Dysbiosis is an unpleasant and very common condition today, where pathogenic intestinal microflora prevails over beneficial ones. Dysbiosis is accompanied by unpleasant sensations in the abdominal area, stool disorders, increased gas formation, poor skin color and condition, fatigue, and weakness.
Treating dysbiosis is a long-term issue. The goal of therapy is to populate the intestines with beneficial microflora, suppress the pathogenic ones, and of course, relieve discomfort and unpleasant symptoms. Unfortunately, many probiotic preparations available in our pharmacies are ineffective. Can you help yourself independently? Of course, for this, you need to adjust your diet and turn to proven folk medicine recipes, i.e., treat dysbiosis with folk remedies.
Treatment of Dysbiosis with Folk Remedies – Main Stages:
Diet – the main thing to pay attention to with dysbiosis:
- Try to eat in small portions – 5-6 times a day, including healthy snacks.
- Listen to your body’s needs. Do not drink liquids directly before, after, or during meals; take a half-hour pause.
- Spicy, fatty, fried, canned, and overly sweet dishes are not for you.
- Avoid alcohol.
- Focus on grain porridges, raw vegetables and fruits, dried fruits, fermented dairy products (kefirs, bifidokefir, sour milk), and lean boiled meat.
- Pay special attention to spicy vegetables like garlic, wild garlic, onions, and green onions; add them to dishes or eat them plain.
- Thanks to their powerful phytoncides and essential oils, these vegetables destroy pathogenic microorganisms in our bodies. Moreover, treating dysbiosis with folk remedies includes several effective recipes based on garlic.
Garlic:
- Consuming just one clove of garlic an hour before breakfast and an hour after dinner helps prevent fermentation and putrefaction processes in the intestines associated with carbohydrate intake.
- A great way to treat dysbiosis with folk remedies is to prepare garlic curdled milk. To do this, boil homemade milk, pour it into portion jars, and let it cool. Place pieces of stale black bread in the milk at room temperature for fermentation. After a day, remove the old bread and place several croutons generously rubbed with garlic in the jars. The ready curdled milk can be stored in the refrigerator. Consume some time before meals, 1-2 times a day.
- Alternatively, you can do it simpler – eat 2-3 cloves of garlic before bed and wash it down with kefir or sour milk.
Herbal Therapy:
- Effective treatment of dysbiosis with folk remedies is carried out using herbs and collections with anti-inflammatory, astringent, and antimicrobial properties.
- If dysbiosis is accompanied by diarrhea, take infusions of cinquefoil or oak bark.
- Pour a tablespoon of cinquefoil with a glass of boiling water and simmer on low heat for 15 minutes. Wrap the container with the decoction in a blanket and leave it to infuse overnight.
- Take the decoction half a glass 2-3 times a day.
- Boil oak bark in the same proportion with water in a water bath, infuse for 45 minutes, and consume in small portions throughout the day.
Herbal collections for treating dysbiosis also include berry leaves – black currant, raspberry, strawberry; mint and lemon balm, chamomile, St. John’s wort, yarrow, senna, eucalyptus, and others.
Whey – another way to use folk remedies for treating dysbiosis: When you make homemade cottage cheese, the whey that remains after will be very useful in treating dysbiosis. Drink the whey warm, one glass a day on an empty stomach in the morning.
Honey Mead:
- Slightly warm 500 ml of pure water and dissolve 2 tablespoons of honey, 2 tablespoons of sugar, and 2 grams of dry yeast in it.
- Leave in a warm place for a maximum of one hour and drink the remedy all at once on an empty stomach.
- You can eat only 3-4 hours after taking the remedy.