Calcifications in the body
Calcium is one of the essential minerals in our body. It accounts for 1.5 to 2% of our total body weight. 99% of it is bound in our bones and only 1% is in free form. This is extremely important as it ensures the smooth transmission of impulses along the nerves, is an essential mineral for heart function, muscle contraction, blood clotting, and maintains overall balance. However, it can also have a negative side effect, as it can begin to accumulate in various tissues, such as muscles, muscle attachments, and joints. Calcifications and ossifications occur in various places, especially after injuries, blows, inflammations, etc. Other causes of calcifications are mostly unexplained.
There are however risky groups, for whom the risk of calcification is higher. These are primarily women of middle age with problems with the thyroid gland, smokers, and people who sit a lot and do not get enough exercise. Research how food affects the development of calcifications is not extensiveSome opinions, which have emerged in recent times, talk about excessive oxalate foods, which has an effect on the formation of, for example, kidney stones.
Oxalates are organic compounds found in foods such as spinach, beetroot, rhubarb, green tea, coffee, cocoa, etc. Oxalates are said to bind with calcium and thus form calcifications. Calcifications occur in gout, rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, in joints (knee, hips, wrists, ankles, shoulders, etc.), kidney stones are also calcifications. They can also be calcified gallstones. The most obvious are calcifications that cause us pain, such as shoulder calcification, heel spurs, Achilles tendon, rheumatoid arthritis, kidney stones. There are also silent calcifications, which we mostly do not know about, because they do not cause pain and are discovered during various examinations.
Treatment; for the pain to stop, the entire calcification must be removed. If a little remains, it can cause new inflammation and thus repeated pain. Which therapies or procedures are used depends on the size and thickness of the calcification. Most often, medicine uses various techniques, from classic ultrasound and physiotherapy techniques, to more aggressive methods such as shock waves (ESWT) and calcination punctures.
What about home medicine? People help themselves in various ways. From drinking apple cider vinegar, baking soda, applying magnesium oil, applying castor oil compresses, a special diet with a high intake of citrus fruits, eating turmeric and dried chicken gizzard skins.
The positive effects of using dried chicken gizzard skins are mentioned by Father Ašič in his book Domača lekarna, and their use has been thoroughly researched in TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) and Iranian medicine.
