Healing ointments are widely used in both traditional and folk medicine. As a rule, they are prepared with the use of vegetable oils or animal fats, which allow them, together with the medicinal component, to penetrate deeply into the skin and tissues, not to dry out wounds, sterilize them from infections, promote rapid healing, etc.
Different ointments, of course, have different properties, and there are a lot of recipes for ointments. Below are some of them.
1. Monastery ointment (for all occasions):
- 150 ml of sunflower or olive oil;
- 50 g of pure beeswax;
- 1 yolk of a hard-boiled chicken egg.
Grind the yolk on a platter, and it is better to cut the wax into small slices. Pour the oil into a coffee maker or enamel mug and heat well over the fire until it starts to boil (sprinkle). Then, dip the wax into pieces, stirring, and when it melts, heat it well and drop the yolk into it a little. The liquid will hiss. Attention! You need to be ready and at any time remove the coffee maker from the heat and wait until the foam settles, you can stir it with a spoon. And like this, then putting it on the fire, then removing it, throwing the yolk into the container, cook the ointment until you use up all the yolk. After that, the liquid must be filtered (through a net or nylon tulle twice) into a jar with a twist and a wide neck. It is better to store the ointment in the refrigerator - up to 10 months.
This old recipe can be found in old reference books on traditional medicine, it was compiled by Orthodox monks. But, now it can be found under other names - the miracle ointment, Valentina Seimova's ointment, etc.
Despite its simplicity, it is quite effective and is used: from burns, abscesses on the skin, ulcers (including trophic), cracks on the lips, legs, boils, for wounds, edema, purulent sore throat, purulent otitis media, toothache, articular knee pain, gangrene, dermatitis, dry skin, fibroids, ovarian cysts, inflammation of the appendages, mastopathy, mastitis, eczema, etc.
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2. Ointment from mistletoe berries
Chop fresh mistletoe berries well and mix with cold pork fat (lard, not salted). Such an ointment helps well with frostbite (nose, ears, etc.). For several days it is necessary to apply compresses with mistletoe ointment on the frostbitten areas, at night.
3. Greater celandine ointment
Recipe number 1. The herb of celandine is large, you can rinse with the root, cut into pieces, grind through a meat grinder and mix this gruel 1: 1 with baby cream. Use ointment for neurodermatitis, etc. Rub into problem areas. The course of treatment is 1-2 weeks.
Recipe number 2. Mix fresh celandine juice with petroleum jelly in a ratio of 1: 4, or if there is no juice, you can take dry celandine herb, grind it into powder and mix equally with petroleum jelly. Also, a little (0.25%) carbolic acid must be added to the ointment so that the ointment does not mold. The ointment is used for scabies, lichen, etc. It is necessary to rub the ointment into the skin, in places affected by itch mites, or lubricate problem areas.
4. Ointment from black poplar buds (used for rheumatism, gout)
Grind dry buds into powder. Take 1 part powder and 4 parts butter (not salted), mix and let it brew for several days. Internal pork fat can be used. Apply ointment for rubbing with gout, rheumatism, etc.
5. Wormwood ointment
Recipe number 1. Pour 250 ml of lard into a container and cook in a water bath. Pour 1 tablespoon of wormwood into hot fat. Cook in a water bath for 1, 5 hours. Then, remove from heat and leave for 2 more days. Store the ointment in a cold place. It is better to use bluish wormwood, but bitter is also possible.
Recipe number 2. Take 1 table. pour a spoonful of bitter wormwood powder into 250 ml of hot lard (or baby cream), mix, but do not boil. Defend 2 days. Lubricate for joint pain, sprains. Where you feel pain - rub there. To prepare this ointment, use bluish or bitter wormwood.
6. Ointment from medicinal sweet clover
Prepare according to this recipe: grind 2 tablespoons of freshly dried sweet clover flowers into powder, then add 50 g of petroleum jelly and mix everything well. This ointment is used to accelerate the maturation and healing of boils, carbuncles, purulent wounds, etc.
And one more recipe for sweet clover ointment, in butter: take 3 tbsp. tablespoons of butter and 50-60 g of freshly dried sweet clover flowers. We carefully grind the flowers into powder, and then mix with oil. The ointment draws out pus from abscesses well, relieves pain and inflammation.
7. Ointment for removing calluses
You will need 2 large heads of garlic - peel and crush them in a garlic bowl. Add goat fat to the resulting mass, in equal amounts (1: 1). Put in a water bath for 20 minutes, stirring well, set aside and let it brew for another 20-30 minutes, then strain. Store in a cool place. Lubricate the corns after steaming.
8. Herbal ointment (for the treatment of joint pain in arthritis)
Take 50 g of dry camphor mixed with the powder of leaves of coltsfoot, nettle and hop cones, in equal amounts - 5 g each. Then add 10 ml of alcohol there - knead, then 100 g of unsalted butter - knead again until you get a homogeneous mass. Put in a cool place for 2-3 days, infuse. Lubricate sore joints, then wrap them up.
9. Birch bud ointment (for the treatment of bruises, arthritis, joint pain)
Prepare 200 g birch buds, 400 g fresh butter (not salted) and 3 g camphor. Mix the oil with birch buds (in an enamel saucepan or pot), cover and seal (seal), using dough. Put in a warm place (for 1 day), in an oven or oven, but so that it does not boil, but languishes, evaporates - this is if fresh buds. And if dry - for 2 days. Then, strain, add camphor and mix well. Store the ointment in a cool place, in the refrigerator. Rub sore spots, joints, preferably at night, wrapping them then.
10. Propolis ointment (used for abscesses, wounds, gout, rheumatism)
Prepare 10 g of propolis, 10 g of pure wax, 100 g of unsalted pork lard or petroleum jelly. Melt fat or petroleum jelly in a water bath, heat to a boil, and then allow to cool slightly, to a temperature of ~ 50 ° C. Put the container with the contents back in the water bath, throw in the crushed wax and propolis, stirring constantly. Make sure that the temperature of the solution does not exceed 70 ° C, this is important for propolis. When everything is dissolved, remove from heat and strain while still hot through cheesecloth into a jar with a wide neck. Store in a cool place.