Cabbage Therapy

The time has come! Cabbage therapy is finally happening! I found the green cabbage leaves needed to test this therapy out and I am so excited to share my experience with you all! I hope you guys are as excited about it as I am, because I am super stoked!

Cabbage has been used topically and internally throughout hundreds of years in history because of its anti-inflammatory effects. It is supposed to help heal the body and lessen pain. Cabbage therapy has become quite popular recently and has even been mentioned on the television show The Doctors. As a greater number of people are searching for homeopathic-type routes to medicine, these more at-home treatments will easily become popular home remedies for many families. What I am trying to do is experiment with the idea that cabbage fights pain and see if it works as well for me as it does for others.

The cabbage therapy I am planning to test out is the topical therapy, which is when you place the outer green leaves of the cabbage on a painful area of the body to reduce pain. Below are the step by step directions you can follow to try the topical cabbage therapy out for yourself. (All of the photos listed are of me going through the steps too!)

So, here goes nothin'. :) Let's put this cabbage to the pain-killing test!

STEPS TO TOPICAL CABBAGE THERAPY

Step 1: Find a green head of cabbage. The greener the better! (The greener the leaves, the more nutrients and anti-inflammatory factors it contains.)

Step 2: Remove the outer green leaves from the cabbage. Only use the outside leaves because they are the greenest!

Step 3: Pull out a sheet of plastic wrap and place it on a hard, flat surface.

Step 4: Place the cabbage on the plastic wrap.

Step 5: Take a rolling pin, or a similar type object, and roll over the cabbage leaves with firm yet gentle pressure. (I ended up using a can of pineapple juice!) The point to this step is to roll over the leaves just enough until the "juice" is released.
Take note: once you see liquid you must stop rolling, otherwise you will lose too much of the juice and the therapy will be unsuccessful.

Rolling on top of the cabbage leaves.

What the cabbage leaf should look
like once the juice is released.
(It may be hard to see the liquid via photograph.)

Step 6: Place the rolled out cabbage leaves on desired area of the body. Hold the leaves in place for as long as it takes to feel relief. (I am placing the cabbage on my arm and using plastic wrap to keep my leaves from moving.)

Step 7: When the pain has subsided, remove the leaves from the area.

FIN!!

I will give you an update on how well I felt cabbage therapy worked for me after a few trail runs! I am keeping my fingers crossed that this is successful! If cabbage can help relieve my aches and pains, this will be fabulously cheap medicine! ;)

Until next time, go buy some cabbages!!

                                                       Chelsea <3

*TODAY'S HAPPY THOUGHT: Organization
(Nothing feels better than knowing that everything is put away in its rightful place and your world is tidy and neat.)