About how useful salt is, both cookery and sea, even children know. This available substance actually has a mass of medicinal properties. Improves well-being and salt compresses. They are prepared very simply, and the effect is invaluable. The main thing is to apply them correctly for various ailments.
How to make a salt compress?
To begin with, the salt should be diluted with water. It is best to use distilled liquid. Preheat it to 50 degrees and mix with salt. In warm water, the crystals dissolve rapidly enough.
For salt compresses, it is more appropriate to use natural fabrics. Impregnated in solution, they are superimposed on the sore spot. After that they should be fixed with bandage or plaster. In order not to damage the skin, it is not worth wrapping a cloth impregnated with salt with cellophane or woolen shawls.
What helps with salt compresses?
Here are just a few pluses from the procedure:
- Cope with a headache and high blood pressure will help the eight-percent saline solution. The bandage moistened in it should be applied on the forehead and the back of the head at the same time. Such a salt compress will also be effective in the common cold.
- Apply the bandage to the gall bladder, fix it with a bandage and leave it overnight. After a couple of procedures the body will start to work better, cleanse of excess bile. To make the salt solution work for certain, you should use a heating pad.
- Experts advise putting salt compresses on the joints. They will help get rid of many ailments: bursitis , arthritis, rheumatism, gout. In diseases of the musculoskeletal system, a ten percent salt solution helps. A dressing is applied over the sick joint for several hours or overnight. If you want, you can do dry compresses: warm salt pouch degrees to seventy, attach
to the harassing place and wind it with a towel. - Saline compresses help with edema that appear after operations.
- Salt solution effectively heals abscesses. If after suppression of the compress the suppuration has opened, it must be treated with an antiseptic.
- Bandages soaked in salt stop internal bleeding and purify the blood during infection. It's simple: a cloth impregnated with a solution attracts harmful substances to itself.
- Saline compress relieves even a running cough. Put it on the throat and back.