Eczema

[Sim Thiam Chye]

Hi Shannon

yes, the skin behind the heels started healing, I think within first or second mth.
her parents commented that those areas had less steriod cream applied.

From your email, I gathered that you think the aggravations were unneccessarily prolonged
in this case. Why do you think so? Can't it be a healing crisis instead of aggravation? The
steriod had suppressed the diseases for more than a year. Is it expected that the right Rx will
drive it out to the skin again????

How do we distinguish a healing crisis from an aggravation?
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Hi TC,

Do you know or recall whether there were positive signs to encourage the
family thru the aggravation (what a long time for it!!!), or was it pretty
much going on faith?

Thanks,
Shannon
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[Shannon Nelson]

Hi TC,

I didn't mean to imply anything! It ("What a long time for it") was more in
the "sympathetic noise" category; seems that would have tested everybody's
patience!

It's *possible* that if the remedy had been given lower, or (perhaps best)
in LM, that the process would have been smoother -- I haven't enough
experience or authority to say it *would* have, only that it *might*.

What I was actually curious about, tho, was whether there was improvement on
the mental or emotional level, or anything like that, which might have
reassured the family that progress was indeed taking place. Do you happen
to know?

I would indeed tend to call it a "healing crisis" rather than aggravation.
For one thing, an aggravation would not be expected to last beyond a couple
of weeks -- at most! If I'm remembering your original post right, it sounds
like this was more an "externalization", or healing crisis.

Presumably the child's emotional state improved also, or was that never a
problem?

One reason I'm curious about "encouraging signs" is simply that if *I* gave
a remedy which caused someone to suffer for six months (!!!!), I don't think
I'd have the confidence or nerve to just wait it out, *unless* there were
improvement at inner levels, too. I'm wondering whether I'd be right in
this assumption (anyone)?

Shannon
on 12/12/02 9:13 AM, SIM Thiam Chye at tcsim@starhub.net.sg wrote:

[Dave Hartley]

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[becklesfield]

Hi all

Thanks for your posts on eczema. I spoke to my sister last night and
her son's eczema had become so bad that they broke down and
administered steroids, internally and externally - sigh. The poor
boy even has eczema on the tip of his penis, not much fun for him.

She did go back to the homeopath and has been given Sulphur in an LM
potency, I've advised her to administer one dose according to the
instructions she has been given and then to wait and watch. If she
sees any sign of improvement at all - behavioural, mental or
physical - then she must not re-dose (ie I'm trying to get away from
the mechanical dosing that she's been told to do previously). I've
also advised her to wait for a week and if the symptoms persist or
worsen to contact the homeopath again. I hope I'm correct in my
advice, please let me know if I'm wrong.

Naturally she has to wait for the steroids to come out of his system
first, and the homeopath has told her to wait for two weeks before
starting the Sulphur, does that sound long enough?

It's so sad, and using the steroids was not a decision my sister took
lightly. I'm pleased to say that she is still very willing to work
with homeopathy for this problem and she's beginning to understand
that steroids are a quick *fix* solution and no more. I also
explained that in the general scheme of things, having a problem on a
skin level like this is much better than having to deal with internal
organ problems that you can't always see and may not manifest
themselves until much later when so much more damage has been done.
Equally, I explained that using steroids will suppress the symptoms
and push them further into the body thereby sending it into the very
organs that the body is trying to protect.

It's very frustrating to try to explain this in a short conversation
late at night my time, and morning their time (I'm in the UK and
they're in NZ), with children running around in the background, so
that the conversation is interrupted *g*! If anyone has links to any
sort of article that is easy to read and in layman's terms I would
very much appreciate the info. My sister has three kids all under
6yo, and not a great deal of time spare to sit down and work through
a long tract that she might not understand immediately.

Thanks
Becky