Neuralgia is known as irritation or inflammation of one or more nerves that causes sudden, stabbing, and very intense pain that starts, first, at one point and then spreads to other nearby areas.
In the case of facial neuralgia, pain can begin in the cheekbones and then can be reflected to the chin or forehead.
When pain affects the shoulder, it may spread to the arm or ribs.
The discomforts usually evolve in the form of crises or attacks which can be triggered by diseases (for example the virus Herpes zoster that affects intercostal nerves, a bad cold or a tooth with advanced decay), wound healing, exposure to sudden changes in temperature (cold or heat), certain movements (such as when lifting a weight adopting an inappropriate posture), calcium deficiency or vitamin B, excessive alcohol consumption, stress, nervousness or a depression.
Even changes in the vertebrae, a misalignment of the jaw or a dislocation of the joints that pinch nerves or tense or contracted muscles can cause neuralgia.
folk remedies
remedy for neuralgia #1: Boil, for 5 minutes, 1 tablespoon of St. John’s wort in a cup of water. Take at a rate of 2 or 3 cups a day.
remedy for neuralgia #2: Macerate 100 grams of flowers of chamomile for 3 hours in a liter of olive oil heated in a water bath. Then in a casserole, filter the maceration once or twice and store in a bottle or jar with an airtight seal or screw cap. Then, impregnate the fingers with a few drops of this oil and practice, as necessary, a massage lasting several minutes in the area where the neuralgia occurs.
remedy for neuralgia #3: Place a compress or gauze pad with hot water on the neuralgia area (1 minute). Once the heat is lost, place another compress. Repeat the operation five times until some improvement is noted (remedy of hydrotherapy).
remedy for neuralgia #4: Drink a sage or lemon balm tea. To do this, you must boil, for 5 minutes, two tablespoons of sage or lemon balm in a cup of water. Take this infusion, while it is still warm, three times a day.
remedy for neuralgia #5: Boil oat flakes and prepare a hot poultice with this preparation. Apply to the area with neuralgia.
remedy for neuralgia #6: Prepare compresses with clay. To do this, half a glass of powdered clay must be poured into a container (not metal), and then covered with hot water, which must be tolerable to the touch. Then, it is left to rest for a few minutes, after which it can be applied directly to the painful area.
remedy for neuralgia #7: Mix 50 ml of St John’s wort oil, 5 drops of lavender and 5 drops of lemon balm or rose oil. Apply a gentle massage on the affected parts.
remedy for neuralgia #8: Rub the area with neuralgia with essential oil of rose or lemon balm diluted in sunflower oil. (Remedy of aromatherapy)
remedy for neuralgia #9: Pour 2 tablespoons of juniper leaves into a cup of boiling water. Cover, strain and drink a cup a day.
remedy for neuralgia #10: Put a candle inside a glass and light it for a few minutes. Then put out and take out the candle. Apply, by way of suction cups upside down, the glass on the affected area.
remedy for neuralgia #eleven: Boil 3 tablespoons of calendula in half a liter of water for 5 minutes. Then, soak a cotton cloth with this preparation and apply to the affected area.
remedy for neuralgia #12: Cut a small pineapple and extract two slices and cut a cucumber into pieces. Wash and crush a bunch of endive. Place all the ingredients in the blender together with a glass of water. Blend for several minutes. Strain and drink two glasses a day until the pain improves.
remedy for neuralgia #13: Extract the pulp from a small pumpkin and heat it in a bain-marie for a few minutes. Apply immediately, as a poultice, on the affected area. Place a cloth over the pulp of the pumpkin so that the heat is maintained.
remedy for neuralgia #14: Boil, for 5 minutes, 1 teaspoon of white willow bark, one of meadowsweet flowers and one of elderflowers in a cup of water. After that time, remove from heat, cover and let cool. Drink a cup twice a day
Read: Remedies for facial paralysis
remedy for neuralgia #fifteen: There is a great remedy to eliminate muscle pain of nervous origin:
remedy for neuralgia #16: Pour 1 tablespoon of leaves birch in a cup of boiling water. Cover and let cool. Drink 2 cups a day of this infusion. Take this remedy until you feel completely relieved.
remedy for neuralgia #17: Take, on an empty stomach, 1/2 glass of wormwood infusion
remedy for neuralgia #18: Sleep with a cushion of hops.
remedy for neuralgia #19: Wash a handful of leaves from the avocado tree and pour into 1 cup of boiling water. Cover and let macerate for 12 hours. Then heat this infusion again and place it still hot, using a soaked cloth, on the affected part. Apply this remedy several times until you feel relief.
Remedy for neuralgia #20: Extract the juice of 1 onion and soak a cloth with this liquid. Then, apply it, by gentle friction or in the form of a hot poultice, on the affected parts.
Remedy for neuralgia # 21: Wash several fresh comfrey leaves and then mash with a little vinegar and rose oil until you get a paste. Apply directly to the forehead or affected area.
Remedy for neuralgia #22: Lightly boil a couple of fresh lavender leaves. Then, lie down and apply, still warm, on the affected area for 30 minutes.
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Remedy for neuralgia # 23: Cook, over low heat, 1/2 teaspoon of powdered root of cohosh in a cup of water for 15 minutes. Take 1 cup a day. Do not take this remedy if you suffer from blood pressure or blood sugar problems.
Remedy for neuralgia #24 Grate a piece of ginger root until it becomes a powder. Mix with a little cornmeal and hot (but tolerable) water. Place, as a poultice, on the affected area.
Remedy for neuralgia #25 Heat over very low heat for 20 minutes a handful of bay leaves in a little olive oil . Avoid getting the oil too hot. After that time, remove from heat and leave the leaves in the oil for a while. Strain and rub a little on the affected area.
Remedy for neuralgia #26 Apply fresh leaves of achiote on the affected area several times a day
Remedy for neuralgia #27 Crush the cochlearia root and mix with a little hot water. Then, apply, as a poultice, on the painful area.
Remedy for neuralgia #28 Mix, in equal parts, egg yolks poplar, cone chamomile, angelica, borage and cumin and extract 1 tablespoon. Pour into a cup of boiling water and let stand for 10 minutes and strain. Drink at the rate of two cups a day, one when you get up and one when you go to bed.
Remedy for neuralgia #29 Drink two daily cups of the infusion with 15 g of gentian root, 20 g of rosemary, 10 g of aromatic calamus and 20 g of water clover liter of water
Remedy for neuralgia #30 Massage with a few drops of olive oil camphor, anise, cayeputi, eucalyptus, geranium, ginger, chamomile, marjoram or mint mixed in a tablespoon of almond oil. You can also inhale with these oils. These are aromatherapy remedies.
Remedy for neuralgia #31 Boil 40 g of ash leaves in 1 liter of water for 10 minutes and let it rest for another 5 minutes. Place, as a poultice, on the affected area
Also read: Remedies for neuritis or inflammation of a nerve
Remedy for neuralgia #32 Boil 70 g of flowers of hop in 1 liter of water for 10 minutes. Apply, in the form of a poultice, in the area where the pain occurs
Remedy for neuralgia #33 Macerate 50 g of peppers in 100 g of 60° alcohol for 48 hours and strain. Apply using poultices on the affected area.
Remedy for neuralgia #34 Boil 25 g of valerian roots in 1 liter of water for half an hour and then strain. Drink 2 cups a day.
Remedy for neuralgia #35 Leave covered for 7 hours in a container 60 g of verbena and 1 liter of vinegar that is boiling. Apply as poultices in the areas that present pain.
Remedy for neuralgia #36 Cook 1/2-1 kg of horse chestnut bark for 30 minutes in 5 liters of water, strain and add to the bath
Remedy for neuralgia #37 Pour a handful of crushed flowers, of poppy, flowers and leaves of mint and flowers of spirea, and a dozen heads, crushed, of chamomile in a liter of water. Boil for 10 minutes. Let stand and strain. If the neuralgia is very intense, add a handful of ranunculus. Apply with compresses on the affected area
Remedy for neuralgia #38 Grind a handful of fresh leaves of hemlock until you get a fine paste. Then pass through a fine strainer or sieve. Then grate about 300 g of cultivated carrot root into a pulp. Mix with the hemlock in such a way that a homogeneous mass is obtained and apply, as a poultice, on the affected area with gauze.
Remedy for neuralgia #39 Take the following homeopathic remedies:
- Aconitum napellus: strong individuals with pain that worsens with cold. The symptoms appear very abruptly.
- Ammonium muriaticun: fat constitutional type.
- Aranea diadema: weekly pain that improves with dry weather.
- Colocynthis: irritable constitutional type. It gets worse with suppressed anger.
- Kalmia latifolia: symptoms are worse at night and with movement. The pain usually appears on the right side of the body. Skinny, nervous guys whose aches are made worse by the cold.
recommendations
Recommendations to prevent neuralgia
People who have suffered from neuralgia know how painful it can be. Hence, we offer a series of recommendations to prevent it:
Maintain a balanced diet rich in whole grains
Consume beer yeastsince this dietary supplement contains group B vitamins which is very effective in preventing neuralgia.
Not to drink alcoholas it can have detrimental effects on the nerves.
Regularly practice light exercises to distend and relax the muscles such as shrinking and stretching the legs and turning the joints of the feet more if you have a propensity to suffer from neuralgia in those areas.
Avoid chewing gum, eating hard candy, and clenching your teeth if you are prone to facial neuralgia.
Recommendations in case you have neuralgia
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