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What are different home remedies and exercises for Back Pain? Part 2

Causes of Backache
- Sedentary living habits
- Hazardous work patterns
- Psychological conditions associated with emotional stress.
- Spasms of the muscles
- Bad posture or illness
- Overweight.
- Muscular Tension, Straining of the Joints, Poor Posture.
- Kidney or Prostate Problems, Female Disorders, Influenza.
- Sitting for a Long Time, High Heels.

10.) Back Stretches for Back Pain
- Lay on one side and point the bottom leg out straight.
- Draw the top leg up toward your chest.
- Take your bottom arm and pull the knee toward the floor.
- Twist your shoulders the opposite direction.
- Take your top hand and push in spots up and down your body to stretch the spine as you are twisting.
- Then do the other side.
- Do each side for about a minute.

11.) Prolotherapy Natural Remedy for Back Pain
- Prolotherapy involves injecting a natural irritant into the injured area of the spine.
- This stimulates the body’s natural repair mechanism to stimulate growth and replacement of damaged tissues.

12.) Cold Compresses
- Use cold compress using an ice pack.

13.) MA Roller Natural Back Pain Home Remedy
- Buy yourself a MA Roller.
- These work really good for all types of back pain.

14.) Sleep on Floor for Back Pain
- Sleep on the floor for a night or two.

15.) Massage as Home Remedy for Pain in the Back
- Getting a massage can provide great comfort and relief.
- The best way to have a massage is for the person giving the massage to use massage oil.
- There are many types of oils but eucalyptus oil is really good.

16.) Hot Milk Home Remedy for Back Pain
- Drink water or hot milk with soda, salt, and powered dry ginger (sonth) mixed in it to help cure your sore back.

17.) Fish Oil Natural Remedy for Back Pain
- Taking a fish oil capsule every day.
- It is an inexpensive way to help with back pain, wrist aches, and joint pain.
- Omega 3 fatty acids have been shown to reduce inflammation of all types.
- You can also get this as flax seed oil.

18.) Metal Sheet Back Pain Home Remedy
- Take a metalized heat reflecting sheet and put it between the mattress and bottom sheet of your bed.
- This will help apply extra heat to your back.
- This works better than even electric heating pads or hot water bottles.

19.) Hand Towel Back Pain Natural Cure
- Take a wet hand towel, ring it out, place it in the microwave for two to three minutes.
- Put it in a zip lock bag and then wrap a dry towel around it.
- Put this on your sore back and it should help relieve it.
- This is a great natural cure for back pain as well as for other body aches.

20.) Knuckle Rub Natural Home Remedy for Back Pain
- When you’re taking a shower, put some kind of slippery gel on your back and rub your back with your knuckles.
- This will help get all the knots and sore spots out of your back.

21.) Therma Care Natural Cure for Back Pain
- Therma Care heat wraps work great on relieving a sore back.
- They help give your muscles warmth and last up to 10 hours.

22.) Horsetail Natural Remedy for Back Pain
- Have horsetail (a weed type) bath.
- Then wrap yourself in a towel and go to bed.

23.) Tennis Ball Home Remedies for Back Pain
- Lie down on a tennis ball where your back is hurting.
- Move the tennis ball around to where each spot hurts.
- The pain should slowly fade away.

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What are different home remedies for Back Pain? Part 1

Causes of Backache
- Sedentary living habits
- Hazardous work patterns
- Psychological conditions associated with emotional stress.
- Spasms of the muscles
- Bad posture or illness
- Overweight.
- Muscular Tension, Straining of the Joints, Poor Posture.
- Kidney or Prostate Problems, Female Disorders, Influenza.
- Sitting for a Long Time, High Heels.

Backaches can also originate from:
- the nerves
- ligaments
- tendons and joints
- the spine

Home remedies for Back Pain

1.) Backache Treatment using Garlic
- Two or three cloves should be taken every morning to get results.
- Oil prepared from garlic should be rubbed on the back which will give great relief.
- This oil is prepared by frying ten cloves of garlic in 60 ml of oil in a frying pan.
- Any of the oils, which are used as rubefacients, such as mustard oil, sesame oil, and coconut oil can be used.
- They should be fried on a slow fire till they are brown.
- After the oil has cooled, it should be applied vigorously on the back.
- It should then be allowed to remain there for three hours.
- The patient can take a warm-water bath.
- This treatment should be continued for at least fifteen days.

2.) Backache Treatment using Lemon
- The juice of one lemon should be mixed with common salt and taken by the patient twice daily.

3.) Backache Treatment using Chebulic Myroblan
- A small piece of chebulic myroblan should be eaten after meals.

4.) Backache Treatment using Vitamin C
- About 2,000 mg of this vitamin should be taken daily.
- Improvement will be noticeable within two days.
- Vitamin C is also known for its ability to boost the immune system.

5.) Backache Treatment using Potato
- Raw potato is an ancient home remedy for incapacitating pain in the lumbar region.
- Application of raw potato in the form of a poultice has been found very effective.

6.) Avoid Smoking and Tobacco Intake
- Smoking or taking tobacco in any form should be given up.
- They affect the proper functioning of the body.

7.) Hot Fomentation and Alternate Sponging
- Application of heat to the back will also give immediate relief.
- A hot bath is also known for its ability to relieve stress as well as ease muscular tension.
- Allowing hot water to flow down the back is known to be beneficial.

8.) Yogic Asanas are also Useful
Yogic asanas which are beneficial in the treatment of backache are
- Bhujangasana
- Shalabhasana
- Halasana
- Uttanpadasana
- Shavasana

9.) Sleep as Natural Remedy
- Sleep will relax you and give your body the chance to recoup from the day before.
- It will revive and help stimulate the circulation in your back
- It will also give a chance to heal any damaged tissue or muscle.

The diet of those suffering from backache should consist of:
- a salad of raw vegetables such as tomato, carrot, cabbage, cucumber, radish, lettuce.
- at least two steamed or lightly cooked vegetables such as cauliflower, cabbage, carrot, spinach.
- plenty of fruits, except bananas.
- patient should have four meals daily.
- fruit and milk are advised for breakfast.
- steamed vegetables and whole wheat tortilla for lunch.
- fresh fruit or fruit juice in the evening.
- a bowl of raw salad and sprouts during dinner.

Avoid Fatty, Spicy Fried foods and Processed Foods
- fatty, spicy, and fried foods
- curd, sweetmeats and sugar
- condiments
- tea and coffee
- processed food for preservation

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.