How to cactus

There is an opinion that it is necessary to both eat and be treated that it grows not just in your region, region, but in the immediate vicinity of your place of residence. Like, only such fruits, vegetables and medicinal herbs will be useful to our body. Of course, in these discussions there is a share of common sense. But at the same time you can find arguments against. For example, how to be, if in your home area has long been marked by an unfavorable ecological situation? Whether it is necessary to be treated by means of overseas plants? So after all, aloe was once for the Russian people an absolute exotic. And now we find recipes with aloe juice in all the collections of the councils of folk medicine - both ancient and modern. So to resort to the help of another "prickly healer" or not - each for himself decides for himself. Of course, when using these recipes, it must be remembered that in clinical practice their effect was not checked, these are the results of "folk art".It is important to be careful, if any side effects occur, immediately stop taking the new remedy;remember also about the possible individual intolerance of any herbal preparation.

Most recipes refer to the cactus of the prickly pear, its appearance is familiar to almost everyone. For treatment experts are advised to take a prickly pear with an age not younger than 3-5 years, use the lower "leaves".Be sure to remove with a sharp knife all the spines, both large and small. You can cut them straight with the holes.

For colds

Prepare a decoction or water infusion: "cakes" prickly pears are cleaned from thorns, crushed, the gruel is put in an enamel saucepan, poured cold water in a ratio of 1:10, kept in a water bath for 20 minutes, then filtered. Take 1/3 cup 3 times a day. Or: 2 tablespoons of the crushed raw material is poured with 2 cups and left for infusion overnight. Divide by the number of meals per day and take before meals.

For cough and bronchitis, rinse infusion is prepared: take 3-5 spoons of crushed cactus, pour 2 cups of boiling water, insist in the thermos for 12 hours.

It is believed that the effect can be strengthened by adding to these infusions our habitual herbs. For example, a leaf of mother-and-stepmother, plantain, peppermint, sage herb, string, violet three-leafed, calendula flowers, chamomile and linden. Take 1 tablespoon chopped dry raw material of any of these plants( you can mix them), add to the green mass of the cactus, then prepare the remedy in the manner already described.

Juice of cauliflower stems, mixed with the juice of the herb althea medicinal, is recommended by experts of cactus as an anti-inflammatory drug in diseases of the upper respiratory tract, accompanied by a strong cough, with bronchitis and even with tuberculosis. Take 1 tablespoon of a mixture of juices and honey 3 times a day.

This same remedy is used externally in the form of applications for burns, furunculosis, abscesses on the skin.

Infusion or decoction of cacti in milk is used to treat various respiratory diseases, including serious ones such as lung diseases. To prepare the decoction, the stems of the prickly pear are chopped, placed in enameled utensils, poured with cold milk( 10 parts of milk for 1 part of the vegetable raw material), kept on a water bath for 20-30 minutes with stirring, filtered. You can cook hot infusion for a day in a thermos. To do this, take 2 tablespoons of chopped pulp of cactus, pour 2 cups of hot milk and leave in a thermos for the night. The next day, drink 1/4 cup of warm infusion in 3 divided doses during the day.

For rheumatism, radiculitis, joint pains

Cut from the prickly pear leaf a strip about 1 cm wide, put the remainder in the refrigerator. Grind the cut piece to a gruel and rub it into the painful areas for 1-2 minutes. Then, smooth the remainder of the gruel on the skin, cover it with compress paper, put cotton on top of the paper, then polyethylene and heat cover this place. Do this compress at night. How many procedures to make depends on the age of your "sore";if it is not running, then 2-3 compresses will suffice, and if old, it will take about 10. Those who have been treated this way, note that there are no unpleasant sensations and, especially, burns.

With rheumatism, the sap of the selenious-reus stem of large-flowered leaves also helps. This juice rubs sore spots and wraps up heat. From it, you can prepare and tincture for grinding: the stems of Cereus are crushed, poured in a dark glass pan with 70% alcohol or vodka at the rate of 1 tablespoon of raw material per 100 ml of alcohol. Close tightly and insist at room temperature for a week, then this tincture is used for rubbing to cause a rush of blood to the affected area. Strengthen the effect of this procedure is possible if you mix the tincture with laurel oil. Rheumatism is a complicated disease, the infection affects not only the joints, but also settles, for example, in the throat. In this case, it is also necessary to rinse the throat and mouth to remove streptococci.

Diseases of the kidneys, bladder and urinary tract

We have already discussed the properties of cacti to sort out the excretory system. How to apply them in practice? The stalks of prickly pears( if possible, then the fruits) are ground with a mincer or a juicer. The resulting slurry is squeezed through a piece of cloth, a small amount of water is added to the remainder and squeezed again. Used as a diuretic. Drink 1-2 tablespoons with honey or sugar to taste 3 times a day for half an hour before meals.

Diarrhea from a cactus according to a recipe of American Indians: the cactus pulp is crushed:( 2 teaspoons of raw material are poured with 2 glasses of cooled boiled water and insist night, drink several sips 3-4 times a day. There is evidence that this agent also helps dissolvekidney stones

Diseases of the digestive system

For violations of the gastrointestinal tract, experienced healers recommend infusion of fruits, which is prepared as follows: 3-4 tablespoons of minced raw material is poured with 2 cups of baleYatka, insist in a thermos during the day Drink for 3 doses of 1/2 cup 30 minutes before meals

Another way: the crushed fruits are placed in an enamel saucepan, pour cold water in a ratio( 1 part of the raw material 10 parts water)stand on a water bath for 30 minutes, immediately filter, take 1/2 cup of warm infusion 3 times a day

Or if it is not possible to use the fruits of the prickly pear: 1/2 cup of crushed stems is mixed with a glass of sugar, the mixture is insisted in a dark place3 days, then add a glass of redof natural wine and insist another day. Take 1 tablespoon 2-3 times a day before meals for 1-2 months.

Treatment of wounds

For this purpose, the juice of the prickly pear stems is mixed with the fresh juice of the horse-radish garden horseradish. This tool is effective, including in the treatment of purulent wounds. It, according to the testimony of experienced herbalists, has an expectorant effect, and also increases appetite.