When you are sick, do you often think of using a folk remedy? But you know what? There are many common “folk remedies” that are not only incurable but also dangerous. Here’s a list of familiar “folk remedies” based on how dangerous they are, and the last one is the most dangerous!
Raise your hand when you have a nosebleed
Danger factor: ★★☆☆☆
You may have been taught as a child that when you have a nosebleed, throw your head back and raise your hand, whichever nostril you bleed from.
Don’t make your child lift his head when he has a nosebleed. Actually below this posture, did not stop bleeding not only, still can swallow blood to esophagus and gastric bowel, stimulate gastric bowel mucous membrane. When the amount of blood loss is large, it is also easy to inhale the trachea and lungs, blocking the airway, resulting in danger! As for raising the hand, the arm is not in the same vein as the nose, and this is merely superfluous.
The right approach: Pinch the affected side of the nose
When your child has a nosebleed, sit him down with his head slightly forward and apply a cold towel to his head or wrap an ice or wet towel around his neck to stop the bleeding, or put a ball of cotton in his nostril and pinch the affected side of his nose.
Hemorrhoid ointment for dark circles
Danger factor: ★★☆☆☆
This also is the hairdo small home prescription that spreads already long, hemorrhoid cream belongs to outside use medicine, among them contain musk really, borneol to wait for the composition that promotes blood to dissolve silt, but the eye ministry skin of the person is special sensitive, if be used when eye cream, can stimulate the mucous membrane near eye ministry for a long time, easy cause contact sex dermatitis or adipose ball accumulation.
If deal with black rim of the eye with haemorrhoid cream, still may bring about pigmentation, local deposition, accentuate black rim of the eye, and its odour is stimulated, still may bring about eye ministry disease such as conjunctivitis, bring about irreversible damage.
Correct method: Hard-boiled egg method
Freshly boiled eggs in the morning are too hot to swallow, so you can just remove the shell and wrap them in plastic wrap, which is used to massage the skin around your eyes, eating and grooming two birds with one stone.
Also, get rid of dark circles under your eyes and make sure you get enough sleep. Lack of sleep slows blood circulation and naturally darkens the skin under the eyes. Diseases such as allergic rhinitis can also cause dark circles under the eyes.
Breast milk smears the face for eczema
Danger factor: ★★☆☆☆
Eczema is an “epidemic” for babies, and there are many remedies for it. Some people say, squeeze two drops of breast milk smear on the baby’s face, the hometown is to do so.
In fact, in a baby with eczema, the skin barrier is already damaged, and applying breast milk only makes the rash worse. The skin of newborn is delicate, blood vessel is rich, resistance ability is weaker also than adult, breast milk is coated on the skin, easy to cause sweat gland mouth, pore block, make sweat fluid, sebum secretion and excretion obstruction and form sweat gland inflammation, sebaceous gland inflammation and hair folliculitis, but also easy to breed bacteria.
Recommended method: Sesame oil
Experts recommend few recipes, but pay attention to lifestyle habits: less sun, less clothes, if eczema dirt accumulation on the scalp, you can use sesame oil, olive oil to peel.
Wear pearl powder for beauty
Risk factor: ★★★☆☆
Pearl powder has long been known for its beauty properties. Cixi is said to have taken it every ten days to make her skin smooth and shiny. Therefore, many girls think that eating pearl powder for beauty should be like this:
But in fact, they probably did:
Pearl powder is a cold medicine, and only people with a dry and hot constitution are suitable for internal consumption of pearl powder. In daily life, many women have a cold constitution. If they take pearl powder for a long time, it may cause indigestion, diarrhea, cold limbs, sallow complexion and other symptoms of cold and evil. In addition, patients with cold constitution, cold stomach and stone disease are not suitable to take pearl powder. Therefore, before taking pearl powder, one must first seek medical advice to determine whether it can be taken internally.
In addition, if the pearl is taken internally, it must be processed and ground into a very fine powder like flour, otherwise it may damage the zang-fu organs, especially the spleen and stomach.
Have diarrhea eat garlic
Risk factor: ★★★☆☆
Stimulating foods, including garlic, especially raw garlic, should not be eaten during acute diarrhoea. Eating garlic does kill bacteria and prevent diarrhea to some extent, but it should be taken when you’re not sick.
On the other hand, when you already have diarrhea, eating spicy foods like garlic can exacerbate the irritation to the gut wall and thus the diarrhea.
The right way: Cook garlic in tea leaves
If you want to use garlic, try this:
In the life often because catch cold, food is unwell, appear acute diarrhoea, defecate is like water, rushing and pouring down, have a small doohickey, boil water with tea bag, garlic a head, one breath drinks, diarrhoea is good very soon. In particular, if you are dehydrated, go to the hospital in time to avoid shock.
Huoxiang Zhengqi water is used to wipe the navel to reduce fever
Risk factor: ★★★☆☆
According to a post on the website, the temperature dropped to 38.5 degrees in half an hour and 38 degrees in an hour after being dipped into the navel with a cotton ball filled with huoshizhengqi water. After waking up early, the temperature returned to normal. “This method is suitable for people from 80 years old to 7 months old,” he said.
Huoxiang Zhengqi water may be used to treat fever by using the cooling effect of 45%-50% alcohol, which is ethanol. However, it is not claimed that this method can be used in children, as it will irritate the skin of children and may cause allergic dermatitis or anaphylactic shock.
Special tips, huoxiang zhengqi water navel not reliable, high alcohol content of baijiu fever more terrible. Alcohol quickly takes away heat when it evaporates, and it does have a cooling effect, but a child’s skin is so delicate that alcohol can easily pass through the skin and enter the child’s blood, making the child seem “drunk.” A large number of alcohol into the blood, will cause cerebral and meningeal congestion edema, resulting in children due to respiratory paralysis, severe hypoxia and death.
Recommended by the spectrum of small folk prescription: physical fever
38.5° is the critical point of medication. Beijing Traditional Chinese medicine University East hospital paediatrician suggests, had not arrived this critical value had better reduce fever with physics first.
0 ~ 1 year old children — warm water bath: the low temperature below 38℃ can be used warm water bath, scrub children’s limbs, neck, armpits and groin conducive to cooling. Also can use forehead to stick apply antifebrile stick or cool towel to cool down, drink warm boiled water more. When high fever does not retreat, do not “sweat”.
Children aged 1 – scrapping: knead ridge push balance ridge, is from the location of the child’s tailbone to the seventh cervical vertebra the da-zhui acupuncture point, 挰 surface layer of the skin, like a rub rolling pin bottom-up push to knead, six times. The same part of scrapping can also be scraped from the neck to the spine direction, the strength should not be too large, because the child’s tolerance is relatively small. (The highest point of the cervical protrusion reached by lowering the head is the seventh cervical vertebra, and the depression under the protrusion is dashui point.)
Fish bone stuck throat, drink vinegar to swallow rice ball
Risk factor: ★★★☆
Getting stuck in a fish bone is something that many people have experienced. Many people listen to the method is to drink vinegar, think of the fish bone foam soft; Or swallow rice balls and swallow fish bones. Not only do these two methods not work, they are dangerous.
Fish bones can be easily removed when they get stuck in the throat. If rice balls or steamed buns are swallowed, they may sink into the meat and stab the throat. At this time, it will be more difficult to remove the fish bones. What’s more dangerous is that some fish bones can be brought into the esophagus, which is close to the great artery and the trachea. If the fish bones puncture the esophagus, causing massive bleeding or puncture the trachea causing infection, the life of the person may be endangered.
For the way to drink vinegar softening fish bone, basically can not soften the effect of fish bone, even if it can be softened, to soften all the fish bone to soften for a long time. When you drink vinegar, it stays in your throat for only a few seconds before it reaches your stomach, which can lead to upset stomachs and burn the lining of your throat and esophagus.
The right way: Cough and vomit
Found that the thorn stuck, quickly forced cough, if not effective to stimulate the tongue base with the fingers, through vomiting fish bone rushed out. Still usable gauze, thin cotton cloth wraps forefinger, wipe go up palatine, fish bone takes out. If that doesn’t work, go to the hospital and you’ll be helped out.
Polygonum multiflorum black hair
Risk factor: ★★★☆
For years, people have believed in the power of polygonum multifolium’s dark hair. But did you know that eating too much polygonum multifolium can be toxic?
Civil commonly used wine steaming shouwu, Shouwu stewed chicken tonic. However, Polygonum multiflorum contains an anthraquinone derivative of rhubarb, which can cause liver damage and stimulate intestinal congestion. In severe cases, paroxysmal tonic spasm, agitation, convulsions, and even respiratory paralysis can occur.
Is polygonum multiflorum completely unusable? No, but how much, how long, and how much is at the doctor’s discretion. For example, hospital pharmacies generally use processed radix Polygoni polygoni, which is less toxic than raw polygoni polygoni.
Correct method: Cool blood Chinese medicine
Suffering from “young hoary head” generally have a family history, one of the parents hair early gray, or usually prone to anxiety, mood fluctuations, love to worry. TCM syndrome differentiation is often blood fever or blood deficiency by wind. Traditional Chinese medicine can take some cold blood, nourish the blood and drain the wind of the agent, the best to go to the hospital, by the doctor to the case, long-term use, will have the effect.
Stab a toe for a stroke
Risk factor: ★★★★★ ★★
Such a rumor is the most deceptive, there are three ways to save a life:
One is “Hemiplegia, mouth and eyes askew, immediately take the needle will be the patient’s ear lobes at the bottom point pricked, each squeezed a drop of blood, the patient immediately cured, and after healing without any sequelae.
Two, the sudden death of heart disease, immediately take off the patient’s socks, with the needle to Pierce the tip of the ten toes, each squeeze a drop of blood, do not wait to squeeze the end of the ten toes, the patient will wake up.
Third, no matter asthma or acute laryngitis, found that the patient can not breathe, hold blush neck thick, quickly with a needle pricked its nose, squeezed out two drops of black blood that is recovered.
Unfortunately, these so-called small folk prescriptions, the most unreliable is the “three methods of saving life by dropping blood”. First of all, it can be confirmed that from the perspective of western medicine, these articles are not based on science; If there is a theoretical basis in TCM meridiology, well-known TCM universities and hospitals in the province have long been popular.
As doctors, patients are strongly opposed to trying all three types of bloodletting. First of all, this will delay the time of the formal rescue; Second, this invasive approach is unlikely to be sterile on its own, and can lead to infections that, in severe cases, can lead to death from septicaemia — there have been previous cases of girls with piercing holes, where a local infection can lead to intracranial infection that can lead to systemic infection.
Correct method:
Try to make the patient lie flat in place, loosen the patient’s collar and belt, keep the respiratory tract open, can turn the head to one side, clear the vomit in the mouth and nasal cavity, adopt the method of pressing the forehead and lifting the jaw to open the airway, give the patient oxygen if possible; Dial 120 as soon as possible. Observe the patient’s breathing, pulse and consciousness. If the patient’s breathing and heart stop, perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation immediately.
A person who has suffered cardiac arrest is most likely to have a chance of survival if he or she is resuscitated in a timely and effective manner within the first four minutes. Four minutes of golden rescue time, do not waste in looking for a needle, pricking blood on!
Eat fish raw
Risk factor: ★★★★★ ★★
There is no scientific basis for eating fish gall bladder to clear fire, clear eyes and even cure cough. Instead, some people are poisoned by eating fish gall bladder raw. Grass carp, carp, crucian carp and other common fish have bile toxin (cholic acid), bile toxin has toxicity to cells, and this kind of poison is heat resistant, raw eat cooked eat will be toxic. After eating commonly, half an hour arrives the meeting inside 10 hours comes on, appear the symptom such as disgusting, vomit, diarrhoea, toxin arrives the position of liver kidney can cause the injury of liver kidney, still can cause nerve, cardiovascular, haemal system damage, serious can cause much viscera failure, die even.
Once the fish gallbladder poisoning, there is no special antidote, mainly rely on hemodialysis treatment, the earlier the treatment effect is better, the faster the recovery of renal function.
The right way: Diet therapy
There are better dietary remedies, such as eating more carotene-rich fruits and vegetables, such as carrots, oranges, mangoes and papayas.
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