How to get rid of leg cramps?

Probably, every person has experienced cramps in the calves at least once.

These cramps can occur: at night while sleeping, during intense physical exertion, while swimming in cold water. Some people have these cramps on a regular basis, almost every night. Now we will tell you what methods of getting rid of this ailment exist in traditional medicine.
What to do if you suddenly have a severe cramp in the calf muscle?

1. The calf muscle needs to be stretched as soon as possible.

To do this, you need to pull your foot up, taking yourself by the toes.

Or stand on the leg with a cramps with all your weight, so that the foot bends up.

The convulsion after doing this should stop.

Then the calf muscle should be well massaged to relieve pain. Then lie down with your legs above your head (on the headboard).

2 Regular night cramps caused by poor circulation are great with regular lemon juice.

This juice is used externally. In the morning (before breakfast) and in the evening (before going to bed) they smear the feet with lemon juice, rub it in, then put on socks.

This procedure is done thirteen to fourteen days in a row, every day.

3 Mustard oil is also good for cramps.

Immediately after the convulsion, the caviar is smeared with such oil. The muscle warms up, blood circulation in it is quickly restored.

4 Hot soda and ginger baths are an excellent remedy for night cramps. In a bowl of hot water, dilute one hundred grams of soda and put twenty grams of ginger. Legs float in the pelvis. Daily. Before bedtime.

5 Wormwood tincture helps with cramps in the arms and legs .

To prepare it, you need to fill the jar with chopped flowers and wormwood leaves, pour vodka to the top, leave for 21 days. Most often, cramps appear in the arms and legs at night, so before going to bed, rub those muscles that cramp with this tincture. For the treatment to be effective, do not be lazy and rub your muscles every night before bed.

6 Treatment with Potentilla

Recipe number 1. 3-5 tbsp. l. Boil cinquefoil herbs with boiling water, wrap in gauze and apply as a poultice for cramps in the muscles.
Recipe number 2. 4 tbsp. l. Boil cinquefoil in 3 glasses of water for 20 minutes, leave for 5 minutes. Strain. Use a warm broth in the form of compresses for muscle cramps.

7 In Anna from tansy

5 tbsp. l. pour 500 ml of boiling water over tansy inflorescences and leave in a thermos for 3 hours. Strain and add to warm foot baths. Bath time is 20 minutes before bedtime.

8. Egg balm for cramps

This balm contains a lot of calcium, this folk remedy will help with many diseases, including convulsions, strengthen nails, hair, and serve as an excellent prevention of osteoporosis. Fill a liter jar to the top with clean quail or homemade chicken eggs. Pour lemon juice over. Place in a cool place for 2 weeks. The shell will dissolve, the eggs will remain, as it were, in film bags. Mix everything, strain, draining off the remnants of the shell and the film. Add 100 g of brandy and 1 tbsp. To the liquid. l. honey. Take 1 tbsp. l. 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals

9 Vitamins for seizures

A course of taking vitamin B9 – folic acid will help to cure cramps. The first week you need to take 2 tablets a day, and then, when the muscles are reduced. The woman suffered greatly from seizures, but after the course of the vitamin she almost forgot about them. And if she pulls her legs together, she chews 2 tablets of folic acid and after 1-2 minutes everything goes away.

10. Heparin ointment

With frequent convulsions, a woman smears her legs with a pharmacy heparin ointment, from toes to knees 2 times a day. Already on the second day, the pain decreases. When the tube runs out, the course of treatment will also end. After this treatment, seizures do not occur for more than a year.

11. Raisin treatment

2 tbsp. l. pour 1 cup boiling water over pure raisins in the evening. In the morning drink infusion, eat raisins. Doing this every evening – you will forget about the cramps.

12. Treatment of seizures with fern roots.

Throw 100 g of fresh fern roots or 50 g dry in 5 liters of boiling water. Cook for 5 minutes and pour the broth into the bath. Take a bath with fern infusion for 10-15 minutes. After 2-3 baths, the condition improves. Just remember that the fern is poisonous, and the water from the bath should not get into the mouth and eyes.

13. Bread kvass mixture.

Half a teaspoon of ordinary yeast is added to a glass of kvass, insisted for 6 hours, then the drink is drunk during the day before meals in equal portions. You can add honey to improve the taste. The course of treatment is a month.

14 Honey and kefir.

The treatment must be resumed constantly: they take the medicine for 2-3 weeks, then take a break for 2 weeks. In the morning, on an empty stomach, you need to eat a tablespoon of honey and wash it down with kefir. These products restore the supply of micronutrients spent at night, and during the day, cramps will not bother.

15 Medicinal chamomile mixture.

Raw materials are brewed like tea – 2 tablespoons per 0.5 liters of boiling water. Chamomile tea is drunk after each meal and before bedtime. Some folk healers advise adding a few grains of salt and honey to it.
16 Celandine ointment.

An external remedy is prepared according to the following recipe: squeeze fresh celandine and mix the juice with petroleum jelly in 1/2 proportions. Within 2 weeks, the ointment should be rubbed into the legs in areas where cramps occur.
17 Tincture of yarrow and thyme for external use.

A mixture of herbs in equal amounts is filled in a dark glass bottle, poured with vodka or alcohol, insisted for 2 weeks in a dark room at room temperature. Legs are rubbed in the morning and evening for 2 months.

18. Onion peel for cramps

Take a teaspoon of chopped onion husks, pour a glass of boiling water, and let it brew for 10 minutes. We drink at night. After the first glass, cramps won't bother you at night. Doing this constantly and you can forget about cramps and headaches.

It so happens that the spasm does not constrict the caviar muscle, but the toes. A special massage helps with this ailment.

You will need a round wooden stick for this. Use this wand to knock on the cushions of the toes. Twice a day. For two minutes. This massage is very effective, cramps will cease to bother in a few days.

Quick Tips for Relieving Cramps:

• If the leg cramp, then you need to stand with bare feet on the hard, cold floor – after a few seconds everything goes away. The colder the floor, the faster the muscle relaxes.
• For severe cramps, you can take a few salt crystals in your mouth and hold it in your mouth. After 1-2 minutes, the spasm will disappear.
• Cramps, as well as numbness, will help remove the most common magnets. Place a magnet on the area of ​​the cramp. One minute and the cramp will pass.