Folk remedies for influenza: treatment, inoculation of hardening, prevention and protection against influenza
Before you treat the flu with folk remedies, you should still consult a doctor – this way you will protect yourself from complications, because no one has canceled professional diagnostics. The only thing that can and should be done without outside advice is to prevent the disease. The main protection against influenza is the hardening of the body, the rules of which you can find below.
Everyone had the flu, or at least thought they had it. Many colds, adenovirus diseases (various acute respiratory infections and acute respiratory viral infections) are often “written off" for the flu, because they do not know about the cardinal differences between them.
With influenza, the onset of the disease is acute, while colds usually develop more slowly, gradually increasing their painful symptoms.
The first manifestations of the flu are aches all over the body, pain in the joints or muscles, severe headache. Runny nose and cough can join the first symptoms only after a couple of days. But with colds, it all starts with a tickle in the nose or nasopharynx, with a feeling of nasal congestion, which quickly turns into a runny nose.
With influenza, the temperature usually rises sharply to 38-39 ° C. With colds, the temperature is low, subfebrile (does not reach 38 ° C), moreover, often a cold occurs without an increase in temperature.
Accordingly, the treatment of influenza is different from the treatment of colds.
How to treat the flu with folk remedies (folk remedies)
To help relieve flu symptoms, you can use the following tips. Treatment of influenza with folk remedies is available to everyone and has no side effects.
One of the most common folk remedies for flu is to chew eucalyptus leaves or do steam inhalations with a decoction of eucalyptus and potato peel with the addition of 2 pinches of mint or 3-5 drops of fir essential oil.
At the first sign of influenza, traditional medicine advises to cut a large onion and inhale its vapors through the nose and mouth.
Grate a medium-sized onion head, pour 1 cup of boiling milk over it and infuse, wrapped, for 30 minutes, drink in small sips throughout the day.
Inside, you can take an infusion of linden flowers – half a glass 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals.
Currant infusion can also be effective. To prepare it, you need to brew 1.5 teaspoons of crushed blackcurrant leaves with 1 cup of boiling water, insist, wrapped for 3-4 hours, strain, and then take half a cup 4-5 times a day.
When starting a flu-like rhinitis, instill 3-5 drops of aloe juice 4-5 times a day in both nostrils (tilting your head back and massaging the wings of the nose after instillation).
It helps if you lubricate the nasal cavity with the juice of a fresh Kalanchoe leaf 3-4 times a day.
Another way to treat flu with folk methods is to drink such a delicious “cocktail” at night: mix 1 glass of raspberries or raspberry jam, 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 tablespoon of butter, 30-40 ml of cognac and 0.2 tablespoon of baking soda.
When coughing, chest pains, difficulty breathing, fir oil gives a good therapeutic effect. They need to rub the chest, arms and legs every 5-6 hours (for 1 procedure – 5-6 g).
You should be aware that the fight against influenza with the help of large doses of alcohol can only increase the general intoxication of the body.
Influenza vaccinations are not such an effective means of prevention, since vaccines for them are usually made from viruses of the previous influenza, while a new influenza epidemic is most often caused by a new type (“strain”) of the virus. Moreover, the flu shot can cause significant complications, especially for allergy sufferers. It is better to use folk remedies for the prevention of influenza, since these methods are available to everyone and do not harm the body.
Rules for hardening the body in the prevention of influenza
And now another extremely important recommendation, most likely even a call:
You need to temper not only “if you want to be healthy”, but also in order to remain active, energetic and, in the end, just alive!
Hardening in the prevention of influenza begins with cold water procedures. Why? Because we need to keep “in full combat readiness” that mechanism in our body that allows us to adapt to drops in ambient temperature. For an unprepared person, unseasoned, pampered, any draft, any breeze can cause a cold with all the ensuing consequences from the nose.
Of course, this does not mean that unprepared people should start dousing with ice water or rubbing themselves with snow. It is best to gradually go through the three stages of hardening.
First stage. Although folk wisdom calls: “Keep your head in the cold,” you still need to start with your feet. Pour cold water into a bowl, put one foot into it for 2-3 seconds, then, taking it out, rub it red with a coarse towel or a piece of woolen cloth, then put a woolen sock on it. Do the same with the second leg. Gradually increase the time of this procedure, making the water colder (even icy).
After a few days (if you begin to feel that the first procedure began to bring you pleasure), proceed to 3-5-minute rubdowns of the whole body with a sponge or towel dipped in cold water.
Second stage. After a few more days, you can start pouring. Water at first should be just cool, in the future its temperature must be adjusted depending on your well-being.
Third stage. After another 1-2 weeks (and sometimes more), you can switch from dousing with cool water to dousing with ice, at the same time (if winter has already come), you can start wiping with snow.
Hardening rules dictate: after going through all these stages, subsequently do not wrap yourself in warm clothes, even if it gets colder outside. Tune in to the fact that now you are already able to withstand even sharp drops in temperature.
Yes Yes! It is in the appropriate mood that another secret of hardened people lies. They know and believe that they are not afraid of frost or heat. This kind of psychological attitude helps, for example, swimmers to overcome long distances in almost any weather. The author, himself a professional swimmer in the past, knows this firsthand.
Not only the mood “warms the soul and body”, but also the working muscles. After all, the central nervous system of the body, which directs these processes in cold weather or in a cold environment, as when swimming, directs a large amount of energy, usually spent only on muscle contraction, to receive heat.
And in conclusion, let’s say, perhaps, about the most important thing. A person hardened by cold is able to use cold as a kind of easily accessible means of combating any inflammatory processes.
For the simple reason that if, with the onset of inflammation, cold rubdowns and douches are started, then these processes can be “quenched” at the very beginning. At the same time, you will achieve at least a sharp decrease in the risk of long-term diseases – acute respiratory infections, acute respiratory viral infections and even influenza!