It is sad, but it is a fact: no one is immune from psoriasis. At some point, the body gives a "failure" - and unpleasant flaky plaques and spots appear on the skin. Especially if there is a genetic predisposition to the disease. The disease is not fatal, but it causes a lot of aesthetic discomfort - all the time you have to think about how to dress in order to hide skin defects. What can we say about the complications in the personal life of patients with psoriasis!
Most often, the object of the "attack" of chronic dermatitis, as psoriasis can also be called, is the knee and elbow folds, the scalp and back.
In modern medicine, many methods have been developed and used to treat psoriasis, but none of them provides a complete cure for this insidious disease. In fact, all drugs today provide only a more or less long-term stage of remission of the disease. It is not uncommon to achieve long-term remission, up to lifelong. A very important role in these cases is played by folk remedies for the treatment of psoriasis.
Herbal tea for psoriasis
Herbal treatment of psoriasis occupies an important place in therapeutic measures aimed at psoriatic rashes. Medicinal herbs for psoriasis help well and lead to many years of remission, and they are practically harmless, unlike pharmaceutical preparations.
Dry herb wild rosemary (two spoons), centaury (two spoons), tricolor violet (one and a half spoons), medicinal fumes (one spoon) and wild hoof (three and a half spoons) brew with boiling water, leave for an hour. Drink the resulting infusion in small portions throughout the day.
Please note: if there are problems with the cardiovascular system, the hoof should be "thrown away" from the recipe.
Sophora flowers against psoriasis
Pour about 75 grams of dried Sophora flowers with high-quality vodka in an amount of about one and a half to two glasses. Insist for at least a month in a place protected from light. When ready, take the resulting drug with teaspoons - one shortly before meals three times a day.
You can prepare a variant of tincture without alcohol: brew half a glass of dried flowers or fruits of sophora in the evening in a thermos and insist overnight.
Herbal infusion with corn stigmas against psoriasis
Oral intake of medicinal herbs allows you to cleanse the body from the inside, increase immunity. This type of use of plants involves the preparation of decoctions, tinctures and teas.
Ingestion of this collection helps to reduce the severity of the symptoms of psoriasis, peeling gradually disappears.
For infusion, dry herbs - string, elecampane root, lingonberry leaf, field horsetail - chop. Add one tablespoon each of black elderberry flowers and corn stigmas. Pour hot water, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Infuse for about an hour, take half a glass, regardless of food. The course of treatment is not less than a month.
Lotions from yarrow against psoriasis
Prepare a strong decoction of yarrow: a glass of dry raw materials for three glasses of boiling water. Leave for one and a half hours. Moisten gauze swabs in the decoction and apply to the areas affected by plaques.
Folk ointments for psoriasis
- A pack of butter, half a glass of vinegar essence, a raw chicken egg, stir and grind, "forget" for a week in the refrigerator. Then daily lubricate the affected skin areas with psoriasis. After the homemade ointment is absorbed, anoint the plaques with salicylic ointment.
- Celandine roots insist on alcohol for five to seven days: a glass of well-ground vegetable raw materials for one and a half glasses of alcohol. Mix the resulting infusion with half a glass of fish oil or rendered interior lard. Use ointment to treat psoriasis plaques.
- Oak bark (about 150 grams) grind into powder. Pour chamomile (two tablespoons of inflorescences) into butter (250 grams) dissolved in a water bath, boil in oil for five minutes over low heat. Then add oak powder and hold on fire for another 15 minutes. Strain the hot mass. Store the ointment in the refrigerator.
- Mix three raw egg whites with wood ash obtained from the burning of oak bark and rosehip branches. Add a teaspoon of celandine. And - the highlight of the recipe - a tablespoon of grease. Mix all the ingredients well, insist in the room for two weeks. Apply the ointment three to four times a day on the skin affected by dermatitis.
- Grind the shells from 15 walnuts, pour a glass of alcohol and leave for a week. Then pour the ash from the burnt oak bark into the infusion, add a spoonful of fresh honey. Stir - and after three days the ointment is ready. Store in the refrigerator in an opaque container.
- Take fats in equal amounts: interior lard, internal goose fat, olive oil (unrefined). Cut pork fat and goose fat, put in a saucepan, melt over low heat. Pour a tablespoon of dry camphor and add a crumb of sublimate the size of a barley grain. Pour in the olive oil, stir and heat slightly. Transfer the ointment to an opaque glass container, store in a cool place. Lubricate the plaques once or twice a day.
Herbal baths based on celandine, chamomile, oak bark, string help to alleviate the condition during exacerbation of psoriasis. Vegetable raw materials for the preparation of therapeutic baths can be taken in arbitrary doses and combinations, pre-brewing with boiling water and insisting.