It's sad, but it's a fact: no one is immune to psoriasis. At one 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 to hide skin imperfections. What about the complications in the personal lives of patients with psoriasis!
The most common objects of "attack" of chronic dermatitis, as psoriasis can also be called, are the folds of the knees and elbows, scalp and back.
Many methods of treating psoriasis have been developed and used in modern medicine, but none of them provide 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, for life. Folk remedies for psoriasis play a very important role in these cases.
Herbal tea for psoriasis
The treatment of psoriasis with herbs occupies an important place in the therapeutic measures aimed at psoriatic rashes. Medicinal herbs for psoriasis help well and lead to long-term remission and are virtually harmless, unlike pharmaceuticals.
Dry grass wild rosemary (two spoons), centenarian (two spoons), tricolor violet (one and a half spoons), smoke medicinal (one spoon) and wild hoof (three and a half spoons) brew 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 hoof should be "discarded" from the prescription.
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 one month in a place protected from light. When ready, take the resulting medicine with teaspoons - one shortly before meals three times a day.
You can prepare a variant of tincture without alcohol: boil half a cup of dried flowers or sophora fruits in the evening in a thermos and insist overnight.
Herbal infusion with corn stigmas against psoriasis
Oral intake of medicinal herbs allows you to purify the body from the inside, to increase immunity. This type of use of plants includes the preparation of decoctions, tinctures and teas.
Ingestion of this collection helps to reduce the severity of psoriasis symptoms, peeling gradually disappears.
For infusion dry herbs - string, elecampane root, cranberry leaf, horsetail - cut. Add one tablespoon of black elderflower flowers and cornstarch. Pour hot water, bring to a boil and remove from the heat. Insist for about an hour, take half a cup, regardless of food. The course of treatment is not less than a month.
Yarrow lotions against psoriasis
Prepare a strong decoction of yarrow: a glass of dry raw materials for three cups of boiling water. Leave for an hour and a half. Moisten gauze swabs in the decoction and apply on the affected areas of the plaques.
Folk ointments for psoriasis
- A packet of butter, half a cup of vinegar essence, raw chicken egg, stir and grind, "forget" for a week in the refrigerator. Then daily lubricate the skin affected by psoriasis. After the home ointment is absorbed, smear the plates with salicylic ointment.
- The roots of celandine 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 cup of fish oil or melted lard. Use an ointment to treat psoriasis plaques.
- Oak bark (about 150 grams) is ground to a powder. Pour chamomile (two tablespoons of inflorescences) in oil (250 grams), dissolved in a water bath, cook in oil for five minutes on low heat. Then add oak powder and keep on the fire for another 15 minutes. Strain the hot mass. Store the ointment in the refrigerator.
- Mix three crude proteins 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. Mix all 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 of 15 walnuts, pour a glass of alcohol and leave for a week. Then pour the ashes from the burned oak bark in 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: lard, lard, olive oil (unrefined). Cut pork and goose fat, put in a saucepan, melt over low heat. Pour a tablespoon of dry camphor and add sublimate crumbs the size of a barley grain. Pour 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, strings help to alleviate the condition during the exacerbation of psoriasis. Herbal raw materials for the preparation of therapeutic baths can be taken in any doses and combinations, pre-boiled with boiling water and insisted.