Home remedies | Floret lichen

Home remedies

Various household remedies are suitable for satisfying the severe itching of a floral lichen. The application of re-greasing creams and care lotions prevents the skin from drying out and soothes itching. Those affected should take care not to irritate the skin additionally by intensive washing, brushing or abrasive clothing. Hot showers, sauna visits or heavy sweating dry out the skin even more and should be avoided. Special oil baths can help to stop itching.

Homeopathic treatment of floret lichen

A number of homeopathic and herbal remedies serve to strengthen the immune system and can thus accelerate the healing of the floral lichen. In the case of very itchy spots, taking Arsenicum iodatum C9 in combination with Sepia C5 helps. The homeopathic remedies should be taken for the entire duration of the disease.

Mineral compounds in the form of Schüssler salts can alleviate the symptoms and speed up the healing process in the case of floral lichen. The Schüssler salts No. 7 (magnesium phosporicum), No. 13 (potassium arsenicosum) and No. 17 (manganese sulfuricum), among others, help against severe itching and scaly dry skin.

Duration

Rose lichen is a harmless skin disease, which usually heals after 8 weeks without consequences. However, there are rarely known cases in which the skin symptoms persist for up to several months. There are no causal therapy options to shorten the course of the disease.

History

Floret lichen probably develops at the bottom of an infection with herpes viruses. It is questionable how far from the first infection it occurs. There are probably even several years between the first infection and the appearance of lichen.

When the herpes virus reactivates, the first primary focus of the skin disease – the primary medallion – a single, coin-sized, oval skin apparition, which is usually located on the stem, will then appear.After about two weeks, further oblong to oval skin findings develop, which also present themselves as redness with scaling. They are a few millimeters to centimeters in size, but in any case smaller than the primary medallion. Itching develops only rarely. After about 3 to 8 weeks the skin symptoms usually heal without consequences.