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What are different home remedies for Amnesia?

Amnesia is a condition that implies total or partial loss of memory.
There are different reasons and causes of amnesia such as organic or functional.
- Organic amnesia is caused due to damage to your brain by external factors which can be due to physical reasons like trauma or disease.
- Functional amnesia is due to psychological factors.

There are different types of Amnesia
- Anterograde amnesia
- Emotional/hysterical amnesia
- Lacunar amnesia
- Korsakoff syndrome
- Posthypnotic amnesia
- Retrograde amnesia
- Transient global amnesia

Causes of Amnesia
- Head injury
- Severe illness
- High fever
- Seizures
- Emotional shock or hysteria
- Alcohol-related brain damage
- Drugs
- Stroke
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Brain surgery

Home remedies for Amnesia

1.) Rosemary
- Rosemary is the best home remedy for amnesia.
- This herb is also known as the herb of remembrance,
- It can effectively cure mental fatigue and forgetfulness.

2.) Rosemary tea
- Prepare rosemary tea by adding 1-2 teaspoons of the herb to a cup (225ml) of boiling water.
- Let it steep for 5 minutes, strain the decoction and add a squirt of lime juice.
- Drink the tea once or twice, on a daily basis.

3.) Perennail booti
- This herb is also helpful in curing forgetfulness.
- Dry about seven grams of this herb in a shady place.
- Grind it, along with seven kernels of almonds and half a gram of pepper.
- Add water to form a decoction.
- Strain the decoction and add twenty-five gm sugar.
- Drink this mixture, on an empty stomach, every morning, for about a fortnight.

4.) Walnuts
- Walnuts work as effective memory enhancers.
- Consuming 20 gm walnuts every day, in the morning, will prove to be highly beneficial.
- If you add 10 gm of raisins or figs to walnuts, it is more beneficial.

5.) Almonds
- These are traditionally, considered to be the most effective memory booster.
- Soak about 10 almonds overnight.
- Peel off the brown skin in the morning and make a paste of it.
- Intake this paste, along with a tsp of butter, every morning.
- This works as a powerful memory enhancer and reduces needless anger.

6.) Holy basil leaves
- These leaves prove to be an effective memory enhancer.
- Boil the leaves in water and strain the decoction.
- Drink the decoction, after it cools down.
- You can also eat the leaves directly, after washing them with water.

7.) Brahmi
- Prepare a decoction of the herb, by steeping it in boiling water and straining the water.
- Let it cool down and consume it in the morning, on an empty stomach.

8.) Biofeedback
- This has proved to be a useful technique.
- In this process, the patient is made aware of his quantifiable bodily functions such as blood pressure, heart rate, blood sugar and skin temperature.
- This raises the patient’s awareness as well as his conscious control of the involuntary physiological activities.

9.) Other remedies
- Patients suffering from amnesia should try to memorize this and recall everything, first thing in the morning.
- The right diet also acts as a memory booster.
- Include a lot of phosphorous-rich fruits in your diet, such as dates, oranges, figs, grapes, apple, almonds and walnuts.
- They help activate the brain cell and reduce forgetfulness.
- The most simple of all home remedies for amnesia is to have a tsp of honey, sprinkled with finely grounded black pepper, once a day. This will also help enhance memory.

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What are different home remedies for Alcoholism?

What is Alcoholism?
- Alcoholism is the physical and mental addiction to alcohol.
- Prolonged use of alcohol will affect both physical and mental conditions of the person.
- There are also various social implications from their associated behaviors.
- Physically, it affects the digestive system, pancreas, nerves, and heart.

Common Causes of Alcoholism
- Depression
- Schizophrenia
- Genetics
- Inheritance
- Established behavior patterns
- Environment
- Damaged relationships

Home remedies for Alcoholism

1.) Alcoholism treatment using Grapes
- The restricted diet of grapes for about a month is a vital home remedy for alcoholism.
- As this fruit contains a very pure form of alcohol, it acts like a healthy alternative to alcohol.
- The ideal process is to take three meals a day of fresh grapes every five hours.

2.) Alcoholism treatment using Apples
- Apples, when eaten regularly and liberally, helps in removing intoxication.
- It reduces craving for wines or any other kind of liquor.

3.) Alcoholism treatment using Dates
- Dates are beneficial in treating alcoholism.
- Rub together 3-4 dates in half a glass of water and drink.
- Have this drink two times a day for a period of about a month.

4.) Alcoholism treatment using Bitter Gourd
- Juice extracted from bitter gourd leaves is the perfect remedy for alcohol intoxication.
- It is basically useful for the damaged liver.
- Mix three teaspoons of the juice with a glass of butter milk and consume.
- Consume this every morning for a month.

5.) Alcoholism treatment using Celery
- The juice of raw celery creates a sobering effect on the alcoholic patient.
- In half a glass of water, mix an equal quantity of celery juice and drink.
- It should be consumed once every day for about a month.

6.) Alcoholism treatment using Buttermilk
- You can drink buttermilk every morning with empty stomach.
- It is quite useful and effective home remedy for treating alcoholism.

7.) Exercise
- Exercise is a way to get healthy body.
- The alcoholic should do some light exercise at home.
- He can also do yoga asana and meditation as this will help him to make a strong will power.

8.) Smoking
Those who are suffering from alcoholism should avoid smoking too as it increases the wish to drink alcohol.

Diet for Alcoholism Recovery
- It is most important to feed ample amounts of nutrients back in the body of the alcoholic.
- The patient should be on an “all liquid” diet.
- This diet is preferably juices, for a minimum period of 10 to 12 days.
- The patient should start on a diet of several small meals a day rather than three large ones.
- The alcoholic needs to exercise regularly.
- Include outdoor activities in their daily schedule.
- A healthy diet for alcoholism must include foods such as wholegrain cereals, legumes and pulses, fresh fruits and vegetables.
- A glass of fresh fruit juice and eating healthy snacks like candy or Soya beans etc will curb the cravings of having alcohol.
- Avoid refined food products like white flour, white sugar, white rice, macaroni products.
- This can be substituted with brown rice, brown sugar, leafy vegetables and other whole grain products.

What are different home remedies for eczema? Part 3

- Eczema is also called as dermatitis.
- It is a group of skin disorders.
- Eczema causes the skin to be inflamed and irritated.
- It occurs mostly in infants and children but adults are no exception.

There are different types of eczema like
- Atopic eczema
- Allergic contact dermatitis
- Irritant contact dermatitis
- Infantile seborrhoeic eczema
- Adult seborrhoeic eczema
- Varicose eczema
- Discoid eczema

Home Remedies for Eczema

Different types of cleansing
19. Herbal Cleansing
- Using herbs to gently purify the digestive and elimination systems of the body.

20. Fasting
- This gives your body and digestion a chance to rest.
- Most people do a vegetable juice fast or a raw vegetable and fruit fast.
- Some brave souls have done water fast but this is more intense and draining for the body.

21. Colonics
- This is a procedure done by a trained professional.
- The professional irrigates the colon with water.
- This helps to release toxins and impurities that may be lodged in the walls of the colon.

22. Water is nature’s #1 natural remedy for eczema
- Drink more water to cleanse and hydrate your body and keep your skin moist and supple.
- Take a steam bath to open pores and hydrate your skin.
- Be sure to moisturize afterwards.
- Use cold compresses to relieve the pain, stinging and itching of eczema inflammations.
- Wrap your skin in a cotton towel that is wetted with cool water to help soothe arms or legs that have a lot of eczema inflammations.

23. Other Home remedies
- Wear cotton clothes, to allow your skin to breathe more easily.
- Some people have found mudpacks to be very effective in treating eczema.
- Another method sometimes used to heal eczema is with light therapy.
- Taking a sun bath is another method.
- Moisturize your skin regularly.
- Use a good hypoallergenic moisturizer.

24. Some homemade pastes and solutions
- Apply a mixture of 1 teaspoon camphor and 1 teaspoon sandalwood paste on the rashes.
- Apply nutmeg paste to the affected areas.
- Put natural vitamin E on the affected skin.
- Zinc taken orally and applied directly on the affected skin is effective.
- Both shark cartilage and lotion of blueberry leaves reduce inflammation.
- Use pine tar soap to wash the affected skin.
- Drink tomato juice daily, it will cure the symptoms in a few days.

25. Homemade Lotion
- Make a lotion out of crushed dandelion leaves, spearmint leaves, and a few drops of oil.
- Apply this lotion to your skin and allow it to remain on for at least 30 minutes before rinsing it off with cold water.
- This can act as an effective eczema cure.

26. Cleansing Scrub
- Make a cleansing scrub by soaking a handful of nuts in a small quantity of water.
- Blend these nuts along with half an avocado as avocados contain healthy oils that help to protect and moisturize your skin.
- Massage your skin gently with this creamy natural exfoliating paste.
- You can then allow it to remain on your skin for about 10 minutes before you rinse it off.
- You can add a few drops of fresh lemon juice to this paste to help cleanse your skin of the uppermost layer of dead skin cells.

27. Papaya paste
- Another useful and easily available ingredient for eczema treatment would be papaya.
- Mashed papaya seeds can be applied to the areas of skin that are affected to reduce the itchiness.