Treatment with burdock juice with honey is recommended by traditional medicine for scarring wounds, as well as for tumor processes in the body, colds. This garden and roadside weed has a number of properties beneficial to the human body, and in combination with natural honey it turns into a real healing cocktail.
The content of the article
- 1 The benefits of burdock (burdock)
- 2 The benefits of honey
- 3 Противопоказания
- 4 Harvesting burdock
- 5 Receiving and storing juice
- 5.1 Infusion on water
- 5.2 Tincture with alcohol or vodka
- 6 How to treat a cold
- 7 Normalization of the liver and gastrointestinal tract
- 8 With the deposition of salts
- 9 Fight against oncology – recipe number 1
- 9.1 Recipe No.2
- 10 wound healing
The benefits of burdock (burdock)
For medicinal purposes, both rhizomes and burdock (burdock) shoots are used together with leaves. The weed contains vegetable proteins, essential oils, a complex of vitamins and minerals.
Useful properties of burdock:
- suppression of tumor growth;
- normalization of the liver and ensuring the outflow of bile;
- elimination of inflammatory processes by destroying bacteria;
- diuretic and diaphoretic effects.
At the same time, the risks of intolerance are minimized – the plant is hypoallergenic.
The benefits of honey
As for natural honey, almost everyone knows about its beneficial properties. It:
- improving blood circulation, cleansing blood vessels from cholesterol plaques, supporting the heart;
- calming the nervous system, ensuring a good night’s sleep;
- weight loss (subject to proper nutrition), acceleration of metabolic processes;
- strengthening immunity and restoring physical strength;
- elimination of seasonal vitamin deficiencies;
- the fight against viruses, bacteria – the removal of acute inflammation;
- removal of toxins, toxins from the gastrointestinal tract, normalization of gastric acidity.
Read more: Natural honey – its benefits and possible harm
Противопоказания
There are a lot of contraindications to the use of folk remedies. The fact is that allergic reactions to honey occur much more often than to intake of herbs.
Therefore, contraindications are reduced primarily to acquired or congenital intolerance to beekeeping products..
Read: How to identify and treat honey allergies
Honey is also used with great care:
- with diabetes mellitus (consultation with a doctor and control of blood sugar levels is required);
- with obesity due to the additional load on the liver and the calorie content of the product;
- for skin diseases with retention of carbohydrates in the epidermis;
- in the postoperative periods (operations on the digestive tract);
- during pregnancy and breastfeeding due to the risk of allergies in the baby.
Before starting medotherapy, be sure to consult with a doctor who is aware of your health condition!
Burdock (burdock) is limited for use:
- during breastfeeding and pregnancy;
- for any acute inflammatory processes in the body (before consulting a doctor);
- with cirrhosis of the liver.
But here an interesting fact should be noted. Dr. Tice’s syrup, made on the basis of burdock extract, is recommended by the manufacturer for the treatment of cough in pregnant women. That is, the restrictions are not so strict as to exclude this herb completely during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
We emphasize once again – if you have any doubts about taking traditional medicine or medications, consult your doctor or family doctor.
Harvesting burdock
Burdock oil, its herb, rhizomes, as well as ready-made preparations, such as cough syrup, can be purchased at the pharmacy.
But for folk remedies, they often use herbal raw materials, harvested independently. The weed has large leaves and mauve flowers. You can find it on unwanted lands and gardens.
Procurement rules are simple:
- the aerial part of the plant (leaves, shoots, flowers) is harvested from May to August – during this period, the burdock actively blooms;
- rhizomes are obtained in autumn (from September to October inclusive) or in April.
After collecting, the raw materials are dried in the shade, without access to direct sunlight.
Note! The collection is carried out in ecologically clean places, better – in the gardens. The ground parts of the plant are obtained from annual plants, and old two- or three-year-old weeds are required to harvest the rhizomes.
Receiving and storing juice
To obtain fresh juice, the leaves, together with the shoots, are passed through a meat grinder and squeezed through several layers of gauze.
Infusion on water
To store the juice in the refrigerator for two to three days, it is necessary to pour the obtained cake with boiling water in a ratio of one to ten. Let it brew for an hour, then mix the infusion with the juice squeezed out earlier. Transfer to glass and refrigerate.
It is mixed with honey in a ratio of one to three (juice – one part, honey product – three parts).
Tincture with alcohol or vodka
For long-term storage, add alcohol. It is taken:
- 50 milliliters of alcohol;
- two glasses of natural honey;
- a glass of burdock juice (burdock).
This mixture can be stored in the refrigerator for several months and can be used to treat colds, coughs..
Burdock juice with honey and vodka is used according to the recipe for the treatment of cough in case of a cold, and for other needs. The exact dosage is indicated below, in accordance with the diseases and pathological conditions.
How to treat a cold
For sputum discharge with a strong cough, take a tablespoon of honey-burdock mixture 4-5 times a day.
Remember! Such therapy should not last longer than a week.
For medicinal purposes, both an infusion of water and a tincture with the addition of vodka or alcohol are used. It is more effective to take the remedy before meals.
Normalization of the liver and gastrointestinal tract
It is taken once a day for a tablespoon of honey-burdock mixture.
It is better to do this in the morning 15-20 minutes before breakfast. Treatment continues for three to four weeks. It is also a good prophylactic agent that protects against digestion and liver and gall bladder problems.
With the deposition of salts
Raw materials are taken from a three-year burdock (rhizomes or shoots with leaves).
Proportions:
- two tablespoons of juice;
- two tablespoons of honey product;
- a glass of vodka.
The mixture is infused in a dark place for three weeks. Then it is divided into two parts and the first course of treatment begins. The tool is taken daily in a tablespoon three times a day before meals. A repeated course is carried out in six months.
On a note. Store in a refrigerator by pouring into a glass container.
Fight against oncology – recipe number 1
It is taken:
- a tablespoon of dry ground burdock rhizome (burdock);
- 200 grams of honey product;
- a glass of vodka.
The mixture is insisted in the refrigerator for a day. Take a tablespoon before meals for three weeks. Take a break for ten days, and then repeat the course.
Recipe No.2
First, a dry herbal mixture is prepared.
Take 10 grams:
- crushed dry burdock rhizomes;
- young shoots of white mistletoe;
- medicinal calendula flowers;
- tricolor violet herbs;
- cocklebur herbs;
- chamomile herbs;
- herb veronica officinalis;
- herbs of great celandine;
- sandy immortelle flowers;
- leaves and flowers of thistle.
All ingredients are crushed and mixed thoroughly.
Then the infusion is prepared. It is taken:
- two tablespoons of the herbal mixture;
- half a liter of boiling water.
Insist for two hours, filter. Drink 100 milliliters three times a day, adding honey to taste.
The course is 2,5-3 months. After a 2-week break, the treatment is repeated. At the same time eat a teaspoon of pollen (pollen) three times a day.
The remedy is indicated for all types of cancer.
Read more: Treatment of oncology (cancer) with natural honey
wound healing
It is taken:
- 30 grams of licorice rhizomes naked;
- 20 grams of burdock rhizomes (burdock);
- 20 grams of tripartite herb;
- 10 grams of five-bladed motherwort grass;
- 10 grams of hop cones;
- 10 grams of stinging nettle leaves.
The herbs and roots are crushed and then mixed thoroughly. An aqueous infusion is made from the resulting raw materials.
It is taken:
- half a liter of boiling water;
- two tablespoons of collection.
Insist in a thermos for twelve hours. Take 100 milliliters, adding honey to taste, three to four times a day 30-40 minutes before meals.
This remedy treats wounds, long-term non-healing skin ulcers, benign tumors, psoriasis. For the treatment of psoriasis, courses last three to four months with weekly breaks. And so on for one year.
Read more: Is psoriasis treated with natural honey?
In conclusion, we remind you that folk remedies containing alcohol are not given to children and pregnant women, lactating women.
