Arrhythmia treatment with folk remedies
Arrhythmia - a violation of the normal rhythm of the heart, increasing or slowing it down. The presence of arrhythmia is easy to detect by "irregularity" of the pulse. Arrhythmia is caused by many causes, primarily permanent or temporary damage to the heart muscle. Provoke the development of arrhythmia, such diseases as heart disease, atherosclerosis, ischemic heart disease. In addition to diseases, arrhythmia can cause alcohol abuse and smoking, the habit of drinking strong coffee, as well as an overdose of certain medicines.
Diseases of the cardiovascular system take more lives than all diseases combined. Studies have established that every fourth person in the world has heart disease. These very sad indicators emphasize the great importance of heart diseases and the search for effective methods of their treatment.
The fact is that the heart is a powerful muscle pump, and, rhythmically contracting, it pushes blood into the vessels, thus ensuring nutrition and oxygen saturation of tissues and organs. The causes of arrhythmias can be different: it is excessive fatigue, and physical stress, and smoking, and drinking a lot of coffee, as well as certain diseases of the heart, the organs of the endocrine system, the nervous system. Arrhythmias can be both harmless, and very dangerous for life. Harmless arrhythmias can occur in certain conditions of the body: with stress, with agitation, with fright. In the future, palpitations, as a rule, normalize. Pathological arrhythmias can arise from the violation of any function of the heart and therefore require special attention and immediate treatment. There are two types of arrhythmia: tachycardia( frequent cardiac contractions) and bradycardia( rare cardiac contractions).With tachycardia, the heart does not have time to fill up with blood, and the pumping function of the heart decreases. With bradycardia, there is a decrease in blood flow, especially of the brain, which can lead to loss of consciousness.
Symptoms: dizziness, trembling in the hands, general weakness. Often the feeling that the heart is about to jump out, or, conversely, that it is about to stop beating. More about the symptoms, see here.
What should I do? In such cases, you need to calculate your pulse.
If the pulse is less than 60 beats per minute or more than 110 beats per minute, immediately call for an ambulance, since only a doctor can prescribe an adequate treatment.
Arrhythmia is most often a "companion" of diseases of the cardiovascular system. Therefore, it is enough to cure the underlying disease in order to get rid of the arrhythmia at the same time.
Recipes. Traditional medicine for the treatment of arrhythmia recommends:
• peaches and black currant;
• Eleutherococcus extract( 20-25 drops, half an hour before meals);
• baths with broth of valerian( 200-300 ml of broth for a full bath).
The most effective remedy for arrhythmia, as well as all other diseases, is prevention. Watch your weight, exercise moderately, observe a sensible diet that involves giving up sweet, salty and fatty foods.
In case of cardiac rhythm disturbances, first of all one should treat the main disease: cardiosclerosis, rheumatism, myocarditis, cardiac neuroses, etc.
Traditional medicine for restoring the disturbed rhythm offers the following plant folk remedies.
2 teaspoons of calendula flowers pour 2 cups of boiling water. Insist in a warm place for 2 hours, strain. Drink 0.5 cup of infusion 4 times a day.
Herb yarrow -2 parts, cones of hops -2 parts, root of valerian -3 parts, sheet of melissa -3 parts.
1 tbsp. Spoon a shredded collection pour a glass of boiling water, insist 1 hour, strain. Drink 1/4 cup 4 times a day.
For heart attacks, use infusion of cornflower blue flowers: 2 teaspoons of flowers brew 1 cup of boiling water, insist 1 hour, strain. Drink 1/3 cup 3-4 times a day for half an hour before meals.
With arrythmias and sclerosis, the rowan bark is brewed: 200 grams of crust are ground, poured into 500 ml of water and boiled on low heat for 2 hours. Filter and drink 50 ml before meals 3-4 times a day.
Flowers of meadow clover, watch leaves, yarrow herb, rind of apples, fruits, fennel, wild strawberry forest( whole plant), rhizome of valerian.1 tbsp.spoon collection pour 300 ml of boiling water, insist in a thermos night. Strain. Take 50-100 ml every 4 hours.
Leaves of wild strawberry, sweet clover grass, marigold flowers, hawthorn fruit, rose hips, chicory root, foxglove leaves, asparagus root, peppermint grass. Preparation and use, as in the previous recipe.
Fennel fruits, leaves hinge, rose hips, watch leaves, wild strawberry leaves, foxglove leaves, ledum sprouts. Total take equal. Mix, grind to a powdery state. A tablespoon of collection pour 300 ml of boiling water and heat on a water bath for 10 minutes. Infuse until cooled at room temperature. Strain. Drink 50 ml in a warm form 4 times a day.
Herbage of the motherwort, Adonis herb spring fruit of ordinary mountain ash, peppermint grass, apple peel, burdock root, blackberry leaves, mother-and-stepmother leaves, weed grass, Tartar leaves, Leuzea roots. Total take equal. Cooking and taking, as in the previous recipe.
Traditional healers are advised in any arrhythmia:
is a little, since the overflowed stomach irritates the vagus nerve, inhibiting, in turn, the functions of the sinus node in which heart pulses occur;
avoid static loads( lifting weights), as they cause an increase in blood pressure, which leads to activation of the heart. This can lead to a violation of the rhythm and pace of heartbeats;
liquid extract of hawthorn take 30-40 drops 3 times daily before meals;
cook the collection: valerian root - 1 tbsp.a spoon, the leaves of the watch trilogy - 1 tbsp.spoon, peppermint leaves - 1 tbsp.a spoon. A tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of boiling water and leave for 1 hour. Strain. Drink 1 tbsp.spoon for half an hour before meals 3 times a day;
prepare the collection: fennel fruits, valerian root, peppermint leaves, chamomile flowers, cumin fruits. Total take 1 tbsp.spoon and pour 500 ml of boiling water. Insist 3 hours in a sealed container, drain. Take 1 time a day, in the evening, 1 glass.
25 g. Dry milled grass Belosera marsh add 0.5 liters of vodka, insist in a dark place for 2 weeks( periodically shaking), drain. Take 30 drops 3-4 times a day with tachycardia.
Mix the motherwort juice and vodka in a ratio of 1: 1.Take 1 teaspoon 3 times a day before meals with palpitation, tachycardia, arrhythmias and heart neuroses.
You can take dry powder of the motherwort every 1 g( at the tip of the knife) 3 times a day.
In case of rhythm disturbances( especially if the cause is hyperthyroidism) tincture is applied from European zucchini. Tincture is prepared on vodka in a ratio of 1: 5.Keep in the dark mess 7 days, strain The dose for the patient should be picked up independently( from 5 drops 3 times a day to 25 drops 3 times a day).Although the tool and harmless, but the sensitivity of different people to it is different.
With bradycardia, traditional medicine recommends the following composition: 60 g. Fresh tops of pine pour 300 ml of vodka and insist on sun for 10 days. Drink 20 drops 20 minutes before meals 3 times a day.
In arrhythmias, ischemic heart disease, palpitations, hypertension, mix the tinctures of hawthorn and propolis in a 1: 1 ratio. Take 25 drops 3 times a day.
Peppermint is one of the most effective tools used for heart rhythm disturbances, interruptions and fading in the heart muscle. A teaspoon of dry crushed mint leaves pour a glass of boiling water and insist 1 hour in a warm place. Strain. Drink in small sips in the morning for half an hour before breakfast. Drink daily, not missing a single day for a long time.
Stir 1 tbsp.a spoonful of honey in 0.5 glasses of beet juice and drink 3 times a day for an hour before meals( the remedy also removes blood pressure well).
In many diseases of the cardiovascular system, a tincture of the following composition helps: a forest spruce-25 g freeness marsh -25 g. Vodka-500 ml.
Insist in a warm and dark place for 2 weeks( shaking occasionally), drain. Drink 20 drops 3 times daily before meals with ischemic disease, cardiosclerosis, arrhythmias and heart neuroses.
When heartbeat is useful to eat figs in any form.
Fresh onion salad and apples gruel are used for atherosclerosis( with primary lesion of the heart vessels), tachycardia and various arrhythmias of atherosclerotic origin.
Magnolia large-colored. It is used for heartbeat, hypertension, pain in the heart: 100 g. Fresh chopped magnolia leaves pour 500 ml of alcohol and insist 1 week in a dark and warm place. Filter. Drink 10 drops of water 3 times daily before meals.
A mixture of beet, carrot and radish juices in a ratio of 1: 1: 1 should be drunk daily for several months for any kinds of cardiac arrhythmias.
If you have any violations of the heart rhythm, you need to limit the sugar, sweets, animal fats in the diet, and avoid products rich in cholesterol( brains, caviar, fatty meat, egg yolk).It is also necessary to sharply limit the consumption of table salt, coffee, strong tea and, especially!- alcohol.
For the prevention and treatment of arrhythmia, one should eat as much as possible raw foods rich in calcium, vitamins and microelements that normalize the heart rhythm( vegetable vats, especially young turnips and beans, radish, beets, carrots, cabbage, nuts, milk and milkproducts, oranges, honey, dried apricots, apricots, currants, peaches, cherries, cherries, cranberries, apricots, raisins, lingonberries, celery, mint).
It is necessary to introduce marine products and algae, especially brown ones, into the daily diet.
To increase the potassium content in the blood it is useful to drink apple cider vinegar( 2 teaspoons 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals, dilute it with water and honey( 1 cup of water 2 teaspoons of vinegar and 2 teaspoons of honey)
The main emphasis in nutrition should be made on cereals, cottage cheese, lean varieties of fish, oatmeal. Original oils should be replaced with vegetable oils. It is necessary to increase the number of fruits( especially apples) and vegetables in the diet. Horning, garlic, onion, and hipsand hawthorn must always be on the patient's desk. In excess weight it is necessary to spend unloading days: apple, curd, kefir. It is useful to drink spring water, well clean water, to walk more in the open air, to systematically engage in physical activity.
It is necessary to get rid of tobacco and alcohol!
Arrhythmia and blockade -, associated with changes in the function of the conductive system of the myocardium
Possible causes: organic lesions, myocarditis, IHD, including acute myocardial infarction, intoxications with various substances, drugs, etc.
Disturbances of rhythm, and especially conductivity, can last for a long time almost asymptomatic, but can cause and significant circulatory disorders. Their treatment is a doctor's job and should be carried out mainly in a hospital under ECG monitoring. But there are conditions that pose an immediate threat to the life of the patient, and you can not postpone assistance in these situations.
The most dangerous are:
• paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia with heart rate( heart rate) more than 110 per minute;
• atrial tachyarrhythmia;
• ventricular tachycardia;
• frequent ventricular extrasystoles;
• flutter and fibrillation of the ventricles;
• complete atrioventricular block with bradycardia less than 50 beats per minute.
1. Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia occurs suddenly. The heart rate reaches 140-250 per minute. Because of frequent contractions, the atria do not have time to be filled with blood, therefore the cardiac output sharply decreases, and signs of heart failure appear. The blood pressure decreases, the pulse becomes weak, threadlike, the patients complain of palpitation, weakness, discomfort in the chest, pains in the heart area, a feeling of lack of air can appear.
With supraventricular tachycardia, the excitation source lies "above the ventricles".It can be located in the sinus node, in other departments of the atria( in these cases, on the ECG in front of the QRS complex, the prong P will be visible) or in the atrioventricular node( in this case, the P tooth will layer on the QRS simultaneous contraction of the atria and ventricles or be behind it,since the ventricles will contract earlier than the atria).The QRS complexes are similar to normal, the intervals of R-R are the same, there may be a decrease in the S-T segment. This phenomenon often occurs with increasing heart rate and occurs after tachycardia is stopped for several tens of minutes or 1-2 hours( unless caused by other causes, for example, myocardial infarction).
Emergency care should be performed after ECG registration. If there is no such possibility, then the patient should be given 50-60 drops of tincture of motherwort, valocordin or corvalol. At heart rate to 100-110 per minute, this should be limited and cause a medical team or hospitalized patient. If the heart rate exceeds 120 per minute, you should start medication.
The most universal action and a small number of contraindications is novocainamide. It can cause collapse, so the patient must be placed horizontally before starting novocainamide. Novokainamid is administered intravenously in an amount of 5-10 ml of 10% solution with 10-20 ml of 0.9% sodium chloride solution very slowly - for 5-10 minutes.
If the patient has blood pressure within the individual norm or below, 0.2-0.3 ml of a 1% solution of mezaton is added to this mixture. Obligatory condition - mezaton is typed first or second, but not the last, the syringe should be turned several times - stir the solution. If the mezaton is last, most of it will remain in the needle and in the cannula and will be injected intravenously at one time, before novocainamide. This causes spasm of cerebral vessels, severe headaches and in elderly patients can lead to loss of consciousness. Spasm usually occurs within a few minutes, but it should not be tolerated.
After the administration of novocainamide, the patient should observe bed rest for 2 hours because of the danger of collapse. Contraindication to the introduction of novocainimide - an allergy to it and novocaine.
An attack of supraventricular tachycardia can also be quenched intravenously by the introduction of cardiac glycosides - digoxin, strophanthin, or corglicon. They are administered in an amount of 0.5-1 ml in 10-20 ml of a 0.9% solution of sodium chloride slowly, struino.
Contraindications - cardiac glycoside overdose in a patient, individual intolerance, broadening of the QRS complex on the ECG, acute myocardial infarction or suspicion of it.
Isoptin( phinoptin) has many contraindications and should be administered under ECG monitoring. It is admissible to introduce it to patients with frequent seizures, which it helps especially well, and other drugs are ineffective( according to medical history and medical records).Enter isoptin in an amount of 2 ml with sodium chloride 0.9% - 8 ml intravenously for 1 minute.
Patients with first arrhythmia and with non-occluded seizures are subject to compulsory admission( up to the machine on foot or on stretchers, depending on the general condition), chronic patients with frequent attacks after recovery of normal heart rate can be left at home with an active call to the district doctor. From public places( from work, from the street) all patients are hospitalized.
2. Atrial fibrillation occurs most often in the practice of ambulance. Under this concept, the combination of flutter and fibrillation( or atrial fibrillation) is often clinically often - atrial fibrillation itself. Their manifestations are similar.
Patients complain of a heartbeat with interruptions, a "flutter" in the chest, sometimes pain, weakness, dyspnea. The cardiac output decreases, blood pressure may drop, heart failure may develop. The pulse becomes irregular, variable amplitude, sometimes threadlike. Heart sounds are muffled, irregular. A characteristic sign of atrial fibrillation is a pulse deficit, i.e.the heart rate, determined auscultatory, exceeds the heart rate. This is because individual groups of muscle fibers of the atria contract chaotically, and the ventricles sometimes shrink in vain, not having enough time to fill with blood. In this case, the pulse wave can not form. Therefore, the heart rate should be evaluated by auscultation of the heart, and preferably by ECG, but not by pulse.
There is no tooth P on the ECG( since there is no single systole atrium), instead of it there are waves of different amplitude on the contour, reflecting the contractions of individual muscle fibers of the atria. Sometimes they can merge with interference or be low-amplitude and therefore inconspicuous on the ECG.The frequency of waves / can reach 350-700 per minute.
3. Atrial flutter is a significant increase in atrial contractions( up to 200-400 per minute) while maintaining atrial fibrillation. On the ECG, the waves are recorded.
Ventricular contractions with atrial fibrillation and flutter may be rhythmic or irregular( which is more common), with normal heart rate, brady or tachycardia. A typical ECG with atrial fibrillation is fine-wavy isolines( due to waves I), absence of P-teeth in all leads and different R-R intervals, QRS complexes are not changed.
Separate constant arrhythmia, i.e. A long-standing, and paroxysmal, i.e.arising suddenly as a form of seizures. The patients get used to the constant form of atrial fibrillation, they cease to feel it and are treated for help only with the increase in heart rate( ventricles) over 100-120 per minute. They should lower the heart rate to normal, but do not try to restore the sinus rhythm, as this is difficult to perform and can lead to complications( tearing off blood clots).Paroxysmal form of fibrillation and atrial flutter is desirable to translate into sinus rhythm, heart rate should also be reduced to normal.
Treatment and tactics for patients in the prehospital stage are almost the same as in paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardias.
4. Ventricular extrasystole. Ventricular extrasystoles( ES) themselves have little effect on hemodynamics, but they can precede more severe cardiac rhythm disturbances - ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. The prognosis is especially unfavorable with frequent ventricular ES( more than 10 ES per minute), group, polytopic( ie, outgoing from different ventricles, and therefore different in form).These disorders may be an early harbinger of developing myocardial infarction.
There is no P tooth on the ECG in front of the ventricular ES, the QRS complex is expanded and deformed.
Patients with all types of ventricular extrasystoles need emergency therapy.
5. Ventricular tachycardia is one of the most serious cardiac disorders. It usually occurs against a background of severe myocardial damage and is accompanied by a rapid increase in circulatory insufficiency. ECG marked very frequent and rhythmic( up to 140 -220 per minute) ventricular contraction with a change in the QRS complex, like the ventricular extrasystoles described above.
During attacks of ventricular tachycardia, patients complain of heart pain, paleness and moisture of the skin are noted, rapidly increasing dyspnea, the appearance and growth of wheezing in the lungs, the fall of blood pressure. Such patients need immediate and active help.
Assisting begins with applying a precordial punch to the middle third of the sternum. Sometimes it breaks off the attack.
The drug of choice for ventricular tachycardia and frequent ventricular extrasystole is lidocaine.4-6 ml of 2% lidocaine solution is administered intravenously in 14 ml of 0.9% sodium chloride solution in 2 minutes. In most cases, the attack stops.
If this does not occur, the injection of lidocaine 5 minutes later. You can inject intravenously novocainamide according to the procedure described for the treatment of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardias. The introduction of cardiac glycosides is contraindicated.
Against the background of ventricular tachycardia, the patient may develop a pattern of arrhythmic shock or pulmonary edema that require separate treatment.
6. Fluttering and fibrillation( flickering) of the ventricles can be the result of unpaired tachycardia or develop at a lightning speed and lead to rapid death.
Ventricular flutter is a frequent( up to 200-300 per minute) rhythmic reduction. It, as a rule, passes into fibrillation( fibrillation) of the ventricles, which is characterized by an equally frequent( up to 200-500 per minute), but erratic irregular contraction of individual ventricular muscle fibers.
These conditions require cardiopulmonary resuscitation against intravenous lidocaine. If possible, electrical defibrillation is performed. Patients are delivered to the hospital by cardiological teams.
7. Atrioventricular blockades( av-blockades) are the most dangerous conduction abnormalities. Characterized by a violation of the excitation wave from the atria to the ventricles.
There are three degrees of av-blockade.
I degree can only be detected on the ECG as an extension of the P-Q interval greater than 0.20 s. Clinically not manifested, no special treatment is required.
II degree of aus-blockade - there is a decrease in the pulse, the patients feel "loss" of certain cuts of the heart. The ECG shows a periodic loss of the QRS ventricular complex after a gradual extension of the P-Q interval or without it.
Emergency care is provided only at a heart rate of less than 55 per minute. At the first blockade and / or ill-health of the patient, he is hospitalized in the therapeutic or cardiological department, since there is a danger of aggravation of his condition.
III degree( complete) - is the most dangerous. At the same time there is a complete disconnection of the work of the atria and ventricles. On the ECG, the prongs P are visible, the intervals P-P are the same, but they are not equal to the intervals R-R, which are also the same. Atria contract in their rhythm, and ventricles - in their own, more rare( less than 60 per minute).Because of this, the P-teeth are not connected with the QRS complex, they can be located at any distance from it, and also layer on any prongs.
Clinically, these patients have bradycardia, weakness, lowering blood pressure, there may be pain in the heart, heart failure develops.
With av-block II and III degree, periods of prolonged ventricular asystole may occur.
If the asystole lasts longer than 10-20 s, the patient loses consciousness, develops a seizure syndrome, similar to epileptic, which is due to hypoxia of the brain. This condition is called the attack of Morgagni-Adams-Stokes.
Unlike epileptic seizures, the face of the patient in the first seconds of the attack of Morgagni-Adams-Stokes is pale, and only after 20-30 seconds - with the appearance of generalized seizures - it becomes bluish. There is no aura and biting of the tongue. The blood pressure can drop to zero, the pupils are dilated, the pulse is suddenly slowed down. The attack usually lasts 25-30 seconds. After at least a small increase in heart rate, the patient quickly regains consciousness, but retrograde amnesia is noted.
Any such attack can result in a fatal outcome.
Emergency care for av-blockade II-III degree consists in intravenous injection of 1 ml of 0.1% solution of atropine with 5-10 ml of 0.9% sodium chloride solution, giving under the tongue of one tablet of isadrin.
With the attack of Morgagni-Adams-Stokes, cardiopulmonary resuscitation is carried out. Introduction of cardiac glycosides, novocainamide, etc.it is contraindicated.
After rendering assistance, the patient is transferred to a cardiac team or hospitalized on a stretcher in the cardiology department.