With the advent of winter, people begin to get sick actively. Colds, viral infections accompany them throughout the fall-winter season. Each trip to the doctor entails a trip to the pharmacy, often with an impressive list of medicines that must be purchased. In modern financial conditions, for many people, especially socially unprotected, the cost of acquiring the necessary medications are becoming very noticeable in their family budget.
Cough compress : cabbage leaf and honey
People have allergic reactions to many pharmacological agents. Therefore, when discussing a treatment regimen with a doctor, patients are often asked to prescribe affordable and effective traditional medicine to treat seasonal diseases. Therapists advise using decoctions of medicinal herbs for rinsing the throat and ingestion, make inhalations with essential oils of plants, apply various rubbing and compresses. Often, medicinal products include natural bee honey. A positive effect is the treatment of cough with cabbage leaf and honey.
The healing properties of cabbage and honey
Cabbage is a unique vegetable. It is used to prepare many delicious and healthy dishes in cuisines around the world. People noticed and apply healing properties of this vegetable since ancient times. Cabbage leaves are used in compresses due to the beneficial properties of this valuable vegetable, which:
- helps in the destruction of pathogens;
- reduces inflammatory processes;
- reduces pain;
- relieves swelling and helps remove excess fluid.
Honey has many unique properties. It is able to strengthen the protective function of the body, increase its immunity, kill and block bacteria. This product has an anti-inflammatory effect and contains many beneficial microorganisms and vitamins.
Cabbage leaf with cough honey: recipe
For use in a compress, you need to prepare cabbage leaves. They are cleaned of impurities and washed under running water. Thick root veins near the leaves are recommended to be cut off - it is necessary that the leaf be approximately the same thickness. Then the sheet is immersed in boiling water for one minute. This is necessary so that the sheet becomes elastic.
In a water bath, melt the honey a little, so that its consistency allows you to grease the leaf of cabbage. Then you should grease the leaf of cabbage with honey - you get an antitussive compress. Cabbage leaf and honey should be warm, but not hot.
Application of a compress
Apply a cabbage leaf with cough honey in the form of a compress as follows: it is applied to the chest or back with the side that is oiled with honey. If the cough is strong, you can use the compress immediately on the back and chest.
It should be remembered that the forbidden places for the compress are the region of the heart and skin areas on which there are large birthmarks. Then the places for applying the compress are covered with cling film and wrapped tightly with a warm diaper. The patient needs peace, therefore, it is recommended that such procedures be done before going to bed, the compress is often left all night.
Then the patient undergo hygienic procedures, removing the remnants of honey and leaves, wipe the contact points with a compress. As a result of such a therapeutic procedure, his breathing softens, sputum begins to pass away, coughing attacks gradually turn into a cough. For positive dynamics in the treatment of the disease, it is necessary to do 4-5 such procedures in conjunction with the use of medications prescribed by a doctor.
Contraindications
Cabbage leaf with cough honey is used only in the absence of contraindications in a sick person. They are:
- allergic reactions - in order to avoid serious consequences before starting the procedure, you must make sure that the patient is not allergic to honey;
- if there is an increase in body temperature, such a compress is forbidden to apply due to the warming properties of such a compress;
- it is not recommended to use the compress in children under five years of age and people with cardiovascular disease.
It is necessary to carefully monitor the temperature of the components of the compress, because a burn with hot honey is very painful and requires long-term treatment. You can not use compresses with prolonged coughing if it does not stop for weeks or even months. The cause of this cough may be a serious or chronic disease of the human respiratory system. Therefore, you can not self-medicate and apply the compress only on the advice of a doctor.
Many people use cabbage leaf with cough honey for treatment. Feedback on the use of such a tool is always positive. Recovering people are advised to pay attention to this method of treating colds due to its availability and high efficiency.