Doctor Bon

Radiculitis is a widespread disease of peripheral nervous system during which the bunches of nervous fibres departing from a spinal cord are effected, so-called rootlets of a spinal cord. The most frequent reason of a radiculitis is an osteochondrosis at which intervertebral disks lose the elasticity and squeeze rootlets.

The most typical display of a radiculitis - pains of nervous rootlets, infringement of sensitivity, sometimes impellent frustration.

Usually disease develops sharply, but in many cases passes in the chronic form with periodic aggravations. Depending on a place of defeat of nervous fibres mark out various forms of a radiculitis. It is most widespread lumbosacral radiculitis at which pain is localized in lumbosacral area, a buttock with return in a hip, a shin, to stop. Pains amplify during motion.

Lumbosacral radiculitis with prevalence of defeat of rootlets sacral department of which sciatic nerve is formed is called sciatica. At sciatic the pain extends on a course of a sciatic nerve (in a buttock, hind-external surface of a shin and a hip, a heel).

At a cervicobrachial radiculitis the pain is marked in a nape, a shoulder, shoulder-blade, amplifies at turn of a head, movement by a hand, cough.

The chest radiculitis occurs seldom enough and becomes apparent by a pain in intercostal intervals.

Treatment of a radiculitis

Treatment is led by the doctor. Independent application of anesthetizing means and thermal procedures is inadmissible, so far as pains can be caused not by a radiculitis, but also by other diseases at which application of heat is counter-indicative.

Illness recovers difficultly and it is often necessary to adapt to it.

How do make grindings correctly?

Hands should be warm. Pour or put means for grinding on one hand. Start stroking cautiously a sore point upwards during 10-20 minutes, at strong pains - 5 minutes. Watch the presence of the rubbed weight on the hand not to touch sore points with a dry hand. On absence of ointment take a new portion. After procedure the sore point needs being warmly wrapped up and prevent it from being chilled.

For the preparation of ointments are applied to The following phytopreparations:

• Fruits of a coriander, bud of a birch, grass of mint, root of a dandelion – equal parts
• Buds of a birch, a root of the snake mountaineer, a grass of St.John’s wort, buds of an aspen – equal parts
• Flowers of calendula, flowers of a meadow-sweet, a grass of mint, hop cones , a grass of greater celandine, a leaf of eucalyptus – equal parts
• Root of a burdock, grass of mint, leaf of a plantain, flowers of camomile, buds of a pine, a grass of a three-coloured violet – equal parts
• Root of althaea, a grass of a lavender, a grass of a yarrow, a grass of a horsetail field, a root of a dandelion – equal parts
• Root of the snake mountaineer, a grass of St.John’s wort, a grass of mint, a bud of a pine, a grass of greater celandine, a leaf of eucalyptus – equal parts
• Buds of a birch, a grass of mint, flowers of camomile, buds of an aspen – equal parts
• Root of a burdock, grass of mint, flowers camomile, buds of a pine, a grass of a three-coloured violet, a root of a dandelion – equal parts

Preparation of ointments: take 3 table spoons of the gathering crushed in a powder to fill in 100 ml of boiled water, boil on small fire at constant stirring during 5 minutes, mix with the kindled internal pork fat (it is possible to replace with a butter) and vegetable oil 75 grams, cool , store in a refrigerator.

Put ointment on the amazed area, rub it within 3-5 minutes then wrap up this place well. Procedure must be repeated 3-4 times day.

Application of compresses is useful: rub the ointment slightly in a skin, cover from above with polythene (an ideal variant is to cover the area with fresh leaves of one of plants - lilacs, a sage, mint, a balm, impose leaves of a burdock or cabbage in 1-2 layers from above), close with a woolen fabric and fix.