Treating depression with folk remedies
Depression is an oppressed, depressed mood, observed almost in all mental illnesses.
This is one of the constituent components of neuropsychic diseases, but depressive states can, in different periods of life, master perfectly healthy people mentally due to strong experiences and critical moments( loss of a close person, housing, work, etc.).With depressive conditions, you can use the recipes of traditional medicine, but most importantly - often remind yourself that everything is fixable while you are alive, and look at life with optimism.
Symptoms: depression is characterized by a sense of melancholy and impotence combined with poor health, slowing of thinking and speech, decreased activity, decreased appetite, sometimes - a complete refusal of food. More about the symptoms, see here.
What's going on? In connection with the dissolution of the psyche, strong-willed activity is sharply reduced. There are thoughts of personal responsibility for all sorts of unpleasant events of the past in the life of a person and his loved ones, a sense of guilt, powerlessness and helplessness in front of problems and obstacles, any life difficulties. Self-esteem is reduced. Changing the perception of time, there is a feeling that the minutes, hours and days are excruciatingly long. Characteristic lack of initiative, passivity and fatigue. Often, thoughts about their own uselessness and doom, possible suicide attempts.
With a severe form of depression, hallucinations and nonsense arise.
What should do? Treatment for depression can only be carried out by a psychotherapist or a psychiatrist; when symptoms appear, you should consult a doctor as soon as possible.
Recipes. Traditional medicine recommends to strengthen the nervous system:
• take a bath with poplar leaf infusion;
• wipe yourself in the morning with salted water;
• Drink an infusion of ginseng root;
• drink the extract of Eleutherococcus;
• Drink broth of mint leaves( a tablespoon into a glass of boiling water) half a cup in the morning and overnight or add mint to tea;
• Drink decoction of chicory roots( a tablespoon of chicory for a glass of boiling water), take a tablespoon 6 times a day.
About Usually depression occurs if the brain encounters a psychological problem that so occupies it, that it is no longer able to cope with other matters that also require its attention. In this case, the problem absorbs all mental resources, and for some time a person is unable to reason and act. As a result, nervous tension leads to emotional, cognitive and other impairments, indicating a failure in the brain.
In our time, depression has become one of the main problems of residents of large cities. A huge number of people suffer from various forms of depression, many of which can be attributed to the category of natural phenomena arising in the process of becoming a personality. Any depression - a temporary condition, especially if a person is surrounded by attention, love and care of loved ones, which allows him to resolve internal conflict and normalize the work of the central nervous system.
Unfortunately, in some cases, depression can last for years, as some people do not know how to cope with their fears, anxiety and anxiety - feelings that are constant companions of depressive states. After contacting specialists, such people start taking medicine, many of which have negative side effects.
According to the "water" theory, depression and other pathological conditions associated with social stresses, in fact, are a consequence of a deficiency of water in the brain cells. In conditions of dehydration, the brain produces less energy, so many of its functions become ineffective. This inefficiency is called depression. The depressive state caused by dehydration, as a rule, leads to chronic fatigue.
If you understand what stress is, you can understand the causes that cause chronic fatigue syndrome. The latter can be defeated by starting to take in sufficient amounts of water: this will eliminate the metabolic changes that have occurred in the body during the dehydration period.
If the body does not have enough water systematically, it has the same physiological changes as under severe stress, that is, its reserves are in a state of mobilization.
Thus, a lack of water can cause stress, and stress later leads the body and brain to further dehydration.
Faced with a crisis situation, our body begins to prepare for struggle or flight, because it can not perceive it otherwise. In this case, there is a release of special hormones that remain in the blood before the resolution of a stressful situation.
Among the stress hormones, three main ones can be distinguished: cortisone, vasopressin, prolactin and endorphins.
The task of endorphins is to prepare the organism for possible difficulties in a dangerous situation. They also increase the pain threshold, and a person, after receiving any kind of trauma, does not feel such a strong pain as in the usual state. In women, endorphins are activated regularly in connection with the menstrual cycle and childbirth, so the fairer sex is more resistant to physical pain and stress.
The hormone cortisone mobilizes the energy centers of the body. It promotes the breakdown of fats into fatty acids, which are subsequently converted into energy. Cortisone stimulates and splits proteins into basic amino acids, due to which the development of new neurotransmitters and special amino acids consumed by muscles. For example, during pregnancy and lactation, this hormone promotes the entry into the fetus or breast milk of all groups of substances necessary for the growth of the child. If the stressful situation continues too long, the supply of amino acids is partially depleted, which is fraught with negative consequences for the whole organism.
Prolactin stimulates the production of breast milk from nursing mothers. It is a universal hormone that is present in the body of any mammal. Thanks to prolactin, milk is produced even with dehydration or stress, since the aqueous component of breast milk is of the greatest importance for the organism of a growing baby. The fact is that whenever one of the cells divides, forming new cells, about 75% of their volume must be filled with water. In other words, the growth of new cells is directly dependent on the presence of water. When it is enough, the nutrients dissolved in it become available to the cells.
The prolactin hormone also produces the placenta, and its stores are stored in the amniotic fluid. In addition, it promotes the growth of mammary glands. The described properties of prolactin are very similar to those of all growth hormones, but this hormone stimulates the growth of only the reproductive organs.
Experiments in mice have shown that too much prolactin in the blood leads to breast tumors. This, in particular, proves that there is a definite relationship between chronic dehydration, more prolactin, age and breast cancer, which can not be ignored. If a woman, experiencing daily stress, takes the rule of regularly drinking water, this will be one of the most affordable preventive measures against breast cancer.
The hormone vasopressin regulates the selective flow of water to the cells and causes vasoconstriction. It is produced in one of the appendages of the brain( pituitary gland), after which it enters the blood.
Cell membranes consist of two layers, between which is a "passage", along which the enzymes move. If there is enough water in the body, then, filling all the space between the layers of the membrane, water gets inside the cells. With chronic water shortage, the functions of the cells are disrupted and, in order to protect the body from a catastrophe, a powerful membrane filter is activated: the hormone vasopressin, reaching the cell membrane, merges with a special receptor, after which the whole structure turns into something that resembles the head of the shower. This natural filter passes through the holes only water molecules.
Thus, vasopressin is one of the special hormones responsible for the rational use of water in dehydrating the body.
Alcoholic beverages, especially strong, suppress the production of vasopressin by the body, which leads to acute general dehydration, including brain cells. If, prior to drinking alcohol, dehydration was insignificant and the body was easier to adapt to it, then after drinking alcohol, the water shortage becomes very palpable, especially for brain cells. To cope with this stress, the body begins to intensively produce a variety of different hormones, including endorphins.
Thus, the main reason for getting used to alcohol is the production of endorphins. In particular, the female organism, by its nature inclined to the production of endorphins( during menstruation and as a result of labor) is more susceptible to such a disease as chronic alcoholism. For example, in order to become a chronic alcoholic, a woman needs only 3 years. Under similar conditions, a man becomes an alcoholic only after 7 years.
In conditions of total dehydration of the body, the causes of which are the regular use of caffeine or alcohol, when water should be literally "pumped" into nerve cells, blood circulation along with large nerve trunks is enhanced. As a consequence of this process, the surface layers of nerve cells release histamine. At some point, it can cause inflammation, which destroys the nerve shell, and this process takes place so quickly that the shells do not have time to recover.
Outwardly, this phenomenon manifests itself in the form of general nervous disorders, which doctors most often diagnose as multiple sclerosis.