Boils - Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment

Boils

The boils, known as furuncle in medical parlance, are tender
swelling in the skin surrounded by large red areas. They are
infections of the sweat glands or hair follicles of the skin.
They commonly occur during summer. 

Symptoms

* Boils can occur anywhere on the body, but they appear most
   often on the face, eyelids, back of the neck, upper back, and
   buttocks.

* Boils occurring round the eyes and nose are especially serious
   because their poisons can spread to the brain.

Causes

* Boils are mainly caused by stapphylococcus germs which enter
   the sweat glands or hair follicles.

* They can be transmitted from one person to another .

* The essential cause of this disorder is thus bacterial.

Treatment

* A thorough cleansing of the system is essential to the treatment
   of boils.

* Take exclusive diet of fresh juicy fruits for two or three days.

* A warm-water enema should be administered daily, if possible,
   during this period to cleanse the bowels.

* Avoid tea, coffee, starchy, and sugary foods especially, cakes,
   pastries, sweets, chocolates, white sugar, and white bread.

Home Remedies For Boils

* The use of garlic and onion has proved most effective among
   the several home remedies found beneficial in the treatment of
   boils.

* The juice of garlic or onion may be applied externally on the boils
   to help ripen them and also to break them and evacuate the pus.

* Bitter Gourd is an efficient home remedy for boils.  A cupful of fresh
   juice of this vegetable, mixed with a teaspoon of lime juice,
   should be taken, sip by sip, on an empty stomach daily for
   few days in treating this condition.

* Cumin seeds (jeera) are beneficial in the treatment of boils. The seeds
   of black cumin should be ground in water and made into a paste.
   This paste can be applied to boils with beneficial results.