Treatment of tonsillitis with folk remedies
Tonsillitis - inflammation of pharyngeal tonsils. It occurs mainly in children.
Symptoms: tonsillitis is characterized by severe pain in the throat, reddening and enlarged tonsils, a significant increase in body temperature. More details about the symptoms of this disease look here.
What's going on? Very often during tonsillitis or a week after it swell the cervical lymph glands.
Tonsils( or tonsils) perform the function of guards: they delay the infection, preventing it from entering the body. Nevertheless, in chronic tonsillitis, the doctor can recommend an operation for the removal of tonsils, but it is undesirable to spend it to children who have not reached the age of 6 years.
What does do? With tonsillitis it is useful to drink more. Food should be liquid, and drinks - cool. It is very important to consult a doctor in a timely manner so that tonsillitis does not go into chronic form, as chronic tonsillitis gives complications in the form of diseases affecting the heart, joints and kidneys.
If the body temperature is above 38 ° C, immediately call a doctor!
It is classified by the nature of the course for acute and chronic. Acute tonsillitis is also called "angina".
Acute tonsillitis( tonsillitis) is a disease of an infectious origin, characterized by the defeat of palatine tonsils. It often develops on the background of hypothermia in cold and wet weather. The causative agents of the disease are usually staphylococci and streptococci.
Symptoms: fever, general malaise, pain when swallowing, headache.
In addition to acute tonsillitis( sore throat), chronic tonsillitis is also isolated.
Chronic tonsillitis is most common in children. This inflammation of the tonsils, the disease develops as a result of repeated angina or childhood infections. Frequent exacerbations of the disease are complicated by inflammation of the joints or disorders of the heart.
Treatment is performed by a physician. Recommended bed rest, antibiotics, frequent warm drink, warming compresses on the neck, gargling. The use of herbal remedies will help to cope faster with the disease.
1. Hemolytic group A streptococcus is the most common pathogen of tonsillitis.
2. Adenovirus.
3. Staphylococcus aureus.
4. Mushrooms.
Predisposing conditions for the development of the disease are: hypothermia, gas contamination of the air, carious teeth, adenoids, sinusitis.
In chronic tonsillitis patients complain about bad breath, sore throat or tingling sensation. When the severe form is started, frequent exacerbations occur in the form of angina, there is increased fatigue, headache, weakness, decreased ability to work. The tonsils themselves are swollen, red, dense.
Diagnosis of the disease based on external examination and examination of smears from the tonsils.
Treatment of chronic tonsillitis can be conservative and operative. Tonsils are washed with solutions of iodinol, potassium permanganate, penicillin, lysozyme, etc. Antiviral, antibacterial and stimulating agents are prescribed. In some cases, physiotherapeutic treatment is effective. To increase the immunity and protective forces of the body prescribe vitamins, aloe extracts, immunoglobulins. Such courses are held at least twice a year, during periods of the most frequent exacerbations, that is, in the fall and spring. In the absence of the effect of the therapy prescribed surgical treatment - removal of tonsils.
With a timely and proper treatment, the prognosis for chronic tonsillitis is favorable.
Includes rational nutrition, elimination of contamination and gas contamination of workers and living quarters, hardening. And also timely treatment of teeth and gums, sinusitis, adenoids, etc.
Persons diagnosed with chronic tonsillitis should be on dispensary records.
Prophylaxis of tonsillitis is hardening and general strengthening of the body. It is advisable not to drink cold drinks and ice cream in hot weather, as this is a direct provocation of tonsillitis.
With pains in the throat and abscesses, folk medicine advises inhalation.
1. Requires: 1/2 cup of vodka, 20 g of chamomile flowers, 1 tbsp.l.honey, 1/2 liter of water.
Method of preparation. Chamomile fill with cold water and bring to a boil. Add honey to the vodka and heat a little over the fire.
How to use. Put the composition in front of you, cover with a large towel or blanket and inhale outgoing couples for 20-25 minutes. After the procedure, drink vodka with honey, lie down and wrap yourself well. Spend the procedure better at night, 3-4 pm in a row.
When tonsillitis shows all kinds of gargling.
1. Requires: 1 tbsp.l.vodka, 10 grams of calendula flowers and chamomile, 1 liter of water.
Method of preparation. Mix marigold with chamomile and pour boiling water. Insist 20 minutes. Strain through a fine strainer and add the vodka.
How to use. Rinse your throat 2-3 times a day for a week.
2. Required: 1 tbsp.l.vodka, 1 tsp.salt and soda, 2 drops of iodine, 1/2 cup of water.
Method of preparation. In the hot water, add salt, soda, iodine, vodka and mix well.
How to use. Rinse your throat 2-3 times a day for 2 consecutive days, then take a break for 1 day, then repeat the procedure for 2 more days.
3. Required: 1 tsp.vodka, 10 grams of basil garden, salt, 250 ml of water.
Method of preparation. Basil fill with cold water and boil for 10-15 minutes. Allow to stand for 40 minutes, then strain through a strainer, add vodka, a little salt and mix well.
How to use. Rinse throat 3 times a day for 3-4 days.
Fresh juice of onions to consume 1 teaspoonful 4 times a day.
With a beginning angina, slow chewing of lemon slices, especially zest, helps a lot. After that it is recommended that nothing is present for 1 h.
Put a piece of propolis at night on the cheek. You can also slowly chew after eating a piece of propolis the size of a pinky's fingernail. For the day you need to eat about 5 g.
Required:
5 tbsp.spoons of green crusts of walnut fruit, 5 tbsp.spoons of honey.
Method of preparation.
Green peeled walnut fruit crust, pour honey, put on fire and, stirring constantly, bring to a boil, infuse for 2 hours.
Method of application.
Take 1 teaspoon per 1 glass of water 3-4 times a day. Honey can be replaced with sugar.
Required:
2 tbsp.spoons of sage leaves, 4-5 cloves of garlic, 1 liter of water.
Method of preparation.
Sage herb dried, then crushed into powder. Toothed garlic cloves through garlic crock, mix with sage powder. All pour boiling water, leave the mixture in a closed container for 2 hours, keep in a boiling water bath for 15 minutes. Cool to room temperature, drain.
How to use.
Take 1/4 cup 3-4 times a day and rinse with infusion of the throat every 3 hours.
Required:
3 tbsp.spoons of flowers of a violet tricolor, 2 tbsp.spoons of potato juice, 10 ml of alcoholic tincture of St. John's wort, 500 ml of water.
Method of preparation.
Flowers violets, pour boiling water, insist for 20-25 minutes. Then strain through the cheesecloth and add to the infusion freshly squeezed potato juice. Stir everything, add the alcoholic tincture of St. John's wort.
How to use.
Take 1 tbsp.spoon 3-4 times a day.
Required:
1 tbsp.spoon roots roots, 250 ml of vodka.
Method of preparation.
Well washed root rub on a fine grater, pour vodka, insist 30 days. Then strain the composition, pour it into a bottle and put it in a cool place.
How to use.
At the first signs of angina, dilute 1 teaspoon of tincture in 1 glass of water. After taking a small sip, as long as possible hold it in your mouth and then swallow. After drinking tincture, lie down in bed, covered in a warm blanket. Take 2-3 times a day after meals.
Requires:
for 20 ml of juice from fresh leaves of coltsfoot, onion juice and red wine.
Method of preparation.
Fresh leaves of mother-and-stepmother three times wash, grind, squeeze juice, adding juice of onions and red wine. Keep the mixture in the refrigerator. Shake before use.
How to use.
Take 3 times a day for 1 tbsp.spoon, diluting the agent 3 tbsp.spoons of water.
Required:
2 tbsp.spoons of the root of the althaea medicinal and the herb of the sweet potato, 1 tbsp.spoon of anise seeds, burdock root, flowers of calendula officinalis, camomile and linden chamomile, St. John's wort, mallow forest, thyme, 250 ml of water.
Method of preparation.
Dry all ingredients, grind and mix.1 tbsp. Spoon the mixture with hot water, bring to a boil and keep on the fire for 5 minutes, insist 15-20 minutes, drain.
How to use.
In a warm form, rinse the herbal decoction with a throat. The broth helps with angina, if you use it 4-5 times a day.
Required:
for 1 tbsp.a spoonful of chamomile herbs, flowers of calendula officinalis, leaves of eucalyptus, 400 ml of water.
Method of preparation.
Ingredients to grind, mix.1 tbsp. Spoon the mixture with pour boiling water. Boil for 2 minutes, insist 30 minutes, drain.
Method of use.
Begin to gargle at a broth temperature of 26 ° C, gradually reduce the temperature of the solution by 1 ° C, bring it to 10 ° C after 10 days.
Chronic tonsillitis is a serious disease, as it often acts as an "entrance gate" for infection and provokes the development and( or) exacerbation of many diseases of the upper respiratory tract and lungs. In many cases, tonsillitis is a chronic hotbed of infections, which supports many diseases, including serious diseases such as rheumatism, myocarditis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid polyarthritis, bronchial asthma, systemic vasculitis, chronic glomerulonephritis, etc. In such cases,treatment of this disease. However, when such a radical intervention is not required, persistent conservative treatment of tonsillitis is necessary. In a complex of therapeutic measures, acupressure can also be successful.
It is necessary to massage the following points:
Shao-shan( "Small Trade").The point is located at the radial root of the thumbnail of the thumb of the hand, 3 mm outward from it. In this area are actually the palmar artery of the finger, the palmar nerve of the fingers.
The point is used in the treatment of cough, stomatitis, laryngitis, fainting, headaches, acute fever.