Heel spurs - treatment with folk remedies

Plantar fasciitis, popularly called a calcaneal spur, is a disease accompanied by the growth of the calcaneus and the formation of a spine in the place where the ligaments of the foot are connected to the Achilles tendon. Since walking on the heel accounts for the majority of body weight, the main symptom of plantar fasciitis is severe heel pain.

An x-ray can reveal the bony enlargement. Conservative treatment consists in arresting the pain syndrome with analgesics and relieving inflammation in the tissues. The most effective treatment for calcaneal spur is surgical removal or partial excision of growths. But for those who are afraid of surgery, there is good news: folk methods of treating the heel spur in most cases give an excellent result.

Treatment of heel spur with iodine

Eliminate the calcaneal growths will help alcohol solution of iodine (5%).

  1. Rastoloch 6 tablets of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin), add the resulting powder in 50 ml of iodine solution. Finished with a mixture to process for a month's heel morning and evening.
  2. Spread the legs, apply camphor oil on the sore spot, then lubricate the heel with iodine. The procedure should be carried out regularly until the pain disappears completely.
  3. Mix a bottle of triple cologne, two bubbles of valerian infusion and a solution of iodine, add 4 pods of bitter pepper. Stay in a dark place under a closed lid with a mixture of oiling the heels at night.

Treatment with bile

One of the best folk remedies for treating the heel spur is a lotion of bile. You can use fresh pork or chicken bile, but it is better to buy this drug in a pharmacy (it is dispensed without a prescription). To give the healing composition the optimum consistency in bile, you can add a little shampoo. Ready mixture should be applied to the steamed heels with a previously applied iodine net. Above, the sore spot is covered with polyethylene, a warm toe is put on the legs. Such lotions should be kept all night, it is better to wipe the heels with boric alcohol in the morning, but do not wash. In patients who regularly treat bile, heel spurs pass in a few weeks, and the pain syndrome disappears after 3-5 nights.

Spirits baths

  1. The simplest folk recipe for calcaneal spur is a bath of heated alcohol (96%). The substance is poured into a pan and kept on very low heat until the alcohol has heated to a temperature that the skin of the legs will withstand. The hot liquid is poured into the pelvis and the heels are held for 20 minutes. After the procedure, the feet are wiped dry (it is undesirable to wash the alcohol with water).
  2. Another popular recipe for treating the heel spur suggests adding alcohol (100 ml) to a bath suspension from distilled water (0.5 L) boiled. 75 g of salicylic acid are poured into boiling water, a handful of ground soap is purified turpentine (0.5 l). After the addition of alcohol, the resulting mixture is poured into a glass container and stored under a tightly closed lid. When making foot baths, add 1-3 ml of alcohol suspension to water (38-40 ° C). Course - 2 weeks, the procedure lasts 15 minutes.

Medicinal herbs from the spur

Help get rid of heel build-up infusions of medicinal herbs.

  1. Tincture on the flowers of lilac - dried raw material pour vodka (1:10), insist in a closed bottle for 10 days. From the received preparation do heel compresses.
  2. Decoction of pine shoots, cones, pollen and forest heather - dry raw materials are poured in equal proportions water (1 tablespoon per 1 liter of water), brought to a boil and cooked for 10 minutes. The resulting product is added to the foot baths. Course - 10-15 procedures.

Other folk recipes

Excellent treatment itself heel spurs propolis, a piece of which is applied to the patient heel at night. One piece can be used 3-4 times.

To get rid of the heel spur is also helped by a black radish treatment. The fresh root is passed through a meat grinder and the resulting gruel is applied to the site of the build-up for the night.