Folk remedies for treating epilepsy

Epilepsy is a relatively common disease. There are many causes of epilepsy, which are often related to abnormal discharges of nerves in the brain. Epilepsy is commonly known as epilepsy. This disease is relatively difficult to treat, especially for some infants and young children. Epilepsy should be taken more seriously. We should pay attention to timely and good treatment. During the regular treatment process, some folk remedies can also be used.

Folk remedies for epilepsy

1. Realgar, alum, cicada shells, and centipedes. Grind the above medicines into fine powder. Adults take 2 grams each time, twice a day, with boiled water. Children: 1 gram each time, or increase or decrease as appropriate. If you have loose stools or spit saliva after taking the medicine, it is normal and there is no need to stop the medicine.

2. Turtle, vegetable oil and refined salt in appropriate amounts. Boil the turtle, remove the shell, add vegetable oil and refined salt and cook until soft. Eat the soup and meat all at once when there is no attack. Use it for 7 consecutive days.

3. Castor (red stem and red leaf) root, 2 eggs, and appropriate amount of black vinegar. Crack the eggs, fry them, then add black vinegar and castor root and fry together. Take 1 dose daily, divided into two portions, for several days.

4. Olives, turmeric, and alum. Mash the olives, add appropriate amount of water to turmeric and cook into a thick juice. After removing the residue, simmer it twice on low heat. After filtering, add alum and collect it into a paste. Take 1 spoon each time with warm water, 2 or 3 times a day. Used to treat childhood epilepsy.

5. Bamboo juice, Ophiopogon japonicus, and rice. Boil Ophiopogon japonicus in water and extract the juice. Add water to japonica rice and cook it into porridge. Add bamboo juice and Ophiopogon japonicus juice and boil it before it is cooked. Eat it all at once. Mainly used to treat grand mal epileptic seizures.

6. Prepare 30 grams of Acorus calamus, then boil it with water. Take one dose a day. It is suitable for common epilepsy.

7. Grind alum into fine powder, take 3-5 grams each time, 3 times a day. Suitable for general epilepsy.

8. 0.3-0.5 grams of borax, 3 times a day. Suitable for general epilepsy.

9. Roast the earthworm and grind it into fine powder. 6 grams each time, 1 to 2 times a day. Suitable for treating mild or intermittent epilepsy.

10. Take 30g of Salvia miltiorrhiza decoction in water, 1 dose per day. Suitable for all types of epilepsy.

What causes epilepsy?

1. Congenital diseases: such as chromosomal abnormalities, hereditary metabolic disorders, brain malformations and congenital hydrocephalus.

2. Trauma: Craniocerebral birth injury is a common cause of symptomatic epilepsy in infancy. Contusion, hemorrhage and ischemia can also cause local brain tissue softening, which may become an epileptic focus in the future. About 5% of adults develop epilepsy after closed head trauma; the incidence of epilepsy in severe and open head trauma is even higher, reaching about 30%.

3. Intracranial tumors: For patients who develop epilepsy after the age of 30, brain tumors are a common cause, in addition to brain trauma, especially slow-growing gliomas, meningiomas, astrocytomas, etc.

4. Except for epilepsy caused by vascular malformations which occurs at a younger age, epilepsy due to cerebrovascular disease is more common in middle-aged and elderly people. Both hemorrhagic and ischemic cerebrovascular diseases can cause epilepsy. About 5% of patients develop epilepsy about one year after the onset of the disease.

5. In daily life, lack of dietary moderation, changes in temperature, invasion of cold and heat, and other dietary and living factors are also important problems in epilepsy attacks. For example, frequent excessive consumption of greasy food, overeating, excessive consumption of raw, cold and unhygienic food, etc. may all be causes of the disease.