With the arrival of winter, people begin to get actively sick.Catarrhal diseases, viral infections accompany them throughout the autumn-winter season. Each trip to the doctor entails a trip to the pharmacy, often with an impressive list of medicines that must be purchased. In modern financial conditions for many people, especially those who are socially unprotected, the cost of acquiring the necessary medicinal products are becoming very noticeable in their family budget.
Cough compress: cabbage leaf and honey
People are allergic to manymeans of pharmacology. Therefore, when discussing a treatment regimen with a doctor, patients are often asked to prescribe affordable and effective traditional medicine for the treatment of seasonal diseases. The therapists advise using herbal decoction for gargling and ingestion, inhalation with plant essential oils, various rubbing and compresses. Often in the composition of therapeutic agents is natural bee honey. A positive effect is the treatment of cough with cabbage leaf and honey.
Medicinal properties of cabbage and honey
Cabbage is a unique vegetable.It is used for the preparation of many delicious and healthy dishes in cuisines around the world. The healing properties of this vegetable people noticed and used for a long time. Cabbage leaves are used in compresses because of the beneficial properties of this valuable vegetable, which:
- helps in the destruction of pathogenic microbes;
- reduces inflammatory processes;
- reduces pain;
- relieves swelling and helps remove excess fluid.
Honey has many unique properties.It is able to strengthen the protective function of the body, increase its immunity, kill and block bacteria. This product has anti-inflammatory effects and contains many beneficial micro-organisms and vitamins.
Cabbage leaf with cough honey: recipe
For use in the compress need to preparecabbage sheets. They are cleaned of impurities and washed under running water. It is recommended to cut off thick basal streaks of leaves - it is necessary that the leaf be approximately the same thickness. Then the sheet is immersed in boiling water for one minute. This is necessary so that the sheet becomes elastic.
Melt some honey in the water bath,so that its consistency allowed to smear a leaf of cabbage. Then it should be smeared with honey a leaf of cabbage - you get an antitussive compress. Cabbage leaf and honey should be warm, but not hot.
Compress application
Apply cabbage leaf with cough honey in the form ofCompress as follows: it is applied to the chest or back with the side that is smeared with honey. If the cough is strong, you can use the compress immediately and on the back and chest.
Следует помнить, что запрещенными местами для Compresses are the area of the heart and the areas of the skin on which there are large birthmarks. Then places the application of the compress covered with cling film and tightly wrapped with a warm diaper. The patient needs rest, therefore it is recommended to do such procedures before going to bed, the compress is often left overnight.
Затем больному делают гигиенические процедуры, removing remnants of honey and leaves, wipe the contact points with a compress. As a result of such a medical procedure, his breathing softens, sputum begins to recede, coughing fits gradually turn into coughing. For a positive dynamic in the treatment of the disease, 4-5 such procedures must be performed in conjunction with the use of medications prescribed by the doctor.
Contraindications
Cabbage leaf with cough honey is used only in the absence of contraindications for a sick person. They are:
- allergic reactions - in order to avoid serious consequences, it is necessary to make sure before starting the procedures that the patient is not allergic to honey;
- in the presence of an increase in body temperature, such a compress should not be used because of the warming properties of such a compress;
- It is not recommended to use the use of a compress in children under five years old and people with cardiovascular diseases.
It is necessary to closely monitor the temperature.components of the compress, because the burn with hot honey is very painful and requires long-term treatment. You can not apply compresses with a long cough, if it does not stop for weeks or even months. The cause of this cough can be a serious or chronic disease of the human respiratory system. Therefore, you can not self-medicate and apply a compress only on the advice of a doctor.
Many people use cabbage leaf to treat.with cough honey. Feedback on the use of such funds is always positive. Recovered people are advised to pay attention to this method of treating colds due to its availability and high efficiency.
