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- Introduction:
Rapid relief with easy home remedies
- Why are compresses and poultices
so effective?
- The skin and its functions
- Compresses and poultices
- Natural healing with cloth wraps,
medicinal plants, vegetables, and earth
- The effects of compresses
and poultices on the skin
- The application of compresses
and poultices
- Examples and recommendations from head to toe (70 common conditions)
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96 pages
Healing Art Pres
ISBN 978-1-62055-737-2
US $ 14.99
available at InnerTraditions |
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Rapid Relief with Easy Home Remedies
When suffering from headache, toothache, indigestion, sinusitis, painful menstrual periods, joint
inflammation, nerve pain, cough, and so on, the patient’s primary desire — even before that of being
cured — is to find rapid relief from pain and suffering.
What is the most effective non-pharmaceutical way for someone who is not a health care
professional to do this?
A simple method that can easily be done by anyone, often using materials you already have on
hand, is to use compresses and poultices.
When applied to the ailing part of the body, a compress or
poultice can make the patient feel better immediately. It can soothe pain, reduce swelling of
inflamed tissues, relax the patient, and take an active role in the healing process. Applying one of
these remedies is extremely easy, and the necessary ingredients and materials (scraps of cloth,
onions, potatoes, and so forth) are readily available. Rapid relief can therefore be easily and quickly
achieved in all circumstances, even if no professional health practitioner or prescription is available.
Compresses and poultices are not only useful for first aid, they also provide valuable treatments for
existing illnesses, whether chronic or acute.
But we would be mistaken to believe that compresses and poultices can cure all disorders.
While it
is true that in certain cases they represent the most appropriate treatment, in other instances they are
at best a backup or complementary treatment. In these cases their use will not be sufficient to
adequately treat the condition.
If compresses and poultices were highly valued by our grandmothers and the traditional medical
practices of many countries through the centuries, it is because they provide a healing method that
is simple, quick, and effective. In addition—and this should not be underestimated in our modern
times—they offer natural and nontoxic methods for healing.
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