Depression
People may feel from time to time a change in mood and sadness, but this feeling is temporary and simple and is not a disease, but depression is a psychiatric illness that requires treatment, and there are many ways to treat depression, so as not to reach the patient to the stage of self-harm, Psychotherapy and drug therapy, there are also some natural methods that help cure and relieve depression.
Treatment of plants and herbs
Plants consist of substances rich in vitamins, mineral salts, natural substances, and elements such as oxygen, sulfur, iodine, phosphorus, etc., as well as containing antioxidants. Plant therapy is used in four directions:
- Immunotherapy: Which is the use of plant species that support the body to carry out vital processes to combat diseases and alien objects.
- Therapeutic treatment: It is the use of plants that remove toxins that result from diseases.
- Balanced Therapy: It is the use of plants that compensate and complement the body the basic materials lost to restore and correct the vital functions in it.
- Assistive therapy: It is the use of plants that have a role in helping to treat some diseases.
Treatment of herbal depression
Since depression is a disease like other diseases, it must have a cure, and from the treatment of depression with herbs, there are many herbs that have proven effective in reducing the severity of the disease, and the most important herbs used to treat depression:
- Saffron: Saffron, specifically saffron syrup, which is the heart of saffron flower, has been shown to be effective in treating mild and moderate conditions of depression.
- The herb of St. John: It is a herb used by Europeans to treat depression and has a similar effect to the drug antidepressants used to treat the disease. Some have praised it for treating mild to moderate cases of depression, but it has not been agreed and agreed to rely on it as a medicine to treat depression. FDA or USFDA) as a medicine to treat depression.
- Kava: It is a sedative plant that helps to relax, resisting stress, tension, and anxiety which relieves depression.
- Herodiola Herb: Or the so-called golden root herb, or crown of the king, has been used for years to fight this disease, as it gives positive results in reducing anxiety and tension, but not a cure itself.
Treatment with vitamins and supplements
There are some vitamins and supplements that help to get rid of depression, including:
- Magnesium and vitamin B: Studies have shown that the association of low magnesium and vitamin B decreases with depression, and that patients who daily use 0.8mg of folic acid or 0.4mg of vitamin B12 show an improvement in treatment, effective in relieving depression symptoms, and patients taking 125 to 300 mg of magnesium with meals Food and immortality appear to improve faster in severe depression.
- Vitamin D : Studies have also shown that the low level of this vitamin in the body is linked to increased depressive symptoms in the patient, and that taking one dose a day of it may help to reduce the severity of depression.
- Omega 3 fatty acids : Fatty acids may affect depression, because their compounds are scattered in the brain, but this theory is not proven, and generally it has been proven that the equivalent of three grams of them daily is effective and safe in the treatment of patients with psychiatric diseases, Food, or by fish oil capsules.
- Zinc : A nutrient associated with mental functions such as learning and behavior. According to biologists and neuroscientists, the proportion of zinc in the blood is directly linked to depression; if low, the probability of depression increases. Eating zinc 25 mg daily for 12 weeks may help increase the amount of Fatty acids in the body, and reduces the symptoms of depression.
Treatment of depression with water
Water is a necessity of the necessities of life, and it forms seventy percent of the human body. It has many benefits. It regulates the heat of the body, relieves it from toxins, and transfers food to tissues. It acts as a mediator in many chemical processes and helps in the chemical balance of the body. It also helps in the treatment of many diseases by drinking or using it for treatment with cold or warm compresses or by shower or baths. One of the ways that can help alleviate depression by water is the following:
- Treatment by warm water : Warm baths remove anger and tension, and soak the feet in warm water at the end of the day to relax and calm the body in general, especially if added some mint for at least fifteen minutes.
- Hot and cold water treatment: Where the foot bath is done by placing two adjacent pools of hot and cold water after the shower to accommodate the feet together, fill one with hot water at a temperature of (38 – 41) degree, and the other with cold water from the tap, and immersed in water to cover almost mid-legs, In hot water with moving fingers and massage the feet together for five minutes, then lift and put in cold water and move them for twenty seconds only, and then return to hot water, and repeat this process for a few times, and helps this bath to get rid of insomnia, lethargy and laziness that accompanies Depression.
- Herbal Spa Treatment: The addition of herbs and natural oils to water in general and hot water especially has a significant effect in calming the nerves, and remove muscle tension, and pain relief, and these herbs, chamomile or mint, which relax, and calm the nerves, A cotton sock connects the hot water faucet until the tub is filled with water, or by soaking it in hot water for a quarter of an hour, then adding it to the bathtub.
- Relaxing Bathrooms: Filling the basin with warm water, filling a cup of lavender or mint dipped, creating an atmosphere of dim light, sitting in the water for minutes, then dipping the rest of the body and attaching the head to a cushion or footrest, then slowly taking a deep breath, then locking him and counting from one to five , Then exhale slowly, refining it several times.
- Shower face: As the water on the face and forehead specifically has a tonic effect of the circulatory system, and helps to clear the mind, and psychological comfort in general, and the water rush must be light on the front.