Home remedies · Back, muscles & joints
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Shower legs and arms from the bottom upwards: 30 seconds warm, 10 seconds cold, three changes, finish cold.
The change trains the vessels in widening and narrowing and wakes you up; many find their legs lighter afterwards.
Protection against colds is described but weak — the certain gain is how it feels.
Not with untreated high blood pressure, heart disease, circulation problems or in pregnancy without advice. Always begin away from the heart.
Have it assessed rather than treated at home: back pain with numbness in the saddle area, disturbed bladder or bowel function, weakness or fever. A joint that cannot bear weight after an injury, or is deformed. A one-sided swollen, warm leg.