To prevent the appearance of heel spurs, it is necessary to change your lifestyle. If the disease has already appeared, start treatment as soon as possible, including with the help of folk medicine. After all, among folk remedies, there are many time-tested methods of treating heel spurs.
The list of folk methods of treatment for heel spurs is very large, but their general sense is to relieve inflammation with the help of simple, accessible means.
You can choose treatment with compresses, rubs, or massage. The main thing in folk medicine is that it requires a systematic approach, as all therapeutic procedures have a cumulative effect.
Folk remedies for treating heel spurs
Peas
Sew a sock onto the heel with a layer of fabric inside, previously filling it with peas evenly. Put on the sock, then shoes, and walk like that. After a while, the pain will subside, and your condition will improve.
Infusion of common lilac flowers
Pour dried lilac flowers in equal proportions with 40-degree alcohol, let it infuse for 10 days in a closed container. Take 30 drops several times a day, rub or make compresses with the infusion on the affected areas of the heel.
Pharmacy camphor
Before bedtime, wash your feet with soap, dry thoroughly. Pour a little camphor and massage it into the heel with massaging movements. Repeat several times and put on woolen socks. Repeat for seven evenings, then seven days break, then repeat again.
Garlic
Pass garlic through a garlic press, spread it on a piece of fabric and apply it to the spur. Keep the garlic until it becomes hot. It is better to do this procedure during the day.
Iodine
Pour a tablespoon of iodine into a small container and dip the heel into it. Repeat this procedure until the skin absorbs the iodine completely. Five such procedures will be enough.
Tincture of fig leaves
Take 2-3 fig leaves, cut them into long strips, put them in a jar, and pour rubbing alcohol over them. The infusion is ready within a day, you can use it to rub the heels.
Urine therapy
Collect urine during the day, heat it in the evening to a temperature suitable for foot baths. Take foot baths until the urine cools completely. After finishing, without drying your feet, put on socks and go to sleep.
Medical bile
In the evening, steam your feet. Then pour bile onto a piece of cotton wool and apply strictly only to the heel spur (burns may appear on the skin). Cover with plastic wrap and bandage. Put on woolen socks. You can remove the cotton wool in the morning or leave it. Repeat the procedure every evening until the pain disappears.
Valerian tincture and Zelenin drops
For the treatment of heel spurs, take drops of Zelenin and valerian in equal proportions, mix. Then fold gauze into four layers, moisten it and apply it to the heels, wrapping it with plastic wrap from above. Put on socks and leave overnight.
Starch
Put a teaspoon of starch in the sock at the beginning of the day. Walk like that throughout the day.
Raw potato
Grate raw potatoes with the skin on a grater. Apply the resulting mashed potatoes to the heel, put on a sock or wrap it with a bandage, leaving it on overnight.
Baths
For the bath, take: 2 fresh chicken eggs, 40 ml of vinegar essence, 200 ml of camphor. Mix and apply as compresses to the heel spurs for 3 hours several times a day. Store the mixture in a dark place.
Cabbage leaf
Beat a cabbage leaf, spread honey on it, and apply it to the affected foot. Put on a sock on top and keep this wrap for a couple of hours.
Pork fat
Apply a small piece of fresh pork fat to the heel and wrap the foot in plastic wrap, put on socks and leave it overnight.
Plantain leaf
Apply a plantain leaf turned outwards to the heel, be sure to replace it with a fresh one when it dries out.
Rubber ring
To reduce pain when walking, put a rubber ring under the heel.
Black radish
Grate a black radish with the skin on a grater, apply the resulting pulp to the heel spur overnight.
Massage with a ball, sea pebbles, a dough roller, and a tennis ball
While sitting at the computer or in front of the TV screen, do leg exercises by rolling a ball.
You can also make yourself a foot mat from various-sized sea pebbles. As a last resort, you can roll a dough roller or a tennis ball with your foot. The main thing is that this massage does not cause pain!
Household soap
Grate household soap on a grater and melt it over low heat. Apply this mass in the form of a compress to the heel spur overnight.
Nettle
Collect nettle, grind it in a meat grinder, spread the pulp on a burdock leaf. Apply this compress to the heel overnight and secure it with a bandage.
Elderberry leaves
Place moist elderberry leaves on the heel and under the fingers, then put on socks.
Onion
Cut the onion in half, put a drop of tar on each half, and apply it to the affected heel.
Marsh cinquefoil
Take a glass of water, dilute one tablespoon of marsh cinquefoil. Take it three times a day before meals. The treatment course is twenty days.
Mumie with honey
Dissolve 100 g of honey and 5 g of mumie in a water bath, let the mixture cool. Rub the mixture onto the affected heel at night.
Tincture of cedar nuts
Take 20 grams of crushed cedar nuts and pour 200 grams of vodka over them. Let it infuse for 7-8 days. Take one tablespoon before meals several times a day.
Baking soda with kombucha infusion
Soak your feet in a small amount of baking soda. Then moisten a piece of gauze in kombucha infusion and apply it to the heel. Moisten the dressing every 3 hours.
Burdock leaves
It’s better to use May burdock leaves. Bandage a fresh leaf to the heel and walk with it all day.
Sunflower oil and rubbing alcohol
Mix 50 ml of rubbing alcohol and a tablespoon of sunflower oil. Apply this mixture to the affected area every day. The procedure duration is thirty minutes. The course is two weeks.
Propolis
Apply softened propolis to steamed skin. It is recommended to wear a bandage during the day.
Saltwater
Prepare a salt solution: dissolve one kilogram of salt in five liters of hot water. Boil the water, cool it to a temperature suitable for dipping your feet in. Conduct the procedure until the water cools completely. Leave the solution and heat it before each use. Perform 10 such procedures.
Potato with chalk
Boil potatoes in their skins, mash them immediately, and mix them with a teaspoon of chalk. Apply immediately to plastic wrap, bandage to the heel. Be sure to put on socks on top.
Honey with sea salt
Mix honey with sea salt in a 1:1 ratio. Make a compress for the heel overnight.
Cheese
Spread several tablespoons of fresh cheese on a piece of gauze, fasten it to the affected heel before bed. Repeat this procedure for 3 nights in a row.
Horsetail (Equisetum), marsh cinquefoil
Tear off fresh horsetail, put it in shoes or socks and walk like that during the day. Repeat in the morning by putting a fresh portion in your shoes. Horsetail can be replaced with marsh cinquefoil.
Treatment of heel spurs requires a comprehensive approach, and folk remedies are a good way to complement conservative treatment, which will help to get rid of heel pain faster, provided a systematic approach and a strong desire to overcome the disease.
