Epilepsy requires a comprehensive treatment, taking into account the causes of the development of the disease. It is possible to establish the true cause of seizures only after a comprehensive examination of the patient within the walls of a medical institution. Should I rely on folk remedies?
Treatment of epilepsy with folk remedies without taking into account the recommendations of traditional medicine would be irresponsible. However, they can help eliminate convulsions, strengthen the walls of blood vessels, remove excess fluid and, in general, strengthen the body's healing herbs.
Some information about the disease, causes and symptoms
Epilepsy is a neuropsychiatric pathology. In general, it is secretive, but seizures can be observed quite often. From a medical point of view, they are characterized by short malfunctions of mental, vegetative and motor functions. It is generally accepted that the disease is incurable, but modern medicine allows you to suppress epilepsy in 63% of patients, and in 18% significantly reduce the number of seizures.
The main causes of the development of epilepsy are:
- Genetics. Close relatives of patients, who on this basis are considered by doctors to be an idiopathic group, also have epilepsy. Sometimes the disease manifests itself after several generations. In this case, unusual reactions from the neurons can be observed, but the patient’s brain is not damaged, seizures can be rare and causeless.
- Tumor, intoxication, malformations, injuries, cysts and more. Patients in whom seizures develop against the backdrop of the above pathologies belong to the symptomatic group by doctors. The frequency and causes of seizures in such patients is very difficult to predict, any stimulus may be a provoking factor.
- The special structure of the membranes or atypical reactions to stimuli, which is caused by adverse heredity. In this case, there is no brain damage.
- The complication of alcoholism. Alcoholic epilepsy is characterized by sudden convulsive seizures arising from the use of alcohol-containing drinks or a sharp rejection of alcohol.
In addition, a group of patients is still distinguished for whom it is not possible to establish the causes of the development of epilepsy. This is a cryptogenic group.
Most often, epilepsy begins to manifest during puberty. This is a disease of young people, since 75% of patients are under the age of twenty. In adults, the development of epilepsy is usually the result of a stroke, trauma and the like. Particular attention should be paid to a group of people over 60 years of age, since such a disease in old age can be very difficult to tolerate.
General Alternative Medicine Tips
The treatment of epilepsy with folk remedies at home is possible only in addition to the main therapy prescribed by the attending physician. The disease can be caused by various reasons, so the approach in each case should be appropriate.
It is important to remember that therapy is a long process, you should not wait for an instant result. In addition to drug therapy and the use of folk remedies, the patient needs physical activity, adherence to the daily regimen, and balanced nutrition. Attacks can be triggered by nervous strain, chronic lack of sleep, alcohol intake and other factors.
Treatment of epilepsy with alternative methods should be part of complex therapy, since a combination of all factors affects a positive result. If the disease is chronic, but not acquired (for example, due to an accident or other illness), then it can be very difficult to achieve a complete cure. However, the use of folk remedies in the treatment of epilepsy will significantly extend the time of remission.
Epileptic Seizure Prevention
What are the popular ways to treat epilepsy in adults? Regardless of the type of disease and the reasons that caused it, baths have a beneficial effect. A therapeutic bath should be taken no more than fifteen to twenty minutes, and the water temperature should not exceed 40 degrees Celsius. Effective are baths with root of calamus, aspen, willow, infusion of forest hay, pine buds. Raw materials need to be poured with boiling water and infused for ten to fifteen minutes, after which they should be added to bathing water.
Gentle but effective healing herbs, if they fill the pillow of a person suffering from epilepsy. You can also make sachets. To do this, take feverfew, the colors of marigolds, creeping thyme, clover, dried mint, lovage, hop cones.
Homemade ointment will help prevent epilepsy attacks. To prepare it, grind the lovage root (100 grams) and pour it with pork fat (0.5 l). In the liquid state, the ingredients need to be mixed well. Such a mixture should be rubbed the patient once a week.
Patients with epilepsy are advised to eat more spinach, onions, and drink freshly squeezed juices to prevent another attack. Particularly important is motor activity. Physical labor will help to cope with the disease, but it is important not to allow strong overstrain and chronic fatigue.
Treatment of alcoholic epileptic seizures
The first epileptic seizure in alcoholics occurs, as a rule, as a result of prolonged and / or severe poisoning with alcohol. After the first seizure, there will certainly be the next one, since the reason lies in pathological changes in the structures of the brain. In the future, the disease can occur regardless of whether the patient has been drinking recently or not.
It is imperative to refuse alcohol in the treatment of this type of epilepsy, there are no other options. Even a minimal amount of alcohol-containing drinks on the background of successful therapy can provoke another attack. In addition to traditional medicine, it can be used in the treatment of alcoholic epilepsy at home folk. The following is recommended, for example:
- Take angelica powder 0.5 g three times a day.
- Drink infusion of wormwood .
- Brew oats, dandelion root, chicory, barley, rye, peeled acorns with boiling water. Drink a drink three times a day.
- Rubbing your feet with lemon juice helps.
Folk remedies for symptomatic epilepsy
The symptomatic form of the disease appears against the background of other concomitant pathologies. Attacks can become a complication of meningitis, encephalitis, vascular diseases, malignant neoplasms, abscesses, inflammatory processes. You need to start treatment with finding out and eliminating the causes of epilepsy, but seizures must also be prevented.
Proven methods of treating epilepsy in adults at home - black tea, dried wormwood, chamomile flowers. You need to mix three tablespoons of herbs and pour the mixture with a liter of boiling water. The medicine should be infused for four hours. Then it must be passed through cheesecloth, folded several times. A liter of such a healing infusion should be drunk throughout the day. The medicine should be taken for a month, and then take a month off. In total, three courses should be taken.
Effective treatment for nocturnal epilepsy
Nocturnal epilepsy is usually the easiest to treat. Self-healing often occurs as one grows up, if the causes of the seizures are unfavorable heredity and began in adolescence. But seizures can happen with a regular frequency, even every night. They can provoke overstrain, nervous excitement or alcohol.
What does traditional medicine recommend? Treatment of epilepsy at home is possible if you take a healing infusion. They make it from the root of valerian and cold water. A tablespoon of raw materials should be poured with a glass of pure mineral water without gas and insisted for eight hours. After it is necessary to strain the product and take it three times a day, one tablespoon. Children can be given a teaspoon with the same frequency.
To prevent attacks, the smell of tar will help. Resin can be purchased in church shops. This aroma helps to relax, so that the patient will rest calmly. To dispel the smell of tar in the room before going to bed at least for a month.
Therapy with decoctions and infusions of medicinal herbs
Treatment of epilepsy with folk remedies in adults is possible with the help of medicinal herbs. Long-term experience of herbalists has allowed to determine the fees that will eliminate cramps, strengthen blood vessels and improve overall health. The following recipes are suitable for the treatment of serious seizures in adult patients:
- Calamus root, elecampane high and cinquefoil (one part), mistletoe white (two parts). Mix and place in a water bath. Take half a glass three times a day.
- In equal parts, take motherwort, valerian root, add two parts of wormwood and angelica root to them. Insist on a water bath. Drink half a glass in three divided doses throughout the day.
- Medicinal lemon balm, common wormwood, white mistletoe, licorice root and horsetail. Mix the raw materials in equal parts, add water and insist on a water bath. Take half a glass three times a day.
- Add a teaspoon of lavender flowers and herbs to boiling water and let it simmer for one to two minutes. After removing the infusion in a warm place for 30 minutes. Drink one or two tablespoons. The first reception should be after lunch, the second - before bedtime. You need to continue taking the composition for one to two months, then take a break for two weeks and repeat the course again.
- White mistletoe, lemon balm, linden, marsh cinnamon, Veronica officinalis. Take the herbs in equal parts and brew one tablespoon of the collection with a glass of freshly boiled water. For 30 minutes, remove the composition in a warm and dark place. Take 100 ml an hour before meals twice a day.
"Drink 1000" based on herbs and propolis
A good option for the treatment of epilepsy with folk remedies is “Drink 1000”, which was developed by A. Skvortsov, founder of the Nectar Center for Energy Structuring Technologies. The composition is prepared on the basis of propolis and medicinal plants. The drink has a general strengthening effect, as well as:
- improves eyesight, smell and hearing;
- accelerates metabolic processes;
- stimulates blood circulation in the brain;
- increases efficiency;
- helps to improve the conduct of nerve impulses to all organs and tissues;
- improves all brain processes, especially memory;
- restores strength and relieves stress;
- serves as a prevention of cardiovascular disease, reduces the risk of stroke;
- Helps to relieve symptoms of VVD and lowers blood pressure.
Among the contraindications are intolerance to the components of the product, namely propolis, nutmeg, thyme, and the biologically active additive Alpam 7. Caution should be given to children under 7 years of age.
As for the dosage, adults and children from 7 years old need to take 10 drops of the drug during the main meal. For babies up to 12 months, one drop of the drink is diluted in 20 ml of water and given one teaspoon each. The maximum dosage per day is four teaspoons. Children from one year and seven years old should be given one drop for each year, that is, five drops are enough for a five-year-old, and three for a three-year-old baby.
The recipe for the treatment of epilepsy from the healer Wang
The famous healer Vanga (Vangelia Panleva Gushterova), who is credited with the gift of clairvoyant, spoke about the treatment of epilepsy with folk remedies. There is a story according to which a young man suffering from epilepsy once came to Vanga. The healer said that he had a pinched nerve due to an injury. Here's what she advised him: soak the canvas with a mixture of olive oil, wax and melted wax, attach along the entire spine. The seizures of the young man stopped after that. You can try such a treatment of epilepsy with folk remedies. Of course, you need to make an amendment to the fact that the method is unlikely to help, for example, with seizures caused by the use of alcohol. It must be remembered that the methodology of therapy largely depends on the causes of the development of epilepsy.
What else can help prevent seizures?
Good reviews of epileptics leave about ordinary vegetable oil. To reduce the number of seizures, you need to take a tablespoon of oil in your mouth and dissolve without swallowing, concentrating near the front teeth. After fifteen to twenty minutes, spit out the oil. The procedure must be performed twice a day: in the morning (before breakfast) and in the evening. This method is not suitable for children, as they will not be able to hold oil in their mouths for a long time. Even in ancient times, copper efficiency was also noticed. The patient needs to get jewelry from this metal, and when approaching an attack rub his palms.
Treatment of epilepsy in children with folk remedies
Medications prescribed by doctors as part of conservative therapy adversely affect the liver, so it is especially important for children to treat seizures with mild methods. Of course, before taking herbs or using other methods of traditional medicine, you must consult your doctor. In addition, in young patients, seizures are often caused by congenital factors, so the treatment of epilepsy in children with folk remedies, as a rule, does not bring the first positive results very soon. But this, of course, does not indicate that such methods should be abandoned at all.
It is possible to treat epilepsy in children with folk remedies using apricot kernels. Reviews about this method are mostly positive. It is enough in the morning to give the child as many apricot kernels as he is old. On an empty stomach, you need apricot kernels for a month, then you should take a break for the same period and repeat the course. In some reviews, parents note the complete disappearance of seizures after such treatment.
As part of the complex therapy of the disease in children, marin root is used, it is also called forest peony. To prepare the drug, you will need the root of the plant, which must be washed, poured with vodka (0.5 l of vodka per 50 grams of raw material) and insisted for three weeks. It is necessary to give a solution to the child in accordance with age. So, three drops are enough three drops of the composition, which must be dissolved in a glass of water. Such a drug can also be taken by adults - this is a rather effective (according to reviews) treatment of epilepsy with folk remedies.
What do patients say about traditional methods of treatment
Most patients in the reviews of the treatment of epilepsy with folk remedies note a persistent positive result. True, for a positive effect, it is necessary to drink medicinal decoctions or do rubbing with drugs for a long time. Some even managed to completely get rid of the disease, in combination using the methods proven by centuries and the achievements of traditional medicine.