Stimulates blood and body fluid circulation; helps loosen and dissolve stagnated toxic matter, cysts, tumours etc. Ineffective in the long run if it is not accompanied by a change in view of life and lifestyle.
Ingredients and utensils:
- Fresh ginger roots, 4-5 oz. [115-140 g.] (if you cannot find fresh ginger, use ginger powder)
- A large heavy pot with a lid. The pot should hold at least 1 gallon of liquid, and should keep its contents hot. An enamel pot is preferable.
- One gallon of water
- A grater (a porcelain grater is preferable)
- One large, thick bath towel
- Two or three smaller cotton kitchen towels
- A small cotton bag or old sock, which can be closed tightly by string or a thick elastic band. Make such a bag and use it solely for preparing ginger water.
- Rubber gloves
Applying a ginger compress:
- Place the grated ginger in a cotton bag, or old sock, and squeeze out the ginger juice into a pot containing 1 gallon of hot water kept just below the boiling point (if you boil, you will lose the power of the ginger).
- Dip a towel into the ginger water (preferably a 100% cotton towel), wring it out tightly and apply (very hot) directly to the area to be treated.
- A second, dry towel can be placed on top to reduce heat loss. Apply a fresh hot towel every 2-3 min. until the skin becomes red. Complete duration for the compress should be about 25-30 min.
Indications:
- Many types of acute or chronic pains, such as rheumatism, arthritis, backaches, cramps, kidney stone attacks, toothaches, stiff neck, and similar problems can be relieved using a ginger compress. If the pain worsens during treatment, you should discontinue the process.
- Ginger compress can speed up the improvement from a variety of inflammatory conditions like bronchitis, acute or chronic liver inflammation, prostate infection, bladder inflammation, intestinal inflammations (never appendicitis), boils and abscesses.
- To relieve congestive conditions like asthma.
- To dissolve hardened accumulations of fats, proteins or minerals. Examples are kidney stones, gallbladder stones, cysts and benign tumours such as uterine fibroids.
- To dissolve muscle tensions.
- When tissues have been damaged, ginger compress can speed up the regeneration of the damaged area.
- In after treatment of broken bones.
Counter indications:
Ginger compress is very contractive (yang); they are hot applications. It would be wrong to apply a ginger compress on areas and in situations characterised by contraction, dense, compact (yang).
- Never apply a ginger compress to the dense, compact brain-area.
- Never apply a ginger compress on a baby or on very old people.
- Never apply a ginger compress on the lower abdominal area of a pregnant woman.
- Never apply a ginger compress on an inflamed appendix (appendicitis) or on a lung affected by pneumonia (conditions generated by the consumption of contractive foods; meat, eggs, poultry and cheese).
- Never apply a ginger compress when a high fever is present.
- Never apply a ginger compress for more than 5 min. on a cancerous tumour.
Frequency and duration:
- For some acute problems (such as stiff neck), often one treatment per day for 2-3 days is sufficient.
- For acute problems accompanied by attacks of pain (such as kidney stone attack), application can last for hours.
- For acute problems such as a bladder inflammation, we must treat 2-3 times per day for several days.
- For chronic problems such as cysts, the compress should be applied every day for several weeks, even months, in a row.
- For chronic problems such as weakened organs (for instance chronic liver problems), we can apply compress for 3-5 days, then interrupt several days, then apply again for 3-5 days, interrupt, and so on…
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