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Alternative means for bruises, sprains and fractures
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Methods of alternative treatment
Help the bruised place with a lead lotion, apply ice to the sore spot, spread the arnica flowers (decoction) with a bruise or cover it thoroughly with camphor oil.
Bodyguard
Get in the nearest pharmacy paste sponges bodypages, put on the bruised place with water, then your bruise will soon pass and there will be no bruise.
Cabbage
Finely chop the cabbage in a blender and attach it to the bruise, it is desirable that the cabbage leaf was thoroughly cooked in milk for one hour, let this cabbage lie on the place of the bruise, then clean it and wipe the place on which it lay.
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Radish
Extract the juice of a fresh radish, soak regular kitchen napkins. For an hour you should keep this compress, continue the course for 5 days. Periodically permeate napkins not only with radish juice, but also with mustard.
Sagebrush
From a small amount of wormwood one should take half and extract the juice, the second part of wormwood finely chop, carefully mix the whole mass with honey 1: 1. Dampen this solution with a napkin. At least 1 hour should keep the compress on the bruise, so as not to appear a bruise.
Aloe To heal a wound or cut, you should turn to the real alternative healer - aloe. Cut his sheet, imposed as a compress on the damaged area, will speed up the healing processes and tighten the wound, if kept for about 6 hours.
Nettle
Caucasian people very much appreciate another method of treating wounds and cuts. The method is that you need to take a bottle of 0.5 liters and fill it with fresh nettle leaves. After the bottle is filled almost to the top, pour alcohol into it and leave in the sun for 2 weeks. Tincture from cuts is ready.
Fat
You need one tablespoon of sheep's fat and the same amount of goat's fat, mix them thoroughly, add the crushed old onion (a tablespoon) and just a teaspoon of salt. Take a little of this ointment and apply it inside and outside the cut (wound). Wrap a bandage or some other bandage and do not remove during the day. When treating this method, you can feel very severe pain, but it must be present, such is the process of treatment. After 1-3 ointments use the pain stops, and your injury heals incredibly fast.
Oil and wax
Two parts of olive oil mix thoroughly with one part of beeswax, then you need to boil the whole mixture. Before you smear a cut or wound with this solution, rinse the affected area with water.
Garlic
Garlic or onions, crushed to the consistency of gruel, superimposed on an open wound, tighten it well. Apply this solution immediately while it is fresh.
Fat and flour
Two or three bandages will be needed in the treatment of leg, scab, scab disease. It is necessary to mix the interior lard with flour (wheat) and fry in a conventional frying pan. Add a little milk and wait for the whole mass to become thick while boiling. The resulting solution is applied to gauze, gauze apply to the sore spot.
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Ice
If you have a dislocation or sprain, an excellent treatment will be applying ice. Ice is used on the damaged spot for two days - compresses for 15 minutes, then break for 10 minutes, then make compresses from arnica broth or compresses with camphor alcohol.
Copper
And this is an ancient method of quick splicing of bones after a fracture. Find the copper coin and using a file, grind 0.1 grams of copper. The powder should be added to sour cream or fresh milk (of your choice), rub this egg yolk into this mass and take it three times a week. The bones will grow together.
Cornflowers
Flowers and grass flowers cornflower should be very finely crushed and mixed with thorn juice. In the morning instead of eating, use the solution for 8 days, no more than 2 tablespoons a day. The method is used for fractures.
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Mumiyeh
On an empty stomach, in the morning, take a mummy, diluted with warm water. 10 days take, then 5 days rest and again repeat the course of treatment. The norm of mummy per day: 0.15-0.2 grams. If you have a fracture of the thigh (lower leg), you will need more for 1 course of treatment.
Egg
For 20-30 minutes before a meal, use 1 teaspoon of chopped eggshell. Pre-extract the film that is inside the egg. To improve the taste, it is desirable to add honey or lemon juice. The method is used for fractures or for normal strengthening of bones.