Home cure for Malaria and Symptoms

Malaria is a serious infectious disease. Here the fever often starts and stops over a period of time. It has the tendency to recur again and again. It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions.

Symptoms of Malaria

• High fever is the most common symptom.
• It may occur everyday, on alternate days or every fourth day and is accompanied by shivering, headache, pain in the limbs and chill.
• Temperature comes down after sometime accompanied by profuse sweating.

Also refer to Symptoms of Chikungunya Fever.

Causes of Malaria

Plasmodium parasite causes malaria. Female anopheles mosquito spreads it from infected person to a healthy person.

Wrong feeding habits and faulty style of living lowers the vitality of the system, and aids in the development of malaria.

Home cure for Malaria

• Fast on orange juice and water 7-15 days. After fever subsides adopt an exclusive fruit diet for 3 days. Then embark on a well balanced diet.
• Apply cold pack to the whole body to reduce temperature. The pack should be replaced after every 3 hours and should be kept for an hour.
• Apply hot water bottles to the sides of the body and feet.
• Grapefruit has beneficial properties against malaria.
  Boil a quarter of grapefruit, strain its pulp and use it.
• Cinnamon is effective against malaria. Coarsely powdered cinnamon is boiled in a glass of water with honey and a pinch of pepper powder.
• Alum (roasted and powdered) provides relief. It should be taken 4 hours before the attack is expected and every 2 hours after that.
• Lime and lemon are beneficial too. Juice of 1 lemon should be mixed with 3 grams of lime and 60 milliliters of water. This water should be taken before the onset of fever.

Prevent Malaria

• Prevent mosquito bites, spray walls of the house with insecticides.
• Avoid water stagnation and maintain environmental hygiene and cleanliness of surroundings.
• Infusion prepared from holy basil leaves is beneficial in prevention of malaria. Juice of about 11 grams of basil leaves mixed with 3 grams of black pepper powder should be taken in the cold stage of malarial fever. It checks severity of the disease.

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