Treatment of Parkinson's disease with folk remedies
Content:
- Day regimen, physiotherapy exercises and home procedures
- Alternative treatments for Parkinson's disease
- Other traditional medicine recipes
- Diet
Parkinson's disease is a disease of the central nervous system caused by a deficiency of dopamine, one of the most important hormones and neurotransmitters. Parkinson's disease is mainly affected by elderly and senile people, and it is manifested by tremors of the head and limbs, speech disorders, gait and handwriting, specific posture, depression, salivation; in severe cases, amnesia and dementia.
Doctors agree that this disease is hereditary, but in the absence of provoking factors and a healthy lifestyle, it may not appear. In addition, Parkinson's disease is not a death sentence; now there are modern drugs that successfully compensate for the dopamine deficiency. And if you take measures to improve the patient's health at home, you can return him to normal life. Today we are going to tell you about the available folk methods for maintaining wellness in people with Parkinson's disease.
Day regimen, physiotherapy exercises and home procedures
Patients are often worried about insomnia; they can wake up several times a night and wander around the house half asleep, bumping into objects and risking injury. Therefore, it is necessary, firstly, to create the most comfortable environment for sleeping for a person suffering from Parkinson's disease, and secondly, arrange for him a bedroom in a place where you immediately hear the noise and can come to the rescue. Furniture in the room should be free from sharp corners, the carpet on the floor should not slip. The room should be ventilated before going to bed and the patient should be put to bed at the same time.
Baths for Parkinson's disease
Healing baths have an excellent warming and relaxing effect. It is these procedures that have the most beneficial effect on the well-being and mood of those suffering from Parkinson's disease, since hot water and a state of immersion relieve muscle spasms well, reduce tremors and simply bring pleasure.
It is recommended to add decoctions of medicinal herbs to the water to enhance the positive effect of the procedure. Thyme, chamomile, lavender, linden, sage, St. John's wort are best suited. In fact, a bath for patients is prepared according to the same principle as for restless infants with prickly heat, since dry skin and severe nervous excitability are observed in Parkinson's disease.
Physiotherapy exercises for people with Parkinson's disease
- Sit on a chair with your feet together and your hands on your knees. Raise your shins alternately so that the leg is parallel to the floor and remains pressed against the knee of the other leg. Repeat the exercise 10-20 times.
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Sitting on a chair in the same position, tilt your body forward 45 ° C, arch your back in an arc, then fully straighten, pulling your shoulders back, and return to the starting position. Repeat the exercise 10 times.
- Stand by the back of a chair or bed and grasp it firmly with your hands. Slowly rise up and down on your toes. Repeat 10-20 times.
- Great exercise for the hands: alternately touch the pads of the other four fingers with your thumb, while trying to gradually increase the pace. It can be done several times a day in any setting 10-20 times.
- To avoid the frozen facial expression characteristic of Parkinson's disease, you need to train facial expressions: alternately raise your eyebrows and open your mouth, depicting extreme surprise, and then frown and purse your lips as if very angry. Repeat, like the previous exercise, 10-20 times whenever possible.
- Standing or sitting, put your hands on your shoulders and turn your whole body now to the left, then to the right, slightly straining at the same time. Repeat 10 times.
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Stand with your back against the wall and try to press your whole body into it, from the back of the head to the heels, count to five and relax. Repeat 10-20 times.
You need to do the exercises every day, and several times a week it would be good to visit the pool or dance studio, depending on the age and condition of the patient. If this is a very elderly and weak person, he needs to demonstrate the exercises by personal example, since he himself will not remember them, and he will not want to perform them. Feasible physical activity is vital for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, the quality and duration of life of patients directly depends on it!
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Alternative treatments for Parkinson's disease
To alleviate Parkinson's disease, use equal amounts of crushed Potentilla Goose and Hemlock roots. Then pour four tablespoons of this mixed composition with one liter of water and boil. Let the broth steep for one night, and then take half a glass four times a day before meals.
Attention! Hemlock is an effective but poisonous plant!
It is also helpful to do foot baths using fern infusion. To do this, take five tablespoons of pre-crushed dry rhizomes of the plant and pour five liters of water. Simmer the broth for two hours over low heat. Make foot baths with this broth.
Infusion of medicinal herbs will help with paralysis and fainting
Take equal amounts of lavender, oregano, snakehead, and garden purslane. Grind them to a powder. After that, pour 4 tablespoons of mixed herbs with one liter of boiling water and let it brew for three hours. Take a third of a glass before meals three times a day.
By the way, with Parkinson's disease, feijoa fruits and juice help well. Feijoa helps to improve the health of the disease that occurs after atherosclerosis.
Other traditional medicine recipes
Simple folk recipes will help maintain the patient's health and reduce the unpleasant symptoms of the disease:
- Celery, nettle and plantain juice - prepare from fresh leaves and stems using a juicer and give the patient half a glass three times a day 15 minutes before meals;
- Peony tincture - the finished medicine can be purchased at the pharmacy and taken 30-40 drops before meals 3 times a day, or you can make it yourself. To do this, pour a glass of peony petals with a bottle of vodka and keep in a dark, dry place for 2 weeks;
- Herbal infusion - take 2 parts lemon balm and thyme, and 1 part each mint, mistletoe, motherwort and oregano. Pour a tablespoon of this mixture with a glass of boiling water and keep in a closed thermos for 1 hour. Then strain and drink in two doses, morning and evening, half a glass each;
- Herbal teas - made from chamomile, St. John's wort, linden, thyme or sage. It is better to take them separately, and add a teaspoon of motherwort to a tablespoon of the chosen herb for a soothing effect. Chamomile and linden are suitable for almost all patients with Parkinson's disease, in addition, tea from them is very tasty. Choose a medicinal herb according to your well-being and desire. It is necessary to brew aromatic tea at the rate of 2 tablespoons of the herbal mixture per 0.5 liters of boiling water half an hour before tea drinking, wrapping the kettle;
- Soothing infusion - with strong nervous excitement in patients with Parkinson's disease, a mixture of valerian roots and hogweed, dissected in equal proportions, helps. For 0.5 boiling water, take 4 tablespoons of the mixture, steam overnight, and strain in the morning, and drink in three doses before meals during the day;
- Herbs against hand tremors - nettle infusion helps well (1 tablespoon per glass of boiling water, leave for 1 hour and take a quarter of a glass before meals) and alfalfa lotions (steam a bunch of fresh grass, apply to hands and wrap with a towel);
- Infusion of thyme and rue - to these herbs, you can also add centaury, rosemary, lavender, hawthorn and dried cress. Mix everything in equal proportions and in the evening steam in a thermos 2 tablespoons of the collection with two glasses of boiling water, and filter the next morning and take a quarter of a glass during the day half an hour before meals;
- Oat broth - pour a glass of washed oats with a liter of clean water at room temperature and soak overnight, and in the morning boil and simmer for half an hour over low heat. Then wrap the pot and leave it until evening. Strain the finished broth, add clean water to a volume of 1 liter and take half a glass three times a day for one and a half months. The courses of treatment of Parkinson's disease with oat broth can be repeated at intervals of 2 weeks throughout the year;
- Garlic-lemon oil - you can increase the immunity of a person suffering from Parkinson's disease with the help of a wonderful folk remedy based on garlic. Grind the whole head and fill with a glass of olive or refined sunflower oil. Insist for a day, shaking regularly, and then squeeze out the juice of one lemon there, mix thoroughly and hide the medicine in the refrigerator. Take a teaspoon half an hour before meals for three months, then take a break for 1 month, and repeat the course 1-2 more times.
- Calm your feet. Parkinson's often has leg shaking at night for no reason. Sometimes this is the first sign that a person has diabetes. And it happens that the legs are shaking and for no reason. With such a misfortune, you need to make it a rule to walk for an hour every night before going to bed. Then, when you get home, soak your feet in cold water for 10 minutes. After cold baths, rub your toes thoroughly. Perform the procedure for five minutes.
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Diet
With the help of a special diet, you need to try to get rid of the main threat to patients - high cholesterol levels. Dopamine deficiency in combination with vascular clogging leaves a person with very few chances for a good future: the disease develops more and more rapidly, is complicated by atherosclerosis, ischemia, hypertension, heart attack and stroke.
For Parkinson's disease, either complete vegetarianism or a moderate intake of animal protein in the form of lean poultry and rabbit meat, as well as seafood and valuable fish is recommended. Oceanic and red fish should be said separately: the studies of the famous American physician and biochemist Barry Sears prove that regular intake of omega-3 fatty acids into the body of people with Parkinson's disease significantly improves their well-being and inhibits the development of the disease.
Omega-3 fatty acids easily cross the blood-brain barrier and enter the brain in full, unlike chemicals that stimulate dopamine synthesis. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) with a ratio of 1.5 to arachidonic acid (AA) provides reliable insurance against internal bleeding and helps the body produce dopamine on its own. Therefore, patients with Parkinson's disease require therapeutic doses of omega-3 fatty acids.
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Meals should be varied and fractional: let the patient eat 4-5 times a day in small portions, and each time the dishes will be different. In the morning, cereals with milk and butter are ideal, for lunch - vegetable soups and steamed cutlets, for dinner - fish, cottage cheese, light salads. Freshly squeezed juices and herbal teas are very useful. Fresh fruit should be viewed as a dessert on its own, rather than given in the afternoon. Mixing cooked meals with raw fruit can cause fermentation and digestive problems.
The author of the article: Sokolova Nina Vladimirovna | Phytotherapist
Education: Diploma in "General Medicine" and "Therapy" received at the Pirogov University (2005 and 2006). Advanced training at the Department of Phytotherapy at the Peoples' Friendship University of Moscow (2008).
