Treatment For Mumps

 Mumps is an acute communicable viral dissease with a painful enlargement
 of the salivary glands. Frequently invading other tissues like the testes,
pancreas and the menings.


WATER TREATMENTS
     1. Cold compress on the swollen salivary glands for 30 minutes, 3 times a day.
     
     2. Ice pack on the swollen glands for 30 minutes, 3 times a day.
        Apply the ice pack over the glands, just below the ears.
   
     3. Fever sponge bath for fever.

     4. Cold compress on the forehead for headache and fever.

     5. Complete bed rest, especially for male adults. Sterillity is one
        of the complications of mumps in male adults.


HERBAL MEDICATIONS:
   

1. MAKAHIYA leaves
        . Crush leaves and make into paste.
        = Apply directly on the swollen gland after cold compress.
          Apply for 30 minutes, 3 times a day.

   




2. KANTUTAY leaves
        . Pound or chop the leaves.
        = Apply as poultice on the swollen glands for 30 minutes
          3 times a day.

 

3. KAMIAS fruits
        . Chop and mash fruits.
        = Apply as poultice on the swollen glands for 30 minutes,
          3 times a day.

   

4. GISOL rhizomes
        . Chop the rhizomes.
        = Apply directly as poultice on the swollen glands for 30 minutes,
          3 times a day.

   








5. LAGUNDI leaves for fever
        . Boil 4 tablespoons of chopped dried leaves or 6 tablespoons of fresh
          chopped leaves in 2 glasses of water for 15 minutes.
        = Dosage:
          Adults: 1 cup, every 4 hours
          Children: (Babies) 1 tbp, every 4 hours
                     (7-12 yrs.) 1/2 cup, every 4 hours.

How to Treat Measles and/or Skin Rashes

 Measles is an acute viral infection characterized by morbilliform
eruption with catarhal inflammation of the conjunctive and the air passages.


WATER TREATMENTS
     1. Give fever sponge bath for fever three times a day.
     2. Apply a continuous cold compress on the forehead for headache.
     3. For coughs, give formentation to the chest and back, 2 times a day.
     4. A starch bath to relieved itchiness can be given daily to take the
        place of sponge bath.
     5. Protect eyes from bright lights. Make the room dim with curtains on
        the windows and dim lights at night.


HERBAL MEDICATIONS
   


1. LAGUNDI leaves for fever
        Follow instructions in the chapter on fever
 
 







 2. KAMOTENG KAHOY Flour for starch bath
        . Remove peelings and grate the tuber. Etract the juice, add
          water enough for one baby bath tub and boil.
        = Soak the baby in the starchy water for 10-15 minutes but
          don't rub the skin. May apply as powder on the skin.

The Herbal Medications of Indigestion

 Indigestion is the disturbance in the digestive function of the stomach or
its failure to digest food.


SUGGESTIVE MEASURES TO AID DIGeSTION:
     1. Withhold food intake for four hours
     2. Drink one glass of hot water every hour during the four-hour fasting.
     3. Eat a slice of ripe papaya 30 minutes after a heavy meal
     4. Eat light meals without fatty foods after the four-hour fasting


HERBAL MEDICATIONS TO AID DIGESTION:

   


1. PAPAYA, ripe
         Eat as a fruit dessert, especially with heavy meals Papaya
         helps in the digestion of protein.





 2. KAMATSILI leaves
       . Boil 1 cup in 5 glasses of water for 10 minutes. Add 1/2
           teaspoon salt.
         = Dosage:
           Adults: 2 cups initial, and then 1 cup every 4 hours
           Children: 1 cup initial, and then 1/2 cup every 4 hours
           Babies: 1 tbsp. initial and then 1 teaspoon every 4 hours.

   


 3. ANONAS leaves
         . warm the leaves directly in open fire.
         = Apply the leaves directly on the stomach while still warm.
           Use abdominal binder. Renew every 2 hous.Good for children and babies.
         

Treatment for Herpes

Herpes simplex is an acute viral diseas, characterized by group of vesicles or small blisters.
Commonly recurrent, herpas is at times seen in the same place it was seen before.


WATER TREATMENT USING HERBAL DECOCTIONS

     1. Daily bath with soap and warm water.

   


 2. KALATSUTSI juice
       . Extract juice from the leaves.
       = Apply directly on the lesions, 3 times a day.

   

3. ADELFA bark and leaves
       . Mix well 1 cup of chopped leaves and bark with 2 tablespoons of oil.
       = Apply on the lesions, 3 times a day

 




4. AKAPULKO leaves
       . extrct the juice from the leaves.
       = Apply the juice directly on the lesions.

   




5. SINGKAMAS seeds
       . Pound or grind fine 10 seeds and boil in 2 tablespoons of oil for 5 minutes.
       = Apply the oil on the lesions, 3 times a day.

How to Treat Hemorrhoids

Hemorrhoids are multiple plexure of varicose veins in the lower rectum or anus.

WATER TREATMENT USING HERBAL DECOCTIONS
     1. Hot sitz bath, 2 times a day.

     2. Use any one of these herbal leaves in making decoction for hot sitz bath.

   

 
1. KAMIAS leaves
       . Boil 3 cups of chopped fresh leaves in 2 gallons of water for 10 minutes. Strain.

       = Use this decoction for hot sitz bath.


 



2. PATOLA leaves
        . Wash and chop about 20 leaves and boil in 2 gallons of water for 10 minutes. Strain.
        = Use this decoction for hot sitz bath.






HERBAL MEDICATIONS
   

1. AMPALAYA roots, fruits and seeds
        . Wash and chop the roots, fruits and seeds. Extract the juice and mix with oil.
          Use 1/2 cup chopped roots, fruits and seeds with 2 tablespoons of oil.
        = Wet cotton with the ampalaya-oil mixture and apply on the hemorrhoids after the hot sitz bath.

To Treat the Mosquito Bites

Infected mosquito bites become swollen and painful.

WATER TREATMENT
     1. Rub the infected area with wet soap (any kind of soap).
        Don't rinse with water; let it dry on the skin for 2 hours. If
        itchiness is not relieved, repeat after 4 hours.

PREVENTIVE MEASURES
     1. use mosquito nets at night when sleeping. If possible, put
        screen on all windows and doors of the house.
     2. Keep the surroundings clean and dry. Empty all stagnant water
        containers in and around the house.

HERBAL MEDICATIONS
   

1. KATAKA-TAKA leaves
        . Pound 5-10 leaves and extract the juice
        = Apply the juice directly on the infected bites, 3 times a day.

 





2. ATIS - Unripe fruit and seeds
        . Pound and extract the juice from one unripe fruit.
        = Apply the juice directly on the infected bites, 3 times a day.

Medications for Fever due to Viral Infection

      A fever occurs when there is an elevation of the body temperature.


WATER TREATMENTS
      1. fever sponge bath. Give hot water sponge bath if the patient has
         high fever and his arms and legs are cold. Give cold water sponge
         bath if the skin is dry and hot. Give warm water sponge bath    
         three times a day or more, if needed.
   
      2. Bed rest with continuous cold compress on the forehead
 
      3. Hot fool bath. If the fever is due to head congestion and flu.
         give a hot bath in the morning and in the evening, after supper.

      4. Drink one glass of water or juice every hour during waking hours.


HERBAL MEDICATIONS FOR FEVER DUE TO VIRAL INFECTIONS
   
     
               1. VINEGAR
                . Put 2 tablespoons of vinegar in a basin of cold water
                 = Use this for making vinegar compress on the forehead if ice is
                   not available.

     






                                                     
2. BALIMBING leaves
          . Boil 2 cups of chopped leaves in 1/2 gallon of water for 10 minutes. Strain.
             Cool for 2 hours.
          = Use this in making a cold compress if ice water is not available.

   









            3. KAMIAS leaves
           . Boil 3 cups of chopped fresh leaves in one gallon of water for 15 minutes.
            Strain.
            = Use this decoction for cold or hot sponge bath.






INTERNAL MEDICATIONS
       Use one of the following herbal medications to help lower the fever.
       
   
1. TAGULINAW plant
         . Boil 1 cup of chopped fresh leaves with the whole plant in 2 glasses
           of water for 15 minutes.
         = Dosage:
           Adults: 1 cup, 3 times a day, every after meals
           Children: (Babies) 1 tbsp, every 4 hours
                     ( 2-6 yrs) 1/4 cup, every 4 hours
                                                                           (7-12 yrs) 1/2 cup, every 4 hours

   
2.  OKRA seeds
         . Roast dried seeds and grind or pound fine. Boil 1/2 cup of the ground
           seeds in 2 glasses of water for 15 minutes. Cool and strain.
         = Dosage:
           Adults: 1 cup , 3 TIMES A DAY EVERY AFTER MEALS
           CHILDREN: (Babies) 1 tbsp, 3 times a day, every after meals

                     (7-12 yrs.) 1/2 cup, 3 times a day, every after meals



3. LAGUNDI leaves
          . Boil 4 tablespoons of chopped dried leaves or 6 tablespoons of fresh
            chopped leaves in 2 glasses of water for 15 minutes.
          = Dosage:
            Adults: 1 cup every 4 hours
            Childre4n: (Babies) 1 tbsp, every 4 hours
                       (7-12 yrs.) 1/2 cup, every 4 hours