Sunătoarea, the most effective antidepressant
Newspaper article published in light of 18.06.2007.
Regarded as a disease leading to a large extension to the top of the third millennium, depression is a serious pathological condition, which is accentuated by depression, sadness, and profound deterrent chronic pessimism, all associated with decreased anxiety and general tone of resistance * Depression is the most common mental illness in the world, occupying the second place in the hierarchy of all disease conditions, as hypertension.
Experience has revealed many natural preparations antidepressants, among which the most effective has proven a sunătoarea or pojarniţa.
Depression looks a lot like being the bad and unfortunately very common and healthy people in a time of life. In the case of depression, symptoms can worsen over time and can take months and years. The patient is the only think misfortune to disaster, the loss of a loved person, loss of employment and a relationship with someone close. Gradually, the patient feels increasingly alone, bored, helpless, pained, very sad and overwhelmed by the problems faced.
Depression is the most common mental illness in the world, occupying the second place in the hierarchy of all disease conditions, as hypertension. Global statistics show that one in four women suffer from depression, while men only one in ten. The number of women suffering from depression is greater than 2.5 times because of the diversity of activities, the uncertainty of work, family responsibility of maintenance and growth of children.
Cases trigger depression
There are a multitude of external and internal factors that can hasten the installation of depressive states, acute or chronic. Depending on factors Trigger, depressive states are divided into 4 categories:
- Reactive depressions caused by negative events in the life of the patient;
- Biological depressions sometimes inherited;
- Psychiatric depressions, resulting in loss of contact with reality;
- Hibernale depressions occurring during the winter, when natural day light is reduced in intensity and replaced by a weak artificial light.
Among external factors, have important effects everyday stress, over-physical and intellectual. This may be listed major financial problems, worries for daily living, fear of unemployment or loss of job, forced retirement, loss of value of goods, completion of a school without the prospect of a guaranteed job, forced the evacuation of housing.
Should not be neglected the role of excessive consumption of alcohol, drugs, tobacco, coffee and medicinal chemical synthesis. Among these drugs are most harmful: adenocorticoizii, antihistaminele, estrogen, oral contraceptives, tetracycline, somniferele, laxativele harsh and some diuretics.
Genetic inheritance plays an important role in triggering depression. It can be transmitted from one generation to another, although not all people have a hereditary inheritance also develop the same behavioral disorders.
Depression can be triggered by some serious health conditions such as cardiovascular diseases (stroke, hypertension, preinfarctul, arteritis, tromboflebitele).
In adolescence, girls are more frequently prone to depression since become obsessed with perfection in multiple planes (not ugly, not too low or too high, too fat or too weak, too poor, too withdrawn or too impulsive, etc.) .
Many mature women suffering from depressive states occurring at menopause, on the cycle or during pregnancy, due to changes that occur in the hormonal balance, exacerbated by the socio-emotional life.
Emergency birth (at 7-8 months) or by Caesarean favors installing post-partum depression, especially in young mothers with a negative impact on both the mother and the child.
The elderly, depressive episodes are more common, originating in the neurodegenerative process more accentuate the widow and divorced persons. Around 20% of people over 65 years shows significant depressions, and 40% have other forms easier.
How is the disease
Depression can occur at any age and at any time of year, most frequently in spring, in response to disappointments of life, from asthenia, fatigue, intense emotions and other stressful conditions. Sometimes appears suddenly, with discomfort, sleeplessness or prolonged sleep, agitation or inhibition. Sometimes to install lentm with chronic insomnia, irascibility, spontaneous nervousness, headache, asthenia, accesses lamenting wantonly, listlessness, lack of appetite, boredom, chronic fatigue, lack of energy and emotional reactions.
Treatments fitoterapeutice
Experience has revealed many natural preparations antidepressants, among them, the more effective it proved sunătoarea or pojarniţa. Recommended since the century XVI by chemist Paracelsus for fear of tristeţii and ugly dreams, sunătoarea is beneficial in restoring hormonal balance and nervous system. Consumed every 2-3 tea daily before main meals, one of them at bedtime. Tea can be replaced with the rattle of tincture (4-10 drops every 5 times daily) for a cure or long-term oil rattle (each 1 teaspoon 2-3 times daily).
Recent research has shown that sunătoarea contains a high dose of hiperforină, a substance that blocks those receptors in the brain that trigger depressive states. This sunătoarea is beneficial in the treatment of symptomatic and reactive depression, neurotic depression in dystonia and neurovegetativă. It was found that the action of antidepressants sunătoarei not installed until after 2-3 weeks of starting administration. Following fotosensibilizant effect of hipericinei (an active principle of rattle), necessary precautions, the patient will avoid exposure to intense sunlight throughout the treatment.
Specialists therapists have developed various complex recipes, the rattle, including other plant species:
- Hawthorn, cimbrişor, mint, mint forests, valerian, roiniţă (tea);
- Valerian, elderberry, chamomile, lavender, lime (tea);
- Cimbrişor, sage, hunting, language lamb (tea);
- Lavender, wormwood black oat-straw (tincture).
There are effective:
- Essential oils taken separately or in a mixture of lavender, basil, sage, rose, jasmine, ginger and oregano / wild marjoram;
- Maceratul of honey with fruit cătină white pollen and propolis;
- Of course with fruit obligeană and cătină;
- Cure with fresh celery juice, spinach and barley green.
The recipe author:
- Rattle, valerian, hawthorn, mint, cimbrişor, lavender, talpa geese, Gingko biloba, roiniţă, lime.
Recipes for external use
For external use are effective:
- Comprese and poultice on the forehead, neck and spinal cord with tincture of rattle, Gingko biloba and bitter Swedish;
- Massage oil or rosemary tincture of valerian and ground;
- Inhalaţii with aromatic oils and rose water and lavender;
- Bathrooms and general hip-tailed horse and cimbrişor (200 g mixture of 5 liters water), which boil 1 minute, covered infuzează is 15 minutes and pour in the bath tub (3 times per week);
- Bathroom hand and foot with the mixture of hawthorn, sage and hatchet.
Diet
The first depressive symptoms could be correlated with fluctuations in blood glucose from the blood, which requires the consumption of sugar (nediabetice persons) or fresh fruit. It is known that sugar is essentially the brain fuel is essential to all cognitive functions and to maintain proper provisions. After the supply of sugar, the brain begins to secrete serotină an organic regarded as "hormone of happiness", a messenger of good condition and smile. Of all sugary, chocolate is the basic production serotinei, especially in young depressions.
Because the effects are more pronounced, along with red beet should ocean fish consumption (salmon, tuna, cod), rich in fatty acids of Omega-3. This nutritional combination will restore emotional balance and make wonders in chasing black thoughts. Restoring physical and mental normal will be a sure cure to mental depression.
Among vegetables, apart from red beet, carrot are beneficial, celery, spinach, lettuce, parsley, cabbage, onion and garlic that have stimulant and tonic effects.
Of fruit will not starve on the table apricots, apples, cherries, sour cherries, grapes, melon, gooseberry, nuts.
Supplement amount of vitamins consumed
Knowing that persons suffering from depressions lose more powerful vitamins should be an additional requirement of vitamins, primarily B complex (destroyed by caffeine), vitamins C, E and PP, which ensures the proper functioning of the nervous system. These vitamins vascular maintain flexibility, provide a good irrigation of the brain and stimulates the release of hormones antistres.
Vitamin C is taken by the consumption of lettuce, spinach, nettle, red beet juice and butter rosehip and vitamin E in wheat germ and soybean oil.
Depressive individuals must resist the temptation to drown their troubles in alcohol, tobacco, drugs and coffee.
A weekly diet requires, first, two days of sparing regime, considering the need to protect the liver, much involved in triggering depression.
The life
You must first accept the idea that depression is not an incurable disease, but can certainly be cured and the person affected can return to normal without any risk of disease recurrence. During the day will take action designed and carried out directly by the patient with his family.
Morning will be an overview of dry brush your body, followed by a water bath at room temperature. Twice a week will be a hot bath, perhaps with the extract of pine needles. During the day it is recommended that a breathing exercise, twice every 2-3 minutes in a room with intense light, having a role in revitalizing the body vitality.
The patient will move more freely in the air, making walks, walking briskly in rhythm for 1-2 hours or alergari regular mild exercise or physical activities (gardening, flower care, harvesting medicinal plants, animal feeding and watering the garden and pets.
Each day will be filled with enjoyable activities, chosen by the patient, with personal responsibility and feasible to complete, depending on the physical and mental ability of its own. Choose an old hobby, painting, songs and music preference. In general, meloterapia, therapy of the nervous system that is based on the musical arrangements on neuropsychological functions, has provided exceptional results for those choice pieces painkillers or musical rhythm, as appropriate. Thus, the music of Bach and Mozart are effective painkillers, while his music has no activatoare Stravinski.
Psychiatric treatment can be performed on multiple planes, with the priest confessor, a psychiatrist doctor, family members and close friends, to which the patient will download soul with all sincerity.
