When you need to put the mustard and how to do it right
Educational Program Health / / December 19, 2019
Just say: the modern evidence-based medicine is not considered an effective treatment for mustard. However, some bonuses have warming patches still there.
What is mustard
Mustard - a paper warming compresses. Make their way: on a sheet of thick paper is applied to the finely milled powder from mustard seeds. The powder was then fixed, covering the thin protective bandage or other, also a thin paper sheet.
Previously, a few decades ago, considered a good remedy mustard from cold and other ailments.
However, by the end of the twentieth century, doctors finally came to the conclusion that the cure anything can not mustard.
However, they are on something still capable. That is why they remain popular as a home remedy9 Natural Arthritis Remedies for the relief of symptoms in various diseases.
How do the mustard
When you moisten mustard water, it reacts with essential mustard oil. As a result, they produce toxicMUSTARD compounds which are irritant to skin and mucous membranes.
Slightly deviating from the topic: the irritant effect - one of the ways to protect
plants. When any herbivore starts to chew on a stalk or seeds in them by saliva synthesized substances harmful to the nerve endings. Kill these substances will not be killed, but I do make a cow spit burning mustard stalks and do not touch them. The same effect, incidentally, is responsible for the pungent taste of horseradish and wasabi. But back to the mustard plaster.Irritation looks like a lung inflammation: the skin under the plaster begins to pinch, its temperature rises. This creates the most famous warming effect.
All that he can do - it's time to increase the flow of blood to a specific, very small areas of the skin and deliver the easy discomfort. Because of the discomfort created by a yellow card, unhealthy people distracted from the pain caused by the primary disease. And his time facilitates.
Mustard belongs to the distraction therapy. They do not cure, but simply shift focus.
When you need to put the mustard
When you want to escape from the nagging pain or other discomfort. For example, mustard is very popularWhat are the medicinal properties of mustard oil? to relieve conditions associated with:
- overexertion or stretching of the muscles;
- myalgia (muscle pain so called undetermined origin);
- neuralgia (in different nerve endings of pain);
- arthritis.
Dubai Health Authority doctor Nafiya Khadija, for example, recommendsAre mustard plasters efficient for treatment of any medical conditions? combine the imposition of mustard plasters on the affected area with the reception paracetamol - guaranteed to relieve the pain. Overall, however, the physician applies to mustard plasters skeptical. According to her, they work exactly the same way as cold compresses for acute injuries and warm - for chronic. And if so, what further split hairs with mustard, if you can get ice and warm water?
Mustard diversionary therapy is used for colds and - from conventional SARS coughs and bronchitis to pneumonia. In this case, annoying compresses applied, as a rule, on his back, sternum, shoulders, calves and soles. Exactly where you place the mustard is not so important. The main thing is that the patient felt a warm-up and switched from a real pain to "mustard".
When absolutely can not put mustard
Here are a few contraindications for the use of yellow cards:
- Allergic to mustard essential oil. If you are not sure if you have it, have put on the skin (eg, on the arm) a small piece of water-wet mustard plaster. Hold for 3-5 minutes. If 24 hours does not appear rash and irritation, mustard plasters can be used.
- Fever - temperature above 37,7 ° C. Due to additional warming effect mustard harm rather than help.
- Scratches, sores, skin irritation at the site where you are going to put a compress. Yellow card will cause additional irritation, which means that damage will heal longer.
- All kinds of formations on the skin: moles, warts, boils, acne, rash. Yellow card accelerates the local blood circulation. The active area is fraught with inflammation blood poisoningAnd if it is about a mole - a degeneration of its cells, ie cancer.
see alsođ§
- How to get rid of pain in the muscles without the help of a doctor
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