The importance of the liver to the body is difficult to overestimate. This "laboratory" not only frees us from the harmful effects of toxins, but also takes part in digestion, producing enzymes, and accumulates vitamins and hormones. And yet this is the only organ capable of self-healing. At the same time, in the current realities, the load on this important organ is such that the liver needs help.
In the article we will talk about the effective treatment of the liver with folk remedies. They can also be used in the prevention of diseases. The people have accumulated vast experience in treating many ailments without the use of drugs.
Attention! Before you begin treatment with herbs, decoctions and other drugs, you should consult your doctor.
How folk remedies help the liver recover
The liver may need to be restored after prolonged treatment with medications, poisoning of the body, and other disorders caused by poor ecology, harmful working conditions, stress and alcohol abuse. Alternative methods of treatment help maintain the normal functioning of the body during extreme stress.
What signs might suggest that the liver needs help? Here are some symptoms:
- a feeling of heaviness in the right hypochondrium;
- heartburn;
- bitterness in the mouth;
- disorders of the stool, nausea, poor appetite;
- discoloration of the stool and urine;
- yellowing of the proteins of the eyes and skin;
- muscle pain
- irritability, sleep disturbance, reduced attention;
- itching on the skin of the face and upper body.
If pain appeared in the right side, this indicates an increase in the liver, acute pain can signal an accumulation of bile. Such symptoms should be consulted by a doctor.
Any treatment for liver disease begins with a diet. The patient must be excluded from the diet fatty meat food, fried, spicy and salty foods, alcohol.
Despite the abundance of drugs, do not neglect folk remedies for cleaning the liver and its restoration. Such means are medicinal herbs and their fees, as well as honey and other beekeeping products.
Medicinal herbs for liver treatment
Many herbs can help restore affected hepatocytes. Decoctions and infusions are prepared from them. Judging by the reviews, liver treatment with folk remedies can be very effective, if you approach the matter wisely. People note an improvement in well-being and overall appearance. But everyone who has practiced traditional methods of treatment, restoration and cleansing of the liver, warned that it is better to get specialist advice in order not to aggravate the situation. The following folk remedies for treating the liver are effective, according to reviews:
- Infusion of St. John's wort, string, tansy, sage, chamomile, chicory bark, horsetail, yarrow, wheatgrass taken in identical parts of herbs. One spoon of this mixture is insisted in a glass of boiling water for a quarter of an hour. Infusion should be drunk per day in three divided doses.
- Perhaps the best medicine for the liver is corn stigmas. They include vitamins, essential oils and minerals, in particular selenium, which can neutralize toxins and restore immunity.
- A mixture of turmeric and garlic helps fight bacterial infections like antibiotics. A mixture of a teaspoon of turmeric, one clove of garlic and 100 grams of water is taken before meals twice a day.
- Nettle leaves, hawthorn berries, motherwort, mint, knotweed grass in equal parts are filled with 200 grams of boiling water and insisted for 20 minutes. Take the whole glass in small sips before meals.
- Sage. A tablespoon of dried sage is insisted for 20 minutes, pour 200 grams of boiling water, add a spoon of honey, taken in the morning on an empty stomach.
- Mix three teaspoons of the hodgepodge herb with 300 grams of hot water, bring to a boil and insist for an hour, dissolve a teaspoon of honey in the broth. Take three times a day for half a cup an hour before meals.
- Grind dandelion root, mix with honey. Reception - a teaspoon before meals in the morning, afternoon and evening. This mixture helps restore the liver after taking antibiotics.
- Grind chicory root to a powder state, pour a tablespoon with the top of this powder 300 ml of boiling water, insist, take 100 ml before meals.
- The infusion of celandine is prepared as follows: take half a liter of boiling water two tablespoons of celandine and insist for four hours. Take half a glass before breakfast and dinner.
Attention! Celandine is a powerful tool. Do not exceed the dose!
- Monastic tea: rosehips, elderberry, oregano, St. John's wort, elecampane root are taken in equal proportions. On a tablespoon of collecting 500 ml of boiling water, leave for 12 hours, strain and drink a third of a glass twice a day.
Oats
Oats are a cereal that is eaten and fed by livestock. But not everyone knows about the healing properties of oats, in particular that it can be used to treat and cleanse the liver. Grain is used unrefined, in the form of whole pure grain, flakes and flour (oat flour), it depends on the specific recipe. Judging by the reviews of healers, oats are one of the best medicines for the liver. Oat decoctions and infusions are able to bind toxins, trigger liver regeneration and restore immunity.
To remove toxins from the body, a decoction of whole unrefined grains is used. To take one and a half liters of warm water, 2 tbsp. l grain. The drug is boiled for half an hour over low heat. Three times a day to drink half a glass 15 minutes before meals. Before starting treatment, it is necessary to refuse meat and fish food for three days, otherwise the liver will not be cleansed.
Oats are effective not only for cleansing - with it, hepatosis and the initial stage of cirrhosis are treated. For these purposes, use an infusion: 200 grams of unrefined grains need to be thoroughly washed, dried and crushed to a state of flour, sieved. Mix a tablespoon of the obtained oatmeal with a liter of boiling water and insist in a thermos for 12 hours. Then the mass is filtered and drunk half a liter per day 20 minutes before breakfast, lunch and dinner. The course of treatment is three months.
For the treatment of obesity, as well as when the size of the liver is increased, boiled oats should be used. Four hundred grams of whole grains are poured with one and a half liters of boiling water, removed to a dark place and left for a day. Take boiled oats half an hour before breakfast and before bedtime, one spoonful. Such treatment should last two weeks.
Such a decoction is prepared for the treatment of liver hemangioma: 500 g of grains are poured into 2.5 liters of cold water and insisted for 10 hours. Then cook for at least half an hour and again insist 12 hours. Then the broth is filtered and diluted with a liter of boiled water. Store in the refrigerator and take half a glass before meals for a month and a half.
With hepatitis, oatmeal is indicated. It is prepared as follows: pour 200 g of oatmeal with a liter of water and cook for 40 minutes. After cooling, strain, chop the flakes and mix with the broth, boil again. Drink a glass on an empty stomach for 10 days.
Treatment and restoration of the liver with folk remedies is contraindicated in gallstone disease and diabetes. Another category of people who should temporarily abandon such therapy is pregnant and lactating mothers. It is also not recommended to clean the liver with oats for people suffering from kidney failure (due to the diuretic effect) and digestive disorders (diarrhea can be provoked).
And one more nuance. For the entire period of treatment of the liver with oats, smoking and alcohol should be abandoned.
Attention! Do not use instant oatmeal for the preparation of medicinal drugs, because they contain a lot of chemicals.
Honey
The healing properties of honey are not in doubt. This natural product contains so many useful components that it can be used to cure most ailments. Honey has a beneficial effect on the liver. He will help:
- Improve the work of the body.
- Turn on the regeneration process.
- Remove harmful substances, facilitating the work of the liver.
- Relieve inflammation.
- Normalize the work of the stomach and intestines.
- Strengthen the immune system.
However, not all honey for the liver is healing. Recommended varieties are: honey from rose hips, clover, apple, motherwort, raspberry, white acacia flowers.
It is contraindicated to be treated with honey with:
- Gallstone disease. Honey has a weak choleretic effect, can provoke the movement of stones and blockage of the bile ducts.
- Diabetes mellitus. Honey can increase blood sugar.
- Obesity. Honey is a high-calorie product, so it is not recommended to use it for people who are overweight.
- Individual intolerance. May cause a severe allergic reaction.
Attention! If the required amount of honey is exceeded, pain in the liver area may appear due to the large amount of fructose, which gives an additional load on the organ. Use the beekeeping product in the quantities indicated in the recipe!
Pumpkin with honey
Medium-sized pumpkin is washed and cut off the top, seeds are chosen. Pour honey inside, preferably white acacia, cover and put in a dark place for two weeks. Then the resulting product is poured into a jar and sent to the refrigerator. Take a tablespoon three times a day.
Blue Onion Honey
Three hundred grams of blue onion, 600 ml of red wine and 100 ml of honey mix, grind the onion, put everything in a glass container and put in a warm dark place for three weeks. This drug is eaten in two tablespoons three times a day.
Honey with garlic, lemon and butter
You need to take two lemons, peel off one of them. Peel one and a half heads of garlic. Pass everything through a meat grinder, add one hundred grams of olive oil and 500 grams of honey, mix and refrigerate. Drink a spoon half an hour before breakfast, lunch and dinner. Treatment with this prescription is effective even with cirrhosis, and can also strengthen the immune system.
Honey with horseradish
The following composition will help cope with the inflammatory process: honey is mixed with grated horseradish in equal proportions. Take a mixture of a teaspoon four times a day.
Honey with cinnamon
This mixture produces an analgesic effect. Half a liter of honey is mixed with two tablespoons of ground cinnamon and eat two tablespoons either before meals or two hours after.
Honey with Cabbage Juice
The prescription for the drug is very simple. Stir 200 grams of fresh cabbage juice with a tablespoon of honey and drink an hour before meals twice a day.
Honey with currant
A very tasty folk remedy for treating the liver: 200 grams of blackcurrant is mixed with the same amount of honey. An hour before eating, you need to eat a teaspoon of the drug. The duration of treatment is two months.
Hepatitis sufferers can add honey to drinks, casseroles and other foods instead of sugar. Mineral water with honey is very useful , even plain water with a spoon of honey will improve liver function. No wonder many people, even when they are absolutely healthy, start their day every day with a glass of purified warm water, sweetened with a spoonful of beekeeping product.
Thistle meal for the liver
Since ancient times, people have known about the beneficial properties of milk thistle grass. This unique plant helps in strengthening immunity and cleansing of toxins. Milk thistle meal is one of the medicinal forms based on this herb.
This weed is familiar to every summer resident under the name "thistle", but if there are no white spots on its leaves, then this is a less healing variety. In the old days it was believed that milk thistle has strong healing properties, its seeds were even used as an antidote.
Nowadays, oil is squeezed from the seeds of a thistle, then the cake is dried and ground. The resulting powder is called meal. Milk thistle oil is also used as a medicine, in addition, it is used in cooking and cosmetology.
Milk thistle meal contains a large number of flavonoids - physiologically active elements that improve metabolism and activate enzymes. Flavonoid silymarin helps cleanse the liver and activates its work.
Milk thistle meal can also be bought at a pharmacy. For the purpose of prevention, it is enough to take one teaspoon a day before meals. You need to drink warm tea or another drink, but also warm. The course of treatment for an adult is five weeks, then a two-week break and another course on the recommendation of the attending physician. During the year you can spend four courses.
How to clean the liver at home?
Cleansing the liver is a serious procedure, which boils down to contracting the gallbladder and opening the bile ducts. How to clean the liver with folk remedies?
Before proceeding with such a procedure, a doctor’s consultation and examination (ultrasound of the liver and gall bladder) are necessary. In addition, this procedure is permissible only in the absence of contraindications!
You need to start with a cleansing enema so that the harmful substances that will be removed from the liver do not remain in the intestines and do not have a toxic effect on the body. Then the liver should be warmed up with a heating pad.
A week before the start of the treatment, they switch to a vegetarian diet, completely eliminating fatty, fried, meat, salty foods and alcohol.
There are several recipes, using which you can effectively clean the liver with folk remedies, for example, herbs, oats, vegetable juices.
Collection number 1. Stigmas of corn, calendula flowers and bird highlander are poured with boiling water and insisted. Take three times a day before meals.
Collection number 2. Chamomile, birch buds, immortelle.
Collection number 3. St. John's wort, bird highlander, corn stigmas. In such a collection, add two liters of water and boil for ten minutes. Reception is one-time in the morning.
On an empty stomach, 300 ml of decoction is drunk, after an hour a laxative is taken or an enema is placed. Then you should lie down on your right side with a warm heating pad. If after an hour the slags did not go, then we put an enema again. During this day, you can drink mineral water without gas, apple juice, green tea with honey. On this day you need to refrain from eating, and for tomorrow start eating normally. After a month, the cleaning procedure can be repeated.
Fatty liver
The causes of liver obesity may be a genetic predisposition, an unhealthy lifestyle, overeating or starvation, poor ecology. If this disease is not cured, irreversible changes are possible - cirrhosis of the liver.
At first, the disease is asymptomatic, then weakness, nausea, loss of appetite, belching, yellowing of the skin appear. If such symptoms appear, you should immediately consult a doctor. If for some reason traditional medicine does not suit you, consult a specialist about the possibility of treating the liver with alternative methods. If the doctor gives the go-ahead, you can use the following recipes and tips.
- In the treatment of obesity of the liver with folk remedies, the following plants and herbs are effective: rosehip, nettle, medunica, birch buds, clover.
- A simple rosehip infusion brewed in a thermos can be used as a remedy. You need to drink a glass three times a day.
- Suitable collection of wormwood, fennel, caraway and mint. Prepared in a steam bath for 10 minutes, a collection spoon in a glass of water. After boiling, strain, dilute with water to a full glass and drink in a day in three divided doses.
- Awakening in the morning, drink half a glass of freshly squeezed carrot juice and half a glass of hot milk.
- Folk remedies that have proven themselves in the treatment of liver obesity are oat infusions and decoctions.
- It will prevent the accumulation of fat in the liver by the use of apricot nucleoli (no more than six per day).
Food
The whole life of the liver fights harmful substances, protecting our body from their harmful effects. But she herself needs our protection. In order for this body to cope properly with its duties, we must first of all eat right and lead a healthy lifestyle.
Let us love what our liver loves! Foods useful for the liver are seaweed, pumpkin, dried apricots, olive oil, flax and sesame seeds, cabbage, onions and garlic.
Of course, you can’t get enough of these products, but you can have enough to eat porridges, boiled meat, fish, dairy products and egg dishes. All this perfectly tolerates the liver, unlike smoked meats and fatty meat products.
If possible, sugar should be replaced with honey and coffee with herbal tea. Low-fat fermented milk products, various vegetable salads will help diversify the diet.
To restore the liver, it is useful to use crackers made of white bread, boiled rabbit, chicken, turkey, such fish as cod, perch, pike perch. Buckwheat porridge containing amino acids, iron and even proteins is a good product that helps to restore the body. Their vegetables are good boiled beets, greens, from fruits - baked apples, avocados.
When restoring the liver (folk remedies or with the help of medications - it does not matter), you must definitely drink clean water in the amount of 8-10 glasses per day. If edema appears, it is necessary to reduce or completely stop the use of salt.
Products such as garlic, apples, vegetable oils help cleanse the liver.