Ways to strengthen the nerves and psyche using folk remedies

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And today we will talk about ways for a person to preserve his mental, emotional, physical health against the backdrop of modern crazy rhythms of big cities, which are fraught with unforeseen sources of danger in the form of stress or nervous disorders that give rise to anxiety, depression, and irritability in a person.

Constant emotional overload haunts not only adults, but also children in our lives. Their nervous system cannot withstand psychological discomfort, even with the self-preservation instinct turned on to the maximum.

Therefore, one of the ways to overcome a person’s clot of negative emotions, which destroys everything bright in him, is to use folk remedies for nerves and stress.

What does the concept of stress or nervous disorder include, what are their causes and symptoms?

How a person, with the help of folk remedies, can protect himself from their negative effects, you will learn about this a little later.

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Taking sedatives

Treatment with sedatives helps relieve symptoms, but cannot remove the cause. When the body is exposed to stress for a long time, its protective functions are weakened. As a result, a person often begins to suffer from infectious diseases, allergies appear, and a tumor may form in the brain or other organs.

The main cause of stress is a lack of vitamins, which help the nervous system recover quickly. Nerve cells regenerate very slowly. Additional stimulation of their development helps to avoid negative consequences.

Vitamins

Vitamins will help get rid of stress and depression. Each vitamin is responsible for a specific function and helps to effectively strengthen the nervous system. The main building components of nerve cells are B vitamins. It is recommended to eat foods high in these substances. You can find complex vitamin supplements in pharmacies. We will consider B vitamins and their role in the functioning of the central nervous system below:

1. Thiamine or B1 is responsible for normalizing sleep and increasing energy tone. Found in foods such as garlic, nuts, legumes, and milk.
2. B6 is responsible for building nerve cells. With its deficiency, allergic reactions often develop, seizures may occur, and developmental delays in children. Found in large quantities in dairy products, soy, cabbage.
3. Cobalamin or B12 helps improve psychomotor reactions. Found in seafood and chicken meat.
4. Ascorbic acid is familiar to everyone since childhood. Vitamin C improves immunity; it is found in large quantities in fresh vegetables, citrus fruits, kiwi, and strawberries.
5. A lack of vitamin D can trigger the development of rickets in children. Its deficiency is observed in many people who have irregular working hours. Its production in the body occurs during exposure to the sun.

Proper nutrition is one of the important components of strengthening the nervous system. Many people today practice falconation. It's tasty and healthy. The juice must be prepared immediately before use.

Fresh juices from beets, cabbage, pumpkin, potatoes, and apples have proven themselves to be excellent. You should avoid stimulants such as coffee, cigarettes, and strong tea.

Healthy diet

A proper diet allows you not only to cure stress, but also to improve digestion and lose excess weight without serious effort. It is enough to select a list of products that increase energy tone. Often a busy work schedule and household chores leave a modern person without a proper breakfast or lunch. A quick snack puts our body into a state of stress. Nausea, stomach pain, and stool upset appear.

List of products necessary for the normal functioning of the body:

• fresh fruits and vegetables;
• buckwheat, oatmeal, peas, wheat, barley;
• meat contains protein, which is the main building element of cells and a biosynthesis stabilizer;
• dairy products;
• sea ​​fish.

Products containing vitamins for the nervous system

How to cure the nervous system

Based on the fact that all nervous disorders are caused by almost the same reasons and are inextricably linked, treatment of the nervous system occurs using the same methods, which are divided into treatment of the nervous system with folk remedies, as well as general and medicinal ones.

General methods of healing the nervous system include moral and physical peace, long-term surrounding of the patient with a comfort zone, and elimination of the stress factor, at least temporarily.

Medicinal methods primarily involve the use of various drugs designed to reduce the sensitivity of the nervous system to stress factors and inhibit or inhibit its reactions. These drugs include completely harmless motherwort, valerian, Corvalol, stronger sedatives sold without a prescription, and powerful prescription drugs, including hormonal ones. Treatment of stress nervous disorders only with medicinal methods is not only ineffective, but also harmful, since many drugs are highly addictive and do not eliminate the very cause of the disease, which entails an even more violent reaction of the patient to the stimulus and a sharp deterioration in the condition as a result.

Only the attending physician has the right to prescribe certain medications, since they significantly change the symptoms and have a strong effect on already tortured nerves.

Medication methods also include special sessions with a psychologist that help relieve tension, understand the cause of stress, or change your attitude towards irritating factors. Special psychoneurological sanatoriums.

The most popular safe and effective methods of treating nerves are traditional methods. They allow you to treat the nervous system at home without losing your ability to work or acquiring side effects. The only condition is that you need to know your allergic reactions.

Natural first aid kit

For several centuries, herbal medicine has been an effective method of restorative therapy. Research has proven that plants contain useful components necessary for strengthening and building nerve cells.

Plants such as St. John's wort, lemon balm, mint, motherwort, hawthorn, and valerian have a mild calming effect. The use of herbs should be dosed. In large quantities they can cause poisoning. You should take into account the characteristics of your body. For allergy sufferers who have a reaction to ragweed and wormwood, taking herbal teas and tinctures is contraindicated.

Herbal infusions can be added to the bath. A relaxing bath at the end of the day helps relieve fatigue and tension. Instead of decoctions, you can use aromatic oils of tea tree, lavender, chamomile, patchouli, ylang-ylang, and pine needles.

Patchouli oil can be added to your bath

Salt bath

Sea salt has a strengthening and relaxing effect on the nervous system. Baths with this component are very often used to treat the effects of stress. A salt bath helps improve blood circulation and has an active effect on nerve endings. The body begins to actively produce substances that participate in synthesis processes.

The procedure must be carried out correctly to achieve the desired effect. Bath salts are selected depending on personal preferences. You can take regular sea salt and add a little of your favorite aroma oil or herbal infusion.

Scheme of the procedure and contraindications

You should take a shower before taking a bath. It is advisable to exfoliate using a hard washcloth. This will help improve blood circulation in the skin.

For a therapeutic bath, take 300 g of sea salt, dissolve it in boiling water, then add it to previously prepared water. The amount of healing component is taken at the rate of 0.5 kg per 50 liters of liquid. The duration of the treatment procedure is 15-30 minutes.

It is important to remember that hypertensive patients should not take too hot a bath. The procedure is contraindicated in patients with blushing.

To get rid of irritability and the effects of stress, you need to take baths every other day. It is recommended to carry out the procedure once every 1-2 weeks to strengthen the nervous system. After the procedure, do not rub yourself with a hard towel. Contraindications to water procedures with salt:

• blood diseases;
• ulcers and fungal infections;
• increased body temperature;
• critical days;
• pregnancy;
• malignant and benign tumors.

Sea salt is used for baths

The best remedy for nerves and stress

To curb a sudden attack of rage, you need to try to pull yourself together and go to the nearest window or go outside, which is best. Soak a towel or rag in cool water and place it over your head. You need to breathe deeply, slowly and with your eyes closed. You should try to stretch your inhalations and exhalations for seven to eight seconds. At the same time, you need to massage your temples with your fingers and lightly press on your eyeballs. If there is ice nearby, you can lubricate your temples, forehead and back of your head with it. Be sure to drink a glass of cool or cold water in small sips. During all these procedures, you should try to concentrate your thoughts on something pleasant and relaxing.

The best remedy for stress, internal worries and nerves is relaxation in nature or in a specialized sanatorium, which, of course, is the best. But considering that most people cannot just break away and go to a sanatorium to rest, the ideal solution in this particular situation is a country holiday. Just a couple of days spent in the fresh air radically changes a person’s internal emotional state. And besides, a standard weekend is enough for partial recovery. In general, you need to make it a habit to get out into nature, to the river and forest, at least every other weekend (it’s best if the forest is pine; walking through a pine forest is calming). This is especially true for people whose profession is filled with various stressful situations.

If your nerves are at their limit, you can put your emotional state in order with the help of a tincture prepared from rose hips, rosemary leaves, hop cones, motherwort herb, lemon balm, peppermint and St. John's wort. All components must be mixed in equal parts by weight, and then fifty grams of the mixture must be poured with half a liter of high-quality vodka. After this, the medicine must be placed in a dark place for three weeks and shaken periodically. The finished tincture can be consumed daily, twelve drops at a time three times a day. If the taste seems disgusting, you can drink the tincture with water. It is best to store the product in the refrigerator or cellar. The duration of treatment is thirty days.

Herbal wine drink

It is necessary to treat nerves using folk remedies correctly, following the recommended dosage. This is especially true for alcoholic tinctures and wine drinks. Red wine with the addition of medicinal herbs is an excellent way to relieve stress, improve sleep, and help get rid of strong neuroses. To make a wine infusion you will need:

• high-quality red wine about 2 l;
• 5 g each of angelica and elecampane roots;
• 10 g each of St. John's wort and cinnamon.

All healing components must be crushed. Heat the wine over low heat, then add the herbal mixture to it. The drink needs to steep for 12 hours. It is recommended to take 20 ml after meals, preferably at night.

Angelica roots added to wine

Proven folk remedies for nerves and stress

To put your nerves in order, it is recommended to regularly use motherwort tincture. To prepare it, you need to pour three large spoons of raw materials with a hundred gram glass of boiling water and leave the broth for twenty-five to thirty minutes. The strained and cooled product should be consumed for two weeks, one large spoon twice a day.

Thyme is no less effective in this regard; you can also prepare tinctures with it and take them like tea. To do this, you need to steam five grams of thyme in half a liter of boiling water (it is best to do this in a sealed container). The duration of steaming is forty minutes. After this, the medicine must be strained and divided into three or four parts of equal volume, and then consumed in full throughout the day. You can take the prepared tincture at any convenient time. It is not recommended to take thyme more than three times a week.

You can get rid of increased nervousness with the help of flower honey and beet juice. To prepare the mixture, you need to mix one third of a glass of beet juice and flower honey, and then mix everything thoroughly. The resulting product must be left to stand for about three hours in a cool place before use. It is best to take the medicine within twenty minutes of eating a few teaspoons at a time. If insomnia has developed against the background of a nervous breakdown, then you can curb it with the help of a decoction of dill seeds. The preparation of the medicine is extremely simple; you need to brew fifty grams of dill in a 100-gram glass of boiling water, let it brew, and drink it before bed.

To cope with the problem, you can use an ancient calming elixir. Anyone can prepare it; to do this, you need to pour three hundred grams of raisins with a liter of pure distilled water in an enamel container, add the zest of one lemon and boil everything for five to seven minutes. The finished product should sit for at least a couple of hours, after which you need to add the juice of one lemon and mix everything thoroughly. You are allowed to take the medicine one glass per day. The duration of treatment is individual for each person.

Physiotherapy

It is impossible to strengthen the nerves and psyche with the help of folk remedies alone. An integrated approach is required, which includes proper nutrition, moderate exercise and therapeutic exercises. Very often, stress provokes pain in the back, collar area and other parts of the body. To eliminate them, a set of special exercises has been developed to effectively relax the muscles.

Start exercises for the upper shoulder girdle by slowly turning your head from side to side, avoiding pain. Then proceed to perform circular movements with your head. All movements must be performed slowly.

Move on to the lumbar region. Bend forward with your hands clasped behind your back. The bend should not cause pain; feel which muscles are in the clamp. If necessary, repeat the exercise several times until you achieve relaxation in the shoulder girdle. Then kneel down. Bend forward with a straight back, stretch your arms as far as possible. This will help relax the lumbar region.

Throughout the entire workout, try to maintain even breathing and not think about anything, focusing on the sensations. Sit on the floor, close your eyes, relax your whole body, breathe evenly, in a comfortable rhythm. Try to relax all parts of the body one by one, starting with the face and cervical region. Mentally move from one department to another.