According to statistics, diseases of the heart and blood vessels more often than other ailments lead to death. However, the question is sometimes puzzling: when the heart hurts, what to do at home? At first glance, the answer to this question is obvious: you need to see a doctor immediately. Today, there are no universal medicines, as well as traditional medicine, which can cure any heart disease. That is why, at the first signs of an illness, it is urgent to establish a diagnosis.
Since ancient times, people have used healing herbs for heart treatment. In nature, there really are plants that are effective in complex therapy for the treatment of heart disease. However, self-medication is not worth it. Before using the means and methods of traditional medicine, you should consult your doctor. Sometimes, in the manufacture of medicines, a more careful selection of components, dosage adjustment for a particular patient, taking into account its physiological characteristics, is required.
Causes of Heart Disease
The causes of pathology of the heart and blood vessels include malnutrition, a sedentary lifestyle, smoking, and abuse of alcoholic beverages. An important role in this case is played by problems at the psychoemotional level - frequent neurosis, stress, depression. Not everyone has the necessary relaxation skills, they can discard problems and life difficulties for at least a short time. As a result, the emotional load grows and as a result, heart problems.
When is the use of traditional medicine justified?
It should be noted that phytotherapy is quite widely used not only by traditional healers, but also in official medicine with almost all cardiac pathologies. First of all, these are problems with the nervous system that affect the state of the heart muscle. In this case, plants that normalize the work of the heart and soothing nerves are recommended. With success, folk remedies in the initial stage of the disease are used for heart pain. In other cases, they act as additional to the main drug treatment prescribed by the doctor.
In the acute phase of the pathology, folk remedies for heart pain can be connected after the stabilization of the patient's condition. Herbs have proven themselves as prophylactic agents for improving the functioning of the heart both in perfectly healthy people and those suffering from disorders in this area. Typically, preventive courses are carried out twice a year - in autumn and spring.
It is important to understand that folk recipes for heart pain cannot cure serious pathologies. But they can alleviate the condition of the patient and increase the effectiveness of traditional treatment.
Types of cardiac pathologies: arrhythmias
Under the influence of various factors (pathological conditions, diseases, external stimuli), interruptions in the heartbeat occur. Below we will focus on the most common forms of arrhythmia.
- Tachycardia. The pulse increases to 100 beats per minute or more.
- Bradycardia The frequency of contractions of the heart muscle is reduced to 50 beats.
- Extrasystole. Abbreviations are extraordinary.
- Atrial fibrillation. Flickering or fluttering of certain parts of the heart (atria, ventricles) with a frequency sometimes reaching 400 beats per minute.
During an attack of arrhythmia, a person experiences contraction in the chest, pressure surges and other signs of disturbance are disturbing. The patient complains that his heart hurts. At home, what to do when the diagnosis is established? For this, you can use spectacular folk remedies:
- With a decrease in intensity and heart rate, the use of yarrow infusion is most effective. To prepare it, 40 g of herbs are poured into 0.5 l of boiling water. When the composition has cooled, it must be filtered and you can take 50 ml three times a day for two months.
- If the heart rate is slow, you need to mix 1 kg of sugar with 2 kg of walnuts and one liter of sesame oil. After that, grind 8 large lemons and put in a separate container, pour boiling water on top. When the lemons have cooled, they add a nut-oil mixture to them. Therapeutic mass is taken before meals, three times a day.
- An excellent folk remedy for heart pain and for stopping an attack is calendula. To prepare the infusion, pour 30 g of flowers with boiling water (400 ml). After cooling, the composition is filtered and taken in ½ cup four times a day.
- The use of peppermint-based preparations will help stabilize the heart rhythm, relieve nervous tension, and reduce pain. To prepare herbal tea, pour a spoon (teaspoon) of leaves in boiling water (200 ml). The drink will be ready in 20 minutes. The daily dose is 200 ml.
- From pain in the heart at home, herbal collection will help. To do this, mix two parts of motherwort grass and valerian roots and 1 part of yarrow and anise fruits. Pour 250 ml of boiling water into the collection spoon (tablespoon) and cover the container with a lid, insulate and let it brew until it cools completely. The composition is taken in a third of a glass three times a day.
Malformations
Heart muscle defects can be congenital, formed in the womb and acquired, developed due to other pathologies. These diseases are characterized by malfunctions in hemodynamics, including discomfort and pain in the chest area. A person feels like he is burning, contracting, and his heart hurts. What to treat at home in this case? First of all, it is necessary to take medications prescribed by a cardiologist.
Preparations based on herbal components in this case can only help indirectly, stopping the symptoms of the disease. The problem is completely eliminated only by surgery. The folk remedies for heart pain caused by various malformations include the following drugs.
Lily of the valley tincture
This tool helps to reduce the severity of symptoms. You can cook it yourself, pour 100 g of flowers with alcohol (500 ml). The container is tightly closed and put for two weeks in a dark place. Take tincture of lily of the valley for 1 tbsp. l three times a day, after diluting it in 50 ml of water.
You can make a drug differently based on lily of the valley. To do this, 50 g of flowers are poured with boiling water (500 ml). In an hour, the composition will be ready for use. It is taken in 80 ml twice a day. The effectiveness of the drug can be increased by mixing lily of the valley flowers with motherwort. Infusion is taken similarly to alcohol.
Peppermint
Infusions based on this plant do not cause side effects, which allows them to be used for a long time. The medicine is prepared in the form of tea, brewing a spoonful of raw materials (tea) with a glass of boiling water. Take a mint drink 1-2 glasses a day before meals.
Beetroot Juice
Mix the juice of red beets with honey (2: 1). Such a remedy not only relieves the symptoms of the disease, but also has a tonic effect. Take twice a day, 50 ml.
Rosemary tincture
An effective folk remedy for heart pain, to stabilize the muscle and reduce the intensity of the clinical picture. This tincture is prepared from the leaves of the plant (60 g) and red dessert wine (500 ml). After mixing the ingredients, the product should be infused for a month. Take it in a spoon (tablespoon) twice a day. Treatment continues for 40 days. Three such courses are allowed per year.
Coronary artery disease
The disease resulting from a lack of blood supply is called myocardial ischemia. The problem, as a rule, is associated with the development of atherosclerosis. Most often, patients complain that their heart hurts. What to do? Folk remedies are available for this case.
Garlic and honey
The severity of pain can be reduced with the help of garlic. It increases the lumen of blood vessels, lowers cholesterol, thereby preventing the risk of developing such a formidable disease as atherosclerosis. To prepare such a medicine, chop the garlic and mix it with natural liquid honey in equal proportions. The container is closed and insisted for a week. The finished product is taken three times a day for a tablespoon, before eating.
Herbal infusion
Nutrition of the heart muscle will improve the infusion of motherwort, hawthorn and chamomile. The ingredients are mixed in equal parts. A glass of boiling water is poured into 30 g of the collection. The drug is taken three times a day, before meals, 100 ml.
Picking herbs
Mix motherwort herb, pharmacy chamomile, hawthorn flowers (in two parts). Add to them birch leaves, hernia grass, heather, creeping wheatgrass rhizomes and horse chestnut flowers (1 part each). Pour boiling water (250 ml) in a spoon (teaspoon) of the collection. The container is covered with a lid, wrapped tightly and insisted until it cools. After this, the therapeutic agent is filtered and taken on a spoon (tablespoon) in the form of heat in the morning and evening.
Heart attack
One of the most formidable and, unfortunately, common heart diseases, often fatal. A heart attack is characterized by acute pain and necrosis of the myocardial sites. A patient with an attack is hospitalized. The doctor gives the necessary recommendations before discharge and prescribes treatment at home.
You can relieve pain in the heart with folk remedies only after consulting with your doctor. As a rule, the first time a mixture of honey, lemon, garlic is used. Then the patient is gradually transferred to freshly squeezed juices (onion, carrot). To enhance the effect, they add natural honey.
Herbal harvest
Mix the buds of birch, St. John's wort, chamomile, and immortelle flowers (100 g each). Spoon (canteen) of the collection is poured with boiling water (0.5 l). The container is covered with a lid, wrapped and insisted until it cools completely. Then the composition is filtered and taken in the morning, on an empty stomach (200 ml each), and in the evening, after eating, adding a teaspoon of honey.
Heart failure
A disease in which the ability of the heart to pump blood decreases, which leads to its stagnation. The causes that cause this pathology can be coronary artery disease, rheumatic disease, myocardial infarction, hypertension, heart defects. The symptoms of this disease are different, depending on which part of the heart is affected.
This is ascites, swelling, rapid heart rate and breathing, coughing, enlarged liver, pale or bluish color of some areas of the skin. Severe illness can be fatal.
In this case, from pain in the heart, folk remedies are also used to strengthen blood vessels and the heart, to restore their functions.
Lovage tincture
Grind the lovage root (100 g), pour 300 ml of 60% alcohol. Close the container tightly and set to insist in a dark place at room temperature for two weeks, remembering to shake the composition periodically. Tincture is taken three times a day in a spoon (tablespoon), before meals.
Effective folk methods for heart pain
Increase resistance to external stimuli, strengthen the heart muscle, and relieve pain using traditional medicine. To do this, you can use the following recipes:
- Grind lemon, walnuts and figs (20 g each). Pour the mixture with 50 ml of alcohol and 20 ml of honey. The composition should be infused for five days. The tool is taken in the morning and evening for 15 g.
- Squeeze juice from fresh hawthorn fruit. Take it three times a day for 20 ml.
- Boil chicken eggs (10 pcs.), Separate the yolks, chop them and fill them with 100 ml of sesame oil. The medicine is taken seven days a teaspoon three times a day, before meals, for a week.
And a little more about herbs
Using folk remedies for heart pain, herbs in particular, you will not eliminate the cause of the disease, but you can significantly increase the effectiveness of the course of traditional therapy, reduce the excitability of the nervous system. It should not be forgotten that herbs that are good for blood vessels and the heart are medicines and are often quite aggressive. Uncontrolled intake of them can provoke sad consequences. That is why, before their use, a full examination should be taken and only after a diagnosis is established and a consultation with a doctor is allowed, treatment with herbal remedies is allowed.
The simplest and most affordable method of treating heart pain with folk remedies is ready-made pharmacy tinctures from plants useful for the heart muscle. Additionally, they have a sedative effect. In addition to the widespread and popular “Corvalol”, which includes peppermint, these are tinctures of hawthorn, valerian, peony, motherwort. They are taken in 20 drops, diluted in a small amount of purified water.
Melissa infusion
The healing properties of lemon balm are well known to people suffering from heart disease. To prepare a healing and very pleasant drink from this herb at home, you can fill a glass of boiling water with a spoon (tablespoon) of raw materials. Cover the container and let the composition brew for two hours. Then strain the composition and take ½ cup in the morning and evening.
A mixture of ready-made tinctures
Once upon a time in pharmacies, a useful and effective tincture of the “Morozov Drop” was sold, which helped with heart pain. Today, to prepare such a composition at home, it is necessary to mix the pharmacy tinctures of the fruits of hawthorn, valerian, peony and motherwort (25 ml each) and Corvalol (50 ml). Take tincture of 10-30 drops, diluted in a small amount of water, twice a day.
Tips from phytotherapists
It is important to know that medicinal plants are used not only for the treatment of vascular and heart diseases, but also as effective natural prophylactic agents. Doctors advise:
- Eat one banana daily.
- Rinse thoroughly with warm water and dry the seedless raisins. On the first day, eat 40 berries half an hour before meals. The next day - 39, and so reduce the dosage to one berry.
- Eat 50 g of dried apricots daily. Grind apricot kernel kernels. Pour a teaspoon of the mass with boiling water (250 ml) and mix thoroughly. This daily dose should be taken in two to three doses.
- Peel the inner hairs and seeds and chop the rose hips. A tablespoon of this mass pour 0.5 liters of water, bring to a boil over low heat and boil for a quarter of an hour. Remove the broth from the heat and let it brew until it cools completely. Then strain the composition, wring out the raw materials. Bring the resulting broth with boiled water to its original volume. Add a spoon (tablespoon) of honey and mix thoroughly. Take three times a day for ½ cup.
- Pour a glass of boiling water with 10 g of pine buds. Let it brew for three hours. Strain and take 30 ml three times a day.
- Pour pine needles (50 g) with water (0.5 L), bring to a boil and simmer over low heat for ten minutes. The product should be infused for three hours. Bring the resulting broth to its original volume with boiled water. Drink the broth in small sips ½ cup three times a day.