Lupus Herbal Remedy

What is Lupus?

Lupus is an abnormal inflammation of organs and tissues caused by its own immune system. According to experts, the cells of the person who has produce certain proteins that mimics the protective covering that of the virus, bacteria or fungi which makes its immune system to consider such cells as invaders. To protect the body from invaders, the immune system produce inflammatory substance in cells that are tagged as invaders without thinking that what it is attacking is its own organs. The inflammatory substance caused the organs to be inflamed.

What is the treatment of Lupus?

The best treatment of Lupus has to steps:

1. To alter the immune's activity by slowing it. The doctors used the term "suppress". The immune system should be suppressed, lessening its ability to detect invaders like bacteria,virus, fungi and other foreign bodies including transplanted organs. When the immune system is its suppressed state, it will not release inflammatory substance to cells or organs it tagged as invaders, thus saving the organs from its attack.
2. To counter the inflammatory substance released by the immune system by the use of anti-inflammatory drugs or substances given to Lupus patients.

When these two procedure will be administered to the Lupus patients, the patient can be saved from the attack of its own immune system.

Is there any Herbal Remedy to treat Lupus?

With regards to suppressing the immune system, we still don't know of any herbs that can be used as alternative of the immunosuppressive drugs. It means, we are still depended on the drugs for the purpose of suppressing the immune system.

However, we have many herbs that can be used as alternative to anti-inflammatory drugs, such as:

1. Ginger. More about Ginger
2. Turmeric or Duyaw.
3. Sida-sida. Pansit-pansitan (Peperomia pellucida) which is also called sida-sida, sinaw-sinaw, or bihud-bihud, is a herb that grows well in a slightly shaded and a bit damp areas which can grow to 50 cm and is very well known in the Philippines as effective antibacterial, analgesic, diuretic and anti-inflammatory herb. More info about Sida-Sida Herb.
4. Sambong. It is an aromatic plant that has medicinal properties being benefited by Filipinos for a long time. This herbal plant is approved by the Department of Health (DOH) in the Philippines as an alternative medicine. It is known in the Visayan speaking Filipinos as Gabon, Karamburan, Hanlilib-on, and Bukadkad. In Ilocano people it is known as Subusob, Subsub or Sobsob. More about Sambong.

Considering that you are taking immunosuppressive drugs to control your immune system, so you need to take herbs or any alternative that will counter the side-effect of the immunosuppressive drugs.These herbs and plants are:

1. Tawa-tawa Herb
2. Miracle Fruit

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