November 12, 2020
Inflammatory processes of bacterial and non-bacterial etiology in the male gland are a common pathology. It requires mandatory medical care, since without adequate therapy it can seriously undermine health and lead to infertility and impotence. What not to do with prostatitis in men and how to undergo treatment correctly, read the article below.
Alcohol
Regular consumption of alcoholic beverages has a destructive effect on the body: immunity decreases, and the body’s ability to resist infections deteriorates. Alcohol disrupts the normal blood supply to the pelvic organs, leads to congestion, and worsens the metabolism of the prostate gland.
Many patients are interested in the possibility of drinking light alcohol, in particular beer. It is also not recommended to drink it constantly and during treatment. Such drinks contribute to changes in hormonal balance and reduce testosterone production. This negatively affects the health of the male gland.
Antibacterial therapy is another answer to the question of why you can’t drink if you have prostatitis. Infectious lesions are the basis for prescribing antibiotics. Almost all drugs in this group are incompatible with alcohol and cause severe adverse reactions that can pose a threat not only to the health, but also to the life of the patient. Excluding alcoholic beverages from the diet is an important factor for success in the treatment of prostatitis.
Why is it effective for type 2 diabetes?
The main essence of any method of treating diabetes is to reduce blood glucose levels.
All those negative processes that make the life of a person with diabetes mellitus incomplete are due to its excessive amount. Therefore, all attention to the question: how does aspen bark regulate the concentration of glucose in the blood? Type 2 diabetes mellitus (in other words, the insulin-independent form) is characterized by chronic hyperglycemia, which is caused by incomplete or incorrect interaction of insulin and tissue elements. In other words, this endocrine disease makes cells and tissues resistant to insulin.
Therefore, the goal of therapeutic action is to normalize carbohydrate metabolism and reduce the formation of glucose in the liver.
In addition, it is necessary to stimulate the cells to produce additional insulin and create its plasma concentration at physiological concentrations.
The composition of the bark includes glycosides (consisting of a sugary and non-sugary component), minerals, essential oils, salicylase (a special oxidative enzyme that causes redox processes), anthocyanins, flavonoids (special substances that play an important role in the metabolism of substances), pectins, sterols (analogues of cholesterol), resins and tannins (preventing decay processes).
This chemical composition can affect glucose metabolism in the body.
What not to eat if you have prostatitis
Patients often ask why acute treatment for prostatitis is not allowed or whether there are other prohibitions. Since the male gland is closely connected with the urinary or gastrointestinal tract, a number of dietary restrictions are expected. The diet for illness must be based on a reasonable balance of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Fiber, vitamins and minerals should be present in sufficient quantities.
- During periods of exacerbation, doctors recommend refraining from foods that promote gas formation: cabbage, legumes, radishes.
- You should limit your intake of foods that contribute to the development of constipation. This includes fatty meats, fried foods, smoked foods, dried fish, baked goods, white flour products, and mayonnaise.
- Excess salt and acid content in food can have an irritating effect on the genitourinary system. To reduce the load on the kidneys, during the treatment of prostatitis, the use of pickles, marinades, vinegar, spices, and hot seasonings is prohibited. Avoid drinking strong tea and coffee.
How to prepare a remedy?
Preparatory stage
Counting on a good therapeutic effect after using products based on aspen bark, you need to be confident in the quality of the raw materials used. Thus, the bark should be collected in an environmentally friendly area, away from highways and chemical industry zones.
After collection, it must be cleaned (cobwebs, insects, dust), dried and crushed almost into powder. Drying of raw materials should exclude direct sunlight and moisture, and should take place in a ventilated area.
It is better to store prepared raw materials in linen bags or cardboard boxes (to ensure free air exchange), excluding proximity to odorous household chemicals.
The actual preparation of the infusion
Take two teaspoons of aspen bark powder, pour one and a half cups of boiling water over them and let it brew for half an hour. Cooling should occur naturally. The medicine is considered ready when its temperature is equal to room temperature. Recommendations for use: half a glass immediately after waking up in the morning.
What is the difference between the decoction?
As you know, the difference between infusions and decoctions lies in the raw materials used (the whole plant or its individual parts) and the method of preparing the product. As a result, infusions are absorbed faster, but are not retained in the body. Decoctions, on the contrary, have a delayed effect, but are longer lasting.
Thus, a decoction of aspen bark is also an effective herbal medicine, for the preparation of which you will need raw material powder and boiling water (pour 2 teaspoons of aspen bark into one and a half cups of boiling water. Be sure to boil in a water bath for 20 minutes. Slow boiling will enhance the extraction of beneficial substances into the liquid and will give the product the components necessary for treatment.
With the help of a decoction, the decrease in blood sugar will occur gradually.
About healing tea
The healing properties of aspen bark tea will depend on the method of its preparation. It is best to prepare the tea leaves in a thermos. To do this, pour 50 g of aspen bark with a glass of boiling water and pour it into a heat-resistant kettle or thermos. It should take at least an hour for the tea to be ready to drink.
It is allowed to add pure boiling water to the so-called tea leaves before use. However, its quantity should not exceed a quarter of the volume of the fixed asset.
To ensure success, it is recommended to prepare and consume this product daily for two weeks. There is another way to prepare a decoction. Its difference from the above option is that dry raw materials are filled with cold water. After this, the vessel is placed on the fire and the contents are brought to a boil, which continues for half an hour. After removing from the heat, such a decoction should be wrapped and left for another 12-15 hours.
Intense physical effort
Although a sedentary lifestyle is one of the causes of congestion in the pelvis, active physical activity during inflammation is contraindicated. Stimulation of blood circulation in the perineum can intensify the process of inflammation, increase pain, and lead to swelling.
In the acute phase, it is recommended to refrain from the following types of stress:
- lifting and moving heavy objects;
- squats with additional weight;
- horseback riding;
- a ride on the bicycle;
- body-building.
How to collect and store
Aspen bark is collected from early spring until the first frost; the peak of harvesting usually occurs in June - the period of the most active movement of juices. Although you need to know that the bark of this tree is most useful immediately after winter ends. Go “hunting” to clean places away from roads. Take a walk through an aspen grove and take a closer look: not all bark is suitable for medicinal preparations.
Aspen Grove
Only the bark of young trees or thin branches with a diameter of up to ten centimeters is harvested for medicinal purposes. The young bark is lighter and smoother, grayish-green, with a reddish velvety base.
Young aspen bark
The old bark is dark and rough, it is furrowed with deep wrinkles, cracks and growths of moss. The older the aspen “clothes” are, the less healing power remains in it. Walk past such a tree or pay attention to its branches to collect bark.
Old aspen bark is not suitable for medicinal preparations
Fresh bark is easily separated from the trunk. You need to select areas with the smoothest, glossiest covers, draw two horizontal lines around the perimeter of the trunk or branch with a sharp knife, and then connect these circles with a shallow vertical cut. Now all that remains is to carefully lift the edge of the bark along a vertical line with a knife blade and gradually, rolling it into a roll, remove fresh bark from the trunk.
Don’t worry: with this manipulation you will not destroy the tree - by the next season the aspen will be completely restored and new bark will grow at the site of the cut. The main thing is not to make cuts on the tree too deep, so as not to damage its wood. The collected medicinal raw materials are laid out in the sun or dried over low heat in the oven with the door ajar. You can dry the whole bark, or you can immediately tear it into small pieces - this will speed up the process and will not in any way affect the preservation of its healing qualities.
Crushed aspen bark is a ready-made medicinal raw material for folk remedies.
Well-dried bark is ground into powder or fine fractions to facilitate the brewing process. Healing raw materials are stored in tightly closed containers, protected from light and moisture, for three years.
Insufficient activity
What not to do with chronic prostatitis is a common question asked by patients. Prolonged sedentary work without changing position and physical activity leads to stagnation of blood circulation in the pelvis. This worsens the trophism and metabolism of the organ and promotes the development of inflammatory processes.
For pathology, swimming, race walking, and light cardio training are recommended. There is a Kegel complex - these are special exercises that train the pelvic floor muscles and improve the nutrition of the male gland.
The healing properties of aspen bark
The unique properties of aspen bark are explained by the fact that the tree's root system goes deep underground. This allows the trunk and branches to be saturated with valuable, rare types of microelements. It is suggested to use only aspen bark for diabetes, but buds and wood also have a valuable chemical composition. This tree has no competitors in terms of the value of microelements, so it has been used to treat various diseases.
Benefit
In addition to the fact that aspen bark is used to lower blood sugar, it is a natural analogue of the most powerful anti-inflammatory drugs. This is due to the presence of glycosides (salicin, populin, etc.), tannins, salicylase enzyme, and essential oils. In addition to diabetes, aspen bark is used to treat toothache, gastritis, prostatitis, rheumatism, inflammation of the kidneys, lungs, joints, cystitis and hemorrhoids. The chemical composition of wood is rich in the following microelements:
- iodine;
- zinc;
- cobalt;
- iron;
- nickel;
- molybdenum.
Aspen normalizes the function of the biliary system, helps cure syphilis, skin tuberculosis, and gout. If you add tree extract to the cream, it will promote rapid healing of abrasions, burns and wounds. In addition, the ointment can be used to treat lichen, eczema, psoriasis or boils. The maximum benefit from using aspen bark for diabetes can be obtained in the initial stages of the disease.
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Harm
As a rule, taking aspen bark is easily tolerated and brings relief to the patient in a short time, however, there are some contraindications for this medicine. It is worth remembering that the product has an astringent effect, so people with a predisposition to constipation or stagnation in the intestines should not use it. People with dysbacteriosis and chronic stomach diseases should avoid aspen bark. The best option would be to consult with your doctor, who can determine the safety of taking the infusion or decoction.
Reviews
According to experts, the medicinal properties of the bark have not been sufficiently studied. Phytotherapist T.V. Plesovsky wrote in his publication “The Healing Properties of Aspen” that the tree is a universal oxidizing agent. It oxidizes and burns out any infection in the human body. Aspen heals inflammation, cleanses the bile ducts, kidneys and bladder. Aspen bark effectively frees the body from parasites.
Ketova Ya.D., a pharmacist, writes about how to properly brew aspen bark. Wood raw materials are crushed, poured into a thermos and boiling water is added. Add a tablespoon of dry mixture to a glass of boiling water. The drink is kept overnight, after which it is ready for consumption.
The treatment will be effective if you know how to drink aspen bark. So, during antiparasitic therapy, the infusion should be drunk on an empty stomach in the morning, every time before meals. Treatment of joint diseases is long-term. The drug must be taken for six months. Positive reviews of aspen bark online indicate that the medical effect is almost always positive.
Facts: Aspen bark is used to successfully treat colds. It is called “natural aspirin” because... it contains salicin.
Miracle tea
Let's consider another way in which diabetes is treated with aspen. This time you will need dry raw materials. For further ease of use, fresh bark is immediately cut into narrow strips (no thicker than two centimeters), dried (preferably naturally - this will take from a week to two) and manually crumbled to approximately the size of ordinary large-leaf tea. The bark is stored in the same way - in a metal lockable box or glass jar with a lid. Plastic is not suitable, since the raw materials can acquire a specific smell, and at the same time not very useful properties. Cardboard packaging is also not suitable - dry bark, like tea, is hygroscopic and can become damp and moldy. The bark is brewed like simple tea: a couple of spoons are poured with boiling water and kept in a teapot or thermos for half an hour to an hour. Every day you should prepare a new drink.
Operation. Features and contraindications
A few words about the features of the operations themselves. Today, such operations are performed in an open way, i.e. through an incision on the anterior abdominal wall. In the near future, similar operations will be performed in our Center laparoscopically, i.e. through several punctures, without large incisions. Such operations are already being done around the world. Patients are examined on an outpatient basis and are usually admitted to the hospital on the eve of surgery. All operations are performed under general anesthesia. Patients begin to walk the next day after surgery. Postoperative hospital stay is 5-6 days.
What are the risks of the operation itself and are there any contraindications to surgical treatment? Of course, any surgical intervention carries an element of risk. These operations are quite complex. In addition, patients suffering from diabetes have an increased risk of inflammatory complications and their wound healing processes are slowed down. At the same time, speaking about the risk in general, we first of all emphasize that the risk of developing deadly complications with uncorrected diabetes (heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, blindness, etc.) is significantly higher than the risk of surgery.
Contraindications to performing such operations are severe irreversible changes in vital organs (heart, liver, lungs, kidneys). We consider smoking and alcoholism as serious contraindications. Patients who have inflammatory changes in the esophagus, stomach and duodenum need short preparation.
Does the patient need additional treatment after surgery? After gastric or biliopancreatic bypass surgery, lifelong intake of mineral and vitamin supplements is necessary. This is a condition for the operation. In the first 2-3 months after surgery, antiulcer drugs are sometimes prescribed prophylactically. If there is a need for treatment with glucose-lowering drugs, they may be needed only in the first days of the postoperative period.
