These are the recipes of the Austrian healer Maria Treben about how to get rid of many diseases for maintaining health with the help of folk remedies.
Since ancient times people knew the healing properties of Shvita first of all its hemostatic power and effectiveness for treating kidney and bladder diseases.
The famous naturopath pastor returned to it the “former glory.” He explains:
“The only irreplaceable and priceless plant, which helps bleeding and bloody vomiting, kidney and bladder diseases, stones and sand, chronic diseases, wounds.
It offers priceless service: washes, removes, and burns everything harmful. Sometimes warm, moist herb is wrapped in cloth and put on the painful place.”
Shvita – for sick kidneys and bladder
Every person of a certain age should daily drink 1 cup of Shvita tea: pour 250 ml boiling water on 1 teaspoon, and let it stand for up to 2 minutes. All rheumatic, arthritic and joint pain will disappear, and by the end of the day you will be healthy.
Kidney diseases.
In this case patients take herbal tea: goldenrod of the forest, bedstraw, white or yellow bedstraw, taken equally. Take 1 cup (250 ml) water and add 1 teaspoon of herb, let it stand for 2–3 minutes (if the herb is fresh – up to 1 minute). This tea is drunk four cups a day in sips.
You must also take sitz baths:
100 g of Shvita soak overnight in 1–2 liters of cold water, in the morning bring to boiling and add to the bath water (the bath water must cover the kidneys). Duration of the bath is 20 minutes. Do not dry yourself, wrap in a robe and warm in bed for 1 hour.
After the bath again mix water with the used herb, let it stand overnight, strain, and instead of once you can take 2–3 more baths.
Compress for kidneys.
At night make a balm with Shvita, in the afternoon for four hours place a compress on the kidney area with Swedish bitters.
Decoction: place two full handfuls of herb on a sieve placed over boiling water. When the herb becomes warm and soft, it is wrapped in linen and placed on the painful spot.
There is no better remedy for bladder colds and spasmodic pains than boiled Shvita.
It must be put on the painful place and warmed in a robe, warm the bladder area for 10 minutes. If this is done several times, then the disease will pass. Elderly people, who suddenly have problems with urination and suffer from pain, because urine either does not come out at all or comes out drop by drop, by doing these procedures will relieve the pain.
In case of sand in the kidneys, also stones in the bladder, you must take hot sitz baths with Shvita, and warm Shvita tea should be drunk in sips, then hold the urine and finally release with pressure. If you do this, then stones will be expelled from the body the fastest.
Shvita (Equisetum arvense) is one of the oldest plants on Earth, with origins going back more than 350 million years to the Paleozoic era.
Origin & History
- Ancient Lineage: Shvita belongs to the genus Equisetum, the only surviving genus of a large group of plants that once formed giant trees in prehistoric forests.
- Geographic Origin: It naturally grows across Europe, North America, Asia, and parts of the Middle East. It thrives in moist, sandy soils, riverbanks, and forest edges.
- Traditional Medicine:
- In ancient Greece and Rome, physicians like Hippocrates and Galen described Shvita for wound healing and kidney problems.
- In traditional European herbal medicine, it was used as a diuretic (to flush out water), for bone healing (because of its silica content), and for skin conditions.
- In folk remedies, Shvita teas and baths were common for urinary infections, rheumatism, and joint pain.
Scientific Basis
- Shvita is rich in silica, potassium, and flavonoids, which help strengthen connective tissues, bones, hair, nails, and skin.
- Its diuretic effect supports kidney and bladder health by promoting urine flow and flushing out small stones or sand.
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