Home Remedies for Hysteria

Hysteria is a neurological condition which causes mental and nervous disorder. It makes the patient emotionally disturbed as he/she does not have any control over feeling and sentiments. Such patients usually suffer from any phobia, lack of self-discipline, depression and seizures. Some of the causes of hysteria are sexual excess or sexual repression, idleness, hereditary, mental strain, stress, fear, worry, depression, etc. Heavy breathing, clenched teeth, tensing of muscles, swelling of veins particularly in the neck region, alternating bouts of laughter and crying are the most common symptoms of hysteria. Though found in both the sexes, hysteria is more prevalent among females than in males. It usually occurs during adolescence and becomes less frequent after 25 years of age. Treating hysteria at home is the best way to deal with the disorder. In the following lines, we provide how to treat/cure hysteria using home remedies.

• Stress
• Sexual repression
• Excessive idleness
• Heredity factors
• Family history of nervousness
• Faulty emotional training
• Mental strain
• Fear
• Worry
• Depression
• Traumatism
• Masturbation
• Prolonged sickness
• Brain tumor
• Dementia

• Heaviness in the limbs
• Severe cramps
• Strong feeling of ascending abdominal constriction
• Continual sighing
• Difficulty in breathing
• Constriction in the chest
• Palpitations
• Feeling of a foreign body lodged in the throat
• Swelling of the neck
• Suffocation
• Headache
• Clenched teeth
• Generalized and voluntary tensing of muscles of locomotion
• Loss of consciousness
• Violent and tumultuous heartbeats
• Weakness
• No willpower
• Tendency towards emotional instability

• An effective way to treat hysteria patients would be to take utmost care of their diet. They should start with a fruit diet for all the three meals such as apples, grapes, oranges, pineapples, papayas, grapefruits, etc. Thereafter, follow an all-milk diet for a month.
• In a cup of freshly made lettuce juice, mix a tsp of Indian gooseberry (amla) juice. Have this mixture in an empty stomach every morning for a month.
• Consuming a tablespoon of honey everyday is beneficial in treating patients suffering from hysteria.
• Make asafetida a part of the regular diet. Include it in small quantity of 0.5 to 1.0 grams per day.
• Alternatively, the patient can also smell some asafetida every day.
• Add a gram of Rauwolfia root in a glass of milk. Intake this milk twice everyday – morning and evening. Drink this combination until completely cured.
• Appropriate sleep and regular exercise is very beneficial in treating patients with hysteria.
• Grate the vegetable bottle Gourd and apply on the forehead of the patient. It is a very good treatment for curing hysteria.