It's sad, but it's a fact: no one is immune to psoriasis. At some point, the body "crashes" - 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 offers a complete cure for this insidious disease. In fact, all drugs today provide only a more or less long stage of disease remission. It is not uncommon to achieve long-term, even lifelong, remission. A very important role in such cases is played by folk remedies for the treatment of psoriasis.
Herbal tea for psoriasis
The treatment of psoriasis with herbs occupies an important place in the 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.
Dry herb rosemary (two spoons), centaur (two spoons), tricolor violet (one and a half spoons), medicinal tobacco (one spoon) and wild hull (three and a half spoons) ferment with boiling water, insist for an hour. Drink the resulting infusion in small portions throughout the day.
Attention: if there are problems with the cardiovascular system, the hoof must 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 cups. Infuse for at least one month in a place protected from light. When ready, take the resulting medicine with teaspoons - just before meals three times a day.
You can prepare an alcohol-free tincture variant: prepare half a glass of dried flowers or sophora fruits 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, increase immunity. This type of use of plants involves the preparation of decoctions, tinctures and teas.
Ingesting this collection helps to reduce the severity of psoriasis symptoms, scaling gradually disappears.
For infusion, dried herbs - string, elecampane root, blueberry leaf, field horsetail - pike. Add a tablespoon of black elderberry flowers and corn stigmas. Pour hot water, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Infuse for about an hour, take half a glass, regardless of food. The course of treatment is not less than one month.
Yarrow lotions against psoriasis
Prepare a strong decoction of yarrow: one glass of dry raw materials to three glasses of boiling water. Leave for an hour and a half. Moisten gauze swabs in the decoction and apply to areas affected by 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, daily lubricate the skin areas affected with psoriasis. After the homemade ointment is absorbed, grease the plates with salicylic ointment.
- Celandine roots insist on alcohol for five to seven days: a glass of well-ground vegetable raw materials for a glass and a half of alcohol. Mix the resulting infusion with half a glass of fish oil or processed lard. Use ointment to treat psoriasis plaques.
- Oak bark (about 150 grams) ground into 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 the oak powder and keep on the fire for another 15 minutes. Strain the hot dough. Store the ointment in the refrigerator.
- Mix three raw egg whites with wood ash obtained by burning oak bark and rosehip sprigs. Add a teaspoon of celandine. And - the highlight of the recipe - a tablespoon of fat. Mix all the ingredients well, 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 spoon of fresh honey. Stir - and after three days the ointment is ready. Store in the fridge in an opaque container.
- Take fats in equal amounts: lard, internal goose fat, olive oil (unrefined). Cut the pork fat and goose fat, put in a pan, melt over low heat. Pour a tablespoon of dry camphor and add a sublimation crumb the size of a barley grain. Pour in the 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, string 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-preparing with boiling water and insisting.