The term "arthritis" can be applied to a wide range of diseases, but in the strict sense it is inflammation of the joints that occurs for various reasons: after illness, infection, trauma due to a genetic predisposition, a birth defect, lack of vitamins, etc.
Types of Arthritis
There are several main types of arthritis. Rheumatoid, as a rule, affects people after forty years, and women suffer from them much more often than men. It manifests itself as inflammation and pain in the hands, feet, joints of the fingers, causes fatigue and insomnia, as well as serious damage to the heart, lungs, eyes, nerves and muscles. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis manifests itself in children of different ages in the form of fever, anemia, acne on the arms and legs. This disease is temporary and, as a rule, passes with the development and growth of the child. Infectious arthritis affects the joints and fingers and toes due to infection. It is less common than a form of the disease caused by age-related changes. Osteoarthritis is most known, which is characterized by acute pain and inflammation of the joints due to bone loss. This is a disease of the elderly, when the cartilage that protects the ends of the bones, especially in the spine and legs, disappears with age, they become open and, in contact with each other, cause pain, deformation and stiffness of movements.
Traditional methods of treating arthritis
The traditional cure for joint pain is heat. Dry heat in the form of compresses, a hot bath, even an ordinary bottle of hot water, wrapped in a towel and attached to a sore joint, bring relief. For the prevention and treatment of all types of arthritis, continuous physical exercise is indicated to support joint mobility.
Non-traditional and folk remedies for arthritis are also based on the use of herbal medicine, homeopathic medicines, hydrotherapy and massage. All these methods are aimed at relieving pain, increasing joint mobility, reducing swelling, strengthening muscle tissue. How to relieve severe pain that arthritis provokes? Treatment with folk remedies suggests the following:
1. Apply a piece of ice to the diseased joint made from one large spoon of salt diluted in a glass of boiled water and frozen in the freezer until it melts. Then, without rinsing, apply a warming compress of several layers of soft wool to the sore spot.
2. How else can alleviate arthritis. Treatment with folk remedies uses a tincture for rubbing the joints, prepared from 200 grams of crushed bags of sunflower seeds, poured with a liter of vodka and left in a dark place for 10 days. Patient joints are rubbed twice a day, wrapping them after the procedure with a warm cloth.
3. With the help of tincture of lingonberry leaves, you can also relieve symptoms and treat arthritis. Treatment with folk remedies offers a composition prepared from a tablespoon of leaves, filled with a glass of boiling water, which insist 2 hours. You need to drink the medicine five to six times a day, before eating a tablespoon.
4. Therapeutic nutrition and the use in the daily diet of some vegetables and fruits, as well as juices, are very good for various diseases of the joints. For example, eggplant cooked in any form, or regular intake of May honey. An excellent remedy for such a disease is cherry. Twenty berries daily in a season saturate the body with vitamin P and substances that remove inflammatory processes in bone tissues.
5. Mixtures of vegetable juices also help relieve arthritis. Treatment with folk remedies suggests making a mixture of the juice of one apple, carrot, beet, add a little chopped ginger. It will be enough to drink half a glass of assorted twice a day.