Aloe (centipede) for coughing with bronchitis

This is an amazing plant with an equally amazing effect on the body, which helps to improve the weakened health in many diseases, including bronchitis. Aloe relieves inflammation in the bronchi, dissolves the mucus accumulated in them, as a valuable source of vitamins restores the immune system to fight pathogens.

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Dosing and administration

The most popular and very ancient recipe for cough is aloe juice with honey, which has not only an anti-inflammatory effect, but also an expectorant effect. It is recommended to mix the components for preparing a tasty medicine in equal proportions, that is, 1:1. Take the mixture three times a day, 1 teaspoon.

The prepared mixture should be stored in the refrigerator for no more than 12 hours, since its properties will quickly weaken.

You can enhance the effect of the previous recipe by using butter. Mix butter and honey (we take 50 g of each component) together, add 1.5 tsp of aloe juice to the mixture and mix everything again. Take this medicine 1 tbsp. in the morning and evening. Wash down the mixture with warm milk. This recipe helps with severe, painful coughs and pneumonia. Acute symptoms go away within 5 days of treatment.

Recipes based on aloe, honey and oil can be used to treat children.

Another “complicated” but beloved by many children recipe based on aloe. To prepare the medicine, you will need 50 g of melted pork internal fat, bee honey, melted butter and aloe juice. First, throw the fat and oil into a saucepan, boil, add the remaining ingredients, mix well and remove from heat. When the mixture cools down, transfer it to the refrigerator and store it closed in a glass container. For children, it is better to add 1 teaspoon of the mixture to warm milk (1/2-1 glass). The baby should take the medicine three times a day.

The same applies to adults, who will like the remedy. But the single dose in this case will be increased to 1 tbsp, and the mixture can be diluted not only with milk, but also with water or tea.

For viral bronchitis in adults, impressive results are shown by a mixture of aloe juice (100 ml), linden honey (250 ml) and Cahors wine (350 ml). The mixture is infused for about 4 days in the dark at a temperature of about 6-7 degrees.

Adults take the medicine 3 times a day. It is better to do this half an hour before meals. Single dose - 1 tbsp.

Instead of Cahors, you can use regular vodka, but then all the ingredients will have to be taken in equal quantities. Infuse the mixture for 1.5 weeks, placing it in the refrigerator and stirring it regularly. Take 1 teaspoon for medicinal and prophylactic purposes. The frequency of administration in any case will be 3 times a day.

How to properly collect and store aloe?

There is no point in storing this medicinal plant for future use, except perhaps 2-3 weeks before use. The fleshy leaves are no longer valuable when dried, because their strength is in the mucous juice. That is, it is the juice of the plant that needs to be stored. But this also requires certain knowledge and skill.

First, you need to choose the plant and leaves correctly. The juice of a plant that is more than 3 years old is considered healing. The leaves should be fleshy, their length should be at least 15 cm. Such leaves can be found in the middle and lower part of the plant. They are cut at the very base.

Secondly, before harvesting the leaves, the plant should be kept without watering for one to two weeks. Only then will it contain the maximum amount of useful substances.

Cut leaves intended for processing into juice should be kept in the refrigerator for about 2 weeks, wrapped in clean, preferably dark paper or cling film. Aloe is a plant that can produce biogenic stimulants in the cold, which enhance the healing effect of the plant.

But you can store aloe leaves intended for internal use in this way for no more than 3 weeks. It will be much more effective to process them into juice after 10-12 days and store them in the ways described below.

The juice can be prepared by cutting the leaves into small pieces and pressing them through cheesecloth. But there is another way that makes it easier to prepare the juice: the leaves from the refrigerator are cut into pieces, 3 parts of water are added to them and left in the cold for 90 minutes. Then the juice is squeezed out of the aloe in the usual way.

Freshly prepared juice has a short shelf life. It can be stored in a dark glass container in the refrigerator for no more than 3 days. To increase the shelf life of juice, natural preservatives are added to it: honey, alcohol, vegetable oil. The last component makes sense

Add if aloe is to be used externally, which is not relevant for bronchitis.

It is believed that aloe leaves contain the maximum amount of useful substances at the end of winter and beginning of spring. But how can you preserve such useful juice until mid-autumn – the peak time of colds? This is possible only with the help of honey or alcohol.

How to prepare and store aloe with honey? There are 2 ways:

• Peel the leaf from the refrigerator from the hard skin and thorns, cut into pieces, pour 2 parts of warmed honey and leave to infuse for 24 hours. After this, the mixture is heated again, filtered, cooled and stored in a dark glass container on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for about six months.
• Squeeze the aloe juice using one of the methods described above, mix it with the same amount of liquid honey and store it in a dark glass or ceramic container for a year in a cool place. This recipe becomes a natural cough medicine after just 5 days, which can be used half an hour before meals three times a day, 1 dessert spoon.

How to prepare aloe juice with alcohol? Various sources suggest mixing aloe juice and alcohol in proportions of 1:1, 2:1, 4:1, stir well and store the mixture in a dark glass bottle. The shelf life of such drugs will be at least a year. However, they can only be used to treat adult patients.

When harvesting aloe, remember that when in contact with metal, the plant changes not only its color, but also its properties. Therefore, metal objects should be excluded. You can cut off the leaves and chop the plant with a wooden chip, fishing line, nylon thread, or a ceramic knife. Glass, porcelain, clay, and ceramic dishes are used as containers for preparing and storing the juice.

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Contraindications

Aloe vera is a very useful plant that helps restore health in case of various disorders. But it can also harm our body if we use the plant without thinking about contraindications. And there are quite a few of them.

It is not advisable to use aloe juice undiluted. It can have a negative effect on the health of middle-aged and older people, so after forty it is better to consult a doctor about the possibility and consequences of treatment with aloe. Aloe is also dangerous for women during pregnancy and menstruation.

What diseases are included in the list of contraindications to taking aloe? These are cystitis, various neoplasms, hemorrhoids, diseases of the digestive system (liver, stomach, gall bladder). The plant is not used in the acute stage of serious diseases.

In case of low blood pressure, a doctor's consultation is necessary due to the need to adjust the dose, since aloe vera is capable of reducing blood pressure.

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Side effects aloe

Aloe itself rarely causes intolerance reactions, but since it is used in combination with other components (for example, honey is a strong allergen), allergic reactions to the finished medicine are quite possible. In hypotensive patients, blood pressure may decrease significantly. In people with gastrointestinal pathologies, taking aloe-based products may cause nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea.

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Storage conditions

There may also be a situation where aloe treatment does not produce a positive effect. Perhaps the reason will be the wrong choice of raw materials for the medicine and non-compliance with storage conditions. The fact is that not every plant has medicinal properties, but only one that is at least three years old. And this flower should take the lower leaves, which are more fleshy, which means that more healing juice can be squeezed out of them.

You can't store the plucked leaves without a refrigerator. They quickly lose their properties. And even in the refrigerator, the plant is only stored for 3-4 days. It is best to cut the leaves before preparing the medicine. Wash them immediately, cut into small pieces (you can put them through a meat grinder), crush and strain through gauze folded in half.

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