Low Back Pain - Treatment Of Low Back Pain With Folk Remedies And Methods

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Treatment of lower back pain with folk remedies

The most common symptom often seen in medical practice is back pain. In 80% of cases, patients complain of pain in the lumbar region. Most of all, people aged 30-60 are susceptible to this. These symptoms can occur for various reasons. There are primary and secondary pain syndromes.

With the primary symptom, degenerative-dystrophic changes occur in the spine, which are caused by: osteochondrosis (damage to the intervertebral disc) and spondyloarthrosis (arthrosis of the intervertebral joints). Secondary causes can be: vertebral fractures, bone tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis, scoliosis, osteoporosis, spinal circulation disorders, intestinal obstruction, atypical appendicitis, renal colic, infectious gynecological diseases.

To find out the causes of lower back pain, first of all, a person should consult a doctor. After the diagnosis is made, the doctor will definitely prescribe the appropriate treatment.

It is also possible to use folk remedies that help relieve inflammatory symptoms and have a sedative and analgesic effect. They should improve the functioning of internal organs and normalize salt metabolism in the human body.

Before using traditional medicine recipes, consultation with a doctor is required so as not to harm health.

Content:

• Back pain treatment with compresses
• Rubbing back pain
• Treatment of back pain with a mixture of grated beets and kerosene
• Treatment with a mixture of egg white, frankincense and soap
• Burdock leaf
• Mustard plasters treatment
• Low back pain recipes
• Note

Back pain treatment with compresses

Traditional medicine recommends treating lower back pain with compresses. Most often they are warming, help relieve pain and inflammation.

1. On a sore lower back, you can apply grated horseradish or radish. To avoid burning, mix this mixture with sour cream. Cover with a napkin and tie with a woolen shawl or scarf.
2. For hot compresses with wraps, an infusion of chamomile, black elderberry, St. John's wort and thyme is suitable. These procedures are best done at night.
3. If you dilute a tablespoon of mustard powder in warm water (about 40 ° C), you get a mixture that resembles sour cream in consistency. With this mixture, you need to spread the sore spot and insulate. Keep the compress for no more than 5 minutes so as not to burn the skin. Remember: all warming compresses should not bring pain, the maximum is tolerable heat and a slight tingling sensation. Otherwise, it is necessary to remove the compress and rinse the sore spot with warm water.

4. Burdock leaves have a healing effect. For a compress, you need to dry them, pour them over with boiling water and attach to the lower back. From above, burdock leaves are wrapped in a warm woolen scarf and hold the compress for an hour.
5. Use bodyagi powder diluted with olive oil in a ratio of one to thirty for treatment. Warming compresses should be made from the resulting ointment. The duration of the procedure is a little less than an hour.
6. Horse chestnut is a good folk remedy for lower back pain. It is ground into powder and mixed with ghee and camphor oil. All components should be taken in equal quantities. A thin layer of this healing mixture is applied to a piece of black bread and applied to the sore spot.
7. Cold compresses are made from garlic. The garlic infusion is mixed with lemon juice and a cotton napkin is soaked in the resulting mixture. The procedure for applying a compress lasts twenty minutes: during this time, the napkin will have time to warm up to body temperature. After a while, you will surely feel relief if you repeat the procedure regularly.

8. Dough compresses are a popular remedy. The loin is wrapped with a thick layer of gauze, and a thick (about 2 cm) layer of sour dough is applied on top. The procedure should be carried out daily before bedtime. The course of treatment is ten days.
9. It is also useful to lubricate the sore lower back with honey. Rub it intensively, abruptly, to normalize blood circulation and restore muscle tone.

Rubbing back pain

Various rubbing helps to eliminate back pain well. You can prepare medicinal tinctures at home. For example, on the basis of the "Triple" cologne, they make a liquid for grinding, adding to one bottle a couple of bubbles of a 3% solution of iodine, five red bitter peppers and two bottles of valerian tincture. The ingredients are mixed in a dark glass bottle, shaken well and left to infuse for 24 hours. Before going to bed, you need to lubricate the sore lower back with tincture, or draw a grid with a cotton swab. Above, the waist is wrapped in a warm scarf or woolen scarf. Best of all, this medicine helps if sciatica is the cause of lower back pain. A proven folk remedy that can cope with pain is an alcoholic tincture of eucalyptus or Adam's root. It is useful to rub with an alcoholic tincture of burdock. This can also be used for compresses. To relieve back pain, you can apply fresh horseradish leaves to the sore spot, wrapping it with a handkerchief on top. They change them every day.

Other methods: massage, special exercises for lower back pain

Treatment of back pain with a mixture of grated beets and kerosene

Take a medium-sized beet, wash thoroughly and grate with the peel on a fine grater. Squeeze the juice, and mix the remaining cake with 1 tbsp. spoon of kerosene. Apply the resulting mixture evenly to a cotton cloth and apply the compress where the pain is felt most. To avoid burns, there should be a cloth between the skin and the mixture.

A film and a warm woolen scarf or shawl are applied over the compress. Go to bed and in the morning, not a trace of pain will remain.

Treatment with a mixture of egg white, frankincense and soap

If you feel pain in the lower back, apply a compress at night from a mixture of 1 packet of white incense, 1 tbsp. spoons of laundry soap previously grated on a coarse grater and egg yolks whipped into a thick foam in the amount of 2 pieces. Mix everything thoroughly. The mixture is applied to woolen fabric, which is wrapped around the waist. After a few of these procedures, you will forget about lower back pain.

Burdock leaf

To use this recipe, burdock leaves can be prepared for future use by thoroughly drying them under a canopy in the open air. Before use, dry leaves are sprayed with warm water and gently straightened. They should not be stored in thick piles, otherwise they may overflow. For pain in the lower back or joints, 3-5 leaves of burdock, pre-moistened with vinegar diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1, are stacked. A sore spot can be lubricated with any vegetable oil and a compress applied to it for the whole night. Wrap it over with a thick woolen cloth. In the morning, after removing the compress, wipe the skin with a damp cloth or cotton wool. Usually after 3-4 procedures the pain subsides.

Mustard plasters treatment

If back pain occurs, the following folk recipe can be an effective remedy to reduce it. Take 1 "Furacilin" tablet and dissolve it in 50 ml of water. Add 1 tbsp to the liquid. spoon of honey and mix the mixture well. After that, dip the mustard plasters in the solution in turn and apply them to the sore spot. You need to keep the mustard plasters as long as you can endure. After removing the compress, spread cream or oil on the lower back, cover with plastic wrap and tie on top with a thick woolen cloth.

Low back pain recipes

Recipe 1. For pain in the right or left side of the lower back, an ointment based on horse chestnut is prepared. In this case, ghee (gut) and camphor oil are mixed with horse chestnut grass, ground into powder. All components are added in equal proportions. The ointment is applied in a thin layer to slices of brown bread and they are applied to the sore lower back.

Recipe 2. For back pain, moisten a cotton cloth or gauze in horse chestnut tincture and apply to the sore spot. Gradually, the painful sensations go away.

Tincture of the golden mustache. Joint pains and lower back pain can be relieved by tincture of golden mustache on Bischofite. To prepare the drug, 35-40 chopped plant joints should be poured into 0.5 liters of "Bishofit" and insisted for 14 days. After that, strain the tincture and rub the sore spot or apply compresses at night.

Note

Using the above folk recipes, you should remember that commonplace back pain can be a harbinger of serious diseases of the pancreas, kidneys, reproductive system organs, bone tuberculosis and other dangerous diseases.

The effectiveness of treatment depends on the timely diagnosis and initiation of medication. Accurate diagnosis quite often requires close cooperation of specialists of different profiles. Do not self-medicate in order not to waste time, thereby causing even more harm to your body.

The author of the article: Sokolova Nina Vladimirovna | Phytotherapist

Education: Diploma in "General Medicine" and "Therapy" received at the Pirogov University (2005 and 2006). Advanced training at the Department of Phytotherapy at the Peoples' Friendship University of Moscow (2008).