Natural and Home Remedies Guide

Home Remedies for Scabies










A contagious skin disease caused by the burrowing mite is scabies. Scabies is a troublesome disease, attended with great itching, the irritation being increased by warmth. It commences as a vesicular eruption; the vesicles becoming ruptured, and excoriations being produced by the scratching with the nails which is being constantly resorted to. This infection may attack every part of the body, though it most frequently occurs in the flexures of the joints, especially on the fingers.

Symptoms of Scabies

The first symptoms of scabies are a violent itchiness in the parts that have been inoculated. This increases at night, and is exasperated at any time by the ingestion of stimulants of every description, and by the warmth of bed. The scratching it evokes is severe enough to cause bleeding, one of only two common pediatric conditions to do so. Sores on the body caused by scratching that can sometimes become infected with bacteria.

Scabies are most likely the result of allergic sensitization to the mite and its products. Evidence of an allergic pathogenesis includes the observation that symptoms are delayed until thirty days after first infestation yet develop within twenty-four hours after reinfestation. Reinfestation is uncommon, suggesting that the allergic inflammatory response kills or attenuates the organism.

Home Remedies for Scabies

All clothes of the affected person should be washed in hot water daily. Nails should be trimmed.

The areas of the body affected with scabies should be washed with hot water boiled with neem leaves and neem soap should be used.

Consume tender neem leaves, which are not very bitter, are made into paste and make a small pill given two times a day.

Avoid animal fats, oils, including those in milk ad dairy products and by excessive simple sugars such as those in concentrated sweeten and tropical fruits.

Rub raw onion or onion juice on the scabies. Also with combination of tulsi (basil) juice mixed with equal quantities of lime juice is also equally effective.

Prepare a decoction from the bark of the neem tree. Drink a cup of this, mixed with sugar, twice a day. In addition, apply the same decoction on the affected parts and wash off after one hour.

Apply a paste made of neem leaves and turmeric mixed in sesame oil on those areas.

Prepare the ash of the dry bark of the neem tree. Mix it with a little coconut oil and apply it on the affected parts after a bath.

Take few neem leaves dried and powdered then add a spoonful in hot water, drink in empty stomach for good relief.

Bitter gourd juice mixed with water helps to get rid of scabies.

To relieve the itching of scabies, add a cup of oatmeal to your bath’ soak in hot water and scrub with soap.

Don’t worry if you are suffering with scabies. If you follow the above home remedies permanently you can get rid of scabies.

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