Heart hurts badly: what to do at home

What to do at home, when the heart hurts badly. .. It is important to determine the cause of the pain in the heart area to provide yourself or another person first aid. Pain in the heart can be diverse: strong, sharp, sharp, aching, stitching, pressing.

Heart pains - cardialgias - happen when inhaling - the patient has difficulty breathing;can give in the left arm, shovel( even the arm grows dumb).

Today we will talk about why the heart is aching - the causes of cardialgia, what to do, how to help yourself or someone with the help of home folk remedies, medications and medicines. The information in the publication is a reference, so before the beginning of self-treatment - consultation with a doctor is mandatory!

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Causes of pain in the heart: why does the heart ache

The heart can beginto hurt:

  1. from strong emotional experiences and shocks caused by stress in adults and children;
  2. with complicated course of tonsillitis, influenza, osteochondrosis, rheumatism;
  3. with a hangover, after excessive intake of alcohol;
  4. for many cardiovascular pathologies.

Heart hurts when:

  1. ischemic heart disease: angina pectoris, myocardial infarction( severe pain is the most disturbing symptom that gives in the arm( numbness), in the left scapula;
  2. cardiosclerosis, myocarditis;
  3. of vegetovascular dystonia, neurocirculatory dystoniatype)
  4. neuroses, neurasthenia, psychosomatic disorders
  5. hypertension( hypertension)

Remember that the cause of heart pain may be hypertensive painIt is worth the blood pressure to rise to 180/100 mmHg - in the heart area there are strong pressing pains, which are effectively removed not by Validol and Nitroglycerin, but by drugs that lower blood pressure

What to do at home, if the heart is aching

Keep in mind that it is necessary to treat the underlying disease that causes pain in the heart area.

First-aid preparations and medicines

For IHD( coronary heart disease) in the form of angina pectoris and myocardial infarction, cardiac pain relievers are used to relieve the patient's condition, to expand the coronary vessels and thereby prevent necrosis of the cardiacmuscle or reduce its scale.

The most important first aid products are the following groups:

  1. Nitroglycerin ,
  2. Nitrosorbite ,
  3. Nitross .

Drugs of the type:

  1. Kardiket ,
  2. Corvalol ,
  3. Valocordin ,
  4. The motherwort's and instillation are rather auxiliary aids for causes of pain in the heart area that are not associated with spasm of the coronary vessels, as a result - a violation of the supply of the heart muscle and the danger of necrosis of itsite.

Folk remedies at home

Mixture valerian tincture with hawthorn tincture ( 1: 1).Pour in 25-30 drops of this mixture, add a little water and drink. Before drinking, hold the mixture slightly in the mouth.

From pharmacy products, use with Corvalol, Valocordin or Valocormid, Validol and, as a last resort, with nitroglycerin. Well relieve pain and drops Zelenin .


For pains in the heart, make a hot foot bath with mustard for 15 minutes, place the most severe pain, even in the heart area, place mustard ( for ischemic heart disease).You can rub in the heart area any irritating ointment ( such as "Efkamona" or "Bom-Benge") during 3-5 minutes.

When the heart is very sore, do not lie down, but sit down and try to breathe deeper.

With force, stroke both hands from the little finger to the elbow fold( massage of the cardiac energy meridian).Massage the tips of the little fingers of both hands. Massaging and squeezing should not all the little finger, but only the sides of its tip.

Chewing of lemon peel significantly improves heart function.

Prepare collection 1 and take it for pains in the heart area:

  1. valerian root - 2 parts,
  2. anise fruits - 1 part,
  3. hernia motherwort - 2 parts,
  4. yarrow herb - 1 part.

1 tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of boiling water and insist 1 hour in a thermos. Drink warm or hot one third of the glass.

In case of an attack of palpitations and pains in the heart, it is recommended to take the infusion of cornflower blue flowers .1 tablespoon of flowers pour a glass of boiling water and leave for 1 hour. Strain. Drink one third of the glass before meals 3-4 times a day.

Prepare collection 2 :

  1. valerian leaves - 15 g,
  2. three-leaved watch leaves - 30 g,
  3. peppermint leaves - 60 g.

Mix everything in equal proportion.1 tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of boiling water, insist 1 hour, strain. Drink in the morning and in the evening to prevent heart pain.

Sometimes pains in the heart area decrease or even stop if a person ceases to wear underwear made of synthetic fabrics .

For heart pain, it is recommended to rub fir oil into the area of ​​the left nipple 3-5 minutes before the pain is relieved. Large leaves of magnolia .100 g of fresh crushed leaves, pour 500 ml of alcohol. Insist 7 days in a dark place, shaking occasionally. Strain. Take 10 drops three times a day, when the heart is aching with hypertension and heartbeat.

Klopogon Daursky .50 g of dry rhizomes and plant roots, pour 500 ml of 70-degree alcohol. Insist for a week, occasionally shaking. Strain. Take 20-30 drops three times a day for cardiac asthma, pain in the heart, in neuralgia and migraine.

Make a decoction from hop cones and take half a cup before eating and sleeping. Pain will pass, sleep will improve.

Hawthorn perfectly copes with pain in the heart. Take 30 pieces of berries, break them together with a stone and pour 1 cup of boiling water. Boil on low heat for 10 minutes. During the day, drink the entire contents in small sips. After this treatment you will forget, from which side you have a heart.

If you are worried about heart pain, do not rush to take validol. It is better to treat this way: dissolve 1 tbsp.a spoonful of honey in half a glass of water and drink this solution daily for 50 g in the morning on an empty stomach and in the evening before going to sleep. And so three weeks. In this way, you will strengthen the heart and rejuvenate the entire body.

Intravenous, if the infusion of the grass is infested in the heart area. One or two handfuls of crushed raw material pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, insist and drink 1 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day.

The wild chicory relieves the heart and headache. Pour 0.5 liter of 400 vodka into 100 g of ground roots of the plant, let it brew and take 30-40 drops 3 times a day. The course of treatment is 2 months.

Grass of linseed, lion's pharynx, prickly throaty, centaury and valerian root are the best friends for the sick heart. Brew them like tea, and drink.

With suffering heart pains to get rid of them, you need to eat daily for 7 days on 400 g of caviar, 200 g raisins, 7 walnuts and 4 tbsp.spoons of honey. This nutrition will strengthen the heart muscle and restore health.

Tips if the heart often suffers.

Heart defender is a fish. By using it regularly, you will strengthen the heart muscle, and also improve memory. It is best to eat mackerel, herring, sardines, trout, salmon and perch.

Hypertension and cores should also be used as often as possible to use olive oil. It perfectly excites cholesterol, normalizes the work of the gastrointestinal tract, prevents premature aging. In olive oil, even with repeated heat treatment, carcinogenic substances are not formed. Only the oil should be 100%.


A sick heart will cure river reeds. On the full moon, break the mature ones that have not yet been swollen, reed rockers, and brew them with steep boiling water so that three glasses of infusion come out. It all must be drunk during the day. In a month or two you will forget about the sick heart.

If you have pain in the heart, grind and mix 5 tbsp.spoons of Valerian root and herbaceous motherwort and powder

5 walnuts, ground in a mortar together with the shell. Pour 1 tbsp.spoon mixture of 0.5 liters of boiling water and leave to bed for the night. In the morning, bring the infusion to a boil and boil for 15 minutes on low heat. Drink one-third warm glass warm 30 minutes before meals.

For the prevention of heart pain and chest pain, it is useful to constantly eat figs in any form.

For pains in the heart and shortness of heart, mix 5 heads of garlic, 5 lemons with skin( without seeds) and 500 g of honey. Insist for a week, stirring occasionally. Take 1 teaspoon three times a day on an empty stomach. The course of treatment is two months.

With a heart beat, dizziness, sleep disturbances and recurrent pains in the heart area, a mixture of hawthorn fruit with propolis( 1: 1) has a good effect. Take 20 drops three times a day for half an hour before meals.

Infusion of dry leaves bald bald .2 tablespoons per 300 ml of boiling water. Take three times a day for half a glass. Relieves pain in the region of the heart and stops heart dyspnea.

Overflow white .Tincture from perestupnja( all plant) removes pains in the field of heart, reduces arterial pressure and improves work of heart. The tincture is prepared for alcohol in a ratio of 1:10.Insist 7 days in a dark place, strain, take 30 drops three times a day with water.

Tincture of the helmet of the Baikal ( chemist's drug).At home, cook in a ratio of 1: 5 to 70-degree alcohol. Take 20-30 drops three times a day with cardiovascular neuroses. As a result, sleep improves, pain in the heart region disappears, headaches and blood pressure decrease.

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  1. If a person becomes ill with a heart - use a point on the inner corner of the little finger of the left hand, which is connected to the heart. The easiest way to work on this point is by biting the little finger with your teeth. If someone near you says that he is ill with a heart, he begins to grow pale, take him by the left hand and snack a little finger for half a minute. For best effect, ask the person at this moment to make a strong exhalation and not breathe( if he will be able to do it).Additional delay in breathing on exhalation has a curative stimulating effect.
  2. In addition to fixation for half a minute of a painful point on the little finger, it is very good to work on the Lao Gong point. This point is in the center of the palm. If you squeeze your hand into a fist, then the tips of the middle and ring fingers will point to the Lao Gong point - it will be between them. Strongly press this point, especially on the left hand.
  3. One more point - on a wrist wrinkle under a pea-shaped bone. On the base of the palm on the side of the little finger( the inner side of the palm), find the bone, and beneath it on the wrist-wrinkled fold you will find this point. It will be the most painful place. Strongly press on it and fix it for half a minute.
  4. Another point is at the inner edge of the elbow fold, you will find it by soreness. On exhalation, click on this point and fix for half a minute.
  5. Massage of points located on four transverse toes away from the jugular cavity under the clavicles on the left and right acts very well. You can immediately act on both points with your thumb tips. These points are quite painful. Click on these points and fix for half a minute - this will help get rid of the pain. Also, it is good to massage these points with bronchopulmonary diseases and diabetes mellitus - this improves the patient's condition.

Source: Allega G.N. Official and traditional medicine. The most detailed encyclopedia.- Moscow: Izd-vo Eksmo, 2012.