• Take 300 g of leaves of 3-5-year-old aloe, and the plant should not be watered for 5 days before cutting. Pass the leaves through the meat grinder, add to the resulting mass 500 grams of natural May honey, 520 ml of any fortified red wine (preferably "Cahors"), mix everything thoroughly and put it on a dark cool place for 5 days to infuse. Dosage: the first 5 days - 1 teaspoonful 3 times a day for an hour before meals, and all the following days - 1 tablespoon 3 times a day for an hour before meals. Term of treatment: from 2-3 weeks to 1.5 months.
• Dampen the burdock leaf with cold water and place the underside on the sore spot. Tie it up. This is a wonderful anesthetic. In summer, you can grab the burdock leaves and dry it. Then in winter it will be enough to moisten the prepared dry leaves with warm water and use it for the compress in the same way as above.
• The fruits of horse chestnut are ground into powder, mixed with camphor oil or internal lard, spread thinly on a slice of black bread and applied to a sore spot. From the bread begins to drip abundantly with moisture. Even a single procedure cures sciatica.
• Sick place with a thin layer of honey and cover with 1-2 layers of toilet paper. On top put 2-3 mustard plaster, which in turn wrapped in plastic wrap and a warm kerchief or blanket. Hold no more than 1.5 hours. Sensations of burning and deep warming should not pass into painful.
• Apply on a sore spot gruel from grated radish or horseradish. To reduce burning, you can mix the resulting mass with sour cream. Such poultices are well tolerated even by children.
• 10 g cones of hops ordinary pour 200 ml of boiling water, boil up to half the volume. To apply for grinding. You can also use as an ointment: 1 part of condensed broth for 4 parts of the base (cow oil or Vaseline).
• Fresh birch leaves should be poured over with boiling water, put a thick layer on the inflamed place and cover with thick paper or a film. Patient warm wrap.
• Cut 2 pods of red pepper, pour 300 ml of ammonia, insist 2 weeks in a dark place, shake daily. Rinse the sore spots (by moving only upwards). Apply with radiculitis, paralysis, rheumatism.
• In equal shares, take thyme, chamomile, St. John's wort, the color of elderberry black, prepare a hot infusion from this mixture and make hot compresses for the night.
• To relieve pain during an attack of radiculitis, you need to gently iron a sore spot with a hot iron through a thick knitted wool product. The attack will stop.
• A cleanly washed fresh egg is dropped into a glass jar and, with an acetic essence, left for 3 days. When the shell is completely dissolved, and the egg looks like a hard-boiled, it is necessary to remove the film from it and carefully grind it into a homogeneous mass. Pour 1-2 tablespoons of sunflower oil and mix everything. Then the resulting mass is poured into a jar, where the vinegar essence with dissolved shell is stored, and mix thoroughly, then pour into a bottle and close with a cork. Store in a dark place at room temperature. Pre-shake the mixture, rub it with sore spots for the night. After rubbing cover with a woolen handkerchief and put the heating pad.
• Heated dry flax seeds, folded in pouches or wrapped in a soft cloth in the form of compresses, are applied to the loin at night.
• 4 tablespoons of chopped dry leaves of linden with boiling water, wrapped in gauze and applied to sore spots like poultices. Apply when the acute period of the disease begins to pass.
• Herbal tincture of thyme creeping (thyme) on vodka (in a ratio of 1: 3) is used to rub the sick places at night with radiculitis and various joint lesions.

Healing baths from radiculitis

• Take 50-70 g of grated horseradish, immerse in gauze in a bath with a temperature of 37 ° C. Bath should be taken at night with radiculitis, rheumatism, gout, myositis. The course of treatment: 12-14 procedures.
• Stir 250-400 g of mustard powder, pouring warm water to it, to the consistency of the liquid slurry, which must be ground before the appearance of a sharp mustard smell. Pour the gruel into a bath (for 180-200 liters of water) and mix well. The bath should be taken to patients with chronic radiculitis at a water temperature of 35-36 ° C. After that, you should rinse under a warm shower and wrap yourself in a blanket.
• From fresh roots of carrots squeeze the juice and mix with infusion of herbs of sage (in a ratio of 30: 500). Bath temperature of 37 ° C at any time of the day. The course of treatment is 12-14 baths.
• Take 500 g of chopped straw for 2 liters of water. Boil for half an hour on low heat; Strain and pour into the bath water. The water temperature in the bath is 36-37 ° C; Duration 10-15 minutes. The course of treatment is 15-20 baths.
• Take 50 g of the crushed dry roots of the Wood Angelica; Pour 1 liter of cold water, infuse 2 hours, boil for half an hour, drain. The bath (36-37 ° C) should be taken before bedtime. The course of treatment is 12-14 baths.
• Take 30 grams of crushed dry roots of the six-petalled meadowweed on 1 liter of water. Boil for half an hour; Insist half an hour, drain. The water temperature should be 37 ° C. Bath should be taken at night. The course of treatment is 12-14 baths.
• Shredded leaves and blossoms of grapes of grapes, pour boiling water, insist 4 hours, bring to a boil, after settling, strain. Bath with a water temperature of 36-37 ° C taken at night. The course of treatment is 12-14 baths.
• Take 1 kg of young pine shoots; Pour 3 liters of boiling water; Boil in a sealed container for 10 minutes; To insist 4 hours; strain. Add to the baths 1 liter of this decoction for every 15 liters of water.

Diet with radiculitis

Nutrition for people suffering from radiculitis should consist of two-thirds of raw vegetables in the form of salads. You can use cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, radish. Carrots, spinach, cauliflower are recommended to cook for a couple. Eat lots of fruits, especially bananas. It is better to eat 4 times a day: breakfast - fruit and milk; Dinner - steamed vegetables and bread from wholemeal flour: afternoon snack - fresh fruit or fruit juice; Dinner - fresh salad with greens. Very useful garlic: every morning to eat 2-3 teeth. Relief brings a lemon: juice of one lemon to salt and drink with water 2 times a day. You should avoid eating fatty, fried and spicy foods, fatty cottage cheese, confectionery, coffee and strong tea.