How to treat leprosy

summary

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae infection. It mainly invades the skin and peripheral nerves. In severe cases, it may involve deep tissues and internal organs. Although it rarely causes death, it seriously affects the healthy life of patients, so leprosy must be treated in time. People in my grandmother's time had leprosy. My grandmother told me some ways to treat leprosy. Let's share with you.

How to treat leprosy

First: take self boiling ointment. Boil paste method: with Xanthium five Jin, break into two inches long, put in a copper pot filled with water. Boil the juice from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then boil it until 7 p.m. to make a paste, weighing about 90 Liang. Put it away with a covered porcelain bottle. However, when boiling, you must sieve the foam with a small basket, otherwise it will get moldy in hot weather, and you should avoid eating pork when taking cream. To cure leprosy.

Second: soaking in liquid medicine: decoct thick soup with willow branches, peach branches, mulberry branches, Sophora branches and Broussonetia papyrifera branches, and put it into a large vat. The leprosy patients sit in the VAT and let the liquid medicine soak over their neck, only exposing their head and face. After a day, when the liquid medicine turns into oil, stop soaking. The disease can be alleviated until cured.

Third: Radix Aconiti kusnezoffii, Radix Ephedrae, Folium Artemisiae argyi, cortex Rehmanniae and Glauber's salt, 30 grams each, grind into fine powder, 1 bucket of water, 1 mixture of pepper and 500 grams of scallion, decoct soup together, 1 cup of vinegar. Cover the limbs with handkerchief and wait for the soup to take a bath. When you take a bath, you can sweat thoroughly and take a bath for a long time. When you sweat on your face, you can get up slowly. When you sit or lie down, you can take your clothes away from the wind and take a bath for 5 days. It can relieve the skin lesion symptoms of leprosy.

matters needing attention

From the perspective of personal protection, the key to the prevention and control of leprosy is to avoid contact with infectious leprosy patients. Families of patients and close contacts, especially children with negative leprosy test, can be vaccinated with BCG.