Modern medicine cannot offer any of the most effective drugs for the treatment of psoriasis. All sprays, ointments, creams, therapeutic procedures, pills help only to eliminate unpleasant symptoms and improve the patient's life, prevent and weaken the manifestations of relapses. Then, when the belief in drugs disappears, many patients turn to folk 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 the plaque and peeling for years. Tar is considered one of the most effective remedies in traditional medicine. Although most patients note that it only heals the plaques if the psoriasis 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 using a special test. Dip a cotton swab in a little tar and apply the product to the crook of the elbow. If you suffer from allergies, its first signs (redness, itching, peeling) will appear within half an hour. Remember that there are no other contraindications to the use of birch tar.
Treatment with this remedy lasts 2 to 6 weeks, depending on the stage and severity of the disease. You can buy tar at any drugstore. Apply with a cotton swab to the 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 duration of therapy increases to 40 minutes per day. It is best to apply the tar in the evening.
In a few days you will be able to see the first positive results. But in any case, do not stop the treatment until all the plaques have completely disappeared.
Although birch tar is considered the best folk remedy for psoriasis, some patients prefer other treatment options.
Even older forms of psoriasis can be easily treated with regular baking soda. In some patients, after this comes a long-term remission, which is quite difficult to achieve with the help of drugs. The easiest and cheapest option to treat psoriasis with baking soda is to use baking soda baths.
To do this, hot water is brought to 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 need to lie down in the bathroom for at least half an hour to achieve an effective therapeutic result. After that, never rinse the baking soda off your skin and never dry yourself off.
These baths are taken in a day for two to eight weeks. Until complete remission occurs.
Some patients claim that copper sulfate helps 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 (as a powder). Add 25 g of birch and celandine tar, as well as 150 g of fat. Put the mixture in a double boiler, stir. Then let cool.
The resulting ointment should be lubricated with plaques once a day (better before bedtime). To avoid any problem in the form of allergies, you should first try the ointment on a small area of the skin.
Alternative treatment for scalp psoriasis
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 thoroughly mixed and applied to the scalp every day for three to eight weeks for 15 to 20 minutes.
No less effective in the treatment of scalp psoriasis is a variety of infusions and decoctions, which are taken internally. Among them it is worth highlighting:
- Take 20 g of elder flowers 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 the roots of calamus and elecampane 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).
Treatment of plantar psoriasis with folk remedies
The most effective treatment for plantar psoriasis is fatty fat or mechanical fat. In this case, note that only a simple grease, sold for lubricating automotive metal parts, helps. Today you can see various preparations based on this substance with herbal ingredients, but, as practice shows, they do not bring the desired result.
Immediately it is worth preparing for long-term treatment (from one to two months). Plantar psoriasis usually takes a long and difficult time to heal because the plaques are in an area that often comes in contact with other surfaces.
For the treatment, you just need to rub the affected areas of the skin with fat. In the first few days, spread the fat for 15-20 minutes and each day (within a week) increase this time to 40 minutes. Be sure to wash off the grease after use with tar soap.
Alternative treatment for nail psoriasis
In order to improve the condition of nails with psoriasis, the following folk remedy is recommended to be used.
Take the bay leaves (20 g) and pour 400 g of boiling water over them. Cook for ten minutes on low heat. Then cool and strain. The infusion should be taken orally for a third of a glass three times a day. Therapy lasts up to seven days. After that, it is worth taking a two-day break, and then drinking again according to the old scheme until all the symptoms of the disease disappear.
You can also rub the liquid form of vitamin A (retinol) directly into 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 were able to achieve stable remission for several years.
To prepare the egg ointment, the following ingredients are necessary: put a raw egg (with shell) in a glass jar of 200 grams. Pour it with vinegar essence, which should completely cover the egg. Close the lid and place it in a dark and cool place for a day. Take out the egg and crush it with the shell. Add a little pork or goose fat. Stir.
This ointment should be applied in a small amount to the affected elbows, because 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 smear the skin with regular cream (children are best suited). Apply once a day. The effectiveness of this tool can be seen quite quickly (2-3 days). Therapy continues until the plaques are completely gone.
Herbal Psoriasis Treatment
Herbal remedies are often used to treat psoriasis. But the most effective of them is purslane, especially its seeds. For a long time, garden purslane was considered the safest treatment for psoriasis. It is also worth remembering that this herb helps to achieve long-term remission, which is quite difficult to achieve with conventional drugs.
Purslane can be purchased at a drugstore or online. If you are going to buy on the Internet, you should pay attention to "Collect garden purslane".
For effective therapy, you need to create a concentrated tincture. To do this, take two tablespoons of purslane seeds and infuse them in boiled water in a thermos. After the infusion has stayed (about an hour), you can apply it to the affected skin. Remember to keep the skin moist from the dye.
The therapy lasts from four to six weeks and during this time the patient can completely get rid of the psoriatic plaques. Remission is quite long. In some cases, he may even be five years old.
Homeopathy treatment of psoriasis
Homeopathic remedies are often used to treat psoriasis. At the same time, some of them help to get rid of psoriatic plaques completely and achieve long-term remission. But immediately you should pay attention to the fact that the treatment with homeopathy is long and rather complicated. In no case should you refuse treatment in the middle of the course, otherwise you will not get effective and positive results.
Note that homeopathic medicines tend to be less effective when taken separately from medicines.
Evaluation of traditional medicine recipes in the treatment of psoriasis
Remember that traditional medicine is considered to be more 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:
- Celandine is perhaps the most well-known herbal medicine that is used, among other things, for the treatment of psoriasis. Its juice is most often used. Such treatment is carried out in the summer, since it is during this period that celandine begins to bloom. The fresh sap of the plant is applied to the psoriatic plaques immediately after the plant is harvested. The therapy lasts about three months and during this time the patient can see an effective result.
- Hazelnuts - used for making 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 in such a bath for half an hour.
- Meadowsweet - the root of this herbal medicine is used to treat psoriasis. It should be used in powder form. To prepare an ointment from the root of meadowsweet, you need to take petroleum jelly or oil and half a glass of crushed root. Boil the mixture in a double boiler and spread it on the affected skin.
Effective treatment of psoriasis with folk remedies
An alternative treatment in the fight against psoriatic plaques is more effective. It helps to achieve long-term remission (in some cases even up to five years), as well as to quickly remove unpleasant external manifestations from the skin. Each patient chooses for himself the most effective and proven method. The most popular today are considered: birch tar, celandine juice, viburnum tinctures, baking soda, machine fat. But it is worth understanding that you can be allergic to these funds. Therefore, before using them, you should test for allergic reactions.