“Flu recipes” - a phrase we oftern hear. Given the lack of medicines and effective drugs, we again return to natural healing recipes. Try to avoid panic, take timely prevention measures. Let’s talk about them.

Traditional medicine recipes against influenza

1. Mix lime-tree flowers - 1 part and raspberry fruits - 1 part. Pour two tablespoons of the mixture with 2 cups boiling water. Boil for 5-10 minutes, strain. Drink hot before sleep, 1-2 cups.

2. Take tincture of eucalyptus leaves -25% with 40-70% alcohol content, 20-25 drops in 1 / 4 cup of warm boiled water 3-4 times daily before meals. Oil extracts from leaves of eucalyptus can be used for external lubrication of nasal sinuses.

3. For influenza prevention take a mixture of: grate 2 lemons and 2 garlic cloves to receive gruel, mix and pour in 1 liter of boiled cool water, soak 3 days in a dark place at room temperature, strain, put in the fridge, take 1 tablespoon on an empty stomach. The mixture should be taken from early autumn until late spring - the effect will not take long.

4. At high temperature, pour 4 tablespoons slurry horseradish with 1 / 2 liters dry wine, add shredded 10 lemons peel and leave for 1-2 weeks. Drink 50 ml 3-4 times a day 20 minutes before meals.

5. Prepare an infusion of raspberry and honey. Pour 100 g frozen or 2 tbsp dry berries with 1 tbsp. boiling water in a thermos and leave for 45 minutes. Then add 1 tablespoon honey, stir. Tincture should be drunk before bedtime, as it is an excellent diaphoretic and anti-inflammatory agent. You can make also honey-garlic mush: clear garlic, grate and mix with honey (1:1). Take 1 tablespoon before bedtime washing it down with warm water.

6. Stressful situations “lurk” us anywhere. Before going to sleep, slightly grease the wings of nose with valerian tincture, to smell. In the morning you’ll feel quite fresh and cheerful.

7. Washing the nose. Prepare a warm solution of salt (0.5 tsp to 1 tbsp. water). Having washed hands, pour salt water in a handful (or in a cup) and pull it with one nostril, then - release. And so - 4-5 times for one nostril, and then - for the other. After this washing the nose is cleared, and it must be lubricated inside and outside (wings of the nose) with vegetable oil. This protects it from contact with mucous nasal flu germs

8. Rubdown helps copying with perspiration. First you should clean the body with a towel soaked in hot water and wipe it dry. Then - rub the body with whiskey, massaging all muscles to increase blood circulation. Then you must then fluff the body with unsalted pork fat (preferably domestic) or fat. Moreover, treat sites with small intervals of time: rub fat into sternum, spine, back, rub your heels and feet. After some time, when fat is absorbed, run bischofite (pharmaceutical preparation) in skin. It contains many trace elements and acts as an anti-inflammatory agent. After all sponging-rubbing - drink vitamin hot tea and wrap up, then lie down. This whole chain of procedures can be repeated on another day or two, depending on the state of health.

Flu treatment. Miracle garlic

Garlic is one of the most common means against influenza. Traditionally it is used inside for prevention and treatment of disease. But as it turns out, the scope of its medicinal use can be expanded.

Cut a garlic clove into several smaller parts. Then take cotton wool, wrap a piece of garlic in it and crimp on all sides to obtain garlic juice. Now you need to insert a cotton ball in the nostrils, it should not burn the mucous and interfere with breathing. Influenza viruses would be harder to penetrate into the body along with the inhaled air. It is necessary to make timely replacement of dried cotton with fresh. Another method of garlic therapy: Peel off clove of garlic, make a cut with a knife and lubricate wrists with the juice. Such procedure can be repeated three times during the day.

Children flu treatment

1. Mix 500 g minced onion, 400 g sugar and 50 grams honey, pour the mixture in 1 liter water. Boil the mixture over low heat for three hours, then cool and pour in a sealing bottle. Give a sick child 2-3 tablespoons per day. The remedy can be used against painful cough and whooping cough.

2. Give a sick child grated raw horseradish and its juice - against bronchitis, whooping cough, as radish juice with honey has expectorant action, soothes cough. The remedy can be used to excite the appetite, for better emptying of the gall bladder, to remove excess fluid from the body.

3. Pour 8 g cyanosis blue roots into a glass of boiling water, boil until the broth thickens up to half the volume or to a considerable thickness. Give a sick child 1 teaspoon 3 times a day as an expectorant, sedative and painkiller.

4. Take equal quantities of knot-grass, herbs thyme, anise fruit, fennel fruit, buds of pine and finely shredded licorice root. Pour 4 teaspoons of the mixture with a half glass cold boiled water, brew for 2 hours, bring to a boil, boil for 2-3 minutes, then cool and strain. Give a sick child 1 / 2 cup 3 times a day half an hour before a meal, against bronchiectasis, whooping cough, chronic pneumonia.

Herbal medicine: is it safe?

Among natural recipes for healing, perhaps, phytotherapy wins the main place. However, is frivolous acceptance of medicinal herbs safe for your body? We must say even careless use of spring water can cause harm, so a sense of proportion and reasonable opinion are required in everything, including herbal medicine.