Potatoes are a vegetable that needs no introduction. Potato dishes, of course, are included in the diet of every family, many gardeners grow this crop on their plots. But perhaps not everyone knows about the healing properties of ordinary tubers.
Traditional medicine is known for the anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties of potatoes, which allow them to be effectively used to relieve the patient’s condition with osteochondrosis, sciatica, and joint diseases. The advantage of this tool is that it is always at hand, you can use the simplest recipes at any time.
- Raw potato compress for osteochondrosis and sciatica
Wash the fresh tubers and grate them. The potato mass is evenly distributed on a clean cotton or linen cloth and applied to the sore spot. Fix it with a bandage or towel. Keep the compress for 1-2 hours. If you are not allergic to honey, you can mix the potato mass with honey in a ratio of 1:1.
- Potato compress for arthritis
Wash the green potato tubers well and grate them together with the peel. The resulting mass is filled with hot water and kept in it until the potatoes are heated to a temperature of + 38…+38.5°C (100.4-101.3°F). Drain the water, and put the potato mass, without squeezing, in a prepared linen bag or wrap it in a cotton towel, distributing it evenly, with a layer of about 1.5-2 cm (0.6-0.8 in). Wrap the cloth with the potato mass around the affected joint, cover with plastic wrap and secure with a bandage. Make yourself comfortable by placing a pillow under the joint. The pain usually goes away within half an hour, but the compress should be left overnight.
- Decoction of potato peel for osteochondrosis
Peel the potatoes, rinse well, pour cold water so that it completely covers the raw material, and cook until tender. Use a warm decoction for compresses on the affected areas and take it inside 3 times a day for 0.5 cups. The course lasts 3-4 weeks.
You can also make tinctures from flowers or potato sprouts. These remedies are poisonous, they can only be used externally! Tinctures have an analgesic effect; for pain in the joints and spine, they should be rubbed into the sore spot before going to bed and immediately then well wrapped up.
- Tincture of potato sprouts
Take 1 cup of potato sprouts (strong sprouts 1.5-2 cm/0.6-0.8 in long), chop them, pour 0.5 liters of vodka, clog, insist in a dark cool place for 10 days and then strain. Apply externally for osteochondrosis, sciatica, gout, bursitis, arthritis, arthrosis.
- Tincture of potato flowers
Fill the bottle to the top with potato flowers (without tamping), pour vodka, seal, insist in a dark place at room temperature for 10 days, strain. Apply externally for pain in the joints and back with osteochondrosis, sciatica, arthritis, arthrosis, and other diseases of the musculoskeletal system.
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