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Home Remedies for Pneumonia
- Pneumonia is life
threatening disease and hence, home remedies may be useful in aid
of the main treatment and should not be considered as main
treatment one can depend on.
- To begin with, one
should go for raw juices for 5-7 days for initial days. For this,
one can take glass of fruit or vegetable juice diluted with warm
water on 50-50 basis. This is to be taken every two hourly. Fruits
like oranges, pineapple, apple, orange etc are beneficial.
- Avoid strong tea,
coffee and other stimulant beverages. This may produce bad effect
in pneumonia.
- One should also
avoid white sugar, white flour and all products made out of them.
These are heavy to digest and may worsen the case of pneumonia.
- Meats and alcoholic
beverages are not allowed in any condition.
- Massage turpentine
oil on the patient's ribs and wrap warm cotton wool. It will help
in reducing the pain of Pneumonia. This is one of the effective
home remedies for pneumonia.
- Smoking works as
poison in case of pneumonia. It gives lots of trouble to lungs and
puts extra burden to get right oxygen levels.
- During acute and
early stage of pneumonia, the herbal tea having fenugreek seeds
and black pepper will be beneficial. This is one of the simple
home remedies for pneumonia.
- Turmeric, ginger,
fenugreek and black pepper are mucolytic and hence are considered
to be good for expelling mucous from the body especially from the
respiratory tract. Take these herbs in any form; raw or cooked it
will be better for your lungs.
- Simple lukewarm
water with lemon juice and pinch of rock salt will give temporary
relief in coughing and congestion during the pneumonia attack.
This is one of the best home remedies for pneumonia
- Some of the
traditional Ayurvedic therapy suggests an application of garlic
juice along with sesame oil over the chest is highly beneficial in
treating the pneumonia.
- Another good home
remedy for pneumonia is rubbing oil of turpentine over the ribcage
externally. This will relieve the congestion from the chest.
- Sesame seeds are
one of the favorable natural remedy for pneumonia. Take 250 ml of
water and put 15 gm of sesame seeds. Add one tbsp of linseeds and
a pinch of common salt and one big tbsp of honey. Mix it well and
take it daily. This will help in removing the excess mucous from
the bronchial tree. This is one of the best home remedies for
pneumonia
- Take 200 ml of
spinach juice and 300 ml of carrot juice daily. This will help
making lungs stronger and is also one of the good. home remedies
for pneumonia
- Some of the
Ayurvedic drugs like punarnava, vaasa, yashtimadhu, aardrak,
methika, lahsuna, kantakari etc are good for pneumonia. You can go
for either single drug as an extract or can go for the various
formulas containing the above said herbs.
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