Home Health Care for Backache

An ache localized in the back, with symptoms being pain, stiffness, and/or burning sensation.

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 General backache

• Rub the painful area with a paste of ginger powder (mixed with water to make paste). Leave for 10 - 25 minutes. Wash this off, then rub again with some eucalyptus oil.
• Massage intensely with warm black seed oil. Also drink 1 teaspoon each black seed oil and olive oil 3x daily.
• Take 2 glasses of water immediately when pain strikes due to pains caused by dehydration.
• Take pineapples for its bromelain, an anti-inflammatory agent.
• Take vitamins C and D, calcium, manganese and magnesium to strengthen the bones and cartilage. Also take vitamin E to protect the joints and improve mobility.

• Use chamomile oil to massage the back. To make chamomile oil, fill some fresh flowers in a small tight-lid bottle and fill it with olive oil. Sun the bottle for 2 weeks, then refrigerate and use when needed.
• Take plenty of raw vegetables such as tomato, carrot, cabbage, cucumber, radish, lettuce and at least two steamed or lightly cooked vegetables such as cauliflower, cabbage, carrot, spinach. Also take lots of fruits but avoid bananas.
• Avoid fatty, spicy, fried foods, curd, processed foods, sweet foods, sugar, tea, coffee and smoking.
• Other measures to take: Control weight so as not to burden the back and cause backache, do light exercises like walking, swimming or cycling regularly while keeping the back straight, never bend from the waist down to life any objects but bend the knees and lift up objects slowly keeping the back straight, sleep on a firm surface on the sides with the knees bent about 90° to the torso, do neck exercises to release constricted muscles.

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