These home remedies can help
Cold Blood circulation stimulation Vegetable
- Ice pack/ice bag
- Quarkwrap
- Cabbage wraps
- Heat (e.g. from a hot water bottle)
- Horse ointment
- French brandy
- Rescue Spitz
- Arnica
- Rosemary
Cold applications are used for tendon inflammations, especially at the beginning of the symptoms. In cold conditions, the blood vessels in the cooled part of the body are very narrow so that fewer messenger substances from the body reach the affected tendon. This prevents an excessive release of inflammation mediators and substances that send a pain signal to the brain.
This inhibits the inflammation and at the same time relieves the pain. The reduced blood flow also means that little fluid reaches the affected area, thus preventing swelling. Cooling packs and ice packs as well as curd and cabbage wraps can be used as cooling applications.
Depending on where the tendons are affected, a cold water bath is also possible. Quark compresses are one of the typical household remedies used for pain and inflammation. To make a curd wrap, conventional curd cheese from the refrigerator (refrigerator temperature) is placed on a kitchen roll.
Then wait until the kitchen towel has absorbed the quark. The moist quark wrap is placed on the inflamed tendon and fixed with another kitchen towel or similar if necessary. In most cases the wrap can remain on the skin for about 20 minutes before it loses its cooling effect.
Due to the moisture, quark wraps do not have to be as cold as ice packs for a comparable cooling effect. This protects the skin from frostbite, especially on the surface. Warming household remedies are usually only suitable after a few days to weeks in the case of tendonitis.
Initially, the acute inflammation process must be prevented rather by cold. Afterwards, however, the tendon can regenerate best if the highest possible metabolic activity and thus particularly good blood circulation of the tendon and the associated muscle takes place. This endogenous regeneration is particularly well supported by heat applications.
For this purpose, a hot water bottle can be placed on the affected muscle. Many cold packs can also be warmed up. The heat applications can be combined with massages if required.
The horse ointment was developed for the musculature of race horses, only later did people also use this ointment. It is composed of several components, all of which can have a positive effect on tendonitis. Due to these diverse mechanisms of action, horse ointment is a household remedy that can be used at any time of tendonitis.
- The menthol portion has a cooling effect.
- Arnica counteracts the pain of tendonitis.
- Rosemary and camphor have a warming and blood circulation-promoting effect.
Retterspitz is a trade description for a certain medical liquid developed by Margarete Retterspitz. It can be used both internally and externally. In the case of tendon inflammations, external application plays a major role.
Thymol is contained in Retterspitz as an anti-inflammatory agent, rosemary is used to stimulate the blood circulation. In addition, Retterspitz contains the pain-relieving active ingredient arnica. Retterspitz works best if it is left to work overnight in the form of Retterspitz compresses.
Arnica is a medicinal plant that is found mainly in the European mountain regions. Essential oils can be extracted from the flowers, which have analgesic and antiseptic (anti-inflammatory) effects. As a rule, arnica is used externally, for which tinctures on an alcohol basis are usually used.
More rarely, arnica is also used as a mixture with water. Because of its anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving effect, arnica is a valuable household remedy, especially in the first days of tendonitis. Later, one should rather use warming and blood circulation-promoting preparations.
Rosemary is used for tendon inflammations in various forms of application. Basically, the healing effect of rosemary is based on an increase in blood circulation, which stimulates the metabolic activity in the muscle. This helps the body to fight the small defects in the tendon more quickly and thus heal the tendon inflammation more quickly.
Rosemary can be applied externally as a tincture or ointment to the affected area of the body. It can also be used as a bath additive. Healing earth can be applied to tendonitis to relieve pain.The use of red or green healing earth is recommended.
The healing earth is mixed with lukewarm water to make a paste. This paste is applied to the painful part of the body for 20 to 30 minutes. Usually one to two applications a week is sufficient to reduce the pain.
If you would like to have additional active ingredients work with the healing clay, you can mix the clay with infusions of healing herbs instead of normal water and then apply it. Caraway oil is another household remedy that has an anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving and cooling effect on tendon sheath inflammations. Ideally, it is used in conjunction with therapy.
Although only about 1% of caraway oil consists of essential oils, when applied externally the dose is sufficient for an anti-inflammatory effect. The caraway oil extracts heat from the body simply through its moisture. The cooling effect is triggered by the evaporation of the liquid.
