It's sad, but it's a fact: no one is immune to psoriasis. At some point, the body "fails" and unsightly scaly patches and patches 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 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 folds of the knee and elbow, the scalp and the back.
In modern medicine, many methods have been developed and used to treat psoriasis, but none of them offer a complete cure for this insidious disease. In fact, all drugs today provide only a more or less prolonged stage of remission of the disease. Long-term, even lifelong, remission is not uncommon. Home remedies for the treatment of psoriasis play a very important role in these cases.
herbal tea for psoriasis
The treatment of psoriasis with herbs occupies an important place in therapeutic measures aimed at psoriatic eruptions. Medicinal herbs for psoriasis help well and lead to many years of remission, and are practically harmless, unlike pharmaceutical preparations.
Dried grass wild rosemary (two spoons), centaury (two spoons), tricolor violet (one and a half spoons), medicinal smoke (one spoon) and wild hoof (three and a half spoons) infuse with boiling water, insist for an hour . Drink the resulting infusion in small portions throughout the day.
Please note: if there are problems with the cardiovascular system, the helmet must be "thrown" 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. Infuse for at least one month in a place protected from light. When you are ready, take the resulting medicine with teaspoons, a little before meals three times a day.
You can prepare a non-alcoholic variant of tincture: brew half a glass of dried flowers or fruits of sophora at night 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 and increase immunity. This type of use of plants involves the preparation of decoctions, tinctures and teas.
Ingestion of this collection helps reduce the severity of psoriasis symptoms, the scaling gradually disappears.
For infusion, dried herbs - thread, elecampane root, lingonberry leaf, field horsetail - chop. Add a tablespoon of black elderflowers and corn silks. Pour hot water, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Infuse for about an hour, drink half a glass, regardless of food. The course of treatment is not less than a month.
Yarrow lotions against psoriasis.
Prepare a strong decoction of yarrow: one glass of dry raw materials for three glasses of boiling water. Leave for an hour and a half. Moisten gauzes in the decoction and apply on the areas affected by the plates.
Popular ointments for psoriasis.
- A packet 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 areas of the skin with psoriasis. After the homemade ointment is absorbed, smear the plates with salicylic ointment.
- Celandine roots insist in alcohol for five to seven days: one 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 melted inner lard. Use ointment to treat psoriasis plaques.
- Oak bark (about 150 grams) is ground into a 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 keep on fire for another 15 minutes. Strain the hot dough. Store the ointment in the refrigerator.
- Mix three raw egg whites with wood ash obtained from burning oak bark and rosehip branches. Add a teaspoon of celandine. And, the highlight of the recipe, a tablespoon of fat. Thoroughly mix all the ingredients, 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 of 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 tablespoon 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: inner lard, inner goose fat, olive oil (unrefined). Cut the pork fat and goose fat, put in a saucepan, melt over low heat. Pour a tablespoon of dry camphor and add a crumb of sublime the size of a grain of barley. Pour in the olive oil, stir and heat slightly. Transfer the ointment to an opaque glass container, store in a cool place. Lubricate the plates once or twice a day.
Herbal baths based on celandine, chamomile, oak bark and rope help relieve the condition during exacerbation of psoriasis. Vegetable raw materials for the preparation of therapeutic baths can be taken in arbitrary doses and combinations, pre-infusion with boiling water and insisting.