Radiculitis is a very common disease not only among the elderly, but also among middle-aged people and even among young people. This disease affects the nerve fibers, which depart from the spinal cord. The cause of radiculitis, most often, is the notorious osteochondrosis .
Symptoms and types of sciatica
There are several varieties of radiculitis:
- thoracic;
- cervico-brachial;
- lumbosacral.
Symptoms of sciatica:
- back pain that occurs with any movement;
- pain, giving to the thigh, foot;
- limitation of mobility of the spine and back.
Radiculitis and traditional medicine
Traditionally, with radiculitis shows bed rest, the use of anti-inflammatory drugs, analgesics, hard bed, physiotherapy and gymnastics, massage. But there are also folk ways of treating radiculitis. All kinds of this disease, including the most common lumbar lumbar pustle, are treated with folk remedies.
At home, sciatica is treated in various ways. One of the known is the rubbing of a sick dream with horseradish juice diluted with water 1: 1. The place warmed up in this way must necessarily be wrapped with a woolen cloth. A similar effect has a radish juice or grated vegetable. Juice or pulp with a napkin should be applied, as a mustard plaster. Do not forget about the traditional mustard and mustard baths.
Very simple and effective way - potatoes. Welded tubers need to be kneaded, mixed with 1-2 tablespoons of baking soda, put on a napkin or gauze and put on a sore spot. To enhance the effect and preserve heat, these "masks" need to be wrapped around a warm, better woolen cloth. With horseradish, garlic, radish, potatoes, there are a huge number of recipes that are passed from generation to generation and are in their own way modernized in every family.
Fir nut oil helps with pain. But in this case it is necessary to spend about 10-12 procedures. Treatment of radiculitis with nettle is considered effective. To do this, take a couple of spoons of nettle leaves, pour a glass of boiling water and insist half an hour. Do compresses with this decoction you need several times a day for 1-2 hours. If the leaves of nettle pour alcohol or vodka and insist for a week, then you get a tincture of radiculitis.
In addition to ointments and rubbing, folk treatment of radiculitis is possible with the help of broths that are taken orally, baths that give excellent effect, special diets.
Treatment of radiculitis by bees
Traditional methods of treating radiculitis include extreme methods. For example, to relieve the pain, the clinic advises you to apply a hot iron through a thick cloth. But it is better not to experiment and not to use such radical methods.
"Martyrs of Radiculitis" also offer treatment for radiculitis by bees. Therapy is that the bees are planted on the sore spot, which stings, thus, saturating the affected area with bee venom.
How to treat radiculitis with folk remedies, of course, everyone will choose for himself. But it is better to try not to get acquainted with this disease, but for this to monitor your health, lead a correct way of life, play sports. Well, if you get sick, you must first get a doctor's advice, consult with him about the treatment, so as not to make yourself even more serious with health problems.