The processes of fluid accumulation, manifested in limited areas of the body under the skin and cutaneous tissue, are defined as local dropsy. But swelling can be more extensive and spread to many parts of the human body, while the normal functioning of almost all organs is disrupted.
Dropsy: diet.
Determine the cause of the dropsy, as well as prescribe treatment can only a doctor. And, in the first place, you must adhere to a strict salt-free diet with protein and vitamins.
In the diet should be a lot of vegetables, berries and fruits that have a diuretic effect. Such properties are celery, watercress, parsley, onion, garlic, asparagus, watermelon, pumpkin, blackcurrant and strawberry. And must be present sour-milk products: kefir, fermented baked milk, curdled milk, cottage cheese.
Instead of the usual drinks: tea or coffee, it is recommended to drink only decoctions and infusions of herbs. From the experience of traditional herbal healers, there are cases of healing effects of infusions and decoctions not only on puffiness, but also on the disease itself, which was caused by dropsy.
Drink: treatment of folk medicine.
Modern medicine, along with medicamental drugs, allows treatment with folk medicine as an addition to medicines.
Radish juice with honey.
So, for example, people prone to swelling, for prevention, it is recommended to take fresh radish juice mixed with honey (one to one), starting with a half glass and reaching two glasses a day.
Radish, thanks to its medicinal properties, is often used in many recipes for the treatment of the disease by folk remedies. You can choose a more suitable tool for you.
Radish and garlic juice.
Also, a mixture of juices made of garlic and radish is effective with a "watery" edema. The juice should be taken within two weeks, or until complete recovery, 2 to 3 times a day, a teaspoonful of the mixture, preferably at the same time, always washing down with water.
The juice of radish, pumpkin and onions.
To remove puffiness, you can prepare another, not less healing, mixture of juices: pumpkin, onion and radish. If desired, 0, 5 teaspoons of honey can be added to the mixture. Take 2 tablespoons, twice a day, increasing the daily volume to 0, 5 cups.
Watermelon peel.
Very easy to prepare and effective in its properties, a decoction of fresh watermelon crusts. It has an excellent diuretic effect, so the use of this remedy is a good prevention for the kidneys.
The root of black elderberry.
When the initial stage of dropsy is particularly recommended decoction or tincture from the root of elder black. The broth is prepared as follows: take 20 grams of crushed root per glass of water, and is taken three times a day for 1 tbsp. l. To make the tincture, you need to take vodka or alcohol, and pour the crushed root in the proportions of 1: 10. Insist for eight days. Take three times a day: tincture of alcohol - 25 drops, and from vodka - 40 drops. This folk remedy, possessing diuretic, purifying and firming properties, almost instantly relieves pain and abdominal pain.
Lemon juice and horseradish.
When treating dropsy, a strong preference is given to a strong folk diuretic, which is prepared from lemon and horseradish. It is necessary to take 150 grams of horseradish and grate it on a fine grater. Add the juice of three lemons and take before eating to 0, 5 teaspoons twice a day.
Herbal decoctions.
We remind you that during the whole treatment, only decoctions are better to drink. Decoctions are prepared without sugar from the leaves of cowberry, dogwood, kidney pine, decoction of flax seeds and other medicinal herbs.