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Plants for the regeneration of joints
Joints are the joints between the ends of bones, allowing that there is some movement between them. Thus, the limbs and back can twist or bend.
When they start to cause swelling, pain and discomfort, may be due to the presence of rheumatoid arthritis.
While no one can say that there are plants to regenerate joints, yes there are some that can help relieve pain and prevent problems.
In general, any plant that tends to have capabilities against inflammation and has diuretic properties and inflammatory, can help the joints. The Devil’s Claw, for example, is one of them. You can also use some plants for arthritis and incorporate them into the daily diet will be essential. Raw vegetables are recommended, incorporating many of them usually as a center of daily food, like fruit. Vitamins C and D may be critical to prevent this problem progresses and also be good for pain common.
One of those home remedies for joint pain that there is the Pineapple, is that this fruit is high in bromelain, which is a good natural substance inflammatory, usually consume contribute to the cause.
You can also take into account Harpagofito, another plant with large anti-inflammatory qualities. In fact, it is very common in the use of sport to tackle this kind of pain.
In turn, olive oil is good for the joints, due to its all-natural-inflammatory effect, only two tablespoons of olive oil (along with 3 grams of fish oil) per day can significantly improve morning stiffness, joint pain and fatigue.
Beneficial properties of the juniper
In the Middle Ages these fake berries had a reputation of working miracles of healing. In the sixteenth century were considered a universal panacea, prodigious. In Trentino you used to hinge a sheet of vapor decoction of juniper and then wrapping the body of people suffering from rheumatism, as heavy sweating through the pains were relieved.
Against stomach juniper (Juniperus communis) plays a protective and stimulating action of the gastric mucosa. Stomach (which helps the digestive function) and carminative (which removes the air that has accumulated in the stomach and intestines and relieves pain thereof) help through the diuretic, the removal of gravel and small stones . The juniper also has balsamic properties to the respiratory tract.
From galbole (a type of berry or fruit is not very popular among other things useful for its aromatic flavor and aroma to brandy, liqueurs and roasts) it is “the oil of juniper, while foliose branches is obtained from” the oil to fall “, used externally for psoriasis, dermatitis and lupus (rare chronic autoimmune in nature that can affect different organs and tissues of the body). The mixture of the two gives the “oil of Harlem “, mainly used for gout.
In high doses, the fruits may cause irritation of the urinary tract. Contraindications are not recommended for use in case of kidney, if you are pregnant and in the presence of inflammation of the digestive tract.
The thrushes are fond of pampering (galbule) juniper can eat it and when the flesh takes on a particularly delicious flavor. In raising silkworms, however, the branches of juniper are burned to disinfect the shelter.
Healing properties of wheatgrass
The properties of Weeden (Agropyrum repens PB) have been known since antiquity. Dioscorides advised the difficulty in passing urine, urinary calculi and in Pliny as a powerful diuretic.
The grass has always been known as a pest and therefore described negatively. In reality it is a medicinal plant useful not only to men, but also to animals. The dogs eat the leaves to get rid of the stomach, while horses and donkeys will benefit from consumption.
This is a plant unsuspected hidden behind a humble appearance that make it valuable quality medical and respected in the field of herbal medicine. Its decoction plays an excellent diuretic, hypotensive, emollient, purifying the blood and is recommended in all cases of inflammatory diseases of the liver, spleen, urinary tract, gout, in the presence of arthritis and eczema.
The weed is also draining in case of arthrosis, arthritis, hyperuricemia, liver and biliary drainage and renal detoxification treatments, assisting in hypertension and inflammation of the urinary tract, indicated in the event of cardiac or renal edema in nature.
It tends to lower blood pressure and is therefore not advisable to use the plant to people suffering from hypotension.
