Causes and Home remedies for Depression
September 16, 2009 by admin
Filed under Home Remedies
When you are experiencing stress, anger, fear, shame or loss, which is all part of our emotional dynamics, you may experience of mood disorder, which is called as Depression. Depression can cause lots of health problems, relationship problems, affecting your energy level, loss of sleep etc., while severe cases can lead to extreme mental disorders as well.
Causes of Depression :
Apart from emotional factors in our life, disappointments in our work and family conditions, stress can be one of main cause for depression. There are also some other factors like lack of sufficient vitamins and minerals in our diet can also cause depression. Vitamin B6, B12, Vitamin c, magnesium, folic acid, calcium etc. are essential for our body, but if you lack these, you can feel depressed. Amino acids added in proper quantities to diets can help us get rid of depression.
Home Remedies for Depression :.
Depression can be treated successfully through herbal formulas, as long as depression has not deteriorated into mental disorders.
Nature’s Prozac, also known as John’s Wort – hypericum perforaturn, can relieve moderate depression, stress, and anxiety.
For moderate conditions especially in senior citizens, Gingo biloba can be used.
Anxiety and depression can be calmed through valerian root;
For calming and inducing sleep, you can use passionflower, while Black Cohosh, can reduce spasms and soothe feelings.
If the depressions is due to hormonal imbalance, you can provide natural progesterone supplements for women, while falx oil, dimpro, essential fatty acids, virtex berry and red clover all of which are naturally derived supplements can be of great help.
Physical health can be greatly improved through aromatherapy, which means using of essential oils and compounds from plants, to help you find a natural healing from depression. These oils with their strong smells can change moods, bring about confidence, and improve your condition. Aromatherapy can be through mists, sticks, candles, creams, mineral bath formulae, etc.
Lavender is a popular aromatherapy, which calms and serves as a tonic to nerves, helping relieve anxiety, depression tension, migraines etc. Its scent is a cure for exhaustion and it can induce sleep.
All human being suffer depression to some extent due to many reasons. We do not seek remedies because common depression is short lived and doesn’t justify intervention of potent drugs which can in fact be dangerous both for our physical well being and mental balance. Mild cases of depressions are treated efficiently by vitamin, mineral and amino acid supplements, apart from yoga, hormonal balance’s, meditation, etc.
Yoga and meditation in fact are the most natural home remedies which can bring complete relaxation to nerves, and relieve all mental tensions, so that you can lead a normal anxiety free life, in spite of being faced with difficult circumstances. All that is required to earmark certain time for meditation in your daily life try to vanish all thoughts causing anxiety in your mind and relax there you are ready with an antidote for depression.
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