Erysipelas (Visarpa) — described by Charaka. A spreading red, hot skin infection; it needs antibiotics.
Food Remedies
Main remedy
Spreading red, hot skin infection needs a doctor (antibiotics) — alongside: cooling sandal/durva paste, neem inside and out, no curd or hot-spicy food.
Cooling pastes on the spreading redness — durva grass or sandalwood with rice-water; inside, light bitter food (karela, neem leaves). Charaka treats visarpa with cooling and blood-purifying line.
Traditional
नीम · Neem
4-5 neem leaves on empty stomach; neem-water wash of the area.
Traditional
करेला · Bitter gourd
30 ml bitter gourd juice on an empty stomach, and the pulp left over spread cool over the patch — tikta rasa cools the blood in visarpa inside and out. The spreading red patch is still a bacterial infection: antibiotics the same day.
Traditional
On this page Documented — There are human studies behind this ingredient for this particular complaint. Traditional — Carried by tradition and experience; modern evidence for this particular complaint is limited.
All of this is what others have found — tradition, shared experience and the studies done so far. It is not advice given to any one person. Before changing your diet, and especially if you take any medicine, ask your dietician or doctor.
Naturopathy
Cool compresses; keep the limb raised and at rest.
Bhojanveda
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