Cold Remedy

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Even as a child, I heard a lot about the fact that an amazing person lives in the village of Lozovka, Michurinsky district, Tambov province, where my father comes from. Local residents go to heal only to him, although they consider him a sorcerer: they are afraid, but respect. The authorities always disliked this, in the 30s even the NKVD came for him several times, the sorcerer did not resist, only the horse for some reason refused to take him to the city, and the cars stubbornly did not start. Somehow they did not dare to let the respected person into the expense of the place, then the wise police chief found a "Solomon solution" and sent the village medicine man to medical assistant courses, and a first-aid post was equipped in his house.

During the war, the wounded were carried through the village, especially during the battles for Stalingrad, the hopeless were left to die at the paramedic's. So, in the Lozovka area there is not a single military burial. The witch doctor left everyone, crippled, but alive, they then in vain looked for their comrades in hospitals, many were never taken there.

In 1989, unsuccessfully visiting the doctors with my sick son, I decided to go to the sorcerer, especially since official medicine, like that Chukchi surgeon from an anecdote, threw up its hands, they say, "it’s not creepy." My son had a severe form of neurodermatitis: even in the maternity hospital, the doctors were too quick about antibiotics.

I was greeted by a man without age: a tired face, old, worn-out hands, but lively with a cunning eyes, a special place in his whole body and a cheerful commanding voice. The sorcerer did not take the money, he did not lie that he would cure, but promised to alleviate the condition. And so it happened, and he also gave me some advice, which I follow until now and am very grateful for them.

The most important advice is that you shouldn't let children get colds, you can't get sick yourself, and if you get sick, take it seriously, get treatment, drive out the infection, and not drive it inside, so you can't bring the temperature down with pills. Colds wear out our immunity, because of them teeth are destroyed and bones hurt. The throat must be gargled with blue iodine, no remedies for the common cold can be used, the infection must flow out.

If only you feel that you have caught a cold, even if it is even a slight discomfort, you should:

1. Take 1 tablet of Calcex. This is probably the cheapest drug at the present time.

2. Take a loading dose of ascorbic acid, i.e. 1 g or 20 pills of 0.05 g each, half an hour after taking Calcex.

3. After another half hour, take 1 tbsp. a spoonful of propolis alcohol tincture. If it's hard, you can dilute it in a small amount of warm milk or eat it with a piece of sweet roll. For children, an alcohol solution is not suitable, it is necessary to make propolis in oil. The propolis stick should be held in the freezer, then grated on a fine grater. Butter, preferably rustic, melt in a water bath, remove the foam, add grated propolis (in proportion to 3 parts of oil, one part of propolis), heat for half an hour, stirring, then strain through several layers of gauze. Pour into a jar, cool, close the lid, store in the refrigerator. Half a teaspoon is enough for a child. But one must take into account the individual tolerance of beekeeping products. If propolis causes an allergic reaction, you should drink cranberry juice.

4. Wash down the propolis with hot tea with raspberries or linden honey. You can brew St. John's wort, oregano, mint, chamomile.

5. After another half hour, we take a dose of Biseptol. It is the dose, because one adult tablet is designed for 60 kg of live weight, if my weight at this stage is 72 kg, then I will take a tablet and a quarter, calculate for yourself.

6. We rub the back, chest, except for the heart area, with turpentine or tiger ointment, put dry mustard into socks and put on our feet, wrap ourselves in a blanket and wait for the crisis. You cannot read or watch TV, sleep too, you must constantly monitor the temperature. A child and a young person with a healthy heart can easily tolerate a temperature of 39 ° C, but there are few healthy ones, so if the temperature goes above 38 ° C, we begin to knock it down with the help of five dressings moistened in a mixture of one part of cold water, one part of vinegar and one part of vodka … We apply bandages to the head, wrists and ankles, constantly changing them, moistening them in a solution. At the same time, we drink abundantly, better cranberry juice and still mineral water. Temperature is hard, it will twist all joints, bear with it. As soon as the crisis is over, the temperature itself will drop sharply,and the blanket can be squeezed out. We must go to the shower, wash, change all linen. And you are healthy.

I will notice right away that I am also against self-medication, but something is wrong with our medicine, otherwise miracles of all stripes would not have multiplied in such numbers, people who have lost hope of recovery would not go to them. Of course, it is better to consult a doctor, but where to get it - Someone with whom you have to deal in reality, an underachieved creature in a crumpled dressing gown, always writing, studying with interest not the state of health, but the state of our wallet, trying to rub in the dietary supplements unchecked by anyone, you cannot be called a doctor. There is no compassion in our doctors, but only self-interest. It's easier for me not to get sick. I live mainly in the village, and there it is far from the doctor, high up to God. But no one in the family has been sick with colds for a long time, and after all, medicine brought me with its official method of treatment to chronic tonsillitis, pyelonephritis and heart disease, nothing remained of my teeth by the age of 20. So take into account my mistakes, love yourself, take care of your health and do not really rely on pills: folk remedies, time-tested, are more reliable.