By an old recipes.

Here are many methods as old for lumbago cure .
Applied are fresh to the waist bark of birch or apple, are carry for 5 days, everyday changing.


Siberian used a fresh lake fish are applied to waist bandaged with warm scarf, and fish compress left for night.

And in villages today using radish horse, garden radish, vodka and bodjaga.
Birch tar add in vodka as one to three and two times/day rub ache place.

Clean and wash radish, shred, apply mass of Cotton fabric, or flax, close a next fabric, apply compress to ache, close with hard paper, wrap with woollen scarf, keep till burn.

Bodjaga is lake sponge of olive green sticky mucus mass with bad smell, as her prepared on the summer in lakes,washed in  water, dried on sun, rubbing in pot, added vegetable oil, as one tbl.sp. on one tea.sp. powder, apply to waist, after redness on spine, her dry rubbed and warm wrapped, and today his powder you can buy in market.

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