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Health Remedies - Paresthesia

Paresthesia (paraesthesia) is a sensation of tingling, pricking, crawling sensation or numbness of the skin with no apparent physical cause, more generally known as the feeling of pins and needles. It occurs due to dysfunction of sensory nerves, that supply or innervate particular regions of the body. It is usually felt in the hands, arms, legs, or feet, but can also occur in other parts of the body. It can occur in a wide range of diseases such as diabetes, hypothyroidism, alcoholism, malnutrition, vitamin B12 deficiency, trauma, HIV, leprosy, infections etc.

Useful herbs

Alangium chinense	In the treatment of rheumatism, numbness, traumatic injuries, wounds and snakebites; applied to the area around dislocated bones to help them setting (root paste)
Baliospermum montanum	Rheumatism (seed oil); snakebite antidote (seed); to treat piles, anaemia, jaundice, skin diseases, cyst, as purgative, wound, conjunctivitis, diabetes, numbness, dropsy, general anasarca, asthma.
Buchanania lanzan	Snakebite antidote (bark); and in skin diseases (seed paste); to treat intrinsic haemorrhage, diarrhoea with blood and as tonic; in case of fever and burning sensation (kernels).
Diospyros peregrina	For wounds and ulcers;in vitiated conditions of pitta, burning sensation, inflammations, diarrhea, dysentery, leprosy, skin diseases, pruritus, dyspepsia, haemorrhages, burns, diabetes, fever, spermatorrhea and vaginal disorders (bark); in strangury, dyspepsia, flatulence, scotoma, nyctalopia, opthalamia, epistaxis, haemoptysis, burns, tubercular glands, scabies and wounds (leaves); in leucorrhoea, urethrorrhea, splenomegaly, nyctalopia, anaemia and scabies (flowers).
Hiptage benghalensis	In cutaneous diseases, for scabies (leaves); in chronic rheumatism and asthma (plant); biliousness, cough, burning sensation, thirst and inflammation (leaf and bark)
Manilkara hexandra	As a tonic and in fevers (bark); Also used in jaundice, flatulence, dyspepsia, burning sensations, helminthiasis, constipation, catarrh, bronchitis, leprosy and dipsia (plant).
Phaseolus trilobus	In general debility, malnutrition, fatigue, constipation, fever, burning sensation, thirst, piles, dysentery, cough, gout and biliousness
Uraria picta	For healing bone fractures and for the treatment of urinary diseases, tumours, oedema, burning sensation and difficult breathing (plant); to treat gonorrhoea (leaves); as an antidote for snake bite, in the treatment of anal prolapse in infants (root); for cough, chills and fevers (decoction); to treat sore mouth in children (pods).