How to get rid of pinworms at home?
Traditional recipes are still used by patients who want to avoid the toxic effects of drugs. The most effective remedies are considered to be the use of garlic and pumpkin seeds.
Content:
- How to get rid of pinworms with pumpkin seeds
- How to get rid of pinworms with garlic
- Super food against pinworms
How to get rid of pinworms with pumpkin seeds
Pumpkin seeds are a traditional medicine used for many years to remove pinworms and other types of helminths. The main advantage of the pumpkin seed product over medicinal products is the absence of side effects, high safety.
What makes pumpkin seeds the best pinworm remedy?
The seeds contain cucurbitin, a toxin that is dangerous only for parasites. It destroys both tapeworms and round worms, and is effective against pinworms. Before getting rid of pinworms at home with pumpkin seed preparations, you need to consult a doctor.
Dosage of pumpkin seeds depending on age:
- 3-4 years - 75 g;
- 10 years and older - 150 g;
- Adults - 250-300 g.
The product is taken on an empty stomach, without peeling the gray-green peel. It contains the main substance that acts against pinworms.
Recipe for those who find it difficult to consume raw seeds:
- Rinse pumpkin seeds, dry them, grind them.
- Mix with liquid honey, consume on an empty stomach.
- Take a laxative after 3-4 hours.
- Repeat for prophylaxis every 6-12 months.
Cucurbitin does not kill pinworms; it causes paralysis in them. Helminths are in a state of numbness throughout the treatment; they cannot attach to the intestinal walls.
Because pumpkin seeds are high in fat and protein, the liver has to produce increased amounts of bile to process them. Waste products of pinworms, paralyzed helminths, bile should be removed with an enema. Otherwise, toxins will be absorbed.
After 4-5 days of consuming pumpkin seeds, most of the pinworms come out of the intestines, the liver is normalized.
Pumpkin seed oil is used to regenerate the intestinal walls. Take it 3 times a day for 1 tsp. before meals. The tool has an additional anthelmintic effect.
How to take seeds correctly?
Before using the proposed folk recipes, you need to consult a helminthologist or infectious disease specialist.
Method one:
- For 2 days to prepare the intestines for treatment, perform enemas in the morning.
- On the day before treatment, take a saline laxative before bedtime.
- In the morning before using the preparation, make an enema from the seeds.
- Grind pumpkin seeds (300 g for adults, 200-250 g for children under 15 years old, 150 g - for children 8-10 years old, 100 g - for children 5-7 years old, 75 g - for children 3-4 years old), peeled from white husks, mix with 50 ml of boiled water.
- Lying in bed, take a little bit of the mixture over the course of an hour.
- Take a laxative after 3 hours.
- After half an hour, make a cleansing enema.
- After defecation, it is allowed to eat for the first time, the food should be light: cereals, vegetable soups.
Method two:
- Grind the pumpkin seeds together with the peel, add water, 2 times the volume of the seeds.
- Evaporate the mass for 2 hours in a water bath, not allowing the water to boil.
- Strain the broth, set aside for half an hour to settle, remove a thin film of pumpkin oil from the surface.
- Consume the entire product within half an hour.
- After 2 hours, take a saline laxative.
When should you not eat pumpkin seeds?
Like every drug, pumpkin seed-based products have contraindications and may have side effects. Before you get rid of pinworms at home, you need to take into account that such drugs are contraindicated in patients with gastrointestinal diseases, suffering from kidney stones. They show a pronounced laxative and choleretic agent.
In case of kidney pathologies, potassium from pumpkin seeds provokes profuse urination.
In case of an overdose of zinc, phosphorus, B vitamins, which are abundant in seeds, there is pain when urinating, nausea, vomiting, tachycardia, diarrhea.
Allergic manifestations are diagnosed in hypersensitive patients.
Method of treatment with pumpkin seeds according to Semenova
Removal of pinworms occurs within a week after taking the drug:
- On an empty stomach in the morning you need to eat 300 g of raw seeds.
- After 2 hours, take a saline laxative (30 g of salt in half a glass of water).
- After 2-2.5 hours, a course of cleansing enemas begins (up to 6-8 times per day).
- Meals during treatment consist of cereals, vegetables and fruits. Drinking is not recommended in order not to dilute the concentration of the active substance.
- In the evening of the same day, you can drink 200 ml of sbitnya - a drink with anthelmintic properties.
To preserve the healing properties, you must not remove the film covering the seeds, cook them just before treatment.
Children's remedy for pinworms
Pumpkin milk is used to treat children under 5 years of age. It is prepared in advance, in the evening before the day intended for treatment.
How to get rid of pinworms at home using pumpkin milk:
- Grind 150 g of unrefined seeds to a powder consistency.
- Pour 400 ml of hot water and leave in a water bath for 2.5 hours over low heat.
- Insist the mass until the next morning.
- Strain through cheesecloth, leave to settle.
- After half an hour, remove pumpkin oil from the surface of the liquid.
- Pumpkin milk offer a drink to the child.
Before using this method, you should consult your doctor. When removing pinworms from the body, hygiene rules should be followed in order to avoid reinfection.
Find out more: Pumpkin seeds: benefits and harms
How to get rid of pinworms with garlic
Common garlic available to everyone has amazing properties. It can be used to cleanse the organs and tissues of the human body from bacteria, fungi, worms and parasites. This quality has long been adopted by traditional healers.
Effects of garlic on the human body:
- Antiviral;
- Anthelminthic;
- Immunomodulatory;
- Antiscorbutic;
- Antibacterial;
- Antiviral;
- Fortifying;
- Hypotensive;
- Cleansing.
The authorship of the method of garlic cleansing of the body from worms is attributed to Genghis Khan himself. During distant campaigns, there was no time to heal the soldiers for a long time. The garlic remedy worked quickly and effectively. There are two ways to use this tool - fast and slow garlic peel.
Quick cleanse with garlic
Before getting rid of pinworms at home, only light dishes are left on the menu. You need to have dinner no later than 6 pm. At 22 o'clock, to create an acidic environment in the stomach, you need to eat 100 g of green apples, sauerkraut or pickled cucumbers. After that, they eat, without chewing, 200 g of finely chopped garlic cloves. By volume, this amount is approximately a glass. You can drink garlic with pickle or pickle from pickled vegetables. An alternative to marinade is tomato, carrot, apple juice, or celery juice.
Discomfort or pain in the epigastric region is possible. You can get rid of it with a light massage of the anterior abdominal wall. They eat breakfast only with sour foods: pickled vegetables, tomato juice, vegetable pickle. At lunchtime, they switch to the usual menu.
At 16.00, an enema is performed to cleanse the intestines from paralyzed and dead worms, their waste products.
Preparation of a solution for intestinal lavage:
- Pour 1 tbsp. l. dried chamomile with a glass of boiling water, soak for 20 minutes.
- Add 1.8 liters of boiled water to the strained solution.
- Add 1 tbsp to the solution. l. sea salt.
- Add 15 ml of apple cider vinegar.
The total volume of the enema is 2 liters. When you urge to defecate, you need to empty the intestines, check whether the pinworms have come out.
This method has no serious consequences, no constipation, no heavy breathing, except for the release of toxins through the pores of the skin along with the components of garlic. For this reason, you should schedule cleaning for a vacation or weekend.
An intensive cleaning course negatively affects not only the pathogenic flora, but also beneficial microorganisms living in the intestines. To restore them, probiotics are taken, or 0.5 liters of fermented milk products with bifidobacteria are drunk daily for 3-4 weeks.
Long course of cleaning pinworms with garlic
The second option for cleansing pinworms and other worms takes one month and is considered milder. Every day for 30 days, you need to eat finely chopped cloves of one head of garlic in the evening. It is washed down with 1-2 glasses of pure juice with pulp (juice of peach, tomato, carrot, plum, bell pepper). It is not recommended to use nectar. Cleaning begins with small heads, gradually moving on to larger specimens. In this case, the intestine, just like in the first method, needs artificial colonization of the intestine with bifidobacteria.
Effects of Garlic Cleansing:
- Disappearance of age spots, keratomas, allergic dermatitis, acne;
- Lightening or disappearance of the fine vascular network and rosacea;
The best time for cleaning is spring and autumn, traditional healers recommend preventive cleaning every six months.
Contraindications for the use of garlic:
- Lactation and pregnancy;
- Exacerbation of gastrointestinal diseases;
- Lowered blood pressure;
- Heart and kidney failure;
- Cholecystitis;
- Pancreatitis
With such pathologies, it is impossible not only to cleanse, but also to eat garlic. It is advisable to consult a doctor before cleansing the body of worms.
Ogulov about the recipe for "Genghis Khan"
The famous doctor of traditional medicine Ogulov highly appreciates Genghis Khan's recipe - a treatment for worms, carried out in one day by swallowing garlic with sour milk. He points out that the garlic should be swallowed, not chewed. Chewing so much garlic can cause heart problems.
Ogulov's recommendations for using garlic peeling:
- Peel 250 g of garlic, prepare 1.5 l of plum juice. It is plum juice that envelops the garlic, moving it along the digestive tract, although it can be replaced with tomato or apple juice, sour milk.
- Cut the garlic not too finely, lay it out on a flat dish so that the edges are chapped and the juice does not leak out.
- Do not eat for several hours before cleaning. Garlic is swallowed, immediately washed down with juice. You cannot chew it, so as not to harm the heart and there is no smell.
- In the morning, all helminths leave the intestines. To enhance the effect, it is advisable not to drink, quenching your thirst with apples.
Find out more: The benefits and harms of garlic, garlic treatment
Super food against pinworms
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).
