Treatment of burdock joints

Decoctions, infusions and compresses from burdock will help reduce the swelling of the surrounding joint of the tissues and stop the pain. Various folk remedies from this plant eliminate the inflammatory process. Using them, you will increase the defenses of the weakened organism and significantly increase the resistance to the disease. The main thing to know is how to properly use burdock to treat joints.

Burdock root for the treatment of joints

To treat burdock joints of the feet and hands, it is best to use a decoction of the root. Especially well cope with this remedy with rheumatism . To prepare the broth you need:

1. Peel the cleaned root (on a fine grater).
2. 10 grams of raw material pour 200 ml of water.
3. Cool and drain the mixture.

Such a therapeutic broth is taken 20 ml 4 times a day.

For the treatment of arthrosis of the knee joint of burdock, you can make a powder. For this:

1. The root of the plant must be cleaned.
2. Grind in a coffee grinder.
3. Dry under direct sunlight (leave for about 30-120 minutes). Store this tool in tightly closed containers in a dark place.

For arthrosis, take 5 g of this powder 3 times a day. To do this, pour 70 grams of water. For the treatment of joints, burdock powder can also be used with honey (in a ratio of 1 to 1).

From the root of burdock, you can make a very useful therapeutic ointment. Do it according to this recipe:

1. Squeeze the juice from the rhizomes of the plant.
2. Mix it with any vegetable oil (in a ratio of 2 to 1).
3. The resulting mixture put it in the refrigerator for 2 days.

Obtained ointment from burdock can be used to treat the knee and shoulder joint. But, so that it does not lose its medicinal properties, at times it is better to prepare a small amount of it (for 3-4 applications). Store the ointment in the refrigerator.

Burdock leaves for the treatment of joints

The therapeutic effect on the various joints is not only the root, but also the leaves of burdock. It is best to make compresses from them. But, in order for such treatment of the joints with burdock to have a positive effect, it is necessary to properly prepare the leaves:

1. Do it in the spring. Collect the young leaflets.
2. Well wash them to remove all dirt and dust from them, and then pat them with a paper towel.
3. After that, you need to cut the leaves into thin long strips resembling noodles, and put them in a clean glass jar, covering it with a plastic lid.
4. Capacity should be placed in the sun.

After some time, the contents will turn into a green mushy mixture with an unpleasant odor and mold. The formation of such an unpleasant odor indicates that the drug is ready.

When severe arthritic pain occurs, you need to wrap gruel from the leaves in gauze and apply such a compress to the joint. It should be removed only after the gauze bandage has dried completely.

There are other methods of treating joints with burdock leaves. So, from them you can prepare a medicinal decoction. It will be especially useful if you add a few burdock flowers to it. To make it:

1. Mix 500 ml of water with 40 g of leaves (fresh) and 10 g of flowers.
2. Simmer the mixture for about 5 minutes.

With the resulting broth, you can make lotions. With deforming arthrosis and gout it can be added to the bath.

Curative wrap with burdock

Another popular folk method of treating knee (and any other) joints with burdock is curative wrapping. To make it, you need:

1. 50 g of the root of the plant (crushed) add in 10 liters of water.
2. Thoroughly mix and cool mixture.
3. After this, a white sheet is dipped into such water, squeezed out slightly and wrapped by the patient.

You can use several sheets because it is very important that between the legs the patient also has a tissue with a healing mixture and the legs do not touch each other. You can remove everything in 1-1.5 hours. The wrapping can be done once a day.