Drinking soda in folk medicine

An interesting fact is that ordinary drinking soda, which is a white powder with a slightly alkaline and slightly brackish taste, found application in the kitchen, in everyday life and in folk medicine relatively recently, despite the fact that it was known even at the time of the Paleolithic. The fact is that the discovery in the 18th century of this substance by Leblanc, a chemist from France, was kept for a long time in secret. Widely spread, primarily in cooking, drinking soda was received only after the discovery of a new way of obtaining it. Basically it is used in drinks and baking. Many of its medicinal properties are known.

Drinking soda is an excellent remedy for many diseases. For procedures in the form of rinses, rinses, prepare a solution of two teaspoons of soda and a glass of warm boiled water.

They are washed with eyes (repeatedly) with conjunctivitis. For each eye, use a separate cotton swab.

Five - six-time (per day) gargling of the throat with this solution will relieve the sore throat.

The soda solution is buried in the nose with a slight runny nose, and if it is plentiful, they are rinsed. With a cold, the same solution, brought to a boil, do a ten-minute inhalation to sputter more easily.

A strong dry cough is softened by taking a glass of milk for the night with a teaspoon of dilute soda.

There is no unequivocal opinion on the use of this drug in the form of syringing with thrush. The solution is prepared much weaker than for rinsing and rinsing: a teaspoon of soda powder is added to a liter of boiled warm water. Some believe that a couple of such procedures are enough, others - that you need to douche every hour during the day.

Drinking soda well removes salt and liquid from the body. This property allows you to successfully use it to lower blood pressure. Hypertension has to take a lot of pills. Their dose can be reduced if drinking with them drinking baking soda (½ teaspoon).

This substance effectively helps with motion sickness while traveling in a car, bus; When poisoning, accompanied by excessive vomiting, with bleeding. For all the cases listed above, a loss of liquid is characteristic. To make up for it, you need to give the victim every five minutes a spoonful of salt and soda (in a liter of warm boiled water dilute a teaspoon of salt and half a spoonful of soda).

Rinse the mouth with a solution of a tablespoon of soda in a glass of 3% hydrogen peroxide helps to remove a bad smell.

If you periodically brush your teeth with a soda pre-moistened with water and applied to the gums with your fingers, they will soon be well polished. At the same time, acidity in the oral cavity is neutralized.

A wonderful cosmetic at home - again the same baking soda. For a face covered with blackheads, having clogged pores, black dots, nothing better to come up with than a mixture of this powder with soap shavings (ideally - economic). She needs to wipe her skin every three to four days. It is very desirable before the procedure to steam up the face.

You can do it a little differently. Dissolve in a glass of boiling water over a teaspoon of sugar and soda. Wet a cotton swab in the resulting liquid and wipe the face well with them, paying special attention to problem areas. Then you need to wash with warm water and soap (preferably household) and lubricate the area with pimples with cow oil. After an hour, you have to wash again, but without the use of soap.

Since soda neutralizes the acid medium in which bacteria develop, it is more useful to wash their feet more often with excessive sweating. By the way, this same procedure will serve as a good prevention of fungus, which often develops between the toes.