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Treatment of psoriasis celandine: juice, oil, grass, ointments, baths
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Purity is a very effective healing plant and has many healing properties. It is often used to eliminate psoriasis, which is a very common skin disease. Purity in psoriasis is recommended to use before the first spots appear on the skin - this will prevent the occurrence of plaques and rashes even during the exacerbation of psoriasis. But basically the treatment still begins after the appearance of the first noticeable signs of the disease.
Indications of the celandine with psoriasis
Indications for the use of celandine are various forms and stages of psoriasis.
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Pharmacodynamics
As a remedy, the roots of the plant are used, and in addition its stems and sometimes grass. It should be remembered that the celandine is a poisonous plant - its juice includes 20 alkaloids (among them chelidonin, which helps to stabilize the heartbeat with pressure, and also removes muscle pains, homochelidonin, which has excitatory properties, protopin, improving muscle tone, and also chelerythrine, which renders irritant effect). In addition to alkaloids, it contains a lot of acids with vitamins and other nutrients:
- essential oil;
- vitamins from groups C, and also A;
- lemon, oxyantaric, chelidonic, and in addition, butanedioic acid;
- flavonoids together with carotene and saponins.
Purity has such important useful properties - anti-inflammatory and choleretic, and in addition spasmolytic and bactericidal.
Dosing and administration
Purity in psoriasis is mainly used topically. There are several ways to prepare a medicine from this plant:
Juice, which, being fresh, has an orange tinge. Use it must be very carefully - to handle the affected area, rubbing into the skin, and then dry it for 5 minutes. Since juice irritates the skin, causing reddening, similar in appearance to a burn, it is necessary to completely wash it off immediately after the procedure.
Bath with celandine - its plus is that in this case, the curative effect will spread immediately throughout the body. But at the same time, due to the fact that the concentration of the drug with this treatment option is rather small, and the period of exposure is short enough, this method is less effective in comparison with local application. With psoriasis, you can take both warm and hot baths.
With a hot bath it is necessary to heat the water to 37-45 ° C, and the procedure itself should last for a maximum of 10 minutes. You need to take 1 cup chopped celandine per 4 liters of water. It is required to boil water and let it brew for 1 hour. This amount of broth is calculated for approximately 30-40 liters of water in the bathroom. It is recommended to conduct such procedures daily for 5-7 days.
With a warm bath, the temperature should be a maximum of 36 ° C - this method allows you to soothe the HC, so the procedure is easier to transfer. In this case, you can use either the same broth as for a hot bath type, or a decoction of a mixture of such ingredients - 2 tablespoons of marigold, turns, and also a valerian root, 1 spoon of celandine, 4 tablespoons of clover, and 3 spoons of St. John's wort . The duration of the course is 10 procedures.
Ointment, which can be manufactured in several ways.
The easiest way is to include a mixture of celandine, as well as a baby cream or Vaseline in the proportion of 1k2. Ointment using solidol (100 g) is often also used, and in addition, Flucinar ointment and celandine (2 teaspoons). Flucinar contains a fluocinolone acetonide, which is a powerful SCS that easily passes into the bloodstream.
There is also an ointment with safer ingredients - one part walnut and fish oil sheets, as well as two parts chopped celandine. As a basis, tar with honey is used, which must be taken in 3 parts.
Compresses, the plus of which is the long-term effect on the skin. But it should be taken into account that this can provoke an allergic reaction. For compresses, the following mixtures are used:
- tar with celandine, and also the root of sorrel horse;
- Honey with celandine and birch fungus;
- celandine with cut grass and honey.
Oral juice can be used for oral administration in canned form. You need to rinse the grass and grind it through a meat grinder. Then it must be squeezed and added to the resulting juice alcohol at a ratio of 50 mg per 1 teaspoon of juice (this is required to preserve the medicinal properties of the drug for a long time). At the use it is necessary to add juice in drops of 100 mg of water - on the first day of treatment, a drop, in the second - 2 drops, etc. This course lasts 20 days, then you need to take a break of 10 days, and continue treatment with the same duration of the course.
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Celandine oil for psoriasis
The oil combines the healing properties of celandine, and also, depending on the chosen basis, restoring, softening, moisturizing or anti-inflammatory effect. In addition, the advantage of this remedy is that it acts very gently, leaving no burns on the skin. As a basis, you can use any vegetable oil, but the best is oklepihovoe or olive. Infuse the oil in a water bath for 1 hour, so that it is pasteurized, and then mixed with dry grass celandine and leave to insist in a dark place for 1 week. The resulting mixture should be lubricated with psoriatic plaques.
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Tincture of celandine with psoriasis
Tinctures of celandine are very effective treatment for psoriasis. They should be used in combination with other therapeutic agents.
One of the recipes includes 2 parts of celandine, 3 parts of blackberry leaves, as well as 1 part of mint and walnut. It is necessary to take a 1-oun spoon mixture of the above ingredients and fill it in boiling water (200 ml). After this, the medicine should be infused for 40 minutes. Ready tincture should be drunk in the morning and in the evening.
Another recipe contains a mixture of such herbs - buffalo, roots and grass celandine, and in addition to the pusher, yellow roots and aura, as well as St. John's wort. To her, you need to add 2 spoons of corn stigmas, as well as cranberry leaves. Then the mixture is diluted with water in the mixture / boiling ratio: 1k2. After that, she is insisted for 4 hours, filter and drink 1/3 cup in the morning after breakfast, and also before going to bed.
There is also a good prescription that is able to help with the very much neglected stage of psoriasis. With this tincture, you can significantly improve the patient's condition.
To prepare the tincture, 1.5 cups of boiled water is required, as well as 1 scoop of a mixture of various ingredients - the broth should be infused for at least 4 hours (in a thermos bottle) and then filtered. Tincture should be drunk immediately after brewing, leaving it for later is not recommended. Ingredients of the mixture are 3 spoonfuls of pansies, root of ayr, pusher, and linseed, 2 tablespoons of calendula flowers, 1 spoon of celandine, and 4 spoons of St. John's wort. Drink the medicine after eating in the morning and in the evenings for 1 week. After this, a break of 3 days is necessary, and then another one-week course.
Use of the celandine with psoriasis during pregnancy
Purity in the form of a means for eliminating psoriatic plaques during pregnancy is contraindicated.
Side effects of the celandine with psoriasis
The substance of chelidonine resembles morphine properties. It is not very toxic, but it can provoke a state of prostration. Another component component of celandine, chelerythrine, can provoke diarrhea and vomiting, and besides, the appearance of irritation on the skin. It is also able to slow down the reflexes and have a paralyzing effect on the NS.
In addition, there may be side effects such as anxiety or fatigue, but also drowsiness or vice versa insomnia. Another possible dizziness, dryness in the oral cavity, as well as a mild form of leukopenia. All these signs usually pass after 3-5 days and do not require withdrawal of treatment.
Overdose
Handle celandine very carefully, because the individual alkaloids from its composition in case of an overdose can carry a mortal danger.
Long-term use of the drug in large doses can cause such complications:
- the development of a hepatotoxic reaction due to the destruction of hepatocytes by alkaloids of celandine;
- in the case of intolerance of any of the components contained in the purity, contact dermatitis may develop;
- indigestion - with oral use, there may be spasms in the intestine or stomach, and in addition, the development of flatulence, diarrhea, or nausea.
Interactions with other drugs
It is forbidden to combine celandine with medicines or plants containing opiates (among them are sulfonamide drugs, extract of digitalis, and also means that lower blood glucose). Also, it should not be combined with cardiac drugs used to eliminate arrhythmia (especially with regard to digoxin).
Shelf life
Purity is allowed to use for 3 years, but the tincture can be kept from it for a maximum of 2 days (at a low temperature).
Reviews
Purity in psoriasis is very effective, so he has many positive reviews. But nevertheless it is necessary to consider, that it approaches not all, and it is necessary to use it very cautiously, not exceeding medical dosages. In general, as a means of treating psoriasis, celandine is considered one of the most popular.
Attention!
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