Im try to help for your grandfather.

 As my grandfather on 87 y.old is tired of rheumatic aches, analgetic not helps, maybe a beginning as habit to remedies, as he's having aches within many years, maybe plants you know which would help for him and feel better, am cry for watching his sufferings.

Yes, Dear Julia, I am trying helping for your grandfather answer's herbalist Turishev, as a cure with plants for rheumatic aches are rich.

As am advising a proven herb as to mix shoots of raspberry or blackberry, leafs cow berry, lime flower, or a same burdock leafs, leafs birch, sage, fl. sambucus black, calendula. And cooking a first and second collections are same, as 2 tea.sp. mass adding in glass for the hot water, boil on weak fire for ten min, infuse at room for hour, filter, use as warm  for 1-3 day are 2 tbl.sp for 3 times a day before meal, 4-7 days is 1/4 glass for 3 times /day, 2-4 week on 1/3 glass for 3 times a day, keep ready infusion at cold for 2 days.

Apply to aches for 10-40 min are fresh leafs of black radish or shredding mass of roots as compresses as a lowering irritation effect a shredding mass mix with shredding apple as one to one.

for 15-90 min, apply to aches fresh burdock leafs as with a thick layer, as on top a compress sheet and warm scarf.

As for my patients are helping compress of juice radish garden 1.5 glass, bee honey one glass, vodka 0.5 glass and one tbl.sp. salt.

Enough effectivity are hot poultices as for raw materials using herb melilotus, nettle, thyme, filipendula, wormwood, polemonium, fl. chamomile,  henbane, sambucus, tansy, poplar buds, humulus cones, root inula, chicory, burdock, leafs or boiling young  bark of tilia, willow silver, viburnum, hibiscus, licorice, 4 tbl.sp. chopped mass adding in hot water in quantity enough, that in mixing receiving thick porridge, and put her in flax bags, and poultices keeping 15-60 minutes.

And for patients with rheumatic aches are benefit warm baths with cooked twigs of juniperus, shoot young pine, aspen, heather, willow,as 0.5-1 kg of twigs or shoots adding in 3 l. of the hot water, cook ten min, infuse are 3-5 hours, filter,add in bath, as for 15 l. of water needing one l. infusion, course a cure are 10-15 baths in a day on 10-30 min, as on water temp. 38C.

And benefit in self massage with rubbing in ache sides infusions of thyme or comarum palustre,as fingers wetting in any infusion and light massage moves rub in ache sides within 3-4 min, self massage doing for one time a day as for morning or evening before 2 hours till sleep.

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