Medicinal Foods for Heart Failure
Generally speaking, heart failure occurs when the contractile activity of the heart muscle can no longer maintain a blood flow that will meet the needs of the body, a fact that causes signs and symptoms such as excessive tiredness, shortness of breath and leg swelling. Heart failure is a serious condition that must be investigated and treated by a specialist, but there is still something you can do yourself and that is making sure you eat enough of certain foods that have been proven to be of help either by traditional use or by modern scientific studies.
Some of the following foods can be eaten directly, some can be made into a juice, and some can be cooked, and most of them can also be taken as an infusion or a tincture etc. Here’s how you can consume these foods even when you don’t want or can not cook them or eat them directly.
Buckthorn infusion: Add 1-2 teaspoons in a cup of hot boiled water and let steep for 10-15 minutes. Drink 2-3 cups a day.
Lemon juice: Make it from up to 200 g of lemons. Drink throughout the day.
Bean pods tincture: Add 20 g of finely cut dried bean pods in 100 ml of alcohol 40% and let them macerate for 7-8 days. Take 70-120 drops in a glass of water, 4 times a day.
Horseradish paste: Mix 1 tablespoon of grated horseradish with 1 tablespoon of honey. Consume it gradually, in the morning, 1 hour before breakfast, for 30 days. Repeat after 60 days of pause.
Carrot juice: Make it from 100 g of carrots. Drink in the morning.
Spinach juice: Drink 1 cup every morning.
Asparagus syrup: Mix 1 part of asparagus juice with 2 parts of sugar and boil for 5-10 minutes using a bain-marie. Take 2 teaspoons a day, one in the morning and one in the evening.
Garlic tincture 1: Mix garlic juice and alcohol 40% in equal quantities. Take 2-3 teaspoons a day, 10 days a month.
Garlic tincture 2: Add 350 g of smashed garlic in 200 ml of alcohol 70% and let it macerate for 10 days. Sift and let it decant for 3 days, then transfer the more limpid part in smaller, dark coloured recipients. Take 1-15 drops in a glass of water, 3 times a day, 20-30 minutes before a meal, progressively: you take 1 drop in the morning of the first day and increase the dosage with 1 drop, so that in the evening of the fifth day you will have to take 15 drops. Then decrease the dosage so that in the evening of the tenth day you will again take only 1 drop. Finally, in the eleventh day, take 25 drops, 3 times a day, then repeat until the whole quantity of tincture is consumed.
