Treatment Of Epicondylitis With Folk Remedies

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Treatment of epicondylitis with folk remedies

Epicondylitis is a disease that is localized in the elbow joint. The inflammatory process affects both muscles and tendons where they attach to the bones. The disease is quite serious and can give a person many unpleasant moments. Therefore, for its treatment, it is necessary to consult a doctor, and use folk remedies as auxiliary methods.

Recipe 1. Horse sorrel compress

To prepare a compress, you need to take a liter jar and fill it to the brim with grass. Fill it with a bottle of vodka and put it in a place inaccessible to light. After 10 days have passed, the tincture must be obtained. Moisten a tissue in the resulting liquid and apply to the affected area during a night's sleep.

Recipe 2. Rubbing with laurel oil

If it is not possible to get a ready-made product, you can do it yourself. To do this, you need to take a glass of sunflower oil and add 4 tablespoons of chopped bay leaves to it. After the mixture is thoroughly mixed and removed for 7 days in a dark and warm place, so that the leaves give their useful properties. After the specified time has elapsed, take out the oil tincture and rub it into the elbow joint every day.

Recipe 3. Rubbing with nettles

Nettle is excellent for joint diseases, including epicondylitis. To do this, you need to take fresh leaves, pour boiling water over them and rub the sore elbow every day for several minutes.

Recipe 3. Green tea cold compress

Green tea can be used to reduce pain and inflammation. It is necessary to take one spoonful of large-leaf tea, pour a glass of boiling water and insist until it cools completely. Then the tea leaves must be filtered, and the resulting liquid must be poured into plastic bags and put into the freezer.

When the liquid hardens, it must be removed from the bag and applied to the sore spot. You can fix it with a bandage or other cloth bandage. When the ice has melted, the procedure can be repeated. To reduce swelling and relieve inflammation, the compress should be done for 3-4 days.

Recipe 4. Warm blue clay wraps

Since this method involves the effect on the affected joint with the help of heat, the procedure must be carried out when the acute phase of the disease has passed. You need to take the same amount of blue clay and boiling water. It is important to mix until smooth. When the mixture has cooled down a little, but is still hot, you need to put it on cheesecloth, folded in two layers. This impregnated piece should be wrapped around the sore elbow, and additionally insulated on top with any woolen product.

Clay must be kept until the moment when it gives up its heat. Then the heating should be repeated. During the day, you should do three procedures, two wraps. The course of treatment is 7 days.

Recipe 5. Lard and comfrey ointment

A piece of bacon weighing 200 grams must be melted in a water bath, and then filtered the resulting fat. It is he who will be used as the basis for the ointment. Comfrey needs to be taken about 100 grams (only fresh plant roots are used), minced and mixed with non-cooled fat. Stir until the mixture thickens. When this happens, you need to put it in a glass jar, cover and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of days. Before use, a small amount of the mixture is warmed up and the resulting liquid is soaked into a dense fabric. A sore elbow is wrapped around it, a layer of paper is applied on top, and then additionally insulated with a woolen scarf. After two hours, the compress can be removed. There is no time limit for this procedure. The ointment can be used until the momentuntil the pain subsides and the inflammation subsides.

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Recipe 5. Oil compress with comfrey and beeswax

To prepare this remedy, you will need fresh leaves and plant roots. Then you should take any oil: either olive or sunflower oil and heat it up. Until the oil boils, the crushed parts of the plant are added to it. When the mixture is evenly mixed, turn off the heat and, covering the dishes with a thick cloth, leave to cool. At this time, you can do wax. You can crush it in several ways, either using a combine or a meat grinder.

If neither one nor the other is at hand, then you can use an ordinary knife. While the oil is not completely cooled, beeswax is added to it and also thoroughly mixed. Then you need to remove the resulting mixture in the refrigerator and after a day you can start using it. When there is no time, you can not apply a compress, but simply warm up the oil in your hand and rub it into the sore spot.

Recipe 6. Garlic juice compress

Garlic must either be grated on a fine grater, or passed through a press. Squeeze the juice out of the resulting gruel and mix it with an equal amount of olive oil. The skin of the elbow joint must first be lubricated with a fat cream, then drunk with gauze in the resulting oil - garlic mixture and applied to the sore spot. With such a bandage, you should spend at least half an hour. The procedure is repeated every day for two weeks.

Recipe 7. Baths with birch leaves

This procedure perfectly helps to relieve not only pain, but also inflammation. To prepare the bath, you need to collect young birch leaves, fill them with water and boil for 5 minutes. Optionally, you can add sea salt to the resulting broth. After removing from heat, the liquid must be filtered, but the leaves must not be thrown away. Having poured the broth into a convenient container, you need to wait for a tolerable temperature and place your elbow in it hurts. The procedure should be carried out until the water reaches room temperature. The remaining birch leaves can be used as a compress, wrapping them around the elbow during the night's rest.

Recipe 8. Ointment based on oil and wine alcohol

When preparing this recipe, you need to be careful not to get burned while evaporating the alcohol. For the base of the ointment, you need to take any butter, but it is important that it is not salty. It should be placed in a heavy-bottomed saucepan and ignited. When the oil boils, it is necessary to remove the appeared film and immediately pour in 100 grams of wine alcohol there. The mixture is ignited. When the composition burns out and the oil cools down, it can be used. To do this, you need to lubricate sore spots twice a day. It is better to additionally insulate the elbow at night. The procedure must be done within 30 days.

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Other folk remedies for epicondylitis

• Mix finely chopped leaves and roots of fresh or dried comfrey in a 1: 1 ratio. Mix melted honey and sunflower oil in a deep glass dish. The amount of this mixture should be equal to the amount of grated comfrey. Gradually add comfrey to honey and oil, stirring until smooth. You should get a mixture that is uniform in color, similar to a paste. Soak a piece of cloth with the resulting ointment and wrap its sore joint, wrap it with something warm on top. Keep such a compress for a day, then replace it with a fresh one. Store the ointment in the refrigerator.
• Fill a 1 liter jar with horse sorrel root, pour 0.5 liters of vodka and leave for 10 days. From the resulting tincture, make a gauze compress on the affected area at night.
• Rub laurel oil into the sore spot. To prepare it, take 4 table. tablespoons of crushed laurel leaf and 200 gr. vegetable oil, mix everything well and put in a warm place for 7 days.
• Pour 200 ml of boiling water over a teaspoon of large-leaf green tea and leave for 20 minutes. Then cool, strain, pour into strong plastic bags and put in the freezer. Tie the resulting ice to the sore joint.
• Dilute the blue clay with hot water in a 1: 1 ratio, put it on a gauze bandage and tie it to the elbow, securing it with an elastic bandage and insulating it. After 30 minutes, replace the compress with a new one. Repeat 3 times a day (for an hour), the course of treatment is 30 days.
• Take chamomile and black elderberry flowers in equal proportions, pour over with boiling water and apply to the sore joint for 2 hours. Repeat the procedure every other day for a month.
• Pour 2 table. tablespoons of geranium herb 400 ml of cold water and infuse overnight. Moisten a napkin with the resulting infusion and apply to the sore spot.
• Heat 0.5 cups of milk to 60 ° C and dissolve 1 tsp. a spoonful of propolis. Moisten a napkin in the resulting composition and apply on the sore joint for 2 hours. Make such compresses 2 times a day for 3 weeks.
• Cut a fresh onion into 2 parts, drip 2 drops of pine tar in the middle of each half and apply both halves to the diseased joint in the epicondyle. Fix with a bandage and leave for 30 minutes. Do 2 times daily until symptoms relieve.

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).