what are some herbal remedies used to treat Lupus?
Posted by pano | Under Medicinal Herbs Monday Sep 6, 2010A friend was just dianosed with Lupus. During a short on-line search, I found nothing regarding herbs being used for treatment.
A friend was just dianosed with Lupus. During a short on-line search, I found nothing regarding herbs being used for treatment.
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Hi DLD
Here are some ideas to heal the issue. Also learning about detoxifying the blood by doing colon and liver cleanses will change your health forever.
Cause
Food allergies (there is a 100 percent correlation between lupus and food allergies), rheumatoid arthritis, other connective tissue diseases, parasites, candidiasis, bowel problems, and digestive enzyme deficiencies can create symptoms that mimic or exacerbate SLE. Migraines, epilepsy, and psychoses must also be ruled out before a proper course of treatment can be decided upon.
Both forms of lupus primarily strike young women (90% of cases) and young children.
The drugs hydralazine, procainamide, and beta blockers can cause false-positive readings of SLE, and can also produce a lupus-like condition that disappears when the drugs are no longer taken. Birth control pills and environmental stresses can also exacerbate lupus symptoms.
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Natural Cures
Diet: Eat an organic, whole foods diet. Also avoid overeating and limit your intake of dairy, beef products, and polyunsaturated oils. Also screen for food allergies and avoid all foods to which you are allergic or sensitive. Increase your intake of vegetables, especially green, yellow, and orange, and consume non-farm-raised fish several times a week.
Herbs: Supplementation with Swedish bitters with each meal can increase hydrochloric acid production. Also drink an infusion of nettle twice a day. Other useful herbs include echinacea, goldenseal, licorice, pau d`arco, and red clover
Hydrotherapy: Hydrotherapy is the application of water, ice, steam and hot and cold temperatures to maintain and restore health. Treatments include full body immersion, steam baths, saunas, sitz baths, colonic irrigation and the application of hot and/or cold compresses. Hydrotherapy is effective for treating a wide range of conditions and can easily be used in the home as part of a self-care program. Many Naturopathic Physicians, Physical Therapists and Day Spas use Hydrotherapy as part of treatment.
Hyperthermia: Hyperthermia involves artificially creating fever in the body for the purpose of boosting immune function. Hyperthermia can be a highly effective method of eliminating toxins and heavy metals, as well as infectious bacteria and viruses that cannot survive in elevated body temperatures.
*Purified water is essential for any hydrotherapy or hyperthermia treatment. Remedies for Treating Chlorinated Bath Water offers clear instructions and recommendations.
Juice Therapy: Drink the juice of carrot, celery, flaxseed oil, black currant oil, and garlic.
Nutritional Supplementation: Hydrochloric acid (HCL) deficiency is common in people with lupus, therefore HCL supplements with each meal is advised. Other useful nutrients include vitamin A with beta carotene, vitamin C and bioflavonoids, vitamin B complex, vitamin B5, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, calcium, magnesium, selenium, zinc, essential fatty acids, proteolytic enzymes taken away from meals, digestive enzymes taken with meals, and the amino acids L-cysteine, L-methionine, and L-cystine.
Topical Treatment: PABA cream applied topically can help ease symptoms.
Best of health to you
A wide array of supplements, taken together on a long-term basis, may relieve symptoms, slow disease progression, and lessen the need for conventional drugs, which frequently have serious side effects. All can be used with conventional prescription drugs for lupus, but because lupus is a serious disease, take supplements only under ongoing medical supervision. Benefits may be noticed within a month.
Diet – Animal-based proteins (beef and milk) seem to be the prime offenders in aggravating the symptoms of Lupus. However, certain plant-based proteins appear also to be. These include soy beans, corn, spinach and carrots.
Alfalfa sprouts and legumes, to a lesser extent, should also be avoided.
Lupus flare-ups have also been reported after the ingestion of large amounts of foods containing psoralens (celery, celery salt, parsnips and figs).
Gluten free diet : A one-month trial period of avoiding dairy products and foods containing gluten/gliadin should indicate whether there is going to be any change in symptoms or lab values in individual patients. If there are improvements then these foods will need to be avoided on a permanent basis.
Vitamin B Complex: 1 pill each morning with food.Look for a B-50 complex with 50 mcg vitamin B12 and biotin; 400 mcg folic acid; and 50 mg all other B vitamins.
Vitamin C/Vitamin E : 1,000 mg vitamin C,three times a day; 400 IU vitamin E daily. Vitamin C helps boost the effects of vitamin E.
Flaxseed Oil: 1 tbsp. (14 grams) a day. Can be mixed with food; take in the morning.
Fish Oils: 1,000 mg 3 times a day.Take with food.
Evening Primrose Oil: 1,000 mg 3 times a day. Can substitute 1,000 mg borage oil once a day.
DHEA : 100 mg each morning. Take only under medical supervision.
Selenium : 200 mcg a day.Don’t exceed 600 mcg daily; higher doses may be toxic.
Zinc/Copper: 30 mg zinc and 2 mg copper a day.Add copper only when using zinc longer than 1 month.
MSM tablet: 1000mg, 3/day. It has been shown to be clinically helpful in lupus.
A Yahoo search for lupus + "natural remedies" will yield at least 10,358 results
A few years ago I had all the symptoms of Lupus. My face had broken out with the tell-tale wolf pattern and I had all the other signs. I was using prescription meds and ointments to control it without success.
I had been growing alfalfa sprouts in my sprouter and eating them daily plus taking alfalfa capsules for arthritis. When my capsules ran out and I ran out of seeds for sprouting, I discovered that most of my Lupus symptoms disappeared as well.
I no longer eat alfalfa sprouts or take the caps. I have not had an episode of Lupus since.
Lupus is potentially deadly. Herbs like echinacea and goldenseal can make it worse. So can alfalfa sprouts.
In lupus, the immune system turns against the self. It destroys organs.
Antioxidants may help, but lupus patients need to take their medications and always consult with their rheumatologist about supplements and possible interactions with their meds and the possibility of making the lupus more active.
Lupus is serious and not a condition for amateurs.
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