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Health Remedies - Urticaria

Urticaria is an allergic skin rash also known as 'nettle rash' or hives. It causes red, itchy, raised areas of skin that appear in varying shapes and sizes. Urticaria is usually triggered by allergens, such as drugs, foods, insect bites, inhaled substances, or latex. Some people develop hives in response to sunlight, cold, heat, stress, exercise, or a viral infection.

Acute urticaria lasts for hours, days or a few weeks and the cause may be identified easily. Chronic urticaria lasts longer than 6 weeks or even for months or years and the cause is often unknown. Urticaria generally occur in deeper tissues of the eyes, mouth, hands or genitals. Other than skin rashes, the sufferer may also have itching of the skin, swelling of the face, tongue or hands, difficulty breathing or a choking feeling, stomach cramping, fever and headache. It is important to try to avoid any known or suspected causes of urticaria.

Useful herbs

Adhatoda vasica	For asthma and intermittent fever; used also as an expectorant in cases of chronic bronchitis and phthisis. On rheumatic joints, as a counter-irritant on inflammatory swellings, on fresh wounds, urticaria and in neuralgia.
Anisochilus carnosus	As an expectorant (oil from plant) and in headaches (leaf); used to relieve urticaria associated with liver disorders and other allergic manifestations, for cough and cold (fresh leaves juice).
Feronia limonida	Digestive disorders; dysentery, diarrhea and piles, women's disorders; sagging breasts, cancer of the breast and uterus, sterility due to deficiency of progesterone, post-partum complications, children's diseases; bowel complaints, urtecaria and biliousness.
Fumaria officinalis	In the treatment of all visceral obstructions, particularly those of the liver, arthritis, gallstones, in scorbutic affections, urticaria, jaundice and in troublesome eruptive diseases of the skin, especially eczema and scabies.
Gmelina arborea	In rheumatism and stomach problems (root decoction); gonorrhea and as an anthelmintic (leaf juice); for cough (root decoction and leaf juice); making prosthetics (wood); increasing the secretion of gastric juices and as a tonic (bark); in fever (root decoction); for headache, anasarca, asthma, bronchitis, cholera, colic pain, diarrhoea, dropsy, dyspepsia, epilepsy, fever, phthisis, rheumatism, small pox, sore, spleen complaints, syphilis, throat swelling, urticaria, fever, urinary complaints, urticaria, consumption, wounds and leucorrhoea (herb).
Solanum nigrum	Hemorrhoids, liver problems (including cirrhosis), as an emollient, eye-diseases, rat poisoning, skin diseases, oedema, cough, urticarial patches, for achieving conception and to relieve from difficult labour and as a rejuvinative(plant); used externally ease pain and abate inflammation, and are applied to burns and ulcers (fresh leaves); for ringworm, gout and earache, and mixed with vinegar, is said to be good as a gargle and mouthwash (leaf juice); used externally as a poultice, wash etc in the treatment of cancerous sores, boils, leucoderma and wounds (leaves, stem and root); as an analgesic for toothaches (fruit juice).