It's sad, but it's a fact: no one is immune to psoriasis. At some point, the body gives a "failure" - and unpleasant scaly patches 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 - you have to think about how to dress all the time to hide skin defects. What about the complications in the personal life of psoriasis patients!
Most often, the object of the "attack" of chronic dermatitis, as it can also be called psoriasis, 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 can completely cure this insidious disease. Indeed, all drugs today only ensure a more or less long-term remission phase of the disease. It is not uncommon to achieve long-term, lifelong remission. Folk 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 the 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 grass wild rosemary (two spoons), cornflower (two spoons), tricolor violet (one and a half spoons), medicinal smoke (one spoon) and wild hoof (three and a half spoons) brew with boiling water, insist for atime . Drink the resulting infusion in small portions throughout the day.
Note: If there are problems with the cardiovascular system, the clog should be "thrown out" of 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. Leave to infuse for at least a month in a dark place. When ready, take the resulting drug with teaspoons - a little before meals three times a day.
You can prepare a variant of tincture without alcohol: infuse half a glass of dried flowers or fruits of sophora in the evening in a thermos and insist all night.
Infusion of plants with corn stigmas against psoriasis
Oral intake of medicinal herbs allows you to cleanse the body from the inside, increase immunity. This type of herbal use involves the preparation of decoctions, tinctures and teas.
Ingestion of this collection helps to reduce the severity of the symptoms of psoriasis, the peeling gradually disappears.
For infusion, dry herbs - twine, elecampane root, lingonberry leaf, field horsetail - chop. Add a tablespoon of black elderflowers and corn stigmas. Pour hot water, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Leave to infuse for about an hour, take half a glass, whatever the food. The duration 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 to rest for an hour and a half. Moisten the gauze swabs in the decoction and apply them to the areas affected by the plaques.
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 lubricate the skin areas affected by psoriasis daily. Once the homemade ointment is absorbed, anoint the patches with salicylic ointment.
- Celandine roots insist on 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 interior lard. Use an ointment to treat psoriasis plaques.
- The oak bark (about 150 grams) is reduced to powder. Pour chamomile (two tablespoons of inflorescences) in butter (250 grams) dissolved in a water bath, boil in oil for five minutes over low heat. Then add the oak powder and keep the fire on for another 15 minutes. Filter the hot mass. 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 to 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 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: inner lard, inner 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 sublime 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 plates once or twice a day.
Herbal baths based on celandine, chamomile, oak bark, twine help relieve the condition during exacerbation of psoriasis. Plant raw materials for the preparation of therapeutic baths can be taken in arbitrary doses and combinations, pre-infused with boiling water and insistent.