Mastitis
.Mastitis, or mastitis, is an inflammation of the mammary gland. This disease is diagnosed most often in lactating mothers and more often in first-borns. It is true that sometimes also in adolescents during puberty appears so-called juvenile mastitis.
Mastitis refers to a kind of infectious disease. The causative agent of this female disease is almost always festering bacteria. Through the nipple's loose skin, cracks, scratches, abrasions, bacteria through the lymphatic pathways get into the breast tissue, causing it to develop inflammatory, sometimes purulent process.
Mastitis has the main complaints: pain in the mammary gland, especially intensified by feeding, chills, fever. The breasts become red, swollen, tense and painful. The intensity of the pain is constantly increasing, the patient feels no rest neither day nor night, for the pain seizes the whole breast and axilla. Day by day, the patient's condition worsens. And if mastitis is neglected, surgical intervention is often required. In non-prevalent cases, conservative medicine, including folk remedies, can be used.
Mastitis is recommended to be treated with the following medications.
Prepare the mixture: 20 g crushed walnut leaves pour 100 ml of vegetable oil, insist in a closed bowl for 7 days. Then boil the composition for 5 minutes, strain it through multi-layered gauze, then heat it on a water bath for 30 minutes. Then put 20 g of wax into the hot composition and stir until cooled. Apply the resulting ointment from mastitis on the abscess under a bandage.
Pear. The root of the wild pear is crushed, pour boiling water (to make a thick porridge) and apply to the chest overnight. Do the treatments every other day. Do 20 treatments in total.
Small-leaved linden. Crushed fresh buds or leaves are used locally (applying them to a sore mammary gland).
Eucalyptus. Prepare an infusion: 1 tablespoon of leaves on 250 ml of boiling water, insist 1 hour. Used externally.
Tangerine. To prepare a medicinal extract, take 100 g of mandarin peel and 20 g of licorice root. Components are crushed, pour 2 cups of water and boil over low heat for 30 minutes. The decoction is strained and divided into 2 parts, which are taken in the morning and evening. Relief comes on the 3-4th day of taking the medicine.
Apple tree. Prepare ointment for mastitis: 1 part of grated fresh apples mixed with 3 parts of butter or fat. Apply mastitis ointment to quickly heal cracked nipples.
Aspen. Prepare ointment for mastitis: dried kidneys are crushed into powder and mixed with pork fat in a ratio of 1:2. Such ointment from mastitis promotes faster healing of nipple cracks.
Lilacs. For faster healing of mastitis, lilac leaves are applied to the affected area of the mammary gland.
Siberian fir. On the sore chest make compresses with fir oil (bandages change 2-3 times a day). To prevent burning, fir oil for compresses should be mixed with some fatty base.
Menstrual disorders
The following remedies are commonly used in folk medicine for menstrual disorders.
Prepare a composition: take equal parts of yarrow and lapchatka herb, mint leaf and strawberry, add oak bark. A tablespoon of the collection pour a glass of water, stand for 4-6 hours and boil for 10-15 minutes. Take 1 tablespoon, 3 times a day.
Lilacs. Prepare an infusion: 1 tablespoon of leaves on 250 ml of boiling water, insist 1 hour. Take an infusion of 30 ml 3 times a day before meals. This medicine regulates the menstrual cycle.
Rowan. For heavy periods, prepare an infusion: 2 tablespoons of dried or fresh berries pour 500 ml of boiling water. Infuse until cool and then drink throughout the day instead of water.
Garnet. Prepare a decoction: 1 tablespoon of crushed fruit peel pour 500 ml of boiling water, boil for 10 minutes, insist 2 hours, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 4-5 times a day for heavy menstruation.
Prepare a collection for menstrual cycle:
Woodwort herb - 2 tablespoons;
herb shepherd's purse common - 4 tablespoons;
herb yarrow - 5 tablespoons;
young bark of petiole oak - 2 tablespoons;
rhizomes lapchatka erect - 3 tablespoons.
Collection for menstrual cycle (2 tablespoons of the mixture) boiled for 5-7 minutes in 500 ml of water, insist 1-2 hours, strain and drink the entire decoction during the day for 4-6 times for heavy menstruation and violation of the menstrual cycle.
Prepare a collection for menstrual cycle:
heather (flowers) - 20 g;
poppy-seed (flowers) - 20 g;
peppermint (leaves) - 20 g;
heartleaf linden (flowers) - 20 g;
valerian medicinal (rhizome with roots) - 20 g.
Collection for menstrual cycle (30 g of the mixture pour) 1 liter of boiling water, insist 15 minutes, filter. Take 3-4 cups a day for painful menstruation.
Common Oak. Prepare a decoction: 1 tablespoon of crushed bark pour 500 ml of water and boil for 20 minutes on low heat. Strain, bring to the original volume. Take 1/2 cup 3-4 times a day for heavy menstruation..
