Warm sitting bath
10 handfuls of birch leaves pour 5 liters of steep boiling water, insist in a tightly closed bowl for 15 minutes, heat on low heat for 5 minutes, cool to 30 ° C and pour the decoction with leaves in a prepared bath. The duration of the bath is 15 minutes. Baths should be taken 2-3 times a week, more often in cases of severe hemorrhoids, fistula of the colon, pain in the blind colon. The presence of a hernia does not prevent the use of these baths. Baths are useful for difficult urination, urolithiasis, kidney and bladder diseases.
A sitting bath is taken so that half of the abdomen up to the kidneys and also the upper half of the thighs are in the water. These sitz baths help the secretion of gas, increase digestion and stools, and regulate the circulation of the blood, thus helping with pale malaise, hemorrhage, and other female diseases.
Cold sitting baths
These baths from decoction of birch leaves are useful to take 2- 3 times a week for those who get up in the morning with an aggravated head, who sleep does not bring the desired rest, who generally suffer from insomnia. Sitting in cold water for 1-2 minutes takes away agitation and brings peace. When using cold baths, it is useful to adhere to the following rule: the shorter the bath, the better its effect. The maximum time in a cold bath is no more than 3 minutes.
When sweating feet with stinky odor and suppuration is useful twice a day to put over the feet and fingers with fresh birch leaves.
And remember the birch broom in the bathhouse!
You can't think of a better massage. It'll take away joint aches and pains. After such a procedure there is vigor and a burst of energy. Often with rheumatism, sciatica and other pains birch branches mixed with freshly plucked nettle shoots and steamed them in the bath, giving light blows to the painful areas.
Sciatica is a very cruel disease, especially in its chronic stage. Folk healers use a very uncomplicated means for its treatment - at first the patient should go to the Russian or Finnish bath every other day and very strongly steamed birch broom sore places.
An excellent sympathetic remedy for insomnia is to put a birch broom under your pillow. The results are amazing: people who have suffered from persistent insomnia for months fall asleep peacefully after a short time.
Birch leaves placed in clothes protect them from moths.
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by a monomorphic papular rash that also affects joints and nails. The etiology of the disease is unclear. Hereditary, viral, neurogenic, metabolic genesis of the disease has been suggested. Skin rashes are usually symmetrically arranged, flat, bluish-pink, rounded papules the size of lentils, covered with silvery-white scales, which, enlarging and merging, form plaques and large lesions. Localization of rash elements is ubiquitous, but the favorite is the scalp, elbows and knees. The rash may be accompanied by moderate itching.
The process is characterized by a long, chronic course with periods of remission and exacerbations, which are often preceded by neuropsychiatric overstrain, colds.
Excellent results are given by the method of treatment of psoriasis, proposed by folk healer Golyuk. With some modification, the method of treatment is carried out as follows.
Throughout the first stage of treatment, a thin layer of ointment consisting of the following components, weight in percent (%), is applied 2 times a day to psori-asic rashes:
Fresh egg white - 5-6.
Floral bee honey - 3-3.2.
Baby cream - 0.8 to 1.
Birch ointment is the rest.
Birch ointment is prepared as follows. Spring harvested birch leaves are washed with cold water and dried in the shade. In enameled without chips, or glass, clay dishes put a layer of medical solidol 1 cm thick and put on top a layer of crushed birch leaves of the same thickness, then a layer of medical solidol, a layer of birch leaves, and so on. д. Cover the dish with a lid and thoroughly cover the crevices with dough. Then put the dish in the oven and cook on minimum heat for twenty-four hours in this mode - 2 hours warmed, 1 hour cooled, etc. д. Then the birch ointment is strained, the residue is squeezed.
Birch ointment is thoroughly mixed with all other components of the therapeutic ointment until its homogeneous state.
The therapeutic ointment is rubbed thoroughly into psoriasis lesions on the human body. In addition, ten days after the start of treatment and for the next 30-40 days orally take tincture of the roots of Aralia Manchurian 30-40 drops with cooled boiled water 3 times a day for 30 minutes before meals. The tincture is minimally toxic.
The tincture is prepared as follows. Take 20 g of crushed roots of aralia on 100 ml of 70-proc. of alcohol in a dark container.
Infuse for 2 weeks, strain, squeeze, filter and store in a dark, cool place.
If the first stage of treatment does not end for one cycle of tincture of Manchurian aralia, then at the end of the cycle tincture reception is stopped for 2 weeks, after which the cycle is repeated.
Some time after the start of treatment, the scales come off. In addition, in most cases, a pustular rash protrudes on the cleansed and healthy skin, itching occurs. From this point wash the skin with warm boiled spring or well water and carefully blot dry, and just 5-10 minutes before the next rubbing therapeutic ointment 2-3 times a week washed with baby soap. Gradually the pustules disappear and the itching stops.
After this cleansing of the skin on the areas where psoriasis plaques were, the skin turns dark blue and then takes on a healthy appearance. At this time, the first therapeutic ointment is replaced with a second therapeutic ointment consisting of the following components, weight in percent (%):
Fresh egg white - 2.2-2.5.
Floral bee honey - 1.0-1.3. Finely ground in
powdered celandine herb - 5.5-6.5.
Birch ointment is the rest.
The second therapeutic ointment is also obtained by careful homogeneous mixing of all components with each other. This ointment is rubbed in the same way as the first therapeutic ointment, until the end of treatment, and tincture of Manchurian aralia is discontinued.
After a 2-week break start taking tincture of eleutherococcus. The tincture is prepared as follows. 150-200 g of dried crushed roots of Eleutherococcus insist in 1 liter of 40-proc. alcohol with frequent shaking for 2 weeks. Store in a dark, cool place. The tincture is taken 1 teaspoon 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals, with 1/2 teaspoon taken for the first 10 days. The cycle of reception - one month, then take a break for 2 weeks. If necessary, the cycle is repeated. The repeated cycle is started by taking a full dose of eleutherococcus tincture. For the treatment of children take an aqueous infusion of eleutherococcus. It is prepared as follows: 1 tablespoon of crushed eleutherococcus roots pour 1 cup of cold boiled water, infuse for 24 hours, then heat on a boiling water bath for 30 minutes, cool at room temperature for 10 minutes, strain. Take 1 tablespoon according to the same scheme as taking the tincture.
When treating psoriasis, diet and regimen must be strictly followed. From the diet completely excluded eggs, all types of broths, fatty meat, pasteurized dairy products, canned food, sausages, spicy food, alcoholic beverages. Need an abundance of vitamins of vegetable origin, a variety of vegetable food cooked with vegetable oil. Therefore, it is recommended to treat psoriasis during summer time.
Treatment should not be started during the period of exacerbation of the disease.
Full cure of psoriasis, depending on the age of the disease comes in 2-4 months from the beginning of the procedures..
