Colitis is an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the large intestine. This disease requires long-term treatment, which is based on a strict diet. Help your body cope with the disease can be using not only medicines, but also folk remedies.
Treatment of colitis by enemas
Treatment of colitis of the intestine by folk remedies can be carried out at the initial stage of the disease. You can do this with the help of enemas with infusion of St. John's wort or chamomile.
The recipe for the solution
Ingredients:
- dry grass - 10 g;
- water - 500 ml.
Preparation
Pour chamomile or St. John's wort with boiling water, cover the container with a lid and wrap the blanket around it. After 60 minutes the mixture must be filtered. You can use the infusion when it is at room temperature.
Treatment of ulcerative colitis is carried out with the help of such a folk remedy as microclysters from sea buckthorn oil. To do it, you need:
- Dial into a 100 gram syringe with a catheter 50-60 g of sea buckthorn oil;
- Lie on your left side;
- Introduce the oil into the rectum.
Try to spend as much time as possible in the supine position, then healing will occur faster. If you have acute colitis, the course of treatment with these folk remedies should last at least 30 days.
Other folk remedies for colitis
If you want to treat ulcerative colitis only with folk remedies, be sure to use a decoction of flaxseed and the root of the Kalgan.
The recipe for broth
Ingredients:
- the root of the Kalgan - 10 g;
- flaxseed - 10 g;
- water 750 ml.
Preparation
Pour the seed of flax and the rhizome of Kalgan with water. Boil for 5 minutes, drain and cool.
This broth should be drunk instead of water until full recovery.
For the treatment of chronic colitis you will need a folk remedy like propolis tincture.
Tincture recipe
Ingredients:
- propolis - 10 g;
- alcohol - 100 ml.
Preparation
Cut the propolis into small pieces and pour it with alcohol. Infuse the mixture in a dark, warm place, periodically shaking. After 2 weeks, strain the infusion.
Take it an hour before meals three times a day, mixing 30 drops of infusion with a glass of water.