Modern medicine cannot offer any of the most effective medicines for the treatment of psoriasis. All sprays, ointments, creams, therapeutic procedures, tablets only help to eliminate unpleasant symptoms and improve the patient's life, to prevent and weaken the manifestations of relapses. Then, when faith in medicines disappears, many patients turn their attention to folk remedies.
Treat your psoriasis at home
Many of those who have suffered from psoriasis for a long time will try all possible means to get rid of plaque and peeling in the coming years. Tar is considered to be one of the most effective remedies in folk medicine. Although most patients note that it only helps to cure plaques if the psoriasis has started relatively recently.
Before treating with birch tar, be sure to check for an allergic reaction to this substance. This can be done using a special test. Soak a cotton swab in a small tar and apply the product to the curvature of the elbow. If you have an allergy, the first signs (redness, itching, peeling) appear after half an hour. Keep in mind that there are no other contraindications to the use of birch tar.
Treatment with this treatment lasts for 2 to 6 weeks, depending on the stage and severity of the disease. You can buy tar at any pharmacy. Apply a cotton swab to the areas of skin affected by psoriasis. In the first days of treatment, the tar is applied for only ten minutes. Then wash with tar soap. Gradually, the duration of therapy increases to 40 minutes per day. It is best to use tar in the evening.
You can see the first positive results in a few days. But in any case, do not stop the treatment until all the plaques have completely disappeared.
Although birch tar is considered the best folk cure for psoriasis, some patients prefer other treatment options.
Even older forms of psoriasis can be easily treated with regular baking soda. Some patients experience long-term remission, which is quite difficult to achieve with medication. The easiest and cheapest way to treat psoriasis with baking soda is to use baking soda baths.
To do this, bring hot water to the bathroom and add up to 900 g of soda. If necessary, you can add sea salt, chamomile or string fusion. You must lie in the bathroom for at least half an hour to achieve an effective therapeutic result. After that, never rinse baking soda off your skin or dry yourself.
Such baths are used in one day, for two to eight weeks. Until complete remission occurs.
Some patients claim that copper sulfate helps cure psoriasis plaques quickly and over the long term. To use the recipe, you will need the following ingredients: yellow sulfur (powder), copper sulfate, dried celandine (powder), fat, and fat. Take 50 g of sulfur and 50 g of burnt vitriol (as powder). Add 25 g of birch tar and celandine and 150 g of fat. Place the mixture in a water bath and stir. Then allow to cool.
The resulting ointment should be smeared with plaques once a day (best before bedtime). To avoid problems in the form of allergies, you should first try the ointment on a small area of skin.
An alternative treatment for psoriasis of the scalp
Homemade shampoos are best for treating psoriasis of the scalp. 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.
Various infusions and decoctions that need to be taken orally are no less effective in treating psoriasis of the scalp. Among them should be highlighted:
- Take 20 g of elderflower and pour 500 g of boiling water. Insist on approx. 1, 5 hours. The tincture should be taken one hour after a meal (120 g) every day.
- Remove the roots of calamus and elecampane and combine them with celandine, St. John’s wort, cranberry leaves, horseradish and black elderflower. Pour 10 g of the mixture into 250 g of boiling water.
Treatment of plantar psoriasis with folk remedies
The most effective treatment for plantar psoriasis is fatty or machine fat. In this case, keep in mind that only plain grease sold to lubricate metal parts in the car will help. Today, various formulations based on this substance can be seen with herbal ingredients, but as practice shows, they do not bring the desired result.
You may want to adjust yourself for long-term treatment immediately (one month to two months). Healing of plantar psoriasis usually takes a long and difficult time because the plaques are in a place that is often in contact with other surfaces.
For treatment, only lubricate the affected areas of the skin. In the first days, lubricate the fat for 15-20 minutes and increase this time to 40 minutes every day (within a week). Be sure to wash the grease with tar soap after use.
Alternative treatment for nail psoriasis
To improve the condition of psoriatic nails, the following folk remedy is recommended.
Take bay leaves (20 g) and pour 400 g of boiled hot water on them. Cook for about ten minutes on low heat. It is then cooled and filtered. The infusion should be taken orally three times a day to one-third of a glass. The therapy lasts for up to seven days. After that, it is advisable to take a two-day break and then drink again according to the old schedule until all 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 lasts for at least three months. Some people use cornstarch or oatmeal nail bath.
Folk remedies for the treatment of elbow psoriasis
One of the most effective treatments for psoriasis plaques on the elbows is egg ointment. Many patients claim that this drug has been able to achieve stable remission for several years.
To make egg ointment, you need the following ingredients: Put a raw (shelled) egg in a 200 gram glass jar. Pour in the vinegar essence, which should completely cover the eggs. Close the lid and place in a dark and cool place for a day. Remove the eggs and crush with the shell. Add a little lard or goose fat. Stir.
This ointment should be applied in small amounts to the affected elbow, as it will be quite unpleasant to burn the product at first. You can increase the amount after a while. After 1-2 hours, wash off the ointment with water and lubricate the skin with an ordinary cream (most suitable for children). Use only once a day. The effectiveness of this tool will be seen soon (2-3 days). Therapy is continued until the plaques disappear completely.
Treatment of herbal psoriasis
Healing herbs are often used to treat psoriasis. But the most effective of them is the porcelain, especially its seeds. For a long time, garden porcelain has been considered the safest treatment for psoriasis. It should also be recalled that this plant helps to achieve long-term remission, which is quite difficult to achieve with traditional medicines.
Cartilage can be purchased at a pharmacy or online. If you want to shop online, you need to pay attention to "Collecting Garden Porcelain".
For effective therapy, you need to create a concentrated tincture. To do this, take two tablespoons of cartilage seeds and boil in boiled water in a thermos. After the infusion has stopped (about an hour), you can apply it to the affected skin. Remember to keep the skin moist from the tincture.
The therapy lasts for four to six weeks, during which time the patient can get rid of the psoriasis plaques completely. The remission is long enough. In some cases, it can be up to five years old.
Treatment of psoriasis with homeopathy
Homeopathic remedies are often used to treat psoriasis. However, some of them help in the complete elimination of psoriatic plaques as well as in long-term remission. But it should be noted immediately that homeopathic treatment is lengthy and quite complicated. Under no circumstances should you refuse treatment in the middle of a course of treatment, otherwise you will not achieve a successful and positive result.
Keep in mind that homeopathic medicines are usually less effective if taken separately from the medicines.
Evaluation of traditional medicine recipes in the treatment of psoriasis
Keep in mind that traditional medicine is considered more effective in the early stages of the disease when the first plaques appear on the patient’s skin.
The most popular folk recipes are:
- Celandine is perhaps the most famous herb used to treat psoriasis, among other things. Its juice is most commonly used. Such treatment is carried out in summer, as celandine begins to bloom during this period. The fresh sap of the plant is applied to the psoriasis plaques immediately after harvesting the plant. The therapy lasts for about three months, during which time the patient can see an effective result.
- Hazelnuts - for hot baths. It is used when the disease worsens. To make such a bath, you need to take half a kilogram of walnut shells and stick to boiling water. It is recommended to lie in such a bath for half an hour.
- Meadowsweet - the root of this herb is used to treat psoriasis. Use in powder form. To make an ointment based on meadow root, you need to take Vaseline or oil and half a glass of crushed root. Bring the mixture to a boil in a water bath and apply to the affected skin.
Effective treatment of psoriasis with folk remedies
Alternative treatments to fight psoriatic plaques are more effective. It helps to achieve long-term remission (in some cases up to five years) as well as quickly cleanses the skin of unpleasant external manifestations. Each patient chooses the most effective and proven method. Today the most popular: birch tar, celandine juice, viburnum tinctures, baking soda, machine grease. But it’s worth understanding that you may be allergic to these bases, so you should test for allergic reactions before using them.