How to use badger fat for coughing

People began to use badger fat for medicinal purposes more than two centuries ago. At first, its ability to quickly heal wounds was noticed, then other useful properties. But the most effective use of badger fat for cough has shown. With prolonged internal use, it is even able to cure a person from tuberculosis. What is his secret?

Amazing badger

Let's get to know the badger himself first. This amazing animal settles exclusively in ecologically clean areas, in dry areas near fresh water bodies: rivers or lakes. Basically, he lives in forests or in the taiga, sometimes in the steppe or semi-desert with a temperate climate.

The badger is an omnivorous animal, but it will not eat anything. Its protein diet consists of amphibians, bird eggs, earthworms, small rodents, insects. From plant foods, the badger prefers edible roots, useful plants, mushrooms, berries. He will not eat carrion or spoiled food. Even if during the hunt he managed to catch more prey than he can eat, the excess will remain intact.

The badger eats itself only at the very end of summer, when it begins to intensively accumulate fat reserves in order to maintain its body for several whole months of hibernation, into which it falls already in November and can sleep until April. It was during this period that badger fat contains a maximum of biologically active and valuable nutrients.

There are legends and hunting tales about badgers. It is believed to have fantastic vitality and is able to survive even in very harsh conditions. Hunters say that in the body of a wounded badger, small fraction does not cause suppuration, but is slowly pushed out by the body. This is a controversial fact, but badger fat wounds really heal very quickly.

He can also eat poisonous mushrooms and does not die from snake bites, recovers from rabies and tuberculosis. Such an amazing animal.

Fat properties

There is nothing strange in the fact that modern scientists are extremely interested in the composition and properties of badger fat. And after a series of studies, they discovered a lot of new facts. The composition of badger fat includes:

vitamin A - responsible for the regenerative processes in the cells and tissues of the body and has excellent anti-inflammatory properties;
B vitamins - accelerating metabolic processes, stimulating the work of all organs and systems;
natural antibiotics - acting destructively against most pathogenic microorganisms, including tubercle bacillus;
polyunsaturated fatty acids - strengthening the nervous and cardiovascular system, enhancing immunity;
minerals and trace elements - necessary for an active balanced life of the body;
antioxidants - capable of neutralizing the effects of free radicals and stopping the development of malignant tumors.

In addition, it has excellent enveloping properties, creating a thin but durable protective film on the surface of the skin or mucous membrane, which relieves inflammation and protects against irritating factors.

Indications for use

It is thanks to the unique healing qualities that many ways have been invented on how to use badger fat for a variety of diseases. But three main directions of its application still remain priority:

As a wound healing agent for burns, wounds, skin diseases, bedsores, abscesses, boils, dermatitis, etc.
As a general tonic during the recovery period after severe operations or long-term illnesses, reduced body resistance to infections, severe exhaustion, metabolic disorders, after prolonged fasting.
As an antitussive agent for any diseases of the upper respiratory tract, both infectious and non-infectious.

Rubbing with badger fat has an excellent warming effect and can help with hypothermia and even frostbite of certain parts of the body. The product is environmentally friendly and can be used to treat pregnant women and young children.

Application for cough

Treatment of cough with badger fat is very effective, since at the same time it simultaneously exhibits all three of its healing properties: it kills pathogens and at the same time protects the throat from their further penetration, relieves inflammation and heals wounds and microcracks in the throat, activates the body's defenses. When properly taken internally, badger fat when coughing can easily replace most traditional drugs.

If you regularly drink badger fat, you can completely get rid of:

smoker's cough;
chronic bronchitis;
dry lingering cough;
pulmonary tuberculosis;
chronic pneumonia;
severe allergic cough.

Taking badger fat is also useful for bronchial asthma. It reduces the frequency and intensity of coughing attacks, although it is not able to completely cure this serious disease.

Application methods

There are several tried and tested folk methods to treat cough badger fat. It can be used for both outdoor and indoor use. It all depends on the disease itself and on what kind of effect you want to get from the treatment. It is quite difficult to force small children to take badger fat, so rubbing is more effective for them.

If you buy badger fat at a pharmacy, then the package always contains instructions for use. As a rule, it prescribes the use of the product in its pure form for rubbing or internal intake. But in combination with other healthy products, the properties of badger fat are revealed with renewed vigor, so it is better to try proven folk recipes.

Ancient Tibetan. Contains a small amount of alcohol and is therefore only suitable for adults and children over 12 years of age. Helps with any acute respiratory ailments and long agonizing cough. An additional bonus is a strong strengthening of the immune system. To prepare a healing mixture, you need to take: half a glass of badger fat, 100 grams of dry cocoa powder, pulp from three large aloe leaves, half a glass of natural bee honey. Mix all components well until smooth. Melt 2 tbsp in a water bath. tablespoons of ghee, add 1 gram of mummy extract and a teaspoon of propolis tincture to it, remove from heat and pour in a tablespoon of alcohol. Introduce warm oil into the mixture of badger fat in a thin stream, stirring all the time. Cool the prepared mass, cover and store in the refrigerator. Take as a cough syrup by dissolving a teaspoon in half a glass of warm milk (3-4 times a day). Can be used for grinding if diluted in half with vodka.
The classic recipe. In Russia, there were no such exotic products as mummy and aloe, therefore, in our latitudes, a simpler, but no less effective recipe was used. Three parts of badger fat were mixed with one part of any of the following products: pureed raspberries or currants with sugar, honey, alcohol tincture of St. John's wort or propolis, rosehip decoction. How to take it depends on individual preferences: you can dissolve it in a glass of warm milk, tea, or just eat a teaspoon of the product. While the cough is strong, this should be done 3-4 times a day, after 14 days for preventive purposes - one spoonful in the morning and in the evening for up to a month.
Warming rubbing.Perfectly helps with colds, lingering coughs, bronchitis and even chronic pneumonia. It has a good therapeutic effect, since the finished ointment contains essential oils, the molecules of which are capable of flying at a distance of up to several meters when heated. Thermal treatment and inhalation are obtained at the same time. It can even be used for rubbing children over 6 months old. For cooking, you need to take: 100 ml of badger fat, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of natural oil (wheat germ, sea buckthorn or jojoba), 10 drops of lavender essential oil and 5 drops of mint oil. Melt the fat together with the oil in a water bath, remove from heat and add essential oils. For adults, you can pour in another tablespoon of vodka or brandy. Cool, whisking constantly with a plastic or wooden spatula. Rub overnight, every other day, avoiding the area of the heart and taking care that essential oils do not irritate the mucous membranes of the eyes.

There are other ways to use badger fat. How to correctly apply one of them, perhaps, the attending physician will tell you, since it is often recommended as an additional treatment for drug therapy.

Contraindications

There are few contraindications to the use of badger fat. First of all, you need to make sure that this product is fresh and of high quality. Therefore, you should not buy it on hand. No one on the market will give you a guarantee that this is really pure badger fat, and not lamb or goat fat with the addition of badger. And it is very difficult for an inexperienced buyer to distinguish it.

But even when buying a pharmacy product, you need to pay attention to the shelf life, the integrity of the packaging and the appearance of the product. Real badger fat has a uniform consistency (it is already overheated), white or slightly yellow in color. When opening the package, smell it. High-quality fat has a specific, but not sour smell, the taste is not bitter, rather it is neutral.

If you are convinced of the high quality of the product, then its use is not recommended for:

children under 2 years of age;
liver diseases;
chronic pancreatitis;
gastrodudenitis.

In rare cases, an allergic reaction occurs to ingested badger fat. To make sure that it is absent, it is recommended to do a test before treating a cough in this way. Apply some fat to the back of the wrist and rub it over the skin with your finger. If within two hours there is no redness or other skin reactions, you can safely use the product for treatment.