Highly excitable nervous system. What to do if a person has nervous excitement

All this, in turn, is caused by a number of possible reasons, which provoke the rapid development of an aggressive state, which often underlies the formation of mental disorders and nervous exhaustion.

Symptoms of increased excitability

Increased excitability in the modern world is not such a rare problem. People encounter it different ages. It can manifest itself to a greater or lesser extent, but in any of these cases it significantly affects a person’s condition, his worldview and self-perception, often leading to serious psycho-emotional and mental disorders.

To better understand whether you suffer from increased excitability, you should pay attention to your behavior and attitude towards certain things. As a rule, a lot in your life changes when overexcitability takes over you completely.

1. Sleep problems begin. Now it is normal for you to wake up at night and have nightmares, followed by painful falling asleep and tossing and turning in bed. Often you cannot even fall asleep, you feel either hot or cold, and are unable to find a comfortable position.
2. Eating disorders occur. You either refuse to eat or cannot leave the refrigerator. As a rule, the latter is accompanied by serious weight gain and the development of depression against the background of a strong increase. There are also frequent cases of the formation of bulimia against the background of increased excitability and strengthening of the depressive state.
3. Minor difficulties, obstacles, disruptions in plans unsettle you. At the same time, you either withdraw into yourself or openly express your anger, are ready to cross out the whole day because of one small trouble, and tend to blame everyone around you for what happened.
4. You become very vulnerable and suspicious - any careless word can provoke aggression, crying, hysterics.
5. Everything annoys you! The jangling of keys in your pocket, an incorrectly parked car, groceries arranged carelessly in the refrigerator, the smile of your interlocutor, the weather, and so on.
6. You have stopped controlling yourself. Sometimes you may catch yourself laughing unreasonably loudly or talking in a raised voice. Most likely, at such moments you no longer hold back your words and express your dissatisfaction even when it is not very appropriate.

7. Problems with memory and reaction appear. It becomes more difficult to communicate with people in general.
8. Often the world in this state seems hostile. If you have no friends, everyone goes against you.
9. There is a desire to get away from everything and everyone, to hide alone so that no one touches you.
10. As additional symptom Immunity decreases, digestion is disrupted, and you begin to get sick often.

Causes of increased excitability

The main factor in the development of increased excitability is extreme fatigue of the body. When all his resources are depleted, a natural defensive reaction is activated, the purpose of which is to protect the person from negative influence from the outside in the shortest possible time, so movements become abrupt and the level of aggressiveness increases. Added to overwork is stress and the development of depression. With regular stress exposure nervous system forced to work in emergency mode, experiencing overload. This becomes the impetus for the formation of protracted depression, which in turn provokes a person’s desire to get away from everything as far as possible.

Excessive consumption of foods such as red meat, sugar, and caffeine over time damages digestion and the central nervous system. If the first one fails, disturbances occur in the production of pancreatic and thyroid gland. If the second fails, the transmission of nerve impulses is disrupted. Taken together, this gives rise to problems that lead to the development of human overexcitability.

Chronic lack of sleep, overwork, fatigue, excessive time at the computer, passion for computer games, addiction to the phone and TV - all these are the reasons for the appearance of increased excitability!

One of the main reasons for its development is also addiction to alcohol, smoking, narcotic substances, which may include antidepressants, as well as a number of other addictions.

In childhood, a frequent impetus for the development of increased excitability is the syndrome of hyperactivity and lack of attention. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to get rid of it completely, and the syndrome passes into the life of an adult, where it behaves unpredictably. Against the background of this neurological disease overexcitability can be hidden or overt. And each is dangerous in its own way. In the first case, the person goes out due to emotional burnout, quickly loses working capacity, is prone to mental disorders and has a very difficult time getting along with people due to isolation. In the second case, the person is openly aggressive, irritable, does not get along with people due to the complexity of his character, is often dissatisfied with little things, and is prone to arguments and outbursts of rage. In both cases, people remain very susceptible to the influence of others.

How to deal with increased excitability

Home remedies for overexcitability

At home, a person with increased excitability can help himself in several ways.

1. Relaxing baths. Every 2-3 days, take baths with decoctions of chamomile, sage, thyme, lemon balm, motherwort, valerian root, juniper. They can be combined in one composition or used separately. After the procedure, you must go to bed immediately. The room should have a comfortable temperature and fresh air!
2. Instead of black, green tea and coffee, drink herbal teas with chamomile, thyme, lemon balm, mint, motherwort. They will help the nervous system recover, relieve tension, remove toxins from the body and normalize sleep.
3. Do morning exercises, stretch, yoga, dance! Movement is life not only for the muscle corset, but also for nerve cells. Regular exercise, especially with positive or relaxing music, can improve electrical impulses entering the brain and normalize the state of increased excitability.
4. Eliminate irritating factors. If you understand that there are a lot of things in your room that irritate you and that you can’t concentrate, then immediately or gradually change everything in a way that suits you. Get out of sight the things that bother you the most! And, of course, do not forget about regular cleaning - a mess does not contribute to recovery.
5. Meditation and correct breathing. Regular practices teach you to control your consciousness and keep your emotions in your hands.

To all this, it’s good to add a visit to the pool and periodic massage from a professional, who will help you get physical relaxation.

Medicine against increased excitability

An important element in correcting increased excitability is visiting a neurologist! Since the cause of this problem can be serious abnormalities in the functioning of the central nervous system, it is important to exclude the development of the disease before engaging in treatment. In some cases, the doctor prescribes normalization of sleep and rest patterns, diet and physical activity, and walking. But the basic approach does not always work, especially if we're talking about already about chronic condition. Then medications and supportive drugs are used, including mild sedatives, vitamins, nootropics, which allow you to correct nerve impulses and provide the brain with adequate nutrition.

Some of the common remedies are a variety of magnesium, potassium, vitamin C, Pantocalcin, Tenoten, Novopassit and other medications.

Zinaida Rublevskaya
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Nowadays, even the most self-possessed people often lose their nerves. Irritability gradually accumulates. We involuntarily break down either in the family or at work, in crowded transport, in soul-exhausting queues. We swear until we have a nervous breakdown and cannot calm down for a long time. We begin to suffer from oppressive melancholy, causeless headaches, heavy sleep with nightmares, or, conversely, debilitating insomnia.

Of course, a low standard of living and the state of our nervous system are closely interconnected. And yet, with a reasonable approach to your health, you can alleviate and even negate the severity of stress impacts, protect exposed nerves with medicinal remedies that have been tested by the people a long time ago.

Let me remind you that one of these most popular remedies is valerian with its unique ability to gently, without causing any harm to the body, calm and treat the nervous system. In pharmacies you can no longer always find alcohol and ethereal tinctures, tableted dry extract or other valerian preparations. Therefore, if necessary, you can prepare the medicine yourself.

There are many recipes. Some reference books recommend putting a teaspoon of crushed roots in a glass of boiling water, others - one or even two tablespoons for the same amount of water. Some experts advise boiling for 15 minutes, others convince you to simply pour boiling water over it and leave for 2 hours. There are no strict rules for intake either: from 1 tablespoon to half a glass of infusion or decoction. But there is one thing general rule: Valerian should not be used occasionally, but systematically and for a long time, since its therapeutic effect develops slowly. After one and a half to two months you need to take a break.

I have my own favorite method of preparing valerian, which is very effective. Pound the roots in a mortar, pour 2 teaspoons in the evening with a glass of boiled water at room temperature and leave under the lid overnight, soaking for at least 10 hours. In the morning I stir and let the suspension settle. I don't strain it. I store it in a cool place. You should drink 1 tablespoon in the morning and afternoon, and a quarter glass at night. This cold infusion is especially good for treating children with increased nervous excitability, as well as hysteria, convulsions, and epilepsy. Children are given 1 teaspoon 3 times a day.

Some patients cannot tolerate valerian at all. In such cases, other herbs come to the rescue.

I have seen more than once how in villages, for nervous disorders, they use, not without success, the grass and flowers of the meadowsweet, popularly called meadowsweet. The usual measure is two or three pinches per glass of boiling water, drunk instead of tea.

Meadowsweet has not only a sedative, but also an anticonvulsant effect, improves sleep, and treats anemia. In addition, flowers, grass and roots are useful for diabetics, rheumatists, and kidney patients. There is information about the use of herbs and rhizomes for malignant tumors. Meadowsweet can be used without fear; it has no contraindications.

Wild hops are quite accessible to everyone. Its fruits for medicinal purposes must be collected on time, usually in August, as soon as they acquire a greenish-yellow color. Pleasant, slightly bitter tea made from hop cones relieves irritability and calms. Place no more than 2 cones per glass of tea.

From one part by weight of hops, doused with 4 parts by weight of alcohol or vodka, a tincture is prepared that acts as a sleeping pill, helping with neuroses and neuralgia. The infusion time for seventy-degree alcohol is 7 days, for vodka - 2 weeks. During the day before lunch, take 5-10 drops per teaspoon of water, in the evening before bed, 10-15 drops. The dosage is selected individually, for some the lower limit is enough, while for others the upper limit will not be enough and will add 1-2 more drops. But you should not abuse it, an overdose can cause illness, headache. And on the contrary, in permissible doses has an analgesic effect.

In addition, I can say that hop preparations strengthen the cardiovascular system, especially with myocardial weakness. Not only in folk, but also in scientific medicine are noted good results for allergic and occupational dermatitis. Immature fruits are infused and drunk for thrombophlebitis, pulmonary and skin tuberculosis. Hops help with menopausal ailments, uric acid diathesis, and are popularly used for skin and breast cancer.

I won’t dwell on the basic recipes for using oregano, chamomile, and hawthorn. I am amazed by the luxurious bouquet of less popular plants, such as woodruff, chicory, knotweed, angelica, larkspur, multi-colored carnation, goat willow, common thorn, and forest cap, which have a beneficial effect on the central nervous system.

Few people would think of treating their nerves with garden sunflowers. The yellow marginal petals of a newly blossomed sunflower are torn off, infused with vodka and drunk one teaspoon before meals for neuroses and neuralgia. Or brew tea from 1 teaspoon of dried petals per glass of boiling water. I heard that the decoction is also used as an anti-cancer agent.

An infusion of the series - a teaspoon per glass of boiling water - has a calming effect on the nerves.

Sometimes you don’t have to go far to find medicinal plants; it’s enough to grow them in the garden, for example, lettuce or marigold - calendula. Lettuce leaves, regularly consumed during the summer, will be beneficial for disorders of the nervous system, relieve insomnia, and headaches caused by high blood pressure. Daily marigold tea - 4 - 5 flowers per glass - reduces the reflex excitability of the nervous system, and also helps with hypertension, increases the activity of the heart and slows down its rhythm. In summer it is preferable to use fresh flowers.

NEURASTHENIA

Not long ago I came across statistical data published in the central press about neurasthenia in school-age children. The numbers are depressing. If the nervous system is depleted from childhood, then what can we say about the adult population?

Traditional medicine for neurasthenia uses dozens of different plants. Among them, not only the well-known oregano, St. John's wort, and valerian deserve attention, but also other medicinal herbs, albeit not so popular, but having a clear targeted effect.

Yellow sweet clover, for example, contains coumarin, which has a calming effect on the central nervous system. For neurasthenia, as well as excessive excitability, convulsive conditions, headaches and insomnia, the following infusion of sweet clover herb is very useful: 1 tablespoon is poured into a glass of cold boiled water. Keep covered for 4 hours (can be soaked overnight). Drink 100 g two times a day.

Collected at the height of flowering and then dried in the shade, sweet clover is fragrant and pleasant. It gives rise to a deceptive feeling of complete harmlessness, but it should be remembered that an overdose or excessive use can backfire, cause nausea and severe headaches. In general, when using any herbs, you need to know when to stop.

Sweet clover is collected at noon, from the beginning of the lunar month until the full moon - this best time. It must be dried quickly in dry and hot weather. When there are prolonged rains and air humidity is high, sweet clover grass must be immediately brought into the dry room, protect from heating. At high humidity, the coumarin contained in sweet clover is quickly converted into dangerous dicumarol, which can lead to liver poisoning and even hemorrhage.

Heather is popular among people. Flowering leafy tops are collected from him on a sunny afternoon. An infusion of them nourishes exhausted nerves, relieves astheno neurotic reactions.

To do this, pour 2 tablespoons of heather into 0.5 liters of hot water and leave it warm all night. Drink in 4 doses before meals.

Heather is non-toxic, it is used not only for neurasthenia and insomnia, but also for colds with high fever and inflammation Bladder and purulent processes in the urinary tract, with kidney stone disease and inflammation renal pelvis, for diseases of the liver and spleen, as well as diabetes. In the old days, heather was more famous, but now it is half-forgotten.

And what good results does angelica give! Connoisseurs often use decoctions from its root for nervous exhaustion, hysteria and even epilepsy. It has a tonic, restorative effect on the nervous system.

For a decoction, 2 teaspoons of crushed root per 2 cups of boiling water is enough. It is advisable to keep it in a boiling water bath for half an hour. The decoction is taken half a glass 3-4 times a day before meals.

Angelica officinalis is the common angelica. An inexperienced person can easily confuse it with angelica, also sometimes called angelica, or wolf's pipe. Both of them grow as tall as a person, both have a thick hollow root and large leaves with large swollen sheaths. If you look carefully, you can notice the difference in the inflorescences: in the angelica vulgaris, that is, angelica officinalis, they are yellowish-greenish, collected in complex umbrellas in the form of large balls, and in the angelica forest - in the form of a shield. flatter, often with a pinkish tint. But the main thing distinctive feature in their underground part. Angelica has lumpy, reddish-gray rhizomes, juicy, fleshy, the smell from them comes from a strong, aromatic one, while angelica has thinner, more woody roots, with a weak unpleasant odor. In folk medicine, both plants are used, only in in this case I’m talking about real angelica, that’s what you should use.

By the way, in addition to taking the decoction orally, it is very useful for nervous diseases baths with angelica. Two handfuls dried roots pour three liters of water, bring to a boil, hold on low heat for 15 minutes, leave for another hour and, after straining, pour into the bath. Immediately after the decoction is removed from the heat, it is advisable to throw in a handful of mint, oregano and hops while it steeps. Baths, staying in them for up to 20 minutes, are repeated every other day for three weeks.

Angelica roots, rich in essential oils, are stored in a tightly closed container, then they do not lose their healing properties for up to three years. Roots dug closer to the full moon, preferably after sunset, have the greatest power.

From various diseases, including neurasthenia, people successfully use bedstraw. It is also called yellow porridge, as well as honeyberry, because a spreading panicle with small yellow flowers emits a delicate honey aroma. It grows almost everywhere, both in upland and floodplain meadows, near roads, on hillsides, in bushes, wanders into bright, sun-pierced sparse forests, forest edges and clearings. Its full name is true bedstraw, for there are also northern, marsh, tenacious, Russian, soft, straight, thyme-leaved, three-flowered and other sister bedstraws. They have their own distinctive features, and their distribution area is significantly narrower. In any case, if you get to know it at least once, you won’t confuse honeydew with any other herb.

Yellow porridge is usually brewed as tea, taking a teaspoon of crushed herb with flowers in a glass of boiling water, then sipping a small sip throughout the day. The required amount of infusion is selected individually. Personally, for example, I drank a cup of tea 2 times a day, at lunch and at night.

Bedstraw juice, squeezed from a fresh plant, also has a calming effect, even with epilepsy and convulsions in children. Drink it one teaspoon at a time, washing it down a small amount water, 3 times a day.

The simplest and most accessible plants can provide beneficial effect on sore nerves. If you're not lazy, it won't be too difficult to dry raspberry leaves in the summer. Best of all, of course, is wild, forest, but garden is also suitable. It is generally accepted that only the berries in raspberries have a healing effect. They are dried in case of colds as an excellent diaphoretic and as an antipyretic. However, all parts of it are healing. There are examples when some healers used a decoction of raspberry roots to cure severe forms bronchial asthma. An infusion of flowers is used for hemorrhoids, women's diseases. In Tibetan medicine, decoctions of leaves and stems are prescribed for neurasthenia and neuritis.

For personal use, I prepare the tincture in a ratio of 1:3, that is, I fill the jar a third of the volume with lightly crushed raspberry leaves, then fill it to the top with regular 40-proof vodka. After nine days of infusion, I filter it. The first ten days should be taken 20 drops 3 times a day half an hour before meals, in the second ten days 30, and starting from the third - 50 drops with a course of treatment of at least three months.

This tincture goes well with a combined infusion of fireweed leaves; it is prepared at the rate of 1 tablespoon per glass of boiling water, the daily dose is 0.5 liters. The infusion must be kept warm for at least six hours. It is best to soak the leaves overnight and strain them the next day. A thermos is ideal for brewing. If someone finds this tea too strong, you can add one tablespoon to the same amount of boiling water.

Drops and water infusion are taken at the same time. In this way, the patient's condition can be significantly alleviated. It has long been noted among the people that medicinal infusions of Ivan tea can compete with valerian. Pharmacologists have confirmed the sedative and anticonvulsant effects of the plant.

NEUROSES, NEURALGIAS

Once, when I was still young, I was seriously alarmed by severe heart pain. They came suddenly, piercing the chest with burning lightning. You freeze, hold your breath and wait for the sharp shooting pain to finally go away. And gloomy thoughts creep into my head: they say, that’s it, I got through, it’s the end, I didn’t really manage to live. And such weakness that it breaks into a sweat... At first I was very distrustful of the doctor’s words that the heart was fine, it was a neurosis, the nerves needed to be treated. I wondered what nerves had to do with it, heart pain. Later, after treatment, I became convinced that the doctor was completely right.

In fact, cardiovascular neuroses are often perceived by patients as a tragedy. People panic, begin to be afraid of any physical activity, literally grow into illness, grab validol and nitroglycerin, although help is often needed not so much for the heart as for the nervous system.

In the section on heart disease I already talked about neurosis. Here I note that motherwort has proven itself to be excellent for this ailment. The tops of the plant along with the leaves are collected and dried at the beginning of flowering, when the flowers have not yet acquired spines. Prepare water decoctions and alcohol tinctures. The recipe is given in all reference books on medicinal plants, and in some places in our book methods of preparing infusions and decoctions will be given. But for neuroses, I prefer only juice squeezed from fresh grass. Why? There are several answers. A decoction, even a weak one - a teaspoon per glass of boiling water - can sharply reduce arterial pressure. Not always, not for everyone, but I have observed several cases when, half an hour after taking such a decoction, the pressure dropped by almost two dozen points. Alcohol extract is also more suitable for hypertensive patients. Therefore, motherwort is contraindicated in arterial hypertension. It is not recommended to use it if the heart rate is very low - bradycardia. As for the juice, as I noticed, it has a softer and more gentle effect, which does not have such a dramatic effect on the level of pressure and heart function, but its sedative properties are much higher than those of aqueous and alcoholic extracts from the herb.

For long-term storage Motherwort juice should be diluted by half with vodka. Take 20 to 40 drops 3 to 4 times a day before meals.

For neuroses, people drink an infusion of dried May birch leaves. Put them up to five tablespoons per 0.5 liter warm water, leave overnight. In the morning, strain and squeeze out the swollen leaves. Allow to settle and the infusion is poured into another container, being careful not to stir up the sediment. Drink half a glass 2-3 times a day before meals.

For neuralgic pain, alcohol tincture from birch buds is used externally for rubbing and lotions - it helps.

The simplest remedies for neuroses are mint and blackberries.

The alcoholic tincture of mint is drunk drops several times a day, selecting an individual dosage - from 10 to 30 - 40 drops.

From blackberry branches with leaves, after chopping them, make a light decoction: pour 2 tablespoons with two glasses of water, bring to a boil, but do not cook, immediately remove from heat and strain. Drink half a glass 4 times a day before meals.

Some herbalists give an infusion of stinking basilisk herb for neuroses: 2 teaspoons per glass of boiling water, leave for 15 minutes and strain immediately. You should take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day.

In case of angioneurosis and vegetative neurosis, it is not sedatives that work best, but, on the contrary, invigorating and tonic agents. The alcoholic extract of Rhodiola rosea - golden root - perfectly treats disorders of the nervous system. Drink 20 - 30 drops 3 times a day half an hour before meals in short courses of 2 - 3 weeks.

Eleutherococcus tincture also stimulates the nervous system - it is taken 15 - 20 drops 2 times a day, morning and afternoon, half an hour before meals for four weeks.

Both drugs can increase blood pressure and are more suitable for hypotensive patients.

Neurotic pain in the stomach causes suffering no less. In the worst case, a person has gastritis, and his thoughts focus on the worst thing: maybe it’s cancer.”

Of course, you need to undergo a medical examination to rule out the worst. And the disease is much easier to treat when an accurate diagnosis is established.

For nerve pain and stomach cramps, the surest and most harmless remedy is a freshly prepared, semi-hot infusion of chamomile. An infusion of viburnum flowers has approximately the same effect - a full teaspoon brewed with a glass of boiling water. In folk medicine, viburnum bark is often used for neuroses. It is crushed, one teaspoon is poured into a glass of boiling water, kept for half an hour over low heat, without allowing it to boil, or in a water bath. After straining, drink 1 tablespoon before meals.

Dry, lightly roasted viburnum seeds can be used to make coffee. This aromatic, bitter drink, which actually tastes like coffee, tones the stomach and intestines and has a calming effect on neuroses.

Gastric neuroses and some other nerve diseases are reliably treated by lemon balm. M.A. Nosal writes about it: “People use lemon balm internally. Napar, approximately 20.0 g per 1 liter of boiling water, for all types of nervous diseases, for stomach neurosis, when for an unknown reason a person feels severe pain in the stomach, as happens after strong mental shocks, from fear, grief, melancholy; with colic in the intestines and bloating, which occur even with the strictest abstinence in food, with migraines and unexplained headaches; with increased heartbeat and dizziness, with vomiting in pregnant women, as well as with toothache, in the latter case as a rinse. The water vapor of lemon balm is sometimes replaced with an alcohol extract: 1 part leaves by weight to 3 parts alcohol. Take 3 times a day, a teaspoon of tincture in 1/3 glass of water.”

I have been using lemon balm for a long time, even before I read the book by M. A. Nosal and I. M. Nosal “Medicinal Plants in Folk Medicine,” and from the very beginning I preferred the alcohol tincture specifically for nervous and heart diseases. I prepared it in my own way: I filled a little more than half a jar of the dried plant to the top with vodka and let it steep for at least two weeks. The dosage was the same: 1 teaspoon 3 times a day, washed down with a few sips of water or diluted in a quarter glass of water.

Melissa has been known since ancient times. Paracelsus also wrote about it: “The inspired priestesses of ancient temples prepared a dynamizing drink from lemon balm.” Avicenna noted in lemon balm that it “helps with brain blockages and eliminates bad breath. Invigorates and strengthens the heart, stops heart failure. Aids digestion and helps with hiccups.”

Melissa, being a Southerner, middle lane and here, in the Urals, it is not found in the wild; many gardeners grow it in their gardens. For medicinal purposes, it is best to collect it at sunrise, before the dew has dried, with the onset of the full moon, that is, when it fully gains healing powers.

For neuritis of the facial nerve caused by a cold, it is believed that white willow bark can help: 1 teaspoon, crushed, pour two glasses of boiled water at room temperature and leave overnight. Infusion time is at least 8 hours. After straining, drink 3-4 times a day before meals. With this treatment, you can carry out the following procedure: heat a steel sewing needle red-hot and prick sharp end first the healthy cheek, then the diseased one. Traces of microscopic burns very soon disappear without a trace, and then the disease itself passes.

In the spring, soon after the snow melts, bluish-violet bells of open lumbago or exactly the same large flowers of yellow lumbago appear on the reviving hillocks - it has a slightly elongated bell of a faded cream color. There is no other difference between these plants. Both are furry, as if thoroughly rolled in a silvery web. They stand crouched on short stalks, almost spreading along the ground in the direction of the wind. Only at the moment of flowering do they begin to grow, just as the rosette of carved leaves begins to grow a little. This is the witchcraft dream herb, which has long been faithfully served by the wise men, sorcerers, healers, herbalists, and healers to create all kinds of drinks for all misfortunes and ailments.

IN ancient medical books write: “When Satan was still a bright angel and in his pride rebelled against the Creator, the Archangel Michael drove him from high heaven to the damp earth. Satan and his demons hid behind the grass, and Michael the Archangel threw a thunder arrow at him. An arrow shot through that grass from top to bottom, from that arrow the demons fled and fell into the underworld with Satan himself. And from that very time on, the demonic force is afraid of that grass and runs 12 miles away from it. Delivers from the gaze of the eyes, from the appointed sorrows, from damage, from the influx and from all demonic obsessions.”

They collected grass with various incantations and rituals on a bright May morning, when the dew sparkled on the herbs. According to legends, the dream grass flower can predict fate. He was lowered into cold spring or well water and kept until the full moon. The flower bent in the water began to move with the onset of the full moon. And then they put it under the pillow at night. If you saw a young girl or guy in a dream, it means there will be happiness. And if it means grief, you saw death in a dream.

Sleep grass is now found infrequently, especially in the vicinity of large cities and villages, but only a hundred kilometers from Ufa I know one area where it is found in abundance on the slopes of picturesque green hills with small birch groves. You walk through a flowering meadow in the early morning, picking up grass in a basket, and you begin to feel some strange languor, peace. The soul experiences an unearthly pleasure, close to the feeling of the sweetest weightlessness, when you yourself seem to cease to exist and either dissolve in the world around you, losing your corporeality, or, on the contrary, turn into a kind of clot of matter, absorbing the bottomless heavenly blue with the golden radiance of the ascending the sun, the infantile tender greenery of May grasses that have not yet risen to growth and the small sticky leaves of birches, and the frantic iridescent trills of nightingales... But the time comes to return home, and reluctantly you descend back to the sinful earth, to the howling engines and mercilessly fuming gasoline fumes, to the vain city ​​crowd. You drive towards the house, carefully holding a basket of grass obtained in your sleep on your knees, nodding your nose, fighting against the drowsiness that persistently calls you to plunge into the sweet weightlessness of sleep.

IN popular name the lumbago reflects its main essence: grass that induces sleep. At all times, lumbago was used to treat insomnia and other functional nervous diseases, migraines, neurasthenia, spasmophilia, neuroses, neuritis, neuralgia, and the juice was rubbed on numb parts of the body.

This ancient, proven remedy can be successfully used today, in particular for neuralgic pain. Pour 2 teaspoons of the herb into a glass of cooled boiled water and leave it covered for a day. The infusion is drunk throughout the day in fractional portions. When using lumbago, you should remember that fresh grass is poisonous and can cause inflammatory processes both on the skin and on the mucous membrane internal organs. Once dried, the herb becomes harmless.

Simultaneously with taking the cold infusion of the herb, a poultice of thyme is made along the path of the diseased nerve. Take 3-4 tablespoons of it, scald it with boiling water, wrap it in gauze and apply it to the body. Soon the pain subsides.

For inflammation trigeminal nerve You can also use a simple folk remedy that brings relief. Prepare a cold infusion: 4 teaspoons of marshmallow roots per glass of boiled water at room temperature, leave for at least eight hours. This is done at night. In the morning, brew chamomile tea: a teaspoon per glass of boiling water, leave in a warm place for half an hour, strain. Take a mouthful of it chamomile tea and hold it as long as possible near the sore cheek. A compress of several layers of gauze soaked in marshmallow infusion is applied externally. Tie a warm scarf or handkerchief over waxed paper or plastic wrap. After the compress, warmth is also necessary. The procedure is repeated several times a day. Treatment lasts until the pain disappears completely. If there is no marshmallow root, flowers and leaves collected in the summer can be substituted. Place 2 tablespoons of them in a glass of boiling water. After an hour, the infusion is ready for use.

RADICULITIS, LUMBAGO

Some recipes fell into my hands by accident. I once visited the market during mushroom harvest. A golden glow came from scatterings of chanterelles. Red-headed boletuses and plump boletus rose in impressive mounds on the shelves. No no, yes, porcini mushrooms caught my eye. The merchants stood filled with importance. How can one not envy them for amassing such wealth early in the forest! But then my attention was attracted by a tanned, strong as a mushroom, old boletus man, with a calm look, selling... red fly agaric mushrooms. Yes, yes, those nasty mushrooms that any mushroom picker cautiously avoids and never puts in the basket. Rarely did anyone approach the old man. Perhaps out of curiosity. I came too. I asked how much such a product was at the market. When I heard the price, I was amazed. And there was reason to be surprised, fly agaric mushrooms were no cheaper than porcini mushrooms! Here are the ones on...

The old man volubly explained: how much use are chanterelles and boletus mushrooms? Well, fry it and eat it in one sitting. And from fly agaric mushrooms you can make a healing potion, you can be treated for a whole year.

You, my dear, chop up a couple of these beauties, fill them with a bottle of vodka, and in a couple of weeks you’ll get rid of radiculitis. How to wash it away with your hand...

This recipe interested me. I started asking for details. It turns out that you need to keep the cut fly agarics for two days in a cool place, then, putting the cut pieces in a jar, pour in enough vodka so that it protrudes over the top the thickness of a finger. Place the jar in the cellar or refrigerator to maintain a uniform temperature. After two weeks, strain. Now the drug is ready. It relieves rheumatic pain well, and even cures radiculitis if rubbed regularly.

I bought fly agarics from the old man. He could have collected it himself, but I wanted to respect his work. Made medicine. In fact, it has helped several of my friends with sciatica. Since then, whenever I manage to get out into the forest to pick mushrooms, I have never avoided red fly agarics.

If lumbar sacral radiculitis caused by inflammation of the perioral nerve, excellent results are obtained by treatment with Echinops. This plant is easily recognizable. The basal rosette of leaves is somewhat reminiscent in pattern to dandelion leaves, only they are much larger and have small prickly spines on their pointed tips. On tall, slender stems, reaching one and a half meters, rest beautiful smoky purple balls - this is how the mordovnik blooms in a unique way, which is why, apparently, it got the name spherical-headed. The size of the flower reaches the size of a billiard ball. It usually grows in weedy places both in the European part of the country, as well as in the Urals and Siberia.

The seeds of the plant are used for medicinal purposes. in autumn from former beauty and no trace remains: yellowish-gray lumps stick out, bristling, on the dry waste. You squeeze them and the balls crumble in your palm into individual achenes, reminiscent of unthreshed oats. Inside the achenes, if peeled, grains are hidden. They have a soft, insidious, glass wool-like shell of thousands of microscopic stings that pierce the skin and cause itching. As long as you clean the required amount of grains, you will be combed all over. Every now and then you have to, interrupting a tedious task, wash your hands with soap. But this hard work pays off with interest. Echinops fruits are used for very serious nervous diseases: paresis and paralysis, plexitis, radiculitis, as well as multiple sclerosis, myopathy, poliomyelitis, in the treatment of the consequences of chronic radiation exposure. In scientific medicine, a very strong alkaloid echinopsin isolated from seeds is used.

For a water infusion, pour 2 - 3 teaspoons of grains into a glass of boiling water and leave in a warm place overnight. In the morning, filter through several layers of gauze, lined with cotton wool on the inside to trap tiny spines. A glass is a daily dose, divided into 3 - 4 doses.

I also make an alcohol extract: 5 g of peeled seeds (approximately one level tablespoon) per 100 g of pure alcohol. On the twenty-first day, strain. Take 20 drops 2 times in the morning and evening. With radiculitis, nerve function was restored after three to four weeks.

There are many folk remedies for those suffering from radiculitis. Here's another one healthy recipe: 1 tablespoon each of rhizomes of white water lily, yellow water lily and dried elecampane, crushed, pour a bottle of vodka. Leave for 9 days. Strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day before meals.

When eating pine nuts, I do not recommend throwing away the peels like garbage. From it you can prepare a medicine for allergic and other skin rashes, for a number of other diseases, which will be mentioned later, as well as for radiculitis. In the latter case, take the dried peel of two hundred grams of nuts, pour in 1 liter of vodka and, tightly closing, put it in a dark place for a month. It is necessary to shake from time to time. After filtering, the resulting tincture is taken on an empty stomach in a small wine glass (25 - 30 ml) two or three times a day before meals.

Applied externally for radiculitis fresh leaves burdock (smooth side), horseradish leaves, cabbage.

Horseradish roots are ground into a paste and rubbed onto sore spots not only for radiculitis, but also for other severe pain in joints, muscle pain in the back and lower back.

Juice squeezed from black radish is rubbed into radiculitis - this is one of the most popular remedies. Or the peeled radish is grated, the resulting pulp is slightly heated in an enamel bowl without cracks or chips. They take a linen rag, spread a thin layer of radish pulp on one half of it, cover it with the other half, like a pie with filling, and place it on the lower back. The patient should feel a slow, deep warming and hold it for as long as he has patience. Repeat in a day. “Sometimes it is enough to do several such procedures to get rid of sciatica.

Severe pain shoots through the leg from hip to heel, sometimes preventing you from taking a step. In medical terminology it is lumbago, in everyday life it is lumbago. I did not specifically treat him, but several times I had to help my friends using folk recipes. In a porcelain mortar, grind dry agrimony leaves into flour and sift through a strainer. I measured it into 1 gram bags. The daily norm is 3 - 4 sachets. The powder is washed down with infusion of St. John's wort - a tablespoon of herb per one and a half cups of boiling water. He advised making a poultice daily from a mixture of chamomile and sweet clover flowers. You need to take them in equal amount, scald with boiling water and, wrapped in gauze, apply semi-hot to the place where the shooting pain originates. At night - rubbing with alcohol tincture of henbane. To prepare the tincture, pour 1 part of coarsely crushed henbane leaves into 4 parts of diluted alcohol or vodka, keep it in the dark at a uniform temperature for two weeks, and strain. Henbane is very poisonous, so no more than one teaspoon should be used per procedure. If rubbing is done with your fingertips, you must immediately wash your hands thoroughly with soap. In the morning, wipe the area to be rubbed with a warm, damp cloth.

This complex treatment gave good results.

When a person is often plagued by sciatica, traditional medicine recommends a simple collection: mix the crushed roots of burdock, dandelion, and celandine in equal parts - just the roots. Pour 2 tablespoons with 1 liter of boiling water in the evening and leave until morning. In the morning, bring to a boil and cook over low heat for 5 minutes from the moment it boils. After ten minutes, strain. Take half a glass 3 times a day before meals.

More best result can be achieved by rubbing black radish juice into the skin along the nerve. This also helps with myasitis and intercostal neuralgia.

For sciatica, neuralgia, radiculitis and plexitis, juniper berries are considered a good remedy. Place only 10 berries in 1 glass of boiling water, cover the dish with a lid and immediately place it in a pre-prepared boiling water. water bath for 15 minutes. After an hour, filter. Drink 1 tablespoon 4 times a day before meals. The course of treatment is no more than two weeks.

Convulsive conditions

Not everyone knows that linden blossom, which is widely popular as a reliable diaphoretic for colds, can also treat nervous diseases. It all depends on the methods of preparing the medicinal drink.

A strong decoction - 5 tablespoons of crushed linden flowers with bracts per 0.5 liter of water, boil over low heat for 30 minutes - helps with neuroses, severe nervous breakdown, frequent fainting, and convulsions.

In my opinion, an alcohol tincture of linden flowers has a more clear anticonvulsant effect. I prepared it from freshly dried flowers, collected on a bright sunny afternoon. I filled the jar in a loose layer, without tamping it, poured vodka to the very edge and left it to steep for two or three weeks. Stale linden blossom does not give desired effect, but the tincture can be stored for a long time, until the next harvest. You need to drink it one teaspoon 3 times a day, and before going to bed, increase the dose to 1 tablespoon.

For hysteria, convulsions, and convulsions, herbalists often use meadow heart, a plant from the cruciferous family. In the middle zone, the core is found almost everywhere; it loves damp meadows, swampy lowlands, banks of rivers, lakes, and oxbow lakes. The four-petaled flowers are white with a purple tint or even purple in a racemose inflorescence. Soups are made from young leaves. They are also eaten raw, in salads. They have a bitter but very pleasant taste. It is mentioned very rarely in reference literature, but in vain. Being absolutely harmless, meadow heart can help with colds and acute respiratory diseases, inflammatory processes in the oral cavity, rheumatism, dropsy and ascites that occur with liver diseases, as well as diabetes. But its most powerful effect is manifested in nervous diseases with convulsions and hysterical attacks.

For medicinal purposes, the tops of stems with flowers are collected. Brew 3 - 4 tablespoons of herbs with 0.5 liters of boiling water. After two hours of infusion, give one quarter and up to half a glass 4 times a day.

Linden flowers and core are harmless to the body, their accidental overdose is not dangerous. But when dealing with poisonous plants, you need to be extremely careful. If the rules are not followed, they can, like snakes in the grass, fatally sting. And sometimes it’s impossible to do without them. For example, without dope, when there are seizures, convulsions, spastic speech disorders.

The patient is given microdoses crushed into powder. dried leaves, collected during flowering in early summer. Daily dose only 0.1 grams. It is very difficult to weigh at home, so you can focus on the volume of sulfur scraped from four match heads.

It is easier to prepare an alcohol tincture from dope seeds. They need to be crushed in a mortar, then 1 part - by volume - is poured with 5 parts of alcohol. After a week, strain. Take 2 drops per tablespoon of water up to 3-4 times a day. Unlike leaves, it is easier to maintain the exact dosage.

The bottle with tincture should be stored separately from other medicines, out of the reach of children.

Nervous twitching and all kinds of convulsions, as well as concussions, are treated in traditional medicine with alcohol tincture of raven's eye. This plant is easily recognizable: at the end of the bare stem there is a whorl of four large leaves, to some extent reminiscent of lily of the valley leaves, and in the center there is a black pea berry with a bluish tint - like a raven’s eye looking at you. All parts of the plant are poisonous. If the berries have a healing effect on the heart, then the leaves have a healing effect on the nervous system.

The grass collected in May is infused with vodka: 4 tablespoons per 0.5 liter. The resulting tincture is drunk 5 drops on a spoon of water up to 5 times a day. You can dilute 2 teaspoons of tincture in a glass of water and take one tablespoon every two hours from morning to evening. For severe convulsive conditions, the same dose can be taken every hour, but not more than a glass per day.

It is best, of course, for the beginning herbalist to deal with the most by harmless means. What is easier, for example, is to brew 1 tablespoon of dill seeds in a glass of boiling water and leave for 2 hours. Give the patient 50 - 60 ml half an hour before meals 3 times a day, and then, you see, the cramps will stop recurring, the nerves will calm down and sleep will become deeper and more peaceful.

And if, when a cramp appears, you give a person to hold a stick of sealing wax or a block of iron in his hand, the cramp will quickly pass. This has nothing to do with plants, but it doesn’t hurt to know.

If you often get cramps calf muscle, then you need to rub the soles of your feet well with a cut lemon slice at night. Do this until the cramps stop reoccurring. And use at this time more products, rich in potassium.

EPILEPSY

In the old days, a patient with epilepsy was treated with superstitious fear. Epilepsy was believed to be an evil influence evil spirits. Existed in Rus' next way treatment: a person who had fallen into unconsciousness during a seizure was outlined in a circle, marked with a cross and began to be mercilessly whipped with thistles in order to drive out the devils that had taken possession of him. This is where the name of the plant came from - thistle, that is, causing a commotion among devils. Of course, having come to his senses, the unfortunate man began to yell obscenities, because thistle thorns are quite comparable to barbed wire.

True, even in those ancient times, among ignorant doctors there were smart heads who realized that it was much healthier not to flog a patient with thistle, but to give him a decoction of herbs. This decoction had a calming effect on the nervous system, softening or completely eliminating convulsions. There have been cases when epilepsy was completely cured. Children were bathed in a decoction or fumigated with the smoke of burnt dry tops of thistles, and given a decoction of its roots to drink when frightened, causing a sudden awakening in the middle of the night with a scream.

Thistle is often called prickly tartar. Botanically, these plants are different, but they are very similar in the same effect on the nervous system: in small doses they excite, and in large doses they depress it, which is what is required to relieve convulsive phenomena in epilepsy.

For the decoction, people take 2 tablespoons of the herb per one and a half cups of boiling water. After steeping for 4 hours, give half a glass 3-4 times a day. From dried leaves, removing the thorns, you can make a powder and give the patient 1 teaspoon 3 times a day before meals. Drink with a small amount of water. None side effects not observed even with long-term use.

Many of us are familiar with the tall, athletically built beauty of the herbal kingdom - the hogweed. In early spring, soups are made from its young leaves. Peeled spring stems are edible raw. And the sweet-tasting rhizomes, I remember from my wartime childhood, completely replace carrots.

In the extensive list of medicinal plants, hogweed is rarely found, and it is spoken of sparingly. One can only regret this, because there is a lot hidden in it. healing powers. Let us remember what Amirdovlat Amasiatsi wrote about it: “If you eat its seeds, it will dissolve mucus and help with diseases of the gallbladder and liver, with jaundice, suffocation and epilepsy, as well as with diseases of the uterus. If you do fumigation, it will help with excessive drowsiness. If its juice is mixed with olive oil and pour it on your head, it will help with that disease called lethargy, as well as with headaches. If you make a poultice with wine and apply it to the rash, it will also help. If you drink a decoction of the root, it will help with jaundice, liver disease and asthma. If you squeeze the juice from a piece of root onto the fistulas, it will help a lot. If you squeeze the juice of the flower and drop it into your ear, it will help with ear ulcers. And if you lubricate it for hemorrhoids, it will also help.”

Avicenna gives hogweed a high rating, noting that “it is very useful for epilepsy.” Avicenna, who was very strict and balanced in his treatment recommendations, used the emphatic word “very” extremely rarely.

Not only here, but also in Bulgarian German folk medicine, hogweed has long been used, not without success, for the treatment of epilepsy and nervous convulsions.

Hogweed uses both grass and roots. There are a variety of recipes: infusions, decoctions, alcohol tinctures, fresh juice. Infusions and decoctions are made from the herb - 2 tablespoons per 0.5 liter of boiling water, leave for 2 hours - this daily norm. The dried roots are ground into powder and given 1 gram 3-4 times a day before meals (about 1/3 teaspoon). Fresh juice of rhizomes is very good - a teaspoon several times a day.

Here is another one of the most common recipes: chop the roots well, pour 5 teaspoons with two glasses of cold boiled water in an earthenware or porcelain bowl and leave overnight under the lid. The roots must be infused for at least 8 hours. Stir in the morning and let the suspension settle. This cold infusion is drunk in 3 to 4 doses throughout the day.

Again my deepest bow to Chernobyl! I have already said how it is used for bronchial asthma and malignant tumors. But his healing powers are not limited to this, and he will be mentioned more than once.

An aqueous infusion of Chernobyl herb and roots is effective for epilepsy. Suffice it to say that this medicinal plant is included in the pharmacopoeias of Switzerland, France, Norway, and Brazil precisely as a means of treating epilepsy, as well as amenorrhea, and diabetes. Scientific experiments have established the ability of Chernobyl herb to reduce neuromuscular conduction.

The usual rate for preparing the infusion: 1 teaspoon of chopped herbs and roots per 1 glass of boiling water, leave in a thermos or in a hot oven for 8 hours. Take a third of a glass 3 times a day, determining individually - before or after meals. The treatment is long-term, but after 45 days you need to take a break.

Oregano is popularly considered a reliable remedy for the treatment of epilepsy. Yes, the same soul that many lovers add for the sake of aroma to tea leaves.

To achieve success in treatment, you must have great patience and regularly, without breaks, take an infusion of oregano herb every day, a quarter of an hour before meals. To do this, pour 3 tablespoons into one and a half glasses of boiling water, leave for two hours and drink 100 g warm 3 times a day. The infusion is prepared fresh every day. Treatment lasts 3 years.

Siberian herbalists sometimes use bogweed for epilepsy. It grows in damp alpine and subalpine meadows, in the tundra, along the banks of rivers and swamps, but not only in Siberia and the Far East, but also in the mountains of Central Asia and the Caucasus. It is also found here in the Urals, especially in the northern and mountainous regions. A noticeable, beautiful plant. Usually short in stature - up to 30 - 40 centimeters, but with a large single flower at the end of a straight ribbed stem. The petals are white. If you look closely, you can see longitudinal greenish or yellowish-brown veins on them. The leaves are heart-shaped, forming a small rosette. Belozor refers to poisonous plants and requires careful handling.

Tibetan medicine recommends belozor for kidney stones, as a choleretic and antipyretic, more often for intestinal diseases. In Mongolia, the herb is used as a cardio vascular agent. In the Caucasus, a decoction of flowers is drunk for gonorrhea and leucorrhoea in women. In folk medicine in a number of countries, the decoction is considered effective against stomach cancer.

It is rare where you will find an indication of the use of belozor for diseases of the nervous system, especially epilepsy, although it has now been experimentally established that an infusion of the herb regulates the cardiovascular and nervous system.

To treat epilepsy, prepare a decoction: 1 tablespoon of dried herb with flowers is brewed with a glass of boiling water, steamed in a water bath for 10 minutes, after cooling, filtered, and stored in the refrigerator for up to three days. You need to take from 1 to 3 tablespoons 3 to 4 times a day after meals. This gap in dosage is explained by the age and body weight of the patient. Children are even prescribed from 1 teaspoon to dessert spoon. The course of treatment is 10 days. Repeat after the same amount of time. Usually no more than 4 courses are conducted. In between, take 0.5 grams of angelica root powder 4 to 5 times a day.

In Chinese and Korean medicine, as well as in Siberia and the Far East, epileptics are treated with an alcohol tincture from the roots of Scutellaria baicalensis. Prescribe 20 drops 3 times a day half an hour before meals. The roots are infused in a ratio of 1:10.

The Baikal skullcap, whose distribution area begins in Transbaikalia, belongs to the family Lamiaceae, and in our middle zone there are its close relatives - the holly, tall, common, and dubious skullcap. All of them, including the Baikal one, have not yet been studied. It is known, for example, that all of them are capable of reducing blood pressure. Skullcap, like Baikal, also has a calming effect and reduces nervous excitability. Both are able to treat bronchitis and other pulmonary diseases, are beneficial for the liver, and heal wounds. And I will not be at all surprised if the anticonvulsant effect of our common skullcap is experimentally proven, and then there will be no need for long trips in Transbaikalia for the scarce roots of his brother, more successful in the pursuit of glory.

Even as a child, I loved to feast on ruby ​​red stone fruit berries. You can find it in almost any forest, although not in abundance, but you can collect a few handfuls. And to this day I do not neglect it, wandering through the forest in search of medicinal herbs - it perfectly quenches my thirst. The plant is also medicinal - decoctions of herbs and leaves are effective for inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. intestinal tract, liver, gall and bladder, are used for kidney stones, hernia, hemorrhoids, some women's diseases, metabolic disorders. Look how many useful properties this modest forest dweller has.

And once I read in one of the books that in Transbaikalia, a decoction of the leaves of the bone plant is successfully used for fear, stuttering and epilepsy. If it is customary to collect medicinal plants juicy, healthy, not spoiled by pests, then in this case, on the contrary, they look for bushes with brown and rusty spots on the leaves - the result of damage by fungal diseases. They take them. Dry quickly, not allowing it to sit, and prepare a decoction of 2 teaspoons or 1 tablespoon per glass of boiling water, cook over low heat for 5 minutes and after straining, give the patient 1 tablespoon to drink 3-4 times a day, 20 minutes before meals. The course of treatment is 10 days.

You can prepare an alcohol tincture from these leaves. For 100 grams of vodka add 1 tablespoon of crushed leaves and leave for 2-3 weeks. Give the patient 30-40 drops 3 times a day 20 minutes before meals on a tablespoon of water. After a week and a half of treatment, take a break for the same period, then repeat.

One day my supplies of meadowsweet, or meadowsweet, ran out. It’s the end of February, you can’t get grass from under the snow. I started looking for herbalists I knew. Nobody has. They don't collect. But in vain. It is needed for many diseases, including cancer. And the plant is not rare - in summer the damp lowlands and meadows are full of meadowsweet with its white fragrant panicles of flowers.

For epilepsy, the roots are sometimes used: 1 teaspoon is poured into two glasses of boiling water, steamed in a water bath for half an hour and, after straining, given to drink one tablespoon 3-4 times a day before meals.

Can also be used dried flowers: 1 teaspoon per glass of boiling water, hold for 15 minutes in a water bath. Take the same, 1 - 2 tablespoons before meals. It has now been experimentally proven that meadowsweet flowers have a calming and anticonvulsant effect on the central nervous system.

In summer, fresh grass of the tenacious bedstraw is used for epilepsy. It must be crushed into a homogeneous pulp, 4 teaspoons poured into two glasses of boiling water. After cooling, strain. Take half a glass 4 times a day - drink not in one gulp, but in small sips, as if savoring it, although this drink cannot be called a delicacy. But alas, medicine is medicine, and you will do anything to alleviate the disease.

Dry bunches of eryngium can always be found at herbalists' markets - this plant is popular. They suggest for nerve disease, insomnia and epilepsy: pour 1 tablespoon of the herb into a glass of water, bring to a boil, but do not boil, but leave for another hour, take a small sip 3-4 times a day before meals. There is no need to go through too much, what is stated is enough. They say that the disease will disappear as if by hand if you use it for a long time, drink for a month, rest for a month.

Eryngium is actually indicated for nervous excitement, restless sleep with nightmares. It may also help someone with epilepsy, otherwise traditional medicine would not stick to it so stubbornly, but I can’t draw my own conclusions yet due to the lack of lasting results.

These few recipes, chosen by me from many others, can, of course, in no way be considered a radical remedy for curing epilepsy. They can really help someone, but it all depends on the root cause, nature and duration of the disease. The hardest thing, and sometimes almost impossible, is to cope with the heredity encoded in the body. Then, in a very severe cases, as success can be considered a significant relief of the patient’s condition, the ability to make attacks more rare and mitigated.

I will probably repeat myself again if I say that herbal treatment of many serious, chronic diseases requires a long time and perseverance. A combination of several plants is often used. And their choice is extensive. For example, for epilepsy, people use drop cap, wolfberry, elecampane, loosestrife, sweet clover, St. John's wort, goat willow, creeping clover, nettle, lily of the valley, juniper, mint, sedum, parsley, tansy, soft bedstraw, motherwort, cyanosis, asparagus , dill, blueberries, forest chist. There are more than forty herbs, roots, flowers, and seeds on my list alone. Of these, I choose two or three plants, with rare exceptions more. When one of my nephews showed clear signs of epilepsy in infancy (not hereditary, but traumatic), valerian, an aqueous infusion of the root, worked well for him. Along the way, string, cumin, and hogweed were used.

Cold infusion of valerian, as I already noted, is given to children 1 teaspoon. Powder from the root of hogweed, taken at the tip of a knife - about a fifth of a gram - can be rolled into a pill with honey. Tea from the series is brewed with a straw-yellow hue, fresh every time - up to one glass a day instead of water. Crushed cumin seeds should be poured cold boiled water- 1 teaspoon per glass - and leave covered overnight. Drink a tablespoon 3 times a day.

It is customary to look at the series only as an antiscrofulous remedy. But how many other advantages there are in it! Few people know that it is good for joint diseases - rheumatism, osteochondrosis, gout. It is used for traumatic edema and bone fractures. Useful for ulcers duodenum, diabetes mellitus. And for nervous diseases too. In Tibetan medicine, it is considered one of the plants that helps with concussions. The briquetted string sold in the pharmacy is not suitable - except perhaps only for baths. And not just any grass is suitable. It is often collected at the beginning or during flowering. I have a different collection date. I'm waiting for the time when tiny black buttons with the beginnings of buds are clearly visible - that means it's time. As soon as the buds turn yellow, I stop collecting. The time of collection also matters - closer to the full moon, in the afternoon until sunset.

As for wild cumin, popular for gastrointestinal diseases, pancreatitis and cholecystitis, I have not seen recommendations for nervous diseases, much less epilepsy, in any of the reference books. But he believed Avicenna, who used cumin “for nerve diseases and paralysis.” Cardamana, as he calls wild cumin, “helps against epilepsy if taken with water.” Amirdovlat Amasiatsi points to the same properties of cumin: “Helps with paralysis, epilepsy, and all diseases of a cold nature, including nerve diseases.”

In any case, this complex of treatment has borne fruit. After eight months of treatment, the boy recovered. More than twenty-five years have passed since then, and the disease can be considered to have disappeared forever.

It is not a sin to listen to the opinions of ancient healers, delve into the essence of the remedies they offer and draw your own conclusions.

“Dioscrides says in his book that the fruits of sedge, if drunk with vinegar, help those who suffer from epilepsy,” writes Avicenna, referring to the ancient Greek physician, and in other sections he independently points out that the “fruits” are not only sedge - black poplar, but also white poplar helps against epilepsy.

In folk medicine in many countries, for nervous diseases, including epilepsy, peony is used, or evasive - marina root. I once had to help myself young man, suffering from a hereditary form of epilepsy, and in alternation with other herbs, a tincture from the flowers of the wild-growing peony evasive worked well: 3 tablespoons of dried petals are poured into 0.5 liters of vodka, after a month of infusion, take a teaspoon three times a day. Avicenna points out that “peony is useful for epilepsy, even if it is hung around the patient’s neck. We tried hanging a peony around the neck by itself and found that it was useful for epilepsy, because with the removal of the peony the epilepsy returned.” This method of treatment is called symptomatic; it is gradually beginning to revive in our time and in some cases works well.

Among the antiepileptic drugs, Avicenna pointed to the tortuous gilly: “it helps a lot against epilepsy,” and to the creeping cinquefoil: “its leaves in wine give against epileptic disease; They drink them for thirty days.”

Amirdovlat Amasiatsi in his book “Unnecessary for the Ignorant,” making frequent references to Avicenna’s indisputable authority, gives many of his own observations. The value of his recommendations is that he points to plants that are well known to us and are popular. For example, he writes about calamus: “It will help with facial curvature, epilepsy and the cold nature of all nerves, and also eliminates forgetfulness, convulsions and tongue twisting. It enlightens the mind and sharpens the senses. The daily dose is half a gram.” He says about hyssop: “It helps with epilepsy and tongue diseases.” And about the medicinal letter, meaning dried leaves: “If you take 1 dram with water, it will help with epilepsy and dementia and cure liver disease.” One dram is equal to 2.942 grams, that is, you can determine the exact dosage for yourself.

ARACHNOIDITIS, ENCEPHALITIS

Brain inflammatory processes are very difficult to relieve, doctors know this. And sometimes I am not able to help at all, as in the case I am about to tell you about.

One young woman, who suffered the sad and terrible Hong Kong flu of 1977 on her feet, received a complication on her head. By the way, several years before this she suffered from arachnoiditis - inflammation of the arachnoid membrane of the brain. Now the diagnosis turned out to be more severe: post-influenza infectious allergic encephalitis. Experienced professors threw up their hands in despair: “We would have put you back on your feet if you had taken antibiotics...” And her body no longer accepted even such auxiliary means as injections of aloe vera preparations and vitamins. There was a violent rejection of any medications. The further the condition went, the more it worsened. The patient was exhausted from severe attacks of headache, lost her vision, mobility - she could not take even two steps on her own. They gave me a disability, but this mercy, unfortunately, does not cure.

Unfortunately, my choice of herbs was not very rich. It would be possible to prepare preparations from nutmeg, snowdrop Voronov, common harmala, but all these plants are southern, you can’t always get to them. I had to make the most of what I had.

We started with valerian. Not from the pharmacy, but from aqueous infusions of the root of a wild plant. (Valerian grown on industrial plantations is much weaker). Medical literature does not recommend taking valerian for more than two months in a row, otherwise headaches, anxiety, and disruption of the gastrointestinal tract may occur. But here, as they say, there was no time for fat, I wish I could live. On the contrary, it was valerian that managed to some extent muffle headaches, a heightened sense of fear, photophobia, and aversion to food.

The brain turned out to be affected in the crown area, and the external use of a concentrated tincture of burnet root was directed there. Crushed, they are filled with diluted alcohol or vodka just enough to allow them to swell and remain in a state of liquid pulp. After straining, only about a hundred grams of dark cherry medicine came out from half a liter of alcohol taken for the tincture.

The tincture was rubbed into the scalp 2-3 times a day, sometimes more often. Application is also long lasting. This is a very strong anti-inflammatory agent for arachnoiditis, encephalitis, and meningitis.

For two years I alternated valerian with an alcohol tincture of marina root - peony evasive. A tablespoon of mashed root was poured into 100 g of vodka for 9 days. He gave me 40-50 drops to drink 3 times a day for a month. After a two-week break, the course was repeated.

These were the three pillars on which the treatment rested. As aids gave an infusion of dry herb wintergreen - a teaspoon in half a glass of boiling water, leave in a warm place for 2 hours, drink a sip 3 - 4 times a day. In the spring, I gave a tablespoon before meals of juice squeezed from freshly picked dandelions. The series served as an antiallergic agent.

For severe hypotension, I tried to use tinctures of golden root, Eleutherococcus, Leuzea, and Zamanikha, but they were poorly tolerated, and then the alcohol tincture of Echinops came to the rescue: 5 grams of peeled achenes per 100 grams of vodka. After three weeks of infusion, 10 to 15 drops were prescribed 2 to 3 times a day. This not only helped move the blood pressure away from the critical point and raise it to the required level, but also reduced headaches, had a positive effect on myopathy - muscle weakness, and improved heart function. Mordovnik has been little studied, is rarely mentioned and is found even less often practical use. But here I had every opportunity to see how beneficial it is for lesions of the central and peripheral nervous system.

The first year was especially difficult. At times it seemed that all efforts were in vain, that the severe diencephalic crises would never stop. The patient's legs did not obey her. She had to overcome herself, learn to walk two or three steps, holding onto the table. The struggle for life lasted almost two years, and all this time she was treated with herbs - under the forced passive supervision of doctors. They only from time to time took cardiograms, encephalograms, wrote out prescriptions for diphenhydramine and some types of tranquilizers, which the body began to accept over time.

Post-influenza encephalitis is scary because after it, patients practically do not recover, the survivors go blind, deaf, and lose mobility. My patient was soon removed from disability after treatment, she returned to work and works to this day.

PARALYSIS

I know this firsthand. In early 1981, just seven months after a severe heart attack, I had a stroke: left-sided paralysis with severe paresis of the facial nerve. From January to May he stayed in the hospital and was discharged, as is noted in such cases, with some improvement, although his left eye did not close, his mouth remained twisted, and he dragged his leg when walking. I am very grateful to the doctors, they really helped in every way they could. He took the rest of the treatment into his own hands. He did not neglect the prescribed medications, although he chose the least toxic ones. He placed the main emphasis on herbs, having started using them back in hospital conditions. As a result of such additional self-medication, already in the summer I was able to get out to the mountain forest region in the upper reaches of the Inzer River, lived in a tent, fished for grayling in a mountain river, and collected taiga herbs.

I'm not going to make the recipes a secret. Perhaps they will help someone else.

Maryin root is useful for oral administration, and in this case it is not so much the root itself as the herb collected at the beginning of flowering. The infusion is prepared from 2 teaspoons per glass of boiling water, infusion time 4 hours. Herbalists usually prescribe 1 - 2 tablespoons per dose, 3 times a day, but in some cases and not for a long time - up to 3 - 4 weeks - a dose of up to a quarter cup is allowed. Then a break for 10 days.

At the same time with herbal infusions you should drink mumiyo. I used it almost from the first days of my illness, dissolving a lump the size of a match head in 20 ml of water - in the morning on an empty stomach and shortly before lunch.

Datura is a strong remedy. The recipe is given in the section on convulsive conditions, but

One of the most famous and common disorders of the nervous system is the syndrome of increased nervous excitability. The number of patients suffering from this disease is increasing from year to year. They suffer regardless of gender, age, profession, etc. However, psychologists are confident that boys and male teenagers are at risk.

Excitability of the nervous system: symptoms and causes of the disease

People who suffer from hyperexcitability syndrome can be identified by the following external signs:

The facial muscles are asymmetrical;
Movement of the eyeballs is impaired;
Failures in human spatial orientation;
These people are characterized by absent-mindedness and disorganization in movements and expression of thoughts;
Patients often complain of headaches;
A psychotherapist quickly detects disturbances in intellectual development in such a person;
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Adults.

We can list several reasons that cause increased excitability of the nervous system in an adult:

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Incorrect (unbalanced) nutrition;
Overfatigue as a result of improper work and rest patterns. Constant lack of sleep has a particularly strong effect on the occurrence;
The desire to do several things at the same time, etc.

It has been noted that three quarters of the sick are residents of large cities.

The nervous system of the younger generation is too unstable to sudden changes and heavy loads. The flow of information that bombards the child every day at home, at school and on the street has a particularly negative impact on it. The stress that is considered normal in life has a detrimental effect on a teenager’s psyche. modern school, conflicts in the family and addiction to gadgets. Computer games cause the heaviest damage to a child’s nervous system.

Prevention of nervous excitability syndrome

First of all, it is worth noting that any problems can arise in life, but alcohol and drugs have never become a way out of the situation. The only thing they lead to is aggravation of troubles and the emergence of new ones. So, the following methods can be used to prevent nervous excitability syndrome:

If you have long dreamed of taking up any sport, start today. Sign up for a section or just start with morning jogging. You will see how after several days of classes your mood will improve, and many problems that seemed insoluble will fade into the background;
Walks. Make it a rule - do not run from work to the bus, but walk a couple of stops. No time for nonsense? Don't be disingenuous! Free yourself this half hour. It is especially good to walk in the park or through the forest. Go out into nature on weekends just to get some fresh air;

Free yourself from computer addiction. Often, after running home from work, we find ourselves back at the computer. We can even spend the weekend together with the gadget. Force yourself to give up gadgets at home. Do some housework, bake a cake, do something useful, just stay away from the computer. This dependence quickly disappears, as soon as the body understands how good it is without a “blue screen” or a tablet;
Negative information from outside should be kept to a minimum. Try to protect yourself from negative emotions caused by crime news reports, stories about problems in the country’s economy, political instability, terrible diseases etc.;
Restore normal work and rest patterns. An adult should sleep at least 7 hours a day, preferably 8. At the same time, it is necessary to have enough time not only for work and sleep, but also for proper rest - hobbies, sports, communication with family and friends, etc.;
Get plenty of rest on your weekends. Try not to burden yourself with different responsibilities on weekends. Say “no” to those who try to burden you with unnecessary work and force you to waste precious minutes on yourself. Go out with your family, spend more time with those you really love, get positive emotions;
Protect yourself from . Try to exclude from your life those who do not bring joy into it. and friends, have fun and try to listen to your heart and not give in to despondency.

It requires the intervention of doctors only if it bothers the patient himself. In most situations, it is corrected independently.

Measures to combat nervous excitability

If you feel that your efforts to restore your nervous system are not producing any noticeable results, consult your doctor. The doctor will conduct a survey, prescribe tests, and make a diagnosis. Only based on the results of the examination, the specialist will prescribe appropriate treatment. Never listen to friends and acquaintances who “had the same symptoms and took this or that drug.” You cannot take antidepressants or tranquilizers without a recommendation.

However, in folk medicine to eliminate nervous tension they used valerian root, motherwort flowers, plantain leaves, hawthorn berries, etc. These mild and harmless antidepressants can be bought in pharmacies without a prescription. In addition, they will not harm health and will not cause negative influence on the human psyche. They can be taken either separately or in combination. Alcohol infusions or water decoctions are prepared from the dried components. Currently, tablets and capsules of valerian, motherwort, etc. are produced. In addition, there are many herbal medications that are used to relieve nervous tension, but for proper treatment, you should consult a doctor.

Depending on the severity, causes and course of the disease, the doctor may prescribe the following groups of drugs to the patient:

Sedative (suppressing consciousness) drugs;
Cardiological (heart) drugs;
Metabolic agents;
Homeopathic preparations;
Nootropics;
Vitamins and medications that alleviate menopausal symptoms in women.

One of the most common drugs for nervous excitability is Glycine. This metabolic remedy improves brain function, has a positive effect on its performance, and eliminates emotional and mental stress. The drug helps well in situations close to critical (stressful). These include exams, conflicts in the family, etc. The drug restores sleep patterns, eliminating insomnia. Taking Glycine helps normalize mood. An important factor is that this drug does not belong to the group of narcotic drugs and does not cause addiction or dependence. In addition, Glycine is prescribed to both children, adolescents, and adults. The doctor chooses the drug dosage regimen individually. There is only one contraindication to taking the product – allergic reactions to the components of the product.

To prepare it, you need to take the components in the following proportions:

Calendula (dried flowers) - 0.5 cup;
Oregano (dried sprigs with flowers) – 0.5 cup;
Tansy (dried flowers and twigs) – 2 tsp;
Boiling water – 1 l.

The herbs must be thoroughly mixed and steamed in boiling water. Cover the container with a warm cloth and let it brew for 1 hour. Strain the product and bring the amount of decoction to the original 1 liter. Take 100 g in the morning and evening for 20 days.

Increased nervous excitability is considered a fairly common disorder of the nervous system. Increased nervous excitability is often observed in young children and adolescents. Male children and adolescents are more susceptible to this disorder. Symptoms of increased nervous excitability are disturbances in the movements of the eyeballs, asymmetry of the facial muscles, poor orientation in time and space, awkwardness and lack of composure. In addition, headaches and a slight delay in intellectual development are noted.

Increased nervous excitability usually develops if a person is exposed to frequent stress, lack of sleep, irritation and nervousness. All this can be expressed in frequent conflict situations with other people. Sometimes the cause of the development of increased nervous excitability is not emotional and mental factors, but anxious and suspicious character traits. However, often the first and second reasons are present in combination. Folding in progress vicious circle: lack of sleep – irritation – nervous stress – insomnia.

Insomnia is a hallmark of increased nervous excitability. Insomnia is determined by a person’s condition if he cannot fall asleep for three to four hours, he tosses around in bed, trying to find a comfortable body position. Also, a person may wake up in the middle of the night and lie there until the morning. with open eyes. In some cases, insomnia is considered as a symptom of some somatic pathology.

To prevent increased nervous excitability, it is necessary to adjust your sleep schedule, in particular, stick to the same bedtime. In other words, you should try to go to bed at the same time every day. In addition, it is necessary to maintain sufficient sleep duration - at least seven hours. Older people usually need five hours of sleep.

Remedies for increased nervous excitability

Calendula officinalis flowers have a calming effect on the nervous system. In addition, they lower blood pressure, eliminate pain in the temples and help you sleep. As a rule, for increased nervous excitability, take a tincture of calendula in alcohol, thirty drops twice a day.

A decoction of calendula flowers helps eliminate symptoms of increased nervous excitability. To prepare the decoction, you need to take two tablespoons of calendula, the same amount of oregano, and a tablespoon of tansy. Chop the herbs and mix. tablespoon herbal mixture Brew a glass of boiling water, leave for half an hour and strain. Take half a glass in the morning and evening. The course of therapy is three weeks. A decoction of pure calendula will help calm the nerves and eliminate insomnia with increased nervous excitability - brew a tablespoon of flowers with boiling water, leave for an hour, then strain thoroughly. Take half a glass of the infusion orally warm before bed.

Peppermint helps to calm your nerves. Take two parts of grass, two parts of watch, one part of hop cones and one part of valerian roots. Grind two tablespoons and brew cups of boiling water. Take according to? glasses twice a day. Take two tablespoons of valerian, three tablespoons of chamomile and five tablespoons of cumin. Leave a tablespoon of the mixture in boiling water for an hour, strain and take twice a day. glasses. Take a pharmacy tincture of hawthorn and valerian fruits and mix in equal proportions. Take twenty drops diluted in half a glass of water before going to bed.

Doctors are sounding the alarm - the number of patients diagnosed with “High Nervous Excitability Syndrome” is increasing exponentially and very soon may become a serious problem on a global scale. Any person is susceptible to this disorder of the nervous system, regardless of age and gender, although teenagers and male children suffer more often than others from nervous excitability. What causes the disorder and is it possible to fight it? In this article we will answer all your questions.

Symptoms of the disease

Persons with this disorder can be easily identified by external signs: asymmetry of the facial muscles, impaired movement of the eyeballs, poor orientation in space and time, as well as awkwardness and lack of composure. In addition, the patient complains of constant headaches, and an experienced doctor may note a slight delay in intellectual development. However, the main symptom of nervous excitability is insomnia. At the same time, we can talk about insomnia only when a person does not fall asleep for 3-4 hours and constantly turns over from side to side, trying to find a comfortable position. In addition, with insomnia, a person may wake up in the middle of the night and not sleep a wink until the morning.

Causes of the disease

This disorder occurs in adults and children. In adults, this disease develops against a background of constant stress, a frantic pace of life, lack of proper rest, and especially lack of sleep. As a rule, in 80% of cases, residents of megacities suffer from this disorder. Children are mainly susceptible to this disease, since their nervous system is not yet stable enough and cannot cope with a huge amount information received. The disease is aggravated by excessive loads in educational institutions, a turbulent situation within the family and, of course, sitting for many hours in front of the TV and computer. Computer games have a particularly negative effect on the psyche. In addition to emotional and mental factors, suspicious character traits can provoke increased nervous excitability. Moreover, in most cases, the doctor detects both of these reasons in the patient.

Treatment of the disease

To combat this disorder, modern medicine produces many drugs. The most popular medicines, such as or extract, have plant based. Besides, experienced specialist, depending on gender, age, and the cause of the nervous disorder, may recommend one of the following medications:

• sedatives in capsules and drops Barboval or;
• cardiac drug Tricardin;
• metabolic agent;
• homeopathic medicines Calm and Cardioica;
• nootropic drug;
• antimenopausal drug Klimadinon;
• vitamin preparation with metabolic action Magnefar B6.

You can also fight the syndrome of increased nervous excitability using traditional methods. To do this, you need to prepare a decoction of calendula flowers and leaves. To prepare the product you need to take 2 tbsp. dried calendula and oregano flowers, as well as 1 tbsp. tansy. After mixing the herbs, pour boiling water over them and leave for an hour. You need to take the product ½ cup 2 times a day for three weeks.

Disease prevention

Increased nervous excitability is not a diagnosis that requires serious medical treatment. It's just minor upset requiring correction, including through normalization of life. To do this, you need to regulate your sleep schedule, which means going to bed at a certain time and sleeping at least 8 hours a day. In addition, you should avoid worries and stress, reduce the time spent at the computer and regularly take walks in nature. Peace and tranquility to you!