Spring cleaning treatments
by Balzsam Labor
Spring is the time for cleaning treatments. As an introduction, we share a recommendation for a spring agenda from the beginning of the last century.
Of course, we are aware that this agenda is difficult to maintain in today's fast-paced, work- and stress-laden life, but perhaps it is worth thinking about it at some point, and if we can, we make time for an agenda like this.
We will write about plant juices and tea mixtures in more detail in our later posts.
Spring cure
Source: János Zelenyák: Effect and use of medicinal plants, Budapest, 1908.
"In a short extract, I will announce the following.
The spring cure can be successfully applied with fresh plant juices. 1. Intestinal constipation, mucus production, colic with excessive gastric acid formation and indigestion, as well as with deficient or disordered acid formation. 2. It is very effective for cirrhosis of the liver and spleen (which is a consequence of the excessive enjoyment of alcohol), insufficient or excessive morbid, abnormal bile flow, gallstones and
in the resulting age, jaundice, hemorrhoids. 3. For diseases of the lymphatic vessels, glandular tumors, scrophulosis, goiter, atrophy (deficient nutrition) and scurvy. 4. For lung problems, hemoptysis, phlegm, tuberculous malignancy, organic heart disease, arteriosclerosis, pericardial cysts, pleural effusion.
The cure with fresh plant juices dr. According to Löffler, it proved to be the most effective for so-called pulmonary hepatitis and chronic (old) tuberculosis. 5. In case of bladder problems, heavy, dripping wear, gallstones and kidney stone formation. 6. In the case of blood problems and damaged or incomplete vital fluids. 7. In case of skin problems, rheumatic, ugly pains, prolonged skin rash, boils, blood clots. 8. In case of genital problems, incomplete blood formation. 9. Nervous disorders, malaise, vitus dance, hypochondria, hysteria, melancholia and other mental disorders.
The herbs that can be used against the problems mentioned here are listed in the context of my book.
For cooking, I recommend the following : common barberry (Barbarea vulgaris), meadow cuckoo (Cardamine pratensis), stinging nettle (Urtica dioica), field sedge (Cichorium intybus), dandelion (Taraxacum officináié), sorrel (Rumex acetosa), plantain (Plantago lanceolata) etc.
Excellent for salad : Lenten cuckoo (Cardamine Nasturtium), dandelion (Taraxacum officináié), barberry (Barbarea vulgaris), veronica Beccabunga (Veronica Beccabunga), cochlearia (Cochlearia), fresh sprouts of hops (Humulus Lupulus), etc.
Don't let anyone think that the spring cure is based only on abstaining from certain foods and drinks or on the necessary restriction of pleasant foods and drinks. This is a mistake. The right treatment encompasses the entire human body and its internal and external wishes, or better said, its needs. This includes clothing, physical and mental occupation.
I sincerely recommend the following agenda :
1. The patient should get up early so that he can breathe in and enjoy the fresh spring air that invigorates the body. Lazing around in bed was never helpful.
2. If your condition and strength allow it, wash the whole body with good cold water (in which you can mix a tablespoon of wine vinegar) and then rub the body well with a dry terrycloth towel so that the epidermis turns red.
3. Dress in warmer or more airy clothes according to the weather, but make sure to keep the body warm.
4. Take the plant juices on an empty stomach, or if herbal tea is ordered, use it lukewarm and then take a 1-2 hour walk in the open nature. (This is not possible in rainy or windy weather.) Take a rest after your walk and only then can you sit down to breakfast. Cacao and chocolate are not recommended; best with soup, broth with brown bread. Weak Russian tea without rum or weak coffee can also be enjoyed. I don't recommend any of them for people with nervous problems. Broth is best. After breakfast, it's good to occupy the mind. Reading and conversation should be such that it cheers up the mood, but does not excite it.
5. Lunch should consist of easily digestible, nutritious food. Fatty, smoked meats and spicy foods make the body sluggish and sluggish. The best drink is fresh water; weak table wine mixed with water will be recommended to many. It is better for the patient to eat several times a day, rather than burdening the stomach all at once.
At noon, eat so much that you can eat half of your lunch.
After lunch, we should recommend a short period of exercise outdoors or, if the patient is stronger, take a hoe or spade and work in the garden.
Sleeping in the afternoon is not only a bad habit, but also very harmful to health. Spend the afternoon hours doing work, because the great enemy of a useful plant cure is physical and mental laziness; it boosts self-confidence and develops passions. Useful work trains the body and frees the soul from the sphere in which only dissatisfaction, mistrust and boredom reside. It goes without saying that the occupation must be commensurate with the patient's strength, so as not to cause exhaustion or a decline in physical strength.
The herbal juice or prescribed herbal tea can be taken between 4 and 5 in the afternoon, after which exercise outdoors. Dinner should be short and consist of only light food. In general, a dietetic lifestyle is the basic condition for the herbal juice cure.
After dinner, reading should be avoided, but good-natured company should be sought out, but only for an hour, because the patient must go to bed early in order to get up early.
That's all the good advice in a nutshell. I note that the plant juice and tea cure also includes external applications: baths, castings, poultices, gymnastics; the time of observance of these is determined by the attending physician. Let nature and science compete to breathe life into the sick body."
János Zelenyák : (June 16, 1860 Szepesalmás, † Nov. 23, 1929 Wels [Austria]) Roman Catholic priest, naturopath, specialist writer. He completed his high school studies in Lőcsé and Eger, and obtained his doctorate in theology at the Pázmáneum in Vienna. Between 1887 and 1897, he was a philosophy and later theology teacher at the teacher training school of the Spišská Kapitula. From 1897, parish priest of Barsbese, then Lekér. He was a parliamentary representative of the Catholic People's Party constituency in Lőcs, and from 1910 to 1918 in Újbánya. In 1928, he attended the American Eucharistic Congress and lectured on natural healing for four months. The journey took such a toll on him that in the fall of 1929 he collapsed while saying mass. He died in an Austrian hospital. Between 1911 and 1914, he published a magazine promoting natural remedies entitled Strength and Health. – His books: The effect and use of medicinal plants (1908); Treatment of emaciated and diabetic patients on a natural dietary basis (tan., 1912); The natural cure (tan., 1925).