Psoriasis: treatment at home

Along with seborrhea, psoriasis (psoriasis, itching) is one of the most common dermatological diseases. In addition to the hair and skin, this disease affects the joints, nails, internal organs. Psoriasis it is not possible to become infected by contact with the sick person, but it's easy to inherit from your parents. Find out how to relieve skin itching with the help of popular recipes and what treatment is the most effective at home.

Description of the disease

The skin flakes and itches, on it are stains, plaque or pustules — all this may indicate that the development of one of the many varieties of psoriasis. Accurately determine the type and shape of the disease can only doctor. Psoriasis appears as a response of the organism to a variety of factors: reduced immunity, disorders in endocrine system, problems at work, neurology, frequent stress.

Proven to cause disease, even frostbite on the skin, sun or chemical burns. Risk groups are people with a genetic predisposition to psoriasis and abuse alcohol, often or taking hormones.

In severe forms of the disease, which affects the joints (psoriatic arthritis), blood, lymph nodes (erythroderma), and other organs and systems.

The mechanism of the disease, which is associated with impaired cell division in the dermis. Normally, this process takes about a month, and when it is Charged with the scales reduced to 4-5 days. Pink and red spots, grayish-white scales often appear on the head (face and hair), on the elbows, knees, shins. Annoying itch makes you scratch site rashes almost to the blood. This leads to the growth of pathogenic microflora and the development of dermatitis. Due to the complications that can suffer from hair follicles and cause the loss of hair strands.

Caution! If psoriasis is localized to the scalp, you need to treat the skin, not the hair.

Treatment of folk remedies: the advantages and disadvantages

Advantages of prescriptions to the treatment of psoriasis, a lot:

• the variety and availability of ingredients;
• low cost;
• the ability to simultaneously treat the skin, to improve the condition of hair;
• effectiveness in combating the symptoms of the disease, according to the user reviews;
• a low likelihood of adverse reactions (compared to medicine).

Disadvantages of popular methods for the treatment of hair and skin, from psoriasis include:

• the lack of official data about how safe and it is advisable to use home remedies;
• does not too quickly result. As in the case of homeopathy, most often it is the cumulative effect;
• limitations and contraindications;
• the possibility of allergic reactions on the skin, the hair;
• the risk to overdo with the dosage. This is dangerous, if you take the toxic plants.

Contraindications

Carefully choose the the prescription home remedies. If you have an Allergy to any component of the medication you are taking for the treatment of other assets. Fortunately, traditional medicine offers a variety of options. I don't know how to respond to the composition of the skin and hair? For the start of the test mixture, causing a small amount to the area behind the ear, on the wrist or bend the elbow. Noticed the discomfort, so this recipe is contraindicated for you.

In addition, there are some restrictions concerning the treatment of psoriasis during pregnancy and lactation. Do not experiment on children under the age of 18 years. Their skin and hair is more delicate than in adults. Also consider the prohibition of the use of certain components in certain diseases (for example, a salt bath can not be combined with heart disease).

Caution! You cannot use the unofficial recipes of the medicine in the treatment of psoriasis without consulting with your doctor first.

Traditional recipes from psoriasis

Before starting treatment of psoriasis in the home, correct diet and lifestyle. All this will improve the Overall condition in the dermis and hair. Alternate work with rest, avoid bad habits, avoid stress, take vitamins.

From the menu excludes meat, chocolate, pickled, spicy, fried food, and in the acute phase — and also meat, red vegetables, fruits, soda, sugar, eggs.

Patients suffering from psoriasis on the head, it is especially important to wash your hair. One effective means is soda. You can mix it with a small amount of baby shampoo or plain water. Connect only the components that you need are not in a metal container, otherwise the soda will oxidize.

Gently RUB the remedy into the scalp and then rinse your hair. Add powder, sodium bicarbonate fine sea salt, semolina, olive oil, ground organic coffee — get peeling.

For skin and hair psoriasis will help of soda baths. 1, the process will be for the packet in the dust. Dissolve in a tub of warm water. Sit down and put her head bent, her hair back. Ears can be closed. Sit in this position for about 30 minutes. Do the procedure at night (not more than 3 in a row), and in the morning, to lubricate the affected area with vinegar diluted with water.

If there is itching, has spread throughout the body, can help the saline bathing. For 15-20 minutes, take a bath with warm water where you dissolved in 1 kilogram of sea salt. After this necessarily wash in the shower. You can add sea salt, iodine (10 milliliters), pine extract (100 ml), tincture of Valerian (75 milliliters). Frequency — every 3-4 days, but only after consultation with the doctor.

In the treatment of psoriasis of the head massage into the dermis of fine sea salt. After one hour, rinse your hair with clean water. In addition, carefully consider the other rules of personal hygiene. Select combos that will not scratch the scalp, temporarily do not dry the hair. The use of several home remedies different spectrum of action (external, internal).

Medicines for psoriasis treatment must be in combination with each other.

Grease

1. Grease with petroleum jelly. Take 300 grams of both parts. Add egg whites and 20 grams of honey and the dried, chopped celandine. Mix and apply to affected psoriasis areas of the body, in the area of hair throughout the month. Important note: a lubricant must be medical or fat, without impurities and additives.
2. With egg and pork fat. Pour in a glass with a volume of 0,2 litre of vinegar and place a chicken egg. During the day, add 20 g pork fat, mix gently. The distribution of the destroyed areas on the body or in the hair for 1-2 hours. Remains clean, the same place lubricate the baby cream.
3. Honey-egg. Connect the 20 grams of sugar, egg protein, and 2 teaspoons of baby shampoo. Apply for a place, and after 10-15 minutes, and rinse.
4. Tar with garlic. Soaps that contain natural tar to treat dandruff in the hair, regulates the sebaceous glands. This will help in psoriasis. Grate the bar of the grater and the 2 tablespoons of finished chips. Add the same amount of fresh garlic pulp. Pour a mixture Cup of water (0,25 l), bring to the boil. When the main part of the liquid will evaporate, the grease is ready. Cool and apply on the affected areas along the hairline or across the body.
5. With celandine. Take alcoholic extract of the herb (2 parts), add linseed oil (4 parts) and petrolatum (1 part). Mix well and spread on the painful site once per day.
6. On the basis of the ash. Burned branches of the wild rose and the bark of oak. Link of the ash with vaseline in the ratio of 1:1 and smear the affected areas just before bedtime. There is another option. Take 25 grams of the ash and add to its medical grease - 100 grams of egg protein and 10 grams of celandine. Let sit for 2 weeks and used from psoriasis, three times a day.
7. With wormwood. RUB in the powder dry grass (which you can buy in the pharmacy). In equal parts, mix ground tarragon with melted pork fat. Massage into the affected psoriasis areas, 3 times per day.
8. With propolis. Crush 10 grams of bee product, add 200 g of softened butter. Warm the mixture over low heat. After 15 minutes, remove from heat, cool slightly and strain, while still in a liquid consistency. Used three times a day, treatment of the painful points on the body and the head, near the hair.
9. Egg-oil. This grease is particularly recommended during periods of exacerbation. Connect 2 fresh chicken eggs with a tablespoon of unrefined vegetable oil and 40 milliliters of vinegar. Whisk thoroughly. Apply to affected psoriasis place to sleep. At the top of the bandage.
10. From the sorrel, and celandine. So the plants need to dry, ground to a powder in a 1:1 ratio. For density to be added birch tar. Apply the ointment on the patient's skin, and top with a piece of cloth or gauze.

Rinse, tinctures, compresses

1. Tincture of wild sunflower. Pour 250 grams of the roots of the plants a half liter of vodka. Close tightly and store in a dark place for 2 weeks. Occasionally shake. Drink prepared infusion before meals, add 15-20 drops in a small amount of water. For topical use in psoriasis, dilute it with water and RUB it into the sore spots.
2. Hot soda compress. In half liter of hot water, dissolve 3 tablespoons of baking soda. Soak up the fluid the pieces of tissue and apply on the areas affected by psoriasis until the compress cools.
3. Herbal mouthwash. A useful parallel improvement of the General condition of the hair. If psoriasis is localized to the head, stock up on dry chamomile, succession, or celandine. Four tablespoons of each herb pour a liter of water and boil on low flame for 15 minutes. Allow to cool, filter and rinse your hair after each wash. Do not rinse.
4. Compress with chicory. In a glass container, combine 2 tablespoons of crushed roots of plants with 200 milliliters of boiling water. Keep in water bath for 15 minutes. Cool, strain. For the treatment of psoriasis soak in this soup pieces of fabric and apply to the painful spot for 30 minutes. The course is 10 days.
5. A Tincture Of Catnip. In general, this plant, which is called the Boudreau hederacea, but it is called the dog, and Catnip. That would make him a tincture in two ways:

• soak 200 grams of grass with a bottle of quality vodka. For the preservation of the day, do not filter;
• add 2 tablespoons of dry raw materials in the glass of vinegar. Filled weeks. In psoriasis both tools use the same: three times per day.

By the way. Among the other popular ways to treat psoriasis at home — use RAID, is left in the pan, when boiling milk, and crushed fish scales mixed with fish fat or skin from the oily herring. Any funds applied to the affected area in the form of mini-packages.

Mask

If psoriasis is localized mainly on the head, try these recipes of masks for hair:

1. Onion. It takes some onions (depending on the length of the strands), clean them and put it in the pulp with the blender or meat grinder. Spread on the head, wrap head with polyethylene and towel. After 20 minutes wash your hair with plain water. Get rid of the smell, you could rinse with vinegar or lemon juice. With regular use, the structure of the strands will improve, will become stronger, and the manifestations of the psoriasis will come in vain.
2. Kefir. This mask will further moisturize the hair, makes them softer. To cook is easier. Skin and curls slightly warmed yogurt. Insulate your head. After half an hour rinse your hair. If necessary, comb out the loose particles with a thick comb, do not damage the dermis.
3. Mud. Includes the use of therapeutic muds collected during the stay in the resort, or purchased in a pharmacy. For the treatment of psoriasis at home and improve the condition of hair, dissolve 1-2 tablespoons of the main ingredient in a decoction of chamomile or calendula. Add a few drops of vitamin B. Apply to skin and hair for 15 minutes, rinse with water. Just don't use this mask for the treatment of psoriasis at home if the has problems with your heart or blood vessels.
4. In the burdock. In parallel helps with hair loss. Connect the 1 tablespoon of burdock oil and tinctures of calendula, add the chicken yolk. The spread on the painful site, and after 1.5 hours, rinse well with hair. If necessary, comb out flakes with a comb.
5. A multi-component hair mask for psoriasis. Mince in the aloe leaf, squeeze the medicinal fluid. At 6 parts juice add 1 part alcohol camphor and birch tar, and one egg. Whisk everything until obtaining a homogeneous mixture. Used in places, affected by psoriasis, for half an hour. Insulate the hair. Wash off the mask with a special shampoo recommended in case of leaves with scales. In addition, the use of herbal infusions for hair.