Treatment of the heart with folk remedies
Recognition of a particular type of heart disease and proper treatment of them is a matter for the doctor and only for the doctor; in no case can it be accepted by people who are poorly versed in medicine and who do not have sufficient medical practice. Therefore, here are tips for helping the patient with the most common heart disease and only some home remedies are recommended to help them.
He is congenital and acquired. The latter can occur with very rapid growth of a child in the period of 10 to 20 years, develop after a serious illness. Signs of the disease: pain in the heart, chest tightness, shortness of breath, palpitations, swelling on the legs. The patient is advised not to perform heavy physical work without worrying about eating mainly protein food - meat, eggs, dairy products, alcoholic beverages, coffee, chocolate can not be consumed. Harmful smoking. Life should be, if possible, in areas with a damp climate, for example, by the sea, but not in the mountains. With a strong heartbeat, you need to lie down and put on the chest in the heart a hot-water bottle with ice or a cold compress.
Obesity of the heart
This is the deposition of adipose tissue on the heart, the main reason for it is heredity. Obese people easily become ill with obesity, women after the termination of menstruation. With this disease, you need to eat less, especially flour, fatty and sweet, do not sleep after dinner, and most importantly, it is necessary to walk every day in the open air for at least two hours.
Heart enlargement
With this disease, the heart sometimes takes up almost half of the breast;shortness of breath, chest tightness, weakening of the heart activity, dropsy of the abdomen are the manifestations of this ailment. It is necessary to use as little as possible liquids, thirst to satisfy not water, and valerian tea, and also sour milk in all kinds. You can not swim in a hot and even warm bath, in hot keys. All procedures should be done only in cold water.
Acquired heart defects of are very many, but the most frequent of them is mitral malformation, or mitral valve insufficiency, on which we will stop.
The cause of mitral malformation is most often the rheumatic heart disease, but often the disease occurs after myocarditis, sepsis, or is the result of atherosclerosis( which can be observed in old age).
The insufficiency of the bivalve( mitral) valve in its development has 2 stages - compensation and decompensation.
In the period of compensation, the heart copes with its work due to the inclusion of compensatory( reserve) mechanisms, and therefore patients do not have any special complaints.
Decompensation period( when the heart stops coping with its work) begins with a change in heart rate. The pulse begins to become more frequent, the patient has shortness of breath, first with physical exertion, and then at rest. Arterial pressure can be increased( especially the lower venous).Over time, there are pains in the region of the heart, dyspnea intensifies and disturbs the patient already at rest. Sometimes it reaches such an extent that the patient can only sleep while sitting. As a result of increasing stagnation in the lungs, the patient appears coughing, wheezing in the lungs, the liver is enlarged.
The defect of the mitral valve usually develops and proceeds benignly and late leads to a disorder of the circulation. In this issue, the degree of valvular failure is of great importance - the more it is greater, the faster decompensation develops. It should be remembered that decompensation develops more often after a rheumatic rheumatic attack. It contributes to the emergence of stressful situations and physical activity.
Prevention of the disease consists in preventing rheumatism and endocarditis, as well as in eliminating foci of infection in the body( oral cavity, chronic tonsillitis, sinusitis, etc.).To prevent decompensation in case of mitral valve insufficiency, it is also necessary to apply cautious physical therapy for patients, avoid physical and nervous overloads.
Open Botanical Flow. In the embryonic period, the blood from the pulmonary artery is not directed to the lungs( since they do not function), and the duct to the aorta through the botallas. Normally, after the birth of the child, the balm-lava grows and the blood begins to enter the lungs. If this does not happen and the bottlenecks remain open, a defect is created in which the communication between the pulmonary artery and the aorta remains. The pulmonary artery in such cases receives blood from both the right ventricle( the natural path) and through the ducts of the duct, which is abnormal. As a result, the pressure in the pulmonary artery increases, and the right atrial muscle also increases. After a while, the left ventricle also becomes hypertensive, since it receives more blood from the small circle than it should be.
Defect of the botulinum duct for a long time does not make itself felt and is revealed only in the older childhood. He is not accompanied by heart failure, but for normal development of the child, surgical treatment is indicated.
For heart defects, traditional medicine preparations can be used only as supporting and auxiliary means.
Lily of the valley. When heart defects drink lily-of-the-valley drops, which are prepared as follows: in a jar with a narrow neck fill fresh lily-of-the-valley flowers and pour almost up to the top with 96% alcohol. Insist 14 days, after which they filter and drink 15-20 drops 3-4 times a day.
You can use and paste the flowers of the lily of the valley. A tablespoon of flowers are poured into 300 ml of boiling water and insisted for 1 hour. Filter and take 2 tablespoons.spoons every 2 hours.
Valerian-lily-of-the-valley drops have a good effect on patients with heart defects. To prepare them mix 100 ml of infusion or decoction of herb Leonurus with 40 drops of lily-of-the-valley tincture. Take 30 drops 3-4 times a day.
In case of rheumatic malformations, a cardiovascular drug is used, which contains yolk juice, valerian root tincture, hawthorn extract, camphor, sodium chloride and chlorobutanol hydrate. Cardiovascular is taken on 20-25 drops 3-4 times a day.
100 g. Dry leaves of rosemary pour 2 liters of dry red wine, insist 1 month in a dark cool place( periodically shaking).Strain, squeeze out the remainder. Take 50 ml 3-4 times a day for heart defects and heart failure. The course of treatment is 1.5 months. During the year it is advisable to spend 4 courses.
With vagaries accompanied by dyspnea, mix gruel from fresh nettle leaves with dioecious honey and honey in a ratio of 1: 1.Insist in a dark place for 14 days, stirring occasionally, then mix the mixture on boiling water with a fresh bath to a liquid state, strain through a multi-layered gauze, squeeze out the remainder. Keep refrigerated. Infusion of honey to lick during the day 4-5 times.
Mix the garlic cloves with honey in equal parts and insist in a sealed container in a dark place for 7 days, stirring occasionally. Take 3 times a day for a tablespoon 30 minutes before meals with coronary heart disease, obliterating endarteritis, varicose veins, heart defects and weakness of the heart muscle.
Weaken the juice of herbage motherwort and vodka in a ratio of 1: 1.Take 1 tsp 3-4 times a day for half an hour before meals with heart defects, myocarditis, onset of angina and heart weakness.
Prepare the ingredients: 10 grams of fresh, leafless parsley stalks, pour 1 liter of dry red or white natural wine, add 2 tbsp.spoon of wine vinegar and boil on low heat for 10 minutes. In the mixture add 300 g of honey and boil for another 4-5 minutes. In a hot kind, pour into bottles, cork, cool and store in the refrigerator. Take with all diseases of the heart as a fortifying agent for 1 tbsp.spoon 4-5 times a day;
100 g of dry ground herb St. John's wort, pour 2 of water, bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes in a closed bowl. Insist 1 hour, strain, add 200 g of honey and stir well. Pour into bottles and store in a refrigerator in a sealed state. Take 1/3 cup 3 times a day for half an hour before meals with a weakened cardiac activity.
When heart disease is very useful potato diet: during the day the patient is given up to 1 kg of boiled unsalted potatoes in 5-6 receptions. To taste, you can add yoghurt into the potatoes.
Water infusion of motherwort( 15 grams of dry herbs for 200 ml of boiling water).Infuse 1 hour, strain. Drink a tablespoon 4-5 times a day with honey.
Alcohol tincture motherwort( pharmacy) drink 30 drops 3-4 times a day for heart defects and weakness of the heart muscle.
With heart weakness prepare a collection: herb horsetail field - 10 g grass of a mountaineer bird - 15 g. Hawthorn flowers -25 g. A tablespoon of mixture pour 300 ml of boiling water and insist for 1 hour. Strain. Drink during the day in 5-6 receptions.
Infusion of dried roots lyubistoka: 40 g. Lyubstoka medicinal boil 6-7 minutes in 1 liter of water. Insist 3 hours in a warm place, drain. Take 0.5 cup 3-4 times a day with edema of cardiac origin and to strengthen the heart muscle.
If you have a severe attack of heart beat, lie on your stomach, placing a warm ice-cream or a cold compress under your heart.
For pimples of the heart and with a weak heart, peppermint is very useful. A teaspoon of dried leaves( or powder from the leaves), pour 300 ml of boiling water, cover and allow to stand for an hour. Strain. Take 1 glass 3 times a day on an empty stomach. Treatment for months, without any interruptions.
Beet juice, mixed with honey in a ratio of 2: 1, is very useful to take with vices and to maintain the working capacity of the diseased heart.
A pure grape dock is also very useful for all cardiovascular diseases. Especially grape juice is useful in old age. Juice is drunk in the morning and evening for an hour before meals as follows:
3 days - 50 ml in the morning and in the evening;
5 days - 100 ml each morning and evening;
5 days - 150 ml each morning and evening;
5 days - 200 ml each morning and evening;
5 days - 250 ml each morning and evening;
Juice grass coriander is recommended to drink with a weak heart, hypertension and diseases of the digestive system. He is drunk 50 ml 2 times a day.
Herb rue fragrant, tops with valerian flowers and hawthorn leaves are taken in equal parts and brewed like tea. Drink a long time.
Very useful for "cores" to breathe the scent of lilac, hawthorn, poplar and eucalyptus.
With heart neurosis, neurasthenia, hysteria, along with the well-known medicines, natural honey is widely used. With neurasthenia S. Mladenov ( 1976) recommends taking flower honey at 100-120 g per day for 1 -2 months.- in the morning and in the evening for 30 grams, after lunch 40-60 g. Before going to bed, for half an hour, honey should be diluted in a glass of water at room temperature. After 2 weeks after the start of treatment, patients get a good strong sleep, a sense of cheerfulness, and an increase in working capacity.
Starting a story about how to normalize the work of the cardiovascular system with the help of various varieties of red wine, we note the mandatory condition for the application of these recipes. In diseases of the cardiovascular system, traditional medicine does not recommend wine either during remission, or even more so at the time of exacerbations, since this can lead to a drastic deterioration of the condition. And yet, people's recipes for maintaining an organism that is afflicted by such ailments exist and are quite popular. Apparently, everything depends on the individual characteristics of the organism. The main thing - consult a doctor.
To avoid sudden bouts of pressing pain in the chest, drink a healing drink based on grape wine.
Requires: 250 g of grape unattached red wine, 10 g of astragalus root and calendula flowers.
Method of preparation. Red wine bring to a boil, without removing from the plate, add the herbal collection and boil for 3 more minutes: Then cool, strain..
Method of use. Take 1-2 tbsp.l.3 times a day for 20 minutes before meals for a month.
Requires: 250 g red wine, 2 tsp.powder of mustard.
Method of preparation. Mix the mustard powder with warm red wine so that a homogeneous mixture is obtained.
Method of use. Blot in the mixture a soft cut of fabric, squeeze it out so that the liquid does not drain off. Then apply a compress on the heart area. After 15 minutes, remove the compress.
For the normalization of blood supply to the heart, use the following recipe.
Requires: 1/4 cup of grape unattached red wine, 1 tsp.juice of garlic, 1/3 cup of milk.
Method of preparation. In warm milk, add 10-20 drops of garlic juice, stir well and add a warm red wine.
How to use. Drink 1 tbsp.l.2-3 times a day for 30 minutes before meals for 1 month.
With a sharp, chaotic heartbeat, this recipe is recommended.
1. Requires: 1 glass of grape unattached red wine, 1 tbsp.l.flowers of hawthorn, 200 ml of boiling water.
Method of preparation. Brew the flowers with boiling water, like tea. Cool, strain, add hot wine.
How to use. Take 1/2 cup 2-3 times a day. The course of treatment is 3 weeks.
2. Requires: 1/2 cup unattached red grape wine, 1 tbsp.l.grass of the spring of the spring( adonis).
Method of preparation. Bring the wine to a boil and brew the grass in it. Infuse for 30 minutes. Then strain.
How to use. Take 2 tbsp.l.3 times a day 15 minutes after meals. The course of treatment is 3 weeks.
With a chaotic change in heart rate, the following prescription helps.
1. Requires: 1 glass of unattached red grape wine, 1 tbsp.l.grass motherwort.
Method of preparation. Bring the wine to a boil and, without removing it from the stove, brew the grass in it. Boil for another 10 minutes, then cool, strain.
How to use. Take 1/2 cup 3 times a day 30 minutes after eating. The course of treatment is 4 weeks.
2. Requires: 2 glass of unattached red grape wine, 17 g grass of gorse dyeing, 1/2 liter of water.
Method of preparation. Dry the dried grass with water and boil until 1/3 of the liquid is left. Cool, strain and add hot wine.
How to use. Take 2 tbsp.l.2 times a day. In the morning - 30 minutes after meals, in the evening - 30 minutes before bedtime. The course of treatment is 2 weeks.
With reduced blood pressure and lymph in the vessels, the composition of red wine and rhizomes of zamanichi help well.
Requires: 1 glass of unattached red grape wine, 1 tbsp.l.rhizomes of lure.
Method of preparation. Add the rhizomes to the wine and boil for at least 20 minutes. Then cool, strain through 2 layers of gauze.
How to use. Drink 1-2 tsp.2-3 times a day for an hour before meals. After 12-15 days you will feel a significant improvement in your health.
To reduce the tension of the heart muscle, this recipe is useful.
Requires: 1/2 cup unattached red grape wine, 1 tbsp.l.ginseng powder or 15-25 drops of the finished extract.
Method of preparation. Warm up the wine, but do not bring to a boil, then add the ginseng and stir well.
How to use. 1-2 tsp.3 times a day for 10 minutes before meals. Repeat the medication for 21 days.
Avoiding arterial disease, leading to a disruption of their functions, will help the following recipes.
Requires: 1 glass of unattached red grape wine, 150 g of aubergines.
Method of preparation. Grate the eggplant on a grater, squeeze out the juice and add a glass of wine to it. Preheat the resulting mixture without boiling. Then cool and strain.
How to use. Take 1 tbsp.l.2 times a day for 30 minutes before meals. The course of treatment is 2 weeks.
When atherosclerosis is treated, the healing properties of the sweet clover yellow and goritsvet in combination with red wine.
Requires: 1/2 cup grape unattached red wine, 1 tbsp.l.grass sweet clover yellow and goritsvet, 1 cup of boiling water.
Method of preparation. Blend the herbs with boiling water and let it brew for 20 minutes. Then strain and add wine at room temperature.
How to use. Take 1/2 cup overnight for 1-2 weeks.
It is also recommended to boil the bark of horse chestnut and dandelion roots with the addition of red wine.
Requires: 1 glass of unattached red wine, 2 tbsp.l.crust of horse chestnut, 1 tsp.roots of dandelion medicinal, 2 cups of boiling water.
Method of preparation. Drink the mixture with boiling water and boil for 15-20 minutes. Then remove from heat and leave in a tightly closed bowl for 24 hours. Strain and add wine at room temperature.
How to use. Drink 2 tablespoons each.l.2-3 times a day 15 minutes after eating.
You can use one more proven tool.
1. Requires: 1/2 cup unfastened red wine, 1 tsp.herb of icteric, 1 tbsp.l.grass motherwort, 1 liter of boiling water.
Method of preparation. Collect the herbs with boiling water and let it brew for 3 hours, strain and add hot wine.
How to use. Drink 1/2 cup 2 times a day. In the morning - 15 minutes after waking up, in the evening - 20 minutes before falling asleep. The course of treatment is 3 weeks.
2. Requires: 1/2 cup non-fortified red wine, 1 tbsp.l.roots of valerian, 1 cup of boiling water.
Method of preparation. Grass the brew with boiling water like tea, strain through 1-2 layers of gauze and add warm wine.
How to use. Drink 1/2 cup 2-3 times a day for 10 minutes before meals.
Very good remedy is infusion of Valerian roots, magnolia extract and red wine.
Requires: 1 glass of unattached red wine, 1 tbsp.l.roots of valerian, 20 drops of a ready-made magnolia extract of Chinese, 2 cups of boiling water.
Method of preparation. Brew valerian with boiling water, let it brew for 30 minutes, strain and add magnolia extract. Then mix the infusion with the red wine and heat it over low heat for 10 minutes.
How to use. Drink 1/3 cup 3 times a day for an hour before meals.3 weeks is enough for healing.
To strengthen the heart muscle, the following mixture is useful.
Requires: 1/2 cup unsweetened red wine, 1 tbsp.l.inflorescence of clover meadow, 2 tsp.berries of ordinary mountain ash, 2 cups of boiling water.
Method of preparation. Drink the mixture with boiling water, insist 1 hour. Then mash the berries, add hot wine and leave to soak for 30 minutes, then strain through 1-2 layers of gauze.
How to use. Take 1/2 cup 2-3 times a day for 30 minutes before meals. The course of treatment is 2 weeks, then take a break for 1 week, then repeat the course.
In case of dyspnea, it is recommended to take a drink, which includes astragalus, digitalis and unsweetened red wine.
Requires: 1 glass of wine, 1 tsp.leaf digitalis large-colored, 1 tbsp.l.grass astragalus, 1.5 cups of boiling water.
Method of preparation. Brew the herbs with steep boiling water, let it brew for a day, then strain and add warm wine.
How to use. Take 2 tbsp.l.4 times a day for 30 minutes before meals.
To improve the work of the heart, this recipe is used.
Requires: 1/2 cup unfastened red wine, 1 tsp.roots of dandelion, 1 tbsp.l.chamomile flowers, 1 cup boiling water.
Method of preparation. Drink the brew with boiling water. Let it brew for 20 minutes, strain and add warm wine.
How to use. Take 1 tbsp.l.3 times a day for 30 minutes before meals. The course of treatment is 3 weeks. After 1 course of treatment, interrupt for 2 weeks, then repeat the course.
This type of prescription is protected from heart failure.
Requires: 1/2 cup unfastened red wine, 2 tsp.leaves of rhododendron, 1 tsp.roots of valerian, 1.5 cups of boiling water.
Method of preparation. Drink the brew with boiling water and leave for 24 hours. Then strain and add hot wine.
How to use. Drink 1/3 cup 2 times a day. The course of treatment is 4 weeks.
These defects most often occur either as a result of an anomaly in the vessels that fit the heart, or when the heart part is irregularly formed in embryonic development.
All congenital heart defects can be divided into 2 main groups:
defects accompanied by insufficiency in the small circulation;
defects, accompanied by blood overflow of the small circle of blood circulation.
The most common developmental anomalies are the following:
1. Pulmonary artery stenosis.
2. Non-involvement of the interatrial septum.
3. Defect of interventricular septum.
4. Open the bottles of the duct.
5. Triad and tetrad of Fallot and some others.
Let us dwell on the most common of them.
Pulmonary artery stenosis. Stenosis of the pulmonary artery mouth leads to insufficient intake of blood into the lungs, as a result of which gas exchange in the body is severely disrupted, and this causes all clinical manifestations of the disease. Skin covers of patients with pulmonary artery stenosis are usually cyanotic. With physical disturbance, this blueness increases. Especially cyanotic are the nail phalanges of the fingers, which eventually acquire the appearance of "drumsticks."
Patients constantly complain of severe shortness of breath, their heart is enlarged at the expense of the right ventricle, the heart beat is strengthened.
The course of the disease and the prognosis have always been severe. Patients lagged behind in growth, mental and physical development, easily contracted infectious diseases( especially tuberculosis).
Treatment of patients only operative. In operation, the fused valve flaps are dissected, which then releases the passage of blood through the mouth of the pulmonary artery.
Non-involvement of the interatrial septum. With this pathology, the aperture between the atria does not close. Only part of the blood enters it from the right atrium to the left, bypassing the pulmonary circulation. If the defect is very large, then the blueness of the skin can be observed, since part of the blood that does not pass through a small circle is not saturated with oxygen.
If the defect of the atrial septum is combined with a congenital narrowing of the mitral valve( which occurs quite often), then patients have an increase in the heart, pale skin, gradually grows a "heart hump."Treatment is only prompt.
The defect of the interventricular septum is usually formed at the base of the ventricles. Since the pressure that develops in the left ventricle is much greater than in the right ventricle, during the contraction of the heart( systole) part of the blood from the left ventricle passes into the right, which leads to its constant overflow and hypertrophy( increase).The left ventricle also increases. As a result, the heart greatly increases in size( more to the right), acquiring a spherical shape.
Children with congenital heart defects have one of two problems: too much blood can flow to their lungs, which causes heart overload and leads to heart failure. Or their lungs can not get enough blood, which causes cyanosis( cyanosis).In both cases, children with congenital heart defects quickly become fatigued during feeding and grow slowly. Many years ago, breastfeeding a child with congenital heart disease was prohibited, since it was mistakenly believed that breastfeeding would overtake such a child. As we have already indicated in the section on preterm infants, studies have shown the opposite. In fact, these children can spend less energy and breathe better when breastfeeding than when feeding from a bottle. Breastmilk contains less salt than artificial mixtures, so it is more useful for children with a sick heart. The same recommendations that were given for breastfeeding a premature baby are also suitable for a child with congenital heart disease: short frequent feeding, more often using the supplemental feeding system, and large doses of patience.
Take 1 liter of honey, juice from 10 lemons and mush from 10 heads of garlic. All components should be infused in tightly closed containers in a dark cool place for 1 week, stirring occasionally. Take 4 teaspoons 1 time per day for 20-30 minutes Before meals. After taking each spoon, take a break for one minute. The mixture is an excellent remedy for angina pectoris accompanied by shortness of breath. This remedy is often cured by decrepit people who can not go through several dozen steps without stopping for rest.
To reduce cholesterol, it is recommended to take 15-20 g of gum( resin) taken from apricots, cherries, plums every day. At the same time, take 1 teaspoonful 3 times a day garlic oil or garlic powder 1/3 teaspoon.
In the initial post-infarction period, include garlic oil, fresh garlic, garlic wine in the diet.
To prevent the development of a heart attack, if there is pain in the heart area, swallow a completely small, cleaned chive of garlic. One-time, used in the absence of nitroglycerin at hand.
Healers of antiquity recommend: "Whose blood comes to the heart and breathes, make more garlic and salt, put in a large glass of wine and, mixing it well, give it a drink. After that, put the patient on the stove with his back down and lead him to lie down a little, so that he sweats thoroughly, from which his blood will spread all over the body and that person will be healthy. "
Kashitsu from 350 g of garlic and juice of 24 lemons pour into a jar with a wide throat, put the jar on the day and top with a light, transparent cloth. At reception to shake up. Take 1 teaspoon of this mixture, at least once a day before going to bed, diluted in half a glass of cool brew( 1:16) birch leaves. After 2 weeks, the person will feel that this remedy can be attributed to the elixir of youth, helping to eliminate the feeling of fatigue. Using this wonderful tool will be rewarded with a beautiful, calm sleep. It is also useful for shortness of breath and angina, for rejuvenating the blood, especially in obese people with a sluggish, decrepit body.
30 g grinded propolis pour 100 g of 96% alcohol, insist in a dark place for 1 week, always at room temperature( propolis loses its properties when cooled), periodically shaking the contents, drain. Store in a dark place.
200 g of garlic clay pour 100 g of 96% alcohol, insist in a dark cool place for 10 days, shaking the contents periodically, strain, discard the residue, re-insist 4 days, then gently strain out the settled tincture. To the tincture add 50 g of honey and 10 g of propolis tincture, mix thoroughly the ingredients.
Take with cardiovascular diseases 30 minutes before meals, diluting the tincture in drops in a spoonful of warm water or milk, as follows: on the first day for breakfast - 1, for lunch -%, dinner - 3.
Next day:in the morning - 4, in the daytime - 5, in the evening - 6.
So add a drop to the fifth day of treatment - in the evening of this day, take 15 drops.
On the morning of the sixth day, take 15 drops, then the number of drops is reduced by 1 to the tenth day: in the evening it should be 1 drop.
On the eleventh day, it is necessary to take 25 drops every morning, afternoon and evening.
From the twelfth to the sixteenth days, start taking drops again according to the growing scheme, that is, on the morning of the twelfth day, 1 in the afternoon, 2 in the evening, 3.
On the thirteenth day, respectively, 4, 5, 6 drops and so on to 15 drops inthe evening of the sixteenth day.
Treatment should be repeated after 6 months.
In cases of heart failure, medications are taken from lemon balm, motherwort, valerian and peony tincture
. The heart is a muscular organ that does not have peace of mind. It works day and night, in any weather, in any conditions. Seconds of rest for him are only moments of pause( diastole).The heart, of course, could not have cope with such a titanic work, if it had not had helpers. And his assistants are numerous contracting muscles of the body, which squeeze out blood and lymph from small vessels, distill the stagnant interstitial fluid. If you do without lyrics, then the heart muscle is a regular pump that pumps blood into large vessels. These vessels are more and more crushed, down to the smallest capillaries. It is in the capillaries that gas exchange takes place. Here, the cells take nutrients and oxygen from the blood and give away the slag and carbon dioxide. If you calculate the working time of the heart per day, then it turns out that 12 hours it works and is in tension( systole), and 12 hours - resting( diastole).
It's hard for our heart, and it does not always withstand the crazy rhythm of modern life. What leads to a rapid wear of the heart muscle and the occurrence of diseases of the cardiovascular system? In science there is such a thing as "risk factors".Let's see what it is.
Risk factors are the causes that impede the normal functioning of the heart. The main of them are overeating, alcohol consumption, smoking, love for "salty" and "sweet":
with unbalanced diet and excessive consumption of sugar, salt and fats people already in 30-40 years suffer from diabetes, obesity, atherosclerosis and hypertension;
for alcohol abuse( even if a person drinks only 50 ml of pure alcohol daily), a person will acquire hypertension after a few years;
for tobacco smoking, carbon monoxide, which is part of the smoke, binds to the hemoglobin of the blood, displacing oxygen, as a result of which all organs and systems lose a certain amount of oxygen and suffer from it. To compensate for losses, the heart has to strengthen its work, and it wears out more quickly. In addition, nicotine destroys vitamin C( ascorbic acid), which is necessary for the operation of all cells of our body;
proved that people who abuse salt intake are several times more likely to suffer from hypertension.
All of the above risk factors contribute to the rapid wear of the heart muscle and lead to the early onset of "heart disease".
350 years ago, the English naturalist U. Harvey( 1578-1657) discovered a large and small circle of blood circulation. According to his teaching, the heart is the only organ that pumps blood in the human body and animals. But medicine does not stand still. Modern scientists have proved that the heart has "doubles".
Consider in general terms the work of the main driver of the heart rhythm - the sinus node.
It is known that the heart muscle has the automaticity, that is, the ability to contract without external influences, spontaneously. This is due to the fact that bioelectric impulses automatically appear in it. In the muscle, the working musculature and the areas where these impulses occur are distinguished. The place of occurrence of impulses is the sinus node - the driver of the heart rhythm. It is located in the right atrium and "guides" the heart rhythm. Obeying the command of the sinus node, the heart muscle contracts at an average frequency of 60 beats per minute.
But sometimes, under certain circumstances, the site of the heart tissue in which the sinus node is located receives less blood( and hence oxygen and nutrients).With insufficient nutrition, the work of the sinus node is difficult.
But except for one center of the first order - the sinus node, in the muscle tissue of the heart there are other areas that can send bioelectric impulses. These are automatic centers of the second and third order. And if the sinus node is broken, they take on the function of the drivers of the heart rhythm. The centers of the second and third order can not cope with the work as a sinus node does, they are much weaker, moreover, each of them sends impulses independently. As a result, the heart rhythm is disrupted, and there are such phenomena as paroxysmal tachycardia and other arrhythmias.
In the complex work of the heart, his faithful assistant is the diaphragm, a tendon-muscular septum that separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity. The movements of the diaphragm regulate the flow of blood from the lower and upper hollow veins into the right atrium.
The nature in all cases uses such means of increase of reliability, as duplication. If a person has two eyes or two ears that duplicate each other's work, why does he have one heart or one liver? It can not be that such important bodies are not something insured! It turned out that such an "insurance" exists. This "insurance" is the muscles. In the human body, more than a thousand muscles, and each of them is a kind of a small "heart".Muscles are our "peripheral hearts".
The idea of "peripheral hearts" was put forward at the beginning of this century by Russian scientist MV Yanovski and was further developed in the 1970s. A group of Russian cardiologists discovered an amazing phenomenon: it turned out that each muscle is a small micropump that helps the heart to supply the blood with the smallest capillaries. After the simplest calculations, scientists found that the strength of the heart muscle is enough only to "drive" the blood into the fine threads of the capillaries( the capillary is 50 times thinner than the human hair, the total length of the capillary network of the human body is 100 thousand kilometers).And not one, even the most powerful heart, is able to pump blood capillaries without helpers. It turned out that the heart only pumps blood into the capillary network, and the function of "squeezing" blood from the capillaries is performed by skeletal muscles. And they are in the human body 10108. Thus, in addition to our main heart, there are 10108 helper hearts in the human body.
So, there are "doubles" in the heart. These "doublers" act in concert and help the heart to adjust the amount of blood flow to the needs of the body. This happens both at rest and during physical activity.
According to statistics, with "light" operations on the heart, up to 2% of all operated patients die. With "heavy" operations, the percentage increases to 50%.But why does this happen? Who is to blame for this? In the overwhelming majority of heart operations are successful. But the strength of the heart muscle, the degree of its deterioration in different people are different. And it does not always withstand the enormous burden that falls on it after the operation. And we ourselves are to blame for this. When the heart does not worry us, we do not remember it, we do not think about the consequences, when we abuse alcohol, when we poison the heart with tobacco smoke and overload it with work after an abundance of feasts. We do not think that the heart should be helped, not harmed. And only when the first heart attacks or chest pains appear, we remember that we have a great hard worker - a heart that is tired and asking for help.
The theory of "thousands of hearts" teaches us that physical culture and sport are necessary for our body, like air. Heart "doubles" and assistants must be trained. And the harder we do it, the more help to the heart will come from the peripheral "hearts" - in fact, the more they train, the less the burden will fall on the main motor of our body.
Training and hardening of the heart and its peripheral assistants must begin from childhood. Every day of every person should start with physical exercises. Those two lessons of physical education, which have children in schools, very, very little. This is the twentieth part of that physical load that the child's body must receive! If you look at the students at the change and ask yourself the question: "Why do they rush like mad?" - then the answer will not keep you waiting. This happens only because the body requires movement and physical development, which we deprive it of. You can call criminals those parents who by any means try to get a certificate from doctors that the child can not be engaged in physical education. Children need a different movement, movement and movement! Not without reason in schools of highly developed European states, and in the USA, every school day in school begins with a lesson in physical education. So why are the foreign "uncles" worried about their children, but we are not? Or do we not understand that the health of children is the health of the nation?
The heart of a normal healthy person can work without wear and tear 90-100 years in normal mode. This is in case if he does not interfere. If we also begin to help our heart, then 120-140 years for him, too, is not the limit.
I would like everyone who read this book to think about the great work that our heart and its modest, little-known helpers do every day.
Myocardial infarction, angina pectoris
Ischemic heart disease( CHD) is a collective concept that includes a number of conditions developing with coronary artery insufficiency, i.e.when the supply of blood to the working heart muscle is impaired.
Most often in the practice of ambulance have to deal with various angina and myocardial infarction.
Under the influence of these and some other factors, first, the inflow of blood to the heart muscle decreases, and secondly, myocardial oxygen demand increases.
Clinic .With angina, patients complain of paroxysms of pressure, constriction or burning pain in the region of the heart, behind the breastbone, which appear during physical exertion, emotional stress( less often regardless of these factors).In a state of rest, and also after taking nitroglycerin and other nitrates, they decrease or pass. Pain can radiate to the left shoulder, shoulder blade, hand to the wrist, neck, lower jaw, teeth. In this case, patients may experience a feeling of lack of air, weakness, fear of death.
Usually, the attack of angina lasts up to 15-30 minutes. If the seizures are delayed, as well as their intensity and frequency of occurrence( including progressive angina in the last few days or weeks), or if the angina occurred in a patient who had not previously suffered from it, within the last month( the first-time angina pectoris), thiscan be regarded as a "pre-infarct" condition.
It should be remembered that according to ECG data it is impossible to exclude or confirm the diagnosis of angina pectoris. Angina pectoris is a pain in the heart, it can not cause any specific changes on the ECG.However, with neuralgia, osteochondrosis of the thoracic spine and other diseases, pain in the chest can also occur, which patients can regard as a pain in the heart.
It is necessary to carefully collect the anamnesis and carefully examine the patient, but in case of difficulty with differential diagnosis, it is necessary to carry out tactical and therapeutic measures both in angina pectoris( on the principle of overdiagnosis).
Acute myocardial infarction( MI) is a necrosis of the site of the heart muscle. In a typical case, it develops clinically as an attack of angina pectoris. However, the pain is poorly controlled by nitrates, nitroglycerin does not completely eliminate the pain or eliminates for a short time, the pain lasts more than 30 minutes, sometimes prolonged for several hours and days, requires the introduction of potent analgesics. The patient is restless, pale, covered with a cold sweat, afraid to die.
This is an anginal variant of acute myocardial infarction.
Other clinical variants of MI
are possible. 1. The asthmatic variant is characterized by the development of an attack of cardiac asthma or pulmonary edema. It often happens in elderly patients.
2. Gastralgic( abdominal) variant begins with pain in the epigastrium and behind the breastbone, nausea, maybe vomiting. Sometimes the pain radiates to the lower abdomen, there may be signs of dynamic intestinal obstruction. It is especially difficult to recognize such a variant of myocardial infarction in patients with peptic ulcer and 12 duodenal ulcer in the anamnesis. However, palpation of the abdomen in this case does not cause significant soreness, the abdomen is soft, there are no symptoms of irritation of the peritoneum, which does not correspond to the patient's complaints for very severe pain.
Myocardial infarction and acute surgical diseases can occur simultaneously.
3. The cerebral variant is manifested as an acute disorder of cerebral circulation. There may be loss of consciousness, epileptiform cramps, speech disorders, paresis and paralysis. This can be explained by the simultaneous development of myocardial infarction and stroke( spasm of blood vessels or the entry of thrombi simultaneously into the vessels of the heart and brain), and complications of MI, for example, Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome( arrhythmia) that caused brain hypoxia.
4. Arrhythmic variant - the emergence for the first time of various disorders of rhythm and conductivity.
5. A painless( atypical) variant of myocardial infarction manifests itself only by changes on the ECG, sometimes detected by chance.
When assessing the ECG should be alerted to any abnormalities that have arisen for the first time.
In addition, there are changes in ECG characteristic of acute myocardial infarction:
• decrease of the amplitude of the tooth R, deepening of the Q wave( Q & gt; I / 4 R) and its broadening more than 1.5 mm or 0.03 sec. The extent of these changes depends on the depth of necrosis. In the case of transmural injury( ie necrosis of the entire thickness of the cardiac muscle), the R tooth disappears completely and the QS complex is formed;
• mixing segment( R) S-T above or below the isoline by more than 0.5 mm;
• formation of a negative T wave in those leads where it should normally be positive, and vice versa( T inversion).
Most often, the ECG changes described above occur in those leads whose positive( active) electrode is located above the necrosis zone.
ECG changes:
• in leads I and aVL indicates damage to the anterior wall of the left ventricle;
• in leads III, aVF and( rarely) II - posterior diaphragmatic divisions:
• in the thoracic leads: V1-V2 - anterior wall of the left ventricle, V2-V3 - interventricular septum, V4 - apex region, V5-V6 - lateral divisions of the leftventricle.
The most difficult thing is to recognize the posterior basal myocardial infarction when registering an ECG in 12 leads, since in this zone the active electrodes are installed only in leads V7-V9.In the posterolateral basilar myocardial infarction, abnormally high R wave and depression( decrease) of the S-T segment in leads V1-V2 may occur.
If the signs characteristic of myocardial infarction did not arise in the patient for the first time, but also on cardiograms made several months ago( and in the same way), one should think about the presence of chronic post-infarction changes( for example, scar formation or aneurysm).In doubtful cases, as well as with changes bordering the norm, the ECG should be repeated again after 6-8 hours( or later).
In the presence of acute myocardial infarction, ECG changes will increase. In the first hours there may not be any changes at all, they will appear later, therefore, with characteristic clinical signs, it should be considered that the patient has myocardial infarction, and behave accordingly.