If you have Bell’s palsy, you likely felt fine one day and woke up the next with this mysterious neurological disease. However the condition progressed in its onset for you, you do have treatment options. Castor oil, black seed oil, and turmeric are supplemental options that seem beneficial to the condition as are therapeutic treatments like acupuncture and chiropractic care.
Bell’s palsy is characterized by sudden weakness in the facial muscles. Affecting just one side of your face, the condition makes half of your face seem to droop.
The symptoms of Bell’s palsy come on suddenly and include a variety of conditions in conjunction with muscular weakness. Difficulty making facial expressions, pain near your jaw and in or behind your ear, increased sensitivity to sound on your affected side, headache, decreased taste, and changes in the amount of tears and saliva you produce are all common side effects.
The exact reason for most cases of Bell’s palsy is unclear; however, it is often linked to an individual’s exposure to viral infection. Common viral conditions that may be linked to the condition include cold sores and genital herpes, chickenpox and shingles, mono, cytomegalovirus infections, respiratory illness, measles, mumps, flu, and hand-foot-and-mouth disease. The muscular weakness is caused by the inflammation of the nerve that controls your facial muscles.
While most individuals recover from the condition with or without treatment, doctors sometimes prescribe different treatment options to speed recovery. Your doctor may suggest treatment such as corticosteroids, antiviral drugs, or even physical therapy.
Depending on your medical supervision you may be able to stick strictly to natural treatments. Castor oil, black seed oil, and turmeric seem to be effective supplemental options while acupuncture and chiropractic care are also considered effective.
Castor oil packs, Edgar Cayce's famous remedy, can help reduce inflammation and heals nerve damage. The oil also strengthens your facial muscles and maintains your skins elasticity.
Black seed oil, taken internally also helps reduce swelling in the nerves and face. This treatment also promotes circulation and stimulates full nerve recovery.
The spice Turmeric is another anti-inflammatory agent. Taken internally, it reduces the inflammation in your face and encourages healthy blood and lymph flow to eradicate infection.
Here's a recent post from a reader stressing the link between Lyme Disease and Bell's Palsy.
Posted by Lynn (Sonora, Mexico) on 01/28/2021:
"I find that the most common cause of Bells Palsy is Lyme Disease. I have Lyme Disease, and I ran a Lyme Disease support group in Northern California for many years, and Bells Palsy was a common symptom. Once on antibiotics for the Lyme bacteria, the palsy soon faded away for most patients.
Being in Tennessee, which is a highly endemic area for Lyme, I would suggest the person with Bells Palsy get tested for Lyme Disease. The best lab in the country is IGENIX in Palo Alto, California. Very few labs know how to test properly.
And the reason why is once a person is bit by a tick, mosquito, flea etc carrying the bacteria, the corkscrew shaped bacteria burrows thru your skin into your blood. But it doesn't stay in your blood, but burrows into the muscle and tissue mass and into your organs, even into your bone marrow.
For this reason a Western blot blood test or an Elisa blood test are useless, and most of the time will come back negative, (because the organism has already left the blood and burrowed into new parts unknown), yet a person can have Lyme raging in their body. Then they are sent out the door and told they are negative for Lyme when it is going full boar in their body. So they go untreated, get worse, become crippled or die.
I spent years giving talks to people in these support groups, and always about 50 or so people from these other support groups would get tested, and most would turn up positive for Lyme, join my support group, get on antibiotics for a season along with a complex health regimen, and they would get their lives back."
Continue reading below for additional natural remedies from our readers. Please let us know which remedy you used to treat Bell's Palsy.
