Hypothyroidism( thyroid disease) is a syndrome associated with an inadequate concentration in the body of the thyroid hormone. Its appearance is associated with the inferiority of the functions performed by the thyroid gland.
There are two types of this disease:
- Primary hypothyroidism due to the pathology of the endocrine gland. As a consequence, the production of hormones is reduced.
- Secondary hypothyroidism associated with the hypothalamic-pituitary system. This system is responsible for the production of thyroid hormones.
Older women most often face this disease, as well as people who live far from the sea. Fight with hypothyroidism need different methods: how to resort to the help of specialists in this field, and turn to folk medicine.
Types of treatment
Treatment of hypothyroidism by folk remedies can be divided into three categories.
First category
The first category is treatment with herbal and herbal remedies .Phytotherapy is widely used in both official and traditional medicine. Tinctures of herbs will help:
- maintain the working state of the body;
- improve the function of the digestive tract;
- cleanse the body.
In the fight against this disease helps to collect from various plants. Below are two optimal phytotherapeutic prescriptions.
The first recipe is suitable for people who have enough free time. For him in equal proportions brew the herbs of St. John's wort, berries of mountain ash, root of elecampane, birch buds. Within 5 minutes boil on low heat, remove and let stand for 12 hours. Use three times a day for 30 minutes before eating;
Another recipe is equally good for people with a free schedule, and for busy people. For him, it is necessary to take an equal amount of strawberries, thyme, dandelion, buds, mountain ash, grass, lobster grind. One tablespoon of the resulting mixture is filled with a glass of boiling water and allowed to stand for 30 minutes. Decoction is drunk once during breakfast.
Second category
The second category is treatment with fruit juices and fresh vegetables .Before eating it is important to drink 50 ml of vegetable juice( three times a day).You can make a mix of equal content of beets, carrots, potatoes. Eat cucumbers that contain iodine and are easily absorbed by the body. A kilogram of cucumbers per day will be enough.
Third category
The third category is treatment with the help of properly selected food products , which normalize metabolic processes. In the period of illness it is desirable to take low-calorie food, while limiting the amount of fats and carbohydrates.
What will help more?
In the treatment of hypothyroidism in popular ways, there are other couples-zashchalochki.
Seafood
Seafood and sea kale. Cabbage is better to take not canned, but in a powdery form. The powder is added to the first dishes or simply mixed in water. Remember that it is contraindicated to use kelp for pregnant women, people with kidney disease, tuberculosis and hemorrhoids.
Decoctions
To treat hypothyroidism folk methods are excellent for broths from:
- motherwort;Oregano;
- ;St. John's wort
- ;
- calendula;
- of flax seed;
- celandine;
- chicory;
- horsetail;
- of the pine kidney;
- berries of chokeberry;
- yarrow;
- crust of alders;
- leaves of cranberries.
Iodine
The leader in iodine content remains cocklebur. His broth is taken three times a day for a glass, adding a teaspoon of honey.
In its pure form it is not desirable to use it, but it is possible and necessary to plant with apple vinegar. Proportion: one drop of iodine per teaspoon of vinegar. Stir the mixture in water and eat for a week twice a day with meals.
Symptoms of hypothyroidism
Curing hypothyroidism is sometimes difficult, but necessary. First of all, the disease causes a number of such symptoms, as:
- feeling of detachment;
- apathy;
- a bad mood;
- low operability.
An elderly female body is most susceptible to this disease. Based on the statistics, you can see that for a thousand women nineteen patients fall. Women are exposed to the disease 10 times more often than men, which is associated with the characteristics of the female body. Symptoms can manifest before menstruation or after childbirth. For such women are characterized:
- high fatigue;
- quick change of mood;
- negligence to weight gain.
Folk remedies can ease the course of the disease and even completely eliminate its symptoms. Symptoms of hypothyroidism of the thyroid gland are manifold - they do not concentrate within one particular organ, but are characteristic of the whole organism as a whole.
When the disease coarsens skin, and speech becomes incomprehensible because of edema of the larynx, the tongue. The heart rate decreases, and with it - the pressure. The body is depleted even under small loads, dyspnea appears. The resistance of the organism is reduced, immunity weakens. Because of this, the body lends itself to pneumonia, bronchitis, colds. The work of the digestive tract changes for the worse, constant constipation, bloating, and appetite decrease. The temperature can drop to 35 degrees, a person is characterized by a slow reaction( inhibition), lethargy and drowsiness.
Folk remedies will help to cure and start the thyroid gland, restore the whole body, getting rid of the symptoms.
Treatment of subclinical hypothyroidism
Subclinical hypothyroidism, as one of the varieties of hypothyroidism of the thyroid gland, arises from the increase in the thyroid-stimulating hormone( TSH) content as compared to the values of the norm of free hormones. This species can only be identified by conducting laboratory tests. Usually it affects women aged, but in children it can also be observed( passes quickly due to the increase in the necessary hormones).To overcome the disease will help traditional medicine, the action of which is as follows:
- Use of external funds made independently. To make a home ointment, take one tablespoon of juniper berries and rub them to a powdery state, then add 100 gr.butter. The resulting mass for 5 minutes in a water bath, cool and strain. Every day for the night, rub it in the thyroid gland.
- Inside should take such a mixture:
- one tablespoon of honey and linseed oil, peel lemon pour a liter of boiling water. Heat 10 minutes in a water bath, cool. Use throughout the day instead of another liquid;
- one tablespoon of raspberries, dog rose, black currant put in a thermos and pour boiling water. Drink like tea all day.
