Modern medicine cannot offer any of the most effective drugs for the treatment of psoriasis. All sprays, ointments, creams, therapeutic procedures, pills only help to eliminate unpleasant symptoms and improve the patient's life, prevent and weaken the manifestations of relapses. Later, when the belief in drugs wears off, many patients turn their attention to home remedies.
Home treatment for psoriasis
Many of those who have suffered from psoriasis for a long time try to try all possible means to get rid of plaque and flaking in the coming years. Tar is considered one of the most effective remedies in folk medicine. Although most patients find that it helps to heal the plaques only if the psoriasis has started relatively recently.
Before dealing with birch tar, be sure to check if you have an allergic reaction to this substance. This can be done through a special test. Soak a cotton swab in some tar and apply the product to the bend of the elbow. If you suffer from allergies, your first signs (redness, itching, peeling) will appear in half an hour. Remember that there are no other contraindications to the use of birch tar.
Treatment with this remedy lasts from 2 to 6 weeks, depending on the stage and severity of the disease. You can buy tar at any pharmacy. Apply with a cotton swab to those areas of the skin that have been affected by psoriasis. During the first days of treatment, the tar is applied for only ten minutes. After that, it should be washed with tar soap. Gradually, the therapy time increases to 40 minutes per day. It is better to apply tar at night.
In a couple of days you will see the first positive results. But in any case, do not stop the treatment until all the plaques have completely disappeared.
Despite the fact that birch tar is considered the best folk remedy for psoriasis, some patients prefer other treatment options.
Even the oldest forms of psoriasis can be easily treated with regular baking soda. In some patients, after this, a long-term remission occurs, which is quite difficult to achieve with the help of drugs. The simplest and cheapest option for treating psoriasis with baking soda is to use baking soda baths.
To do this, hot water is taken into the bathroom and up to 900 g of soda is added to it. If necessary, you can also add sea salt, chamomile or string infusions. You must lie down in the bathroom for at least half an hour to obtain an effective therapeutic result. After that, never rinse the baking soda off your skin or make it dry.
These baths are taken in a day from two to eight weeks. Until a complete remission occurs.
Some patients claim that copper sulfate helps to heal psoriatic plaques quickly and for a long time. To use this recipe, you will need the following ingredients: yellow sulfur (powder), copper sulfate, dried celandine (powder), lard, and birch tar. Take 50 g of sulfur and 50 g of burnt vitriol (in powder form). Add there 25 g of birch and celandine tar, as well as 150 g of fat. Put the mixture in a water bath, stir. Then let it cool down.
The resulting ointment should be lubricated with plates once a day (better before bedtime). To avoid any problems in the form of allergies, you must first test the ointment on a small area of the skin.
Alternative treatment for psoriasis of the scalp.
Homemade shampoos are the best for treating scalp psoriasis. The following recipe is considered the most effective.
Take 20 g of honey, baby shampoo and an egg white. All of these ingredients should be mixed well and applied to the scalp every day for three to eight weeks for 15-20 minutes.
No less effective in the treatment of psoriasis of the scalp are a variety of infusions and decoctions, which are taken internally. Among them it is worth highlighting:
- Take 20 g of elderflowers and pour 500 g of boiling water. Insist for about 1. 5 hours. It is necessary to take the tincture every day one hour after meals (120 g).
- Take calamus and helenium roots and combine them with celandine, St. John's wort, lingonberry leaves, horsetail, and black elderflower. 10 g of the mixture should be poured with boiling water (250 g).
Plantar psoriasis treatment with home remedies.
The most effective treatment for plantar psoriasis is fat or machine fat. In this case, keep in mind that only simple grease, which is sold to lubricate metal car parts, helps. Today you can see various preparations based on this substance with herbal ingredients, but, as practice shows, they do not give the desired result.
It is immediately worth preparing for long-term treatment (one to two months). Plantar psoriasis usually takes a long time and is difficult to heal, since the plaques are in a place that usually comes in contact with other surfaces.
For treatment, you just need to smear the affected areas of the skin with fat. In the first few days, spread the fat for 15-20 minutes and every day (within a week) increase this time to 40 minutes. Make sure to wash off the grease after use with tar soap.
Alternative treatment for nail psoriasis
To improve the condition of the nails with psoriasis, it is recommended to use the following folk remedy.
Take bay leaves (20 g) and pour 400 g of boiled hot water over them. Cook for about ten minutes over low heat. Then cool and strain. The infusion should be taken orally for a third of a glass three times a day. The therapy lasts up to seven days. After that, it is worth taking a two-day break, and then drinking again according to the above scheme until all symptoms of the disease disappear.
You can also rub the liquid form of vitamin A (retinol) directly on the nail plate. But it should be borne in mind that such treatment will last at least three months. Some people use cornstarch or oatmeal nail baths.
Folk remedies for the treatment of psoriasis on the elbows.
One of the most effective treatments for psoriatic plaques on the elbows is egg ointment. Many patients claim that thanks to this drug they managed to achieve a stable remission for several years.
To prepare the egg ointment, the following ingredients are needed: put a raw egg (with shell) in a 200 gram glass jar. Pour it with vinegar essence, which should completely cover the egg. Close the lid and leave it in a cool, dark place for a day. Take out the egg and mash it with the shell. Add some pork or goose fat there. Stir.
This ointment should be applied to the affected elbows in a small amount, since at first it will be quite unpleasant for the agent to burn. After a while, you can increase the amount. After 1-2 hours, wash off the ointment with water and spread the skin with an ordinary cream (most suitable for children). Apply only once a day. The effectiveness of this tool can be seen very soon (2-3 days). The therapy continues until the plaques are completely gone.
Herbal psoriasis treatment
Healing herbs are often used to treat psoriasis. But the most effective among them is purslane, particularly its seeds. Garden purslane has long been considered the safest treatment for psoriasis. It should also be remembered that this plant helps to achieve long-term remission, which is quite difficult to obtain with conventional medications.
Purslane can be purchased at a pharmacy or online. If you are going to buy on the Internet, you should pay attention to "Collection of garden purslane".
For effective therapy, you need to create a concentrated tincture. To do this, take two tablespoons of purslane seeds and put them in boiled water in a thermos. After the infusion has settled (about an hour), you can apply it to the affected skin. Remember to keep your skin moist from the tincture.
The therapy lasts for four to six weeks and during this time the patient can completely get rid of the psoriatic plaques. The remission is long enough. In some cases, it may even be five years old.
Treatment of psoriasis with homeopathy
Homeopathic remedies are often used to treat psoriasis. At the same time, some of them help to completely eliminate psoriatic plaques, as well as to get a long-term remission. But immediately it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that treatment with homeopathy is long and quite complicated. In no case should you refuse treatment in the middle of the course, otherwise you will not get effective and positive results.
Keep in mind that homeopathic medicines tend to be less effective when taken separately from medicines.
Qualification of recipes of traditional medicine in the treatment of psoriasis.
Remember that traditional medicine is considered most effective in the early stages of the disease, when the first plaques appear on the patient's skin.
Among the most popular folk recipes are the following:
- Celandine is perhaps the most famous medicinal plant that is used, among other things, for the treatment of psoriasis. Its juice is used most often. Such treatment is carried out in summer, since it is during this period that the celandine begins to bloom. The fresh sap of the plant is applied to the psoriatic plates immediately after the plant is harvested. The therapy lasts about three months and during this time the patient can see an effective result.
- Hazelnuts: they are used to make hot baths. Applied during an exacerbation of the disease. To make such a bath, you need to take half a kilogram of walnut shells and insist on boiling water. It is recommended to lie down in such a bath for half an hour.
- Meadowsweet: The root of this medicinal plant is used to treat psoriasis. It must be used in powder form. To prepare an ointment based on meadowsweet root, it is necessary to take petroleum jelly or oil and half a glass of crushed root. Boil the mixture in a water bath and spread it on the affected skin.
Effective treatment of psoriasis with home remedies.
Alternative treatment in the fight against psoriatic plaques is more effective. It helps to achieve a long-term remission (in some cases even up to five years), as well as to quickly cleanse the skin of unpleasant external manifestations. Each patient chooses the most effective and proven method for himself. The most popular are considered today: birch tar, celandine juice, viburnum tinctures, baking soda, machine grease. But it is worth understanding that you may be allergic to these funds, therefore, before using them, you need to take a test for allergic reactions.