Home Remedies for Various Skin Disorders

Scars Due To Burn

• Boil 1 cup neem bark in 4 cups water. Remove from fire and shake liquid. Apply the emerging froth on the affected area. Repeat snnaltimes and for several days.

• Apply one tablespoon finely grind law papaya on face and neck. Keep for 15-20 minutes and wash off.

• Blanch and grind a few almonds to a line paste with 2 tablespoons milk and one tablespoon each of orange and carrot juice. Apply well on the face and neck. Leave for 1/2 an hour, then wash off.

Blackheads

• Mix 1 teaspoon lime juice in 1 teaspoon finely grind cinnamon powder and apply on affected areas frequently.

• Mix 1 teaspoon each turmeric powder and juice of fresh coriander leaves and apply daily as a face before going to sleep.

Pustules

• Take half kg. turmeric powder and boil it and add about 200 gms. of pure honey to it. Keep the mixture as it is for two weeks in a glass jar. Now strain it and fill in a clean bottle. Take 10 to 15 gms. ofthis Aasav (mixture) after food. This will cleanse your blood of the impurities which cause pustules. Also dip a cotton piece in turmeric oil and place it over pustules for relief.

To Open Shrinked Pores Of The Skin

• Mix one tablespoon tomato juice and a few drops of lemon juice. Apply on open pores. Wash after 15-20 minutes.

• Rub a cube of ice everyday, on the area where open pores are present. Wash face with cold water. Never use hot water on face.

Face-Freckles

• These are mainly caused by using creams and lotions indiscriminately which burn the outer layer of the skin. Take just 10 gms. of grind turmeric and drench it in the milk of the banyan, peepal or aak tree. Make a thick and uniform paste of it in the evening and cover it with a lid. Keep it as it is overnight. Massage your face with this paste at least half an hour before you take bath. Continue this treatment for a week to remove all the freckles. Then use ubtanjust once a week.

Itching

• Extract juice oftulsi and massage on the parts of the body itching. If the trouble be chronic, take about 2 parts of tulsi juice and one part of til oil. Allow them to boil on slow fire. Then cool it and put it in a bottle. This is most effective oil for all sorts of itching problems.

Skin Irritation

• Take clean water and rub vigorously a piece of cucumber to make its thick paste. Then apply the paste on the skin for its cure in 2-3 days time. But the patient should not consume heat producing items like spicy food, tea and even lots of common salt.

Skin Allergies

• Grind 1 tablespoon poppy seeds with 1 teaspoon water. Add 1 teaspoon lime juice. Apply on the affected areas.

• Mix 1 teaspoon lime juice with sandalwood paste and apply all over.

Ring Worms

• Take a large piece of pure turmeric and gently rub it over a stone slab (sil) drenched with water. Take out the rubbed portion of turmeric from the stone slab and apply the paste over the rings on your body. When the paste dries apply another layer of the turmeric paste over it. In a couple of days time the trouble will start to end and the sprouts will also disappear. Don't discontinue the treatment once you get well. It is better to apply the paste for a week more for total relief.

Warts

• Mash garlic cloves and apply externally.

• Apply the milky juice exuding from the stems offigs and leaves on the affected areas.

• Place some chopped onions in a dish. Cover with salt and leave overnight. Twice a day apply the resulting juice to the warts until they disappear.

• Another alternative is fresh pineapple juice or slices. Since pineapple contains an enzyme that breaks down warts, it is very effective in removing warts without leaving behind any marks. Apply some to the warts several times in a day until it has gone.

Sunburn

• Mix olive oil with equal quantity of vinegar and apply an hour before your bath.

• Mix 2 teaspoons tomato juice and 4 tablespoons buttermilk. Apply it. Wash after 1/2 an hour.