How to Treat Skin Problems With Folk Medicine

Use herbal remedies discovered through the development of folk medicine to treat skin problems like excema inexpensively. These herbs are available as tea or as topical applicants from many from different parts of the world. Follow these steps to find the best remedy for you.

Things You'll Need

• Selection of herbal teas
• Computer withInternet access

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Instructions

Educate Your Consumption

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  Learn that your diet can contribute to skin problems.

• 2

  Lower the amount of preservatives you eat each day. Folk medicine experts believe that skin problems are a direct result of preservative-packed snack foods that are full of calories and high in sodium.

• 3

  Trade carbonated, sugar-filled soft drinks for herbal teas. These days, they're available in bottles for those times when you're "on the go."

• 4

  Use herbal teas to cleanse skin from the inside out, as they've done for hundreds of years in Asia and other parts of the world.

Apply These Topically

• 5

  Try tea tree oil, honey, vinegar or a paste of salt and water to ease itchy skin.

• 6

  Apply a mildly thick mixture of ground nutmeg and milk for an hour or two directly onto your acne. This may benefit your skin problems within 3 days.

• 7

  Mix honey and cinnamon powder together into a light paste, then apply to face before bed. Don't remove until morning. Continue nightly for 2 weeks.

Treat With Produce

• 8

  Apply and wear on the face or hands ripe tomato innards for an hour each day to relieve skin problems.

• 9

  Position against the skin a section or the trimmings of a freshly-cut potato. It's said that it can extract pollutants from the skin.

• 10

  Treat regular skin problems by mixing lime juice with boiling milk. Apply to blackheads or excessively dried skin.

• 11

  Rub a freshly-cut clove of garlic around acne developments for a few days. You may see results soon.