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Folk treatment of ovarian cysts
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025

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Traditional treatment of ovarian cysts should be carried out in combination with traditional medicine, under the supervision of a doctor and ultrasound examination.
Traditional medicine can help in the treatment of functional cysts – follicular and corpus luteum cysts.
Usually, if cysts do not disappear over the course of two to three months despite the therapy, but rather progress, the question of their surgical removal arises.
Traditional treatment of ovarian cysts with herbs
Traditional treatment of ovarian cysts with herbs involves the use, most often, of herbal infusions. It is important to know that herbs are the same medicinal tools as chemotherapeutic drugs, and have their own indications and contraindications, since herbs contain both healing and poisonous components. Therefore, it is better to treat ovarian cysts after consulting a herbalist. Ovarian cyst therapy using herbs should be carried out in courses. The effect of the use of herbal mixtures should be expected after thirty days. In general, the therapeutic course of ovarian cysts should not be more than three to six months. Usually, an interval of several weeks is made between courses of therapy.
- Treatment of ovarian cysts with a herbal mixture of three components. It is necessary to combine equal parts of pharmacy chamomile, coltsfoot, sweet clover and mix them well. Then take 15-30 grams of the prepared herbal mixture and pour five hundred milliliters of water, boil and leave for twelve hours. Then drink the prepared infusion 100 - 120 milliliters four times a day.
- Ovarian cyst therapy with a herbal mixture of four ingredients. Combine snake root, yellow gentian, galangal root and pentafinger in equal proportions, mix well and pour a glass of very hot water. Drink four times a day for thirty days, after completing the course, you need to stop therapy for several weeks and start the treatment course again.
- Ovarian cyst therapy with a herbal mixture of five ingredients. You need to combine equal parts of viburnum bark, pink radiola root, chamomile, rowan berries and motherwort herb. Take 15 grams of this mixture, add 0.5 liters of very hot water and leave for twelve hours. Use fifty to one hundred milliliters before meals, the duration of the therapeutic course is several months.
- Ovarian cyst therapy with a herbal mixture of six components. Equal parts of succession, immortelle, wormwood, yarrow, chamomile, elecampane are combined and mixed. 45 grams of this herbal mixture are selected, half a liter of hot water is added and it is infused for twelve hours.
- Ovarian Cyst Therapy with Seven-Ingredient Herbal Mixture
- It is necessary to combine in equal parts the leaves of currant, nettle, mint, as well as wormwood, deadnettle, thyme and rose hips. Thirty grams of this herbal mixture should be poured with hot water (one liter) and infused all night. Use 100 - 120 milliliters before meals thirty minutes several times a day, for about three months.
- The following herbal mixture gives excellent results: three parts of black walnut leaves are combined with one part of elder flowers, two parts of verbena, four parts of celandine, six parts of goldenrod flowers, six parts of licorice leaves and four parts of licorice root. Fifteen grams of this herbal mixture are poured with a glass of hot water, infused for sixty minutes and filtered. Drink one third of a glass several times a day between meals for ten days. Then stop the therapy for five days and resume it with two more courses.
- In equal parts, mix crushed and dried oregano, mint, wormwood, motherwort, hairy grass, nettle and rose hips. Pour five hundred milliliters of hot water over the herbal mixture and leave for eight to twelve hours. Drink about four times a day for one to two months.
- Ovarian cyst therapy with an eight-component herbal mixture. Equal parts of shepherd's purse, succession, wormwood, yarrow, nettle, chamomile, elecampane roots and leuzea. Then prepare and drink as in the previous recipe.
- Ovarian cyst therapy with a herbal mixture of nine components. Equal parts of the following herbs are combined - elecampane and leuzea roots, deadnettle grass, wormwood, string and yarrow, immortelle and chamomile flowers, rose hips. 30 grams of this herbal mixture is poured with a liter of hot water, infused all night in a warm place. Use 100 - 120 milliliters several times a day thirty minutes before meals. The duration of the treatment course lasts three to four months, upon completion of the course - you need to stop the therapy for several weeks.
Burdock juice for ovarian cysts
Burdock juice for ovarian cysts is one of the most effective remedies for this pathology. Its preparation is not difficult - you need to squeeze juice from young and fresh burdock leaves, for example, using a juicer. Burdock juice is cooled and drunk daily, fifteen to thirty milliliters before meals, the duration of the treatment course is thirty days. At the end of the treatment course with burdock juice, an ultrasound examination is recommended; if the cyst has not resolved, you can undergo an additional course of therapy with burdock juice. The break between courses of therapy is several weeks. Fresh burdock juice is stored in the refrigerator for no more than seventy-two hours.
Instead of burdock juice, you can use a gruel of burdock leaves, which is obtained by passing the leaves through a meat grinder, after which you consume 15 grams of the gruel several times a day before meals, for thirty days.
Burdock and acacia infusion can be used in therapy. To prepare it, mix 30 grams of fresh burdock juice with 30 grams of crushed acacia flowers and leaves in a dark container, cover the container and leave for one week. After that, the infusion is consumed 15 grams about three times a day.
Burdock root for ovarian cysts
Burdock root can also be very effective for ovarian cysts. To prepare a healing drink from burdock root, it is finely chopped, 15 grams of chopped burdock root is taken and 250 milliliters of boiling water is poured over it. The container is covered, insulated and left for six to eight hours. After that, it is filtered and ovarian cyst therapy begins - drink an infusion of burdock root thirty minutes before meals, 15 grams three times a day. The course of therapy is two weeks.
Calendula for ovarian cysts
Calendula for ovarian cysts can be used both independently in the form of an infusion and in combination with other herbs. Calendula helps to normalize a woman's hormonal balance and, as a result, helps to resolve cysts.
It is not difficult to prepare an infusion of calendula flowers - 15 grams of calendula flowers are brewed with a glass of boiling water overnight (it is possible in a thermos), filtered in the morning and drunk during the day in several doses. The infusion must be consumed daily for two months.
Herbal collection with calendula - four grams of calendula flowers are combined with two grams of chicory root, five grams of nettle leaves, five grams of plantain leaves, three grams of rose hips, two grams of knotweed herb, two grams of greater celandine herb, three grams of sea buckthorn leaves or bark, four grams of chamomile flowers and one gram of bird cherry flowers. 15 grams of this collection must be brewed with a glass of hot water in a thermos and infused for four to six hours. Then strain and take one quarter of a glass one hour before meals three times a day. The duration of such therapy is thirty days, after which - a two-week break from treatment, and then the therapy can be continued again.
Another effective herbal infusion with calendula is to combine equal parts of calendula flowers, angelica root, lady's mantle leaves, fireweed, mint and pine buds. The resulting infusion is poured with half a liter of boiling water and infused overnight. Use four times a day for several months.
Treatment of ovarian cysts with hemlock
Treatment of ovarian cysts with hemlock involves using a 10% tincture. To prepare it, you need to pour fifty grams of crushed dry hemlock grass with five hundred milliliters of vodka, seal the container tightly and leave for three weeks in a dark place at room temperature, shaking occasionally.
Hemlock tincture is taken once a day - in the morning one hour before meals, every day. Start taking the tincture with one drop, and increase the dosage by one drop every day for forty days (i.e. bring the dosage to forty drops). The drug is dosed using a pipette, a drop of tincture is diluted in a glass of water, or better yet, in a string or oregano. It is recommended to take this tincture in small sips so that the medicine begins to be absorbed in the oral cavity.
After the dose is brought up to forty drops, the dosage of the tincture is reduced in the opposite order by one drop - 39, 38, etc. up to one drop. This is what one course of hemlock therapy looks like and is seventy-nine days.
If nausea, dizziness, weakness, etc. are observed during the therapy, this indicates an overdose of hemlock, so the treatment should be stopped at the number of drops that you have reached and begin to reduce the dose to one drop. Upon completion of one therapeutic course, it is necessary to stop the treatment for two months, then an additional course can be carried out. There can be two or three such treatment courses.
Golden mustache with ovarian cyst
Golden mustache is one of the most effective remedies for ovarian cysts. To make a tincture from golden mustache, grind twenty-five to thirty-five joints, pour 0.5 liters of vodka and leave for fourteen days in a dark place. Once the solution has steeped, strain it and take ten drops dissolved in thirty milliliters of water in the morning and evening forty minutes before meals. Every day, you need to increase the dose by one drop per dose and reach thirty-five drops per dose in twenty-five days of therapy. After that, you need to reduce the dose of drops daily in the reverse order - by one per dose and reach the initial dosage - ten drops per dose. Such courses can be carried out no more than five. After the first and second courses of therapy, a break of seven days should be taken, and after the 3rd therapeutic course - about ten days.
Sage for ovarian cysts
Sage for ovarian cysts is most often used in the form of a herbal mixture, which, in addition to sage, contains the following ingredients in equal parts - oak bark, St. John's wort, calendula, knotweed, yarrow, chamomile, nettle, deadnettle and centaury. 15 grams of this collection is poured with 0.5 liters of hot water, boiled for six minutes and infused for sixty minutes. This decoction is used by douching or vaginal tampons.
You can also make an infusion of sage - five grams of sage leaves are poured with a glass of hot water and infused for fifteen minutes. Use before meals thirty minutes about four times a day, for several months. Such an infusion normalizes a woman's hormonal background and menstrual function, which is often disrupted with an ovarian cyst.
Acacia flowers for ovarian cysts
Acacia flowers for ovarian cysts are used in the form of a tincture, for the preparation of which it is necessary to pour 60 grams of acacia flowers with 0.5 liters of vodka. This mixture is infused for seven days, after which it is consumed 15 milliliters three times a day for thirty days. If necessary, the course is repeated after a week's break.
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Treatment of ovarian cysts with elecampane
Treatment of ovarian cysts with elecampane involves drinking kvass. To make it, take half a glass of crushed fresh elecampane root, pour it into a 3-liter jar, add fifteen grams of yeast and the same amount of honey. The mixture is infused for several days and drunk 100 - 120 milliliters about four times a day after meals. The duration of the therapeutic period is from one to three months, depending on the results of an ultrasound examination.
Hirudotherapy for ovarian cysts
Hirudotherapy for ovarian cysts can also be very effective. A distinctive feature of hirudotherapy in the treatment of ovarian cysts is the placement of leeches inside the vagina under the strict supervision of a gynecologist-hirudotherapist, taking into account the level of hormones in the woman's body. Hirudotherapy is often combined with phytotherapy, resulting in a higher positive effect.
The number of leeches, the duration of the procedure and the time of bleeding from the wounds depend on the severity of the disease and the individual characteristics of the body. Usually, when treating an ovarian cyst, it is not recommended to put more than ten leeches during one procedure. One course of hirudotherapy can include from seven to ten procedures (or maybe less).
Leech therapy is contraindicated in cases of poor blood clotting.
Tinctures for ovarian cysts
Peony tincture for ovarian cysts
Peony tincture for ovarian cysts can be prepared at home by yourself or purchased at a pharmacy. To prepare it yourself, you will need fifty grams of peony roots, which must be washed well, pour five hundred milliliters of vodka, seal the container tightly and put in a dark place for several weeks. The tincture must be shaken periodically. After several weeks, the tincture is filtered and treatment of the ovarian cyst begins - take five milliliters of tincture, dilute in a small amount of water and use about three times a day for thirty days, at the end of the course - you need to interrupt the therapy for eleven days, and then undergo an additional course of therapy.
Raisin tincture for ovarian cysts
Raisin tincture for ovarian cysts is easy to prepare. To make it, take three hundred grams of raisins, pour five hundred milliliters of vodka and leave in a dark place at room temperature for fourteen days. The tincture should be taken 15 milliliters three times a day before meals. The treatment course for ovarian cysts lasts thirty days. The prepared tincture is enough for ten days, so you need to take care of preparing a new tincture in advance.
Wormwood tincture for ovarian cysts
Wormwood tincture for ovarian cysts is prepared as follows: fifteen grams of bitter wormwood are mixed with fifteen grams of rock wormwood, five grams of birch buds, one crushed aloe leaf, ground red pepper on the tip of a knife and poured with five hundred milliliters of vodka. The prepared mixture is infused for ten to twelve days. Then it is filtered and the tincture is consumed 15 ml three times a day thirty minutes before meals. The tincture can be diluted in water in a ratio of one to three. One or two bottles of wormwood tincture should be consumed per course of therapy.
Wormwood compress for ovarian cysts
A wormwood compress for ovarian cysts can be done daily for one month. To prepare it, you need to pour boiling water over a bunch of wormwood, after three minutes the steamed herb is wrapped in gauze and, while warm, is applied to the lower abdomen for two hours.
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Fly agaric tincture for ovarian cysts
Tincture of fly agaric for ovarian cysts has a high therapeutic effect on different types of cysts. To make the tincture, take cone-shaped young fly agarics, clean them and put them in a liter jar to the top. Then the fly agarics should be poured with vodka so that they are completely covered. It is necessary to insist from two to three weeks, as a result you will get a red-brown liquid with a sharp smell. Use the tincture one drop three times a day, daily increasing by one drop per dose and bring to ten to fifteen drops per dose (for example, the first day - one drop three times a day, the second day - two drops three times a day and so on). After that, the dosage is daily reduced by one drop per dose and brought to one. Take a break in therapy for fourteen days, if the cyst has not disappeared or has not become smaller, you can take an additional course.
Tincture of cedar nuts for ovarian cysts
Tincture of cedar nuts for ovarian cysts is prepared as follows: crush one glass of cedar nuts with the peel, pour 0.5 liters of vodka and leave for fourteen days in a dark place. Then take 15 milliliters three times a day thirty minutes before meals. The tincture can be diluted in one quarter of a glass of water. The course of therapy is from three to six months under the control of an ultrasound examination.
Tincture of the orthilia secunda for ovarian cysts
Tincture of the orthilia secunda is highly effective for ovarian cysts. To make it, you need fifty grams of dry grass, pour 0.5 liters of vodka and insist for twenty-one days in a dark place. Use the tincture twenty-five drops before meals for twenty-one days.
Tincture of Birch Tree for Ovarian Cysts
Tincture of birthwort for ovarian cysts is prepared from 200 grams of its fruits, which are poured with one liter of vodka and infused for seven days. Then it is filtered and fifty grams of such tincture are diluted in 400 grams of water, after which the solution is divided into four parts and consumed one hour before meals. The duration of the treatment course is twenty-one days.
Celandine for ovarian cysts
Celandine for ovarian cysts will be especially effective for cysts of inflammatory genesis.
250 grams of young celandine are crushed, thrown into five hundred milliliters of boiling water and continue to cook for one to two minutes. Then insist for thirty to forty minutes, filter and drink fifty milliliters before meals several times a day - in the morning and in the evening. At the same time, you can douche with this solution two hundred milliliters several times a day. The course of therapy is from one and a half to two weeks.
Celandine juice (one glass) is combined with honey (two hundred grams) and propolis alcohol tincture (fifty milliliters). Take five grams two or three times a day thirty minutes before meals for thirty days. After that, you need to stop taking the tincture for a few weeks, and then continue the therapy again until complete recovery. The medicinal mixture should be stored in the refrigerator.
Five milliliters of celandine juice are diluted in fifty milliliters of water, drunk and washed down with one hundred milliliters of milk. Drink once a day for twenty days, at the end of the course, the therapy should be interrupted for ten days, and then the treatment is repeated. During repeated therapy, the dosage of celandine juice can be increased to ten milliliters.
Flaxseed oil for ovarian cysts
Flaxseed oil for ovarian cysts is taken thirty milliliters once a day, and at the same time you can drink three hundred to four hundred milliliters of green tea. These products reduce the level of male hormones in the female body and thus normalize the hormonal background, which promotes the resorption of the cyst, primarily the functional one.
Viburnum for ovarian cysts
Viburnum for ovarian cysts, as the experience of herbalists shows, is also very effective. To do this, you need to:
- Every morning, thirty minutes before meals, i.e. on an empty stomach, thoroughly chew dried viburnum berries in the amount of ten to fifteen pieces. The duration of such therapy is one and a half to two months.
- Viburnum berries are crushed in a glass container using a pestle or a wooden spoon, then rubbed through a sieve (the seeds and peel remaining in the sieve are not needed). From the resulting viburnum gruel, select 60 grams and put in a jar, add 60 grams of honey, stir and leave in the refrigerator. This amount of mixture will be sufficient for a course of therapy. The scheme for using this mixture is as follows:
- 1st week – consume the mixture on the edge of a teaspoon without washing it down twenty to thirty minutes before meals;
- 2nd week – 5 grams of the mixture before meals;
- 3rd week – 15 grams of the mixture before meals;
- 4th week – 15 grams of the mixture before meals in the morning and evening;
After a month-long course, you need to take a break for thirty days. After a break in therapy, you need to use the mixture in descending order:
- 1st week - 15 grams of the mixture before meals in the morning and evening;
- 2nd week - 15 grams of the mixture before meals;
- 3rd week - 5 grams of the mixture before meals;
- 4th week – apply the mixture on the edge of a knife before meals.
If increased blood clotting is observed, then taking viburnum is not recommended.
Propolis for ovarian cysts
Propolis for ovarian cysts is no less common folk medicine for this pathology. Propolis can be used internally and through tampons.
Fifty milliliters of propolis alcohol tincture are combined with 250 milliliters of celandine juice and 100-150 grams of honey. The resulting composition is mixed well and taken ten milliliters twenty minutes before meals. The treatment course is thirty days, after which a month of rest is required, and then the treatment can be continued until recovery.
Using tampons with propolis. To make an ointment from propolis, you need to take a small piece of propolis (fifty grams), pour 250 milliliters of vegetable oil and heat it. After the propolis has melted, you need to add half a hard-boiled yolk and stir well. The mixture needs to be filtered and cooled. The prepared mixture is used to lubricate a tampon and put it in the vagina overnight, and in the morning it is removed. The course of therapy is ten to twelve days. The mixture is stored in the refrigerator and heated before use.
The main contraindication to the use of propolis is allergic reactions to bee products. Before using propolis, it is necessary to take a small amount of it to determine whether there is an allergy to it or not.
Soda for ovarian cysts
Soda for ovarian cysts is used by means of a compress. To prepare it, you need to take three liters of boiled water, one glass of vodka and the same amount of vinegar, as well as 15 grams of soda. Then the soda is extinguished with vinegar and all the ingredients are mixed. After that, a soft cloth is moistened in the prepared solution and applied as a compress to the lower abdomen for the whole night. The therapy takes several weeks, after which it is necessary to stop applying compresses for three weeks. If the effect of the therapy is insignificant, then the treatment course is repeated. Such a compress can also be used for polycystic ovary disease.
Herbal infusions for ovarian cysts
Herbal infusions for ovarian cysts are no less effective in this pathology.
- Raspberry and meadowsweet infusion for ovarian cysts is quite easy to prepare. To prepare it, you need to combine 15 grams of raspberry leaves with fifteen grams of meadowsweet grass, pour one glass of hot water and leave to infuse. Use 200-240 milliliters about four times a day for four months.
- An infusion of pine or spruce needles is prepared as follows: 45 grams of needles are poured with a liter of hot water and infused in a thermos overnight. This amount must be drunk within 24 hours. The course of therapy is thirty days.
- To make an infusion from the grass of the silverweed, you need to take 30 grams of it and pour five hundred milliliters of hot water, let it brew, strain and drink 100-120 milliliters three times a day before meals thirty minutes before.
- Clover infusion is highly effective for ovarian cysts. To make it, you need to throw dried heads and stems of the clover plant (four pieces) into boiling water (one and a half liters), cover and leave to infuse from evening until morning. Then strain and drink in small portions throughout the day so that you drink everything. The duration of the therapeutic course is two months.
- You can take an infusion of wild carrot seeds. To make it, pour fifteen grams of wild carrot seeds with one glass of hot water and leave for several hours. The resulting infusion is consumed one third of a glass before meals three times a day.
- An infusion of cleavers is quite helpful for ovarian cysts. To prepare it, fifteen grams of this herb are poured with one glass of hot water and infused for about one to two hours, filtered and consumed one third of a glass three times a day before meals for thirty days.
- Half a glass of cedar nut shells is poured with hot water and heated over the fire for an hour. As soon as the infusion cools, add water to the original volume. This infusion is consumed three times a day for two months.
Walnut for ovarian cysts
Walnut is often used for ovarian cysts, as it is highly effective in treating hormonal imbalances in the female body, which results in the formation of functional cysts.
- 60 grams of walnut partitions are poured with three glasses of hot water and boiled for thirty minutes. Use 100 - 120 milliliters about four times a day.
- Tincture from walnut shells is also very effective. To make it, you need to pour alcohol into the shells of fourteen nuts in a 0.5 liter jar and leave for about eleven days in a dark place. Use the finished tincture in the morning before meals, 15 milliliters.
Baths for ovarian cysts
- Baths for ovarian cysts are prepared from baby soap (thirty to forty grams) and raw chicken eggs (4 pieces). Baby soap should be grated on a fine grater and beaten with eggs to obtain a homogeneous composition. This mixture is poured into a basin and warm water is added and sit in it for about fifteen minutes, every day before bed for ten days. During this period, you should refrain from intimate relations. Such baths are recommended to be carried out on the 10th day of the cycle. The treatment course can be repeated after the next menstrual cycle.
- For local baths, decoctions of herbal mixtures are also used:
- birch leaves, nettles and coltsfoot;
- calendula, snakeweed and plantain leaves;
- wormwood herb, licorice and elecampane roots.
Using an onion tampon for ovarian cysts
The use of an onion tampon for ovarian cysts also helps to resolve the cysts. To do this, remove the core from a medium-sized onion and dip it in honey in the morning so that it is soaked by the evening. In the evening, the honey-soaked core of the onion is wrapped in gauze and placed in the vagina overnight, and removed in the morning. The therapeutic course should not be longer than ten days.
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Blue clay for ovarian cysts
Blue clay is used for ovarian cysts in the following way: it is necessary to lubricate the lower abdomen, especially in the area of the ovaries, for ten days, then the treatment is stopped for six to seven days and lubrication is continued again. This treatment course is carried out for thirty days.
When treating ovarian cysts with folk methods, it is necessary to be under constant supervision of a doctor and undergo an ultrasound examination to assess the effectiveness of the therapy - changes in the dynamics of the cyst size and thus avoid possible complications.
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