Folk treatment of breast cysts

Traditional treatment of breast cysts, like any treatment with traditional remedies, involves the use of natural products and plants, in particular, medicinal herbs.

It is known that the main reason for the occurrence of cysts in breast tissues - dense and painful to the touch immobile formations of a round shape - is a violation of the balance of hormones in the body. In the treatment of cystic mastopathy, hormonal pharmaceuticals are usually used. However, there is also a folk treatment for breast cysts.

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Traditional treatment of breast cysts: external remedies

Of the folk remedies used externally, compresses from raw beetroot are most often recommended. This folk treatment for breast cysts is practiced in China. Raw beetroot is washed well and grated together with the peel, the resulting juice is drained, and the pulp is placed on the sore mammary gland - overnight. Such compresses are done every other day.

Domestic doctors suggest adding a couple of tablespoons of vinegar or a spoonful of natural honey to the grated beetroot, and they advise covering the mass applied to the skin with a leaf of white cabbage. You need to be patient, since such treatment lasts for more than one month.

It is difficult to explain how all this works at the biochemical level, although beetroot is a truly wonderful root vegetable, rich in micro- and macroelements. And its use for its intended purpose - as food - will be very useful for breast cysts, since vitamin B6, which is abundant in beetroot, helps neutralize the excessive effect of the pituitary hormone prolactin on the breast. Its excess (hyperprolactinemia) is one of the factors involved in the development of cysts or adenomas of the mammary glands. And cobalt, which is also rich in beetroot, has an immunostimulating effect on the body.

So you can't go wrong if you include enough tasty and healthy beets in your diet.

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Traditional treatment of breast cysts: internal remedies

The rest of the folk treatment for breast cysts - chaga and walnut and pine nut shells - are for internal use.

In medicine, the tinder fungus of the Hymenochaeta family - chaga or birch mushroom - has been used for a long time. There is even a general tonic and pain-relieving drug based on this parasitic fungus - Befungin.

Among all the substances contained in chaga, pterin (2-amino-4-hydroxypteridine) and polyporenic acid (plant sterol) have the greatest antitumor and anti-inflammatory effect. The use of water infusion or alcohol tincture of chaga helps to reduce the intensity of cellular mitosis (cell division). However, with an overdose of chaga, the division of healthy cells may also slow down.

To prepare a water infusion, you will need about 200 g of dried birch mushroom, which is chopped, poured with a liter of boiled water and infused for 6-8 hours. Then the infusion is drained through a sieve, the soaked mushroom is thoroughly chopped again and sent to the infusion. This mixture needs to be heated to about 70 ° C (but do not allow it to boil!), simmer for about half an hour, and then cover with a lid and wrap it up well (as an option, pour it into a thermos). And leave it for another two days. After this, the infusion only needs to be filtered and can be taken: 30 minutes before each meal (but no more than three times a day) drink 100 ml.

Here's how to prepare an alcohol tincture with chaga - a folk remedy for treating breast cysts. Chop dry chaga as finely as possible (100 g) and pour in vodka (1 liter); leave in a dark place for 15-20 days, then strain. Recommended dosage: three times a day, one dessert spoon (20-25 minutes before meals). The course of treatment is 1-2 months. It should be borne in mind that taking chaga will require certain dietary restrictions: you will have to temporarily do without animal fats and meat broths, smoked foods and hot spices, and also not drink strong tea and coffee.

Walnut shells, which contain phenolic acids, coumarins, glucosides and steroids, have also found their application in the treatment of breast cysts using folk methods. To prepare a medicinal tincture, you need to grind the shells of 15 walnuts and pour 0.5 liters of vodka over them, leave for two weeks in a dark place. Then strain and take one tablespoon three times a day (before meals) for 1-2 months.

An alcohol tincture of cedar nut shells is used in the same way; to prepare it, you will need 1.5 cups of shells and half a liter of vodka.

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Treatment of breast cysts with herbs: phytotherapy

Now let's focus on herbal medicine, that is, how to treat breast cysts with herbs.

Among the wide variety of medicinal herbs used to combat pathological formations in the mammary glands are St. John's wort, burdock, large-leaved gentian and sweet clover. Let's start in order.

St. John's Wort for Breast Cysts

St. John's wort has long been used in folk medicine as a powerful antiseptic. Official medicine also uses it, for example, the drug Novoimanin (1% alcohol extract from the leaves and flowers of the plant) is used for external treatment of abscesses, phlegmon and purulent wounds.

St. John's wort contains many biologically active substances, including flavonoids, saponins, quinones, beta-sitosterol, etc. Compresses with St. John's wort infusion are recommended for the treatment of breast cysts. It is easy to prepare the infusion: a tablespoon of dry grass is poured with a glass of boiling water, the container is tightly closed with a lid and infused for at least half an hour. A cotton napkin is moistened with warm infusion and placed on the area of the chest where the cystic formation is found. Compresses should be kept for 15-20 minutes and done daily for a month.

Burdock root for breast cysts

Burdock is a perennial plant of the Asteraceae family, its root contains glycosides, alkaloids, essential oil, tannins, bitters and resins. In medicine, burdock root is used externally for boils and acne, eczema, trophic ulcers and burns. And doctors prescribe taking a decoction internally to treat gastritis and cystitis, arthritis and gout, as well as to dissolve and remove stones from the gallbladder and kidneys.

The most recommended folk treatment for breast cysts with burdock root is to take a water infusion internally. A tablespoon of dry crushed root is poured with 200 ml of boiling water and placed in a water bath for a quarter of an hour. Then the infusion is poured into a thermos and infused for 7-8 hours. It should be taken warm - a few sips a day (before meals).

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Large-leaved gentian for breast cysts

Gentiana majorifolia (or cross-leaved gentian) from the Gentianaceae family has been used by Tibetans for centuries for dyspepsia, stomach diseases, colds (for hoarseness and sore throat) and externally - to treat wounds. Root extract is also used to treat oncological pathologies.

The roots of this plant contain the alkaloid gentianine, bitter glycosides, phenolic carboxylic acids and xanthines. Gentian root extract can cause headaches, nausea and vomiting.

Traditional treatment of breast cysts with a decoction of large-leaved gentian uses compresses again. The infusion is prepared in the usual way in the proportion - a tablespoon of plant material per 200 ml of water. The roots give their substances to the infusion worse than the leaves and flowers, so it is best to keep the infusion in a water bath (as described above - in the case of burdock root). Actually, the method of application is no different from the above.

You can also use the flowers and leaves of this plant (25 g per glass of boiling water). This infusion is taken internally - 50-60 ml three times a day (after meals). Internal use of gentian is contraindicated in case of stomach ulcers and high blood pressure.

Sweet clover for breast cysts

Sweet clover is a biennial herbaceous plant of the legume family. It contains coumaric acid, melilotin, melilotic acid and the glycoside melilotoside. As a local irritant, a decoction of this plant is used in the form of lotions to accelerate the maturation of furuncles and boils, and taken internally as an expectorant and diuretic.

But an alcohol tincture of sweet clover, according to herbalists, helps with hormonal disorders, since sweet clover belongs to the legume family, and all plants of this large family contain phytosterols, which act like the female hormone estrogen.

For an alcohol tincture, pour 100 g of dry grass into 500 ml of vodka, leave in a dark place for two weeks, strain and take 15 drops three times a day before meals.

Homeopathy for Breast Cysts

Homeopathy has been used for breast cysts for many years, but you may not even know it...

For example, to treat fibromatosis of the mammary glands and other nodular formations in the breast, most doctors prescribe the drug Mastodinon in the form of drops. This homeopathic remedy is an alcohol extract from plants such as cyclamen, iris, tiger lily and chilibuha. Mastodinon is taken 30 drops twice a day, the course of treatment lasts three months.

Another homeopathic remedy prescribed for breast cysts is Mastopol tablets under the tongue, which are recommended to be taken for two months (one tablet three times a day). This drug contains hemlock, thuja and goldenseal. The chemical composition of goldenseal from the buttercup family provides its strong tonic, immunostimulating and anti-inflammatory effect.

Hemlock, a member of the Umbelliferae family, contains, among other things, the poisonous alkaloid conine (which is why hemlock juice was used in the past to carry out death sentences). And the biologically active substances of thuja (a member of the cypress family) can cause the death of benign tumor cells.

Any mastalgia, especially in the form of formations in the mammary glands, requires proper diagnosis, so self-medication without visiting a mammologist is dangerous: it is necessary to exclude the presence of a malignant tumor. Modern drug therapy for these diseases gives a positive effect, and taking the drugs prescribed by the doctor will help cure them.

By the way, the drug Bromocriptine (Parlodel), which is prescribed for mammary gland pathologies, uses ergot, an ascomycete fungus of the Clavicipitaceae family, which parasitizes rye. Ergot alkaloid derivative ergocryptine has a stimulating effect on the dopamine receptor D2 of the hypothalamus, resulting in a decrease in the synthesis of prolactin and somatropin hormones by the pituitary gland.

So, you need to go to the doctor, dear ladies! And trying to independently use folk treatment for a breast cyst is the wrong way.