I agree almost 100% with Robin. The only addition I want to make is -
every case is different and so we cannot club all the conditions into
one category. For us diagnosis is only a pointer and should not decide
what our results are going to be in any given case.
Having said that my results with skin diseases including psoriasis are
definitely not very flattering compared to say epilepsy or asthma.
Eruption without itching might be used for confirmatory but one way or
other is not that important.
Long standing skin diseases are especially difficult for many reasons:
1)Patients have already tried all the external creams and ointments
possible before they come to us. The longer they have had this
condition the likelier the use of such items and the harder to get any
result.
2) Patients have already accepted that they are going to live with
this disease at some point. It is almost as if in a corner of their
mind they are resigned to this fact.
3) When it is long standing the condition becomes as if it has a life
of its own and identity. And the patient becomes used to it and life
style and other changes have taken place adjusting to the condition
and treatment has to work against all of this.
4) Invariably I have had aggravation of the skin condition in all
adult patients. In children the aggravation is less ( may be less
allopathic medication, shorter history etc.). I explain that to the
patient and if the patient is sceptical I do not accept the patient.
5) Chronic skin conditions ( or any chronic condition for that matter)
becomes a crutch for the patient and after a while any upset (
physical, psychological etc.) starts reflecting on this organ. This
kind of becomes the default scapegoat of all of the problems the
patient is having.
6) Sometimes the problem expands and becomes a problem of the family
and not just of the patient. It kind of becomes a crutch for the family-
There was this case that I remember of psoriasis. The husband and wife
were almost always at war with each other. And whatever I threw at
the husband would seem to work till the next quarrel with wife. Both
of them have attempted suicide ( more like threatening the other). It
was like the psoriasis was reflecting the conflict in the family.
Only the husband was in treatment. Later I gave Chamomilla for the
wife for her menstrual problems etc. and she became much more
peaceable after that. Wonder of wonders - husband's psoriasis
disappeared. So this was like removing a maintaining cause in a way.
( Her mother is the same way and her father had extensive psoriasis
but very meek - he had given up the fight with wife and expressing
himself thru the skin) and the son-in-law has psoriasis for almost (
from what I saw) the same reason....
And another one where a patient had a small patch in her leg that
never went away for long- and she was at odds with her mother-in-law
and given the culture could not do anything about it- husband will not
hear anything against mother... I could get rid of her resp.allergies
but the skin never really settled ....
Haven't you heard about the difficulty in leopard changing
spots?...make it psoriatic or any chronic skin spots...
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minutus@yahoogroups.com, "Rochelle Marsden" wrote:
that he brewed up himself!!
so badly that she couldn't walk!!!!!!!!!! That was with Borax as she
had the SRP that she couldn't walk over the shiny floor in the
supermarket she worked in because she would fall. That symptom went
away and I bet she has no psoriasis now!!
had improvement so much that it didn't really bother them much now.
week as she had seen an allopathic consultant re her arthritis which
had flared up (after I gave her a Rx IMO) and he suggested acupuncture
and she had an appointment on the same day as mine!!
fared with psoriasis.
standing.