What are the folk remedies for treating epilepsy?

Epilepsy is a chronic brain disease that has a significant impact on patients, mainly affecting their limb control. There are many causes of epilepsy. Some causes of epilepsy cannot be cured. The only way is to alleviate the symptoms and reduce the recurrence of the disease through effective methods. Using folk remedies to treat epilepsy is actually effective for epilepsy with certain causes.

1. Treat epilepsy and other diseases. Use cooked moxa to moxibustion between the front and back genitals. The number of moxibustion treatments increases or decreases with age.

2. Folk remedies for treating epilepsy caused by wind and phlegm. Use two cents of gansui, grind it into powder, and put it into a pig's heart. Tie tightly, loosen the paper, and simmer until cooked. Take out the medicine, add one qian of cinnabar powder, and divide it into four portions. Take each serving with half-used pig heart decoction. The effect is if the bad things are discharged from the stool. Otherwise, the patient needs to take the medicine again. The name of this prescription is “Sui Xin Dan”.

3. Epilepsy and wind disease. Mash calamus into powder. Weigh three coins.

4. Prone to anger, madness, fright, evil and insane. Boil iron in water and drink it.

5. Epilepsy and convulsions. Use one or two grams of orpiment and fried lead oxide, grind them into powder, add a little musk, boil it into a paste in half a liter of cow's milk, mash it carefully, and make it into pills as big as sesame seeds. Take three to five pills each time with warm water.

6. Madness and evil diseases. Grind the sunflower into powder and take a small amount each time with warm wine.

7. Epilepsy and fever. Use dry indigo and water-condensing stone, grind into powder in equal parts, add water and mix well, apply on the head.

8. Epilepsy. Use 2.5 qian of raw Chuanwutou (peeled) and 0.5 liang of Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, grind them into powder, add pig heart blood and make into pills as big as walnuts. Take one pill each time with ginger soup.