Treatment of depression folk remedies

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Depression - a state of melancholy, depressed, gloomy and depressed mood, impotence and poor physical health, coupled with inhibition of thinking, slow speech, decrease in activity and initiatives. Depression occurs in various neuropsychiatric disorders. Patients who are in the depressive phase of psychosis, need constant supervision due to the hard drive to suicide and self-harm. Treatment of the disease should be sure to carry out the doctor; typically, the patient should be placed as early as possible in the hospital.

Causes of depression

During certain periods of life most of us are exposed to varying degrees of depression due to the action of physical or emotional stress, which are part of the life of adults. We suffer from the loss of love and friends, disappointments in relationships with other people and in our career, tolerate threats to our physical health or the health of our parents, spouse, children. Sometimes the emotional load of typical stresses of adult life becomes unbearable, and then we fall into a depression.

This situational or reactive type of depression - a direct result of psychologically distressing events can for his disappearance does not require anything but time, patience and support of love, if his symptoms do not become too strong or not weaken too long.

But when such typical symptoms as: depressed mood, guilt, feelings of worthlessness and helplessness, difficulty concentrating or make a decision, loss of interest in work and social life, loss of energy, headaches and other physical complaints, sleep disturbances, changes in appetite and decreased sexual desire come into conflict with your real capabilities and normal activity, you will need expert advice to find the way out of depression.

Other forms of depression have a real reason. For example, hormonal shift, which is often experienced by women during menopause can cause quite severe depression. Despite the fact that the therapeutic treatment and prescribing of drugs is often necessary, the use of traditional medicine - more effective aid in getting rid of depression.

Usually, depression is common in people with a lack of folic acid and vitamin B6 deficiency which leads to low levels of serotonin in the brain - a substance important in maintaining good mood. Deficiency of thiamine (vitamin - B1), riboflavin (B2) and vitamin B12, can also contribute to the formation of depressive syndromes. Depression is one of the earliest symptoms of vitamin C deficiency

Iron deficiency causes depression simultaneously with anemia, but anemia disappears after taking iron faster than a bad mood. Generates depression and inadequate intake of essential fatty acids, because they are the raw material from which the body produces a group of chemical agents called prostaglandins, which are important to maintain a stable mood.

People who consume large amounts of caffeine (three to four cups of coffee a day or more), usually get a lot of points in a test designed to detect the symptoms of depression. Many people in the throes of a depressive mood are turning to sweets as a consolation, but medical studies have shown that consumption of sugar increases the depression, fatigue and moodiness.

refined sugars of all kinds must be reduced and consumption of all kinds of food made using these products. If there are foods that are high in animal fat, especially fat there is in meat, can be enhanced display of the doldrums.

Every year millions of people suffer from depression in the period from September to April, especially in December and February. The so-called seasonal depression caused by the reduction in daylight hours and the lack of sun in the winter. For many, seasonal depression is a serious medical condition that does not allow people to live in a familiar rhythm, work normally without resorting to medicines. For some, seasonal depression is associated with only a slight discomfort, mood swings and does not require medical intervention.

Symptoms of seasonal depression

  • Constant desire to sleep longer, the complexity of the rise in the morning. However, in some cases it may be the opposite effect: insomnia.
  • Feeling tired, lack of strength in the usual routine work.
  • Strong desire to eat sweet, that usually leads to overweight.
  • Feeling a certain helplessness, guilt, sometimes feeling of helplessness and despair, apathy and underestimating yourself.
  • Reluctance (accompanied by irritability) to communicate with people.
  • Laziness, not a desire to do something.
  • The feeling of tension, heavy experience stressful situations.
  • Lack of sexual desire.
  • In some cases, seasonal depression is able to invoke hyperactivity, mood swings

Already somewhere since April, seasonal depression goes away by itself, and it is connected with the increase in daylight hours and greater solar activity. Seasonal depression can begin at any age, but most often in the so-called risk group includes people aged 18-30 years. The inhabitants of hot countries suffer from seasonal depression less likely than others.

Folk remedies for depression

  • Useful sponge oneself in the morning with water with the addition of salt (based on 1 h. Water salt per bottle).
  • As a physician, you can take the pharmaceutical preparations containing iron and arsenic (taken only on prescription!).
  • 3 tbsp. chopped straw oat seed Pour 2 cups boiling water. Infuse, strain. Take the entire dose during the day.
  • 1 tbsp. spoon flowers camomile asters pour 1 cup boiling water, leave to cool, then strain. Take 1 tbsp. spoon 3-4 times a day.
  • 2/3 Art. tablespoons herb Knotweed (knotweed) pour 2 cups boiling water. Insist, taken before meals, take the entire dose during the day.
  • 1 h. Spoon of rhizomes and roots of angelica decurrent (beam Bear) pour 1 cup boiling water, leave. Take 1-2 cups 3-4 times a day.
  • 2 hours. The chopped grass roots and gentian lung (Blue St. John's wort), pour 1 cup water, boil for 10 minutes. Take 1/2 cup 3 times a day for half an hour before meals.
  • 5 g of crushed roots and leaves primrose spring pour 1 cup boiling water and infuse it in a thermos for 2-3 hours. Take 1 tbsp. spoon 2-3 times a day.
  • 1 tbsp. a spoonful of peppermint leaves pour 1 cup boiling water, boil for 10 minutes. Take 1/2 cup in the morning and at night.
  • Infusion of leaves of poplar used as baths.
  • Take tincture of lily bulbs Kudrevatykh (Saranka).
  • Prepare tincture 50-60% alcohol to ginseng roots 1:10, or from the leaves of ginseng - in a proportion of 1.5-2: 10. Take 15-20 drops per reception.
  • Brew dried ginseng roots or leaves at 1:10 as a tea. Take 1 h. Spoon on reception.
  • Prepare a tincture of roots and rhizomes devil's 70% alcohol in a ratio of 1:10. Take 30-40 drops 2-3 times a day before meals.
  • Prepare a tincture aralia roots of 70% alcohol at the rate of 1 part of the plant to 5 parts alcohol. Take 10-15 drops 2 times a day.
  • 250 g of oat grains washed in cold water, fold through a colander, pour 1 liter of cold water and boil until tender. Then infuse, strain and take throughout the day. You can add honey. Take up to a full recovery. A month later, start drinking tea made from St. John's wort.
  • Mix 100 g of raisins, 100 grams of dried apricots, prunes 100 g, 100 g walnuts, 1 lemon zest. Skip all through a meat grinder, mixed with honey. The mixture was stored in a refrigerator. Take 1 tbsp. spoon in the morning before breakfast.
  • A tablespoon of camomile flowers asters pour 1 cup boiling water, cool, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3 to 4 times a day. It is used as a tonic and tonic nervous system.
  • Prepare an alcohol tincture of the root zamanihi high and 70% alcohol in a ratio of 1:10. Take 30-40 drops 2-3 times a day before meals. This feature eliminates jitters and a good help for depression.
  • 1 part of crushed roots of the Manchurian Aralia pour 5 parts of 70% alcohol. Tincture taken two times a day (preferably morning) 10-15 drops with water.
  • In diseases of the heart with a pronounced nervousness tablespoon chopped dry grass Leonurus brew 1 cup of boiling water and infuse for 20 minutes. Drink 1/5 cup for infusion, spreading it with water to 1/2 capacity, with 20 drops of infusion lily of the valley.
  • A tablespoon of peppermint leaves, pour a glass of boiling water, simmer on low heat for 10 minutes. Drink 0.5 cups in the morning and before bedtime.
  • Pour 2 teaspoons finely chopped grass roots and gentian lung 1 cup water, boil on low heat for 10 minutes. Take 0,5 cup 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals with nervous exhaustion, loss of strength.
  • To strengthen the nervous system is recommended sponging in the morning with water and adding salt at the rate of 1 teaspoon of salt in the water bottle.
  • 20 g of crushed roots of chicory pour a glass of boiling water, boil 10 minutes, drain. Broth take 1 tablespoon 5-6 times a day with hypochondria and hysteria.
  • 2/3 tablespoons herb Knotweed (knotweed) brew 2 cups boiling water. Insist 30 minutes, drain. Infusion drink during the day before eating.
  • In depressive states, nervous exhaustion, try to drink 1 / 2-1 teaspoon (depending on your weight) pollen three times a day for half an hour or an hour before a meal.
  • Take the evening before bedtime soothing warm bath, adding water or a little honey balm.
  • 20 g of rosemary leaves, pour a glass of boiling water and boil for 15-20 minutes on low heat. Cool, strain. Broth take 1/2 teaspoon 30 minutes before eating. Or: 25-30 g of rosemary leaves infuse 100 ml of alcohol. Tincture to take 25 drops 3 times a day for 30 minutes before eating. Rosemary is an effective tonic for loss of strength that accompanies depression.
  • Take 15-20 drops of tincture of Siberian Ginseng (pharmaceutical preparation), 2 times a day, morning and afternoon, for 30 minutes before eating. It is used for neurasthenia, depression, hypotension as a tonic.
  • Motherwort (herb), cudweed (grass), hawthorn (flowers), chamomile (flowers) mix evenly. Tablespoon of the mixture pour 1 cup boiling water, leave, wrapped, 8 hours and strain. Drink 1/2 cup 3 times a day an hour after eating. The infusion is used for nervous disorder, heart failure in combination with suffocation and headache.

Contraindications to the use of drugs of the devil, aralia and ginseng are hypertension, fevers, heart disorders, and insomnia.

Diet

It is recommended to completely exclude tea, coffee, alcohol, chocolate, white flour products, sugar, chemical additives, spicy seasonings. Meals should be lodging. Good morning to eat fruits, nuts, milk. Lunch may consist of a couple of boiled vegetables, bread Whole Wheat and milk glass. Salad of green vegetables, beans, cheese, milk - for dinner. One of the most valuable drugs for depression - apples. They contain vitamin B ,, phosphorus and potassium, which contribute to the synthesis of glyutaminovoi acid, which controls the process of deterioration and destruction of nerve cells. Apples are a good drink with milk and honey. This tool effectively strengthens the nervous system and charges the body with vital energy.