How to cure bronchitis (part 1)

Chronic bronchitis

Chronic bronchitis is known as an inflammatory disease of the bronchial tree being caused by prolonged exposure of negative factors in the atmosphere or unhealthy environment and air inside the premises.

Things like smoking are also seen as external factors together with pollution of the surrounding air as well as work in conditions of occupational hazard and climatic conditions with the epidemic viral diseases. The internal factors include things like nasal disease and acute respiratory as well as acute bronchitis.

The disease is more likely to progress rapidly by nature violating draining function of bronchial system. The main symptoms of disease are:

• cough with phlegm,
• shortness of breath.

Chronic bronchitis may occur like a primary thing being an independent disease or so called secondary illness i.e. the disease develops on the background of other lesions, pulmonary and extrapulmonary.
Symptoms of bronchitis are as follows: characteristic cough with sputum production and shortness of breath. In addition to that there are general symptoms like body weakness, sweating, fatigue and fever during exacerbation of the process.

The doctors distinguish non-obstructive and obstructive variants of the disease.

Cough at non-obstructive bronchitis is accompanied by a small number of separable watery sputum with mucous nature. Worsening disease sputum may become purulent in terms of character. At the same time if sputum is not enough and it is difficult to clearing one’s throat at a time we can assume that the course of healing becomes obstructive by nature. It changes the cough behavior since it becomes hoarse and unproductive being accompanied by shortness of breath. By the appearance of such situation must be taken and treatedvery carefully because it can be the first manifestation of lung cancer, as well as bronchoectatic disease.

Traditional folk treatments for bronchitis

• Use 500 g. of chopped onions with 400 g. sugar and 50 g. of honey to be mixed and added to one liter of water. Cook the mixture over low heat for 3 hours being cooled and filtered afterwards and poured into the bottle. Take that for one tablespoon 4-6 times a day.
• Use 10 g of dried tangerine peels and chopped pour about 100 ml. boiling water, to insist, to filter. Take one table spoon in quantity to be consumed 5 times per day before meals. It is used as expectorant in bronchitis and tracheitis.
• Take a cup with grated onion poured 1 / 4 of it with vinegar and rub it through 4 layers of gauze. Then add one cup of honey and stir thoroughly until it gets smooth. Drink one teaspoonful for every 30 minutes period. The solution offered is to be used to treat bronchitis, and laryngitis with a strong cough.
• Use the root of liquorice in powder like30 g. together with leaves of plantain in the same quantity (30 g.) added to violet-color grass of 20 g. and leafs of mother-and-stepmother leafs of 20 g. Two tablespoons of such mixture is to be boiled and heated on a water bath for 15 minutes. Then cool it and filter on so that it brings the volume of 200 ml. Drink that in quantity of 1/4-1/3 per cup 3 times a day with tracheitis.
• Take table spoon of dried crushed rhizomes primrose spring of boiled water, heated for 30 minutes in a boiling water bath, stirring occasionally. The solution is cooled at room temperature for 30 minutes and filter. Take 1-2 tablespoons 3-4 times daily before meals. The drug is particularly effective in the chronic form of bronchitis.
• Select herb thyme of 5 g. with fennel fruit of the same joined with peppermint leaf (5 g.) and lungwort grass of 20 g. added with sweet herb clover and plantain leaves for 10 g. each. Table spoon of mixture brewed in 2 glasses of boiling water is to be consumed for 1 / 2 cup 4 times a day.
• Take10 g. of thyme boiled water heated on a water bath for 15 minutes being cooled for 45 minutes and filtered, then wring out and bring volume to 200 ml. Take for 1 tablespoon 3 times 1 a day.
• When bronchitis, is particularly acute it is recommended to drink special infusion (30 g per 100 ml of spirits or a glass of vodka) to 40-50 drops of juice or fresh herbs yarrow like 2 tablespoons 4 times a day.
• Take table spoon of crushed grass field horsetail brew in 2 cups of boiled water for 2-3 hours to mix. To be consumed like one tablespoon 5-6 times per day.
• You take 2 tablespoons of chopped turnip poured into a glass of boiling water. The stuff has to be insist and wrapped for 1-2 hours. Take 1 / 4 cup 4 – 5 times a day. Juice and infusion of turnip joined with a sharp implement catarrhal cough, hoarseness, chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma.