While many of us know eczema to be a condition of inflamed and irritated skin, if you or your child actually suffers from eczema, you know how burdensome and afflictive this pathology can be.
I understand. As a child, I was burdened with this “hell on earth”—as I was covered with it from head to toe.
But oh! How I wished I had left it alone.
What? Leave this distressing condition alone with no eczema treatment whatsoever?
Let me explain.
In its very first paragraph explaining eczema, WebMD describes that people with eczema have “inherited [a] tendency to develop other allergic conditions, such as asthma and hay fever” later on in life. They are absolutely right.
But what conventional dermatology protocols for eczema treatment don’t plan for is the domino effect that takes place when eczema is suppressed through the various pharmaceutical drugs that are employed to “treat the condition.”
Cortisone Cream: Eczema Treatment with Sobering Consequences
The most common drug used for eczema treatment today is cortisone cream. In a matter of days, this drug will reduce eczema to a mild level and often it will get it to disappear altogether. The relief it brings is tempting and seductive at best — but I know how beguiling it actually is — so let me stay your hand for a moment to explain the consequences.
We think that the consequences are all listed on the “side effects” label of the drug. For cortisone cream, this includes an increased risk of getting infections and possible birth defects for pregnant women who use this steroid. Not good. But it gets worse!
Pharmaceutical Dominoes from Conventional Eczema Treatment
Homeopathy understands that when you suppress pathology and symptoms, you drive the illness deeper into more vital organs in the body.
So while your skin may be afflicted today, if you don’t allow your body to work it out by itself or cure properly, you effectively suppress the disease deeper into the body and find yourself with exactly what Web MD says you can get: asthma, hay fever, and other allergic conditions, for life.
Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the Father of Homeopathy, wrote, “Removal of local (skin) symptoms results in a heightening of the whole disease.”
Indeed, after my eczema was suppressed as a child, I found myself developing even more symptoms later on: a severe sensitivity to chemicals, an ever-growing list of food allergies, chronic fatigue, headaches, anxiety and more!
Oh, how I would have traded all of those troubles for topical eczema!
But — I dare say — that neither the more serious conditions nor the eczema is desirable. “Leaving it alone” just wouldn’t cut it for me.
Natural Eczema Treatment Alternatives
Today, with my 28 years of study in the field of homeopathy, I know that when the correct remedy is selected, homeopathy becomes the ultimate tutor for your body. It teaches your body to resolve the issue. It complements your body’s symptoms. Homeopathy is curative, not suppressive.
Why that’s the exact opposite of conventional medicine!
Sadly, however, to treat a chronic condition like eczema via classical homeopathy, you often need to work with a seasoned homeopath and it can take years. You cannot do it yourself…
Enter the Banerji Protocols. These simple homeopathic protocols were developed by Drs. Prasanta and Pratip Banerji.
It is from them that I learned what I’ve always known but needed to be shown the shortcuts…that the complexity of classical homeopathy had been turned usable by means of straightforward and inspired procedures that anyone can learn.
So I committed to an intense 13-week fellowship with these world-renowned doctors where I observed and recorded 5,528 live cases. (I’ve never written so much in my life!) When I returned home to Western New York, I painstakingly organized, collated and categorized each case so I could use these protocols in my daily practice, but more importantly, to teach families back home.
What I learned not only via my fellowship in Calcutta but cumulatively as a homeopathic practitioner regarding eczema are the following:
1) In the end, topical cream usage is a huge intensifier of long-term suffering. Avoid it at all costs.
2) Other than allergen abstinence (not a good solution in the real world), homeopathy is the only medial method known to mankind to root out not only newly presenting eczema but old suppressed forms.
So what is the upshot of what I have learned? That the homeopathic remedy that tens of thousands in India and around the world have profited from for effective treatment of eczema is Arsenicum album.
Often, this medicine alone will make such a dramatic difference that no more will be needed!
If, however, this gets things moving in the right direction but doesn’t take healing to completion, we know that there are other homeopathic remedies that will conclude the work. Sometimes the problem is related to food intolerances, and that has its own protocols depending on the type of intolerance.
It may require 6-12 months but is worth every effort. So, for example, if the food allergy that causes eczema (or other skin conditions) is gluten intolerance, the remedy is often Bovista. While, if the intolerance is from milk (raw or otherwise) the remedy choice is likely to be Aethusa.
Bottom Line
Since learning how to treat my family with complete medical autonomy, saving thousands of dollars because of this knowledge for the last 28 years, it is my passion to inspire you to take control of your life yourself and uproot your gut and skin issues. I want all moms to become healers. I want them to be known as a healer of their home and community.
When you know something important, it is your duty to share it.
Learn More! Video + Free Educational Graphic on Homeopathy for Skin
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More Information
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I hope to be able to take the course to help my condition on my hands. Nothing has worked so far and I eat a pretty clean diet.
My son came down with eczema when he came back from Kuwait. He then came down with rheumatoid arthritis. The doctor was amazed that a young man in his early 30’s would have such a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis, until Jake told him he had been in the Mideast. The doctor told hi he was seeing a lot of this in our folks coming back from there. Don’t try and tell us chemical warfare was not used……
What is the most reliable way to be tested for food allergies?
After 12 years of struggling and many allergy Tests that told us my Daughter had No allergies. She went Gluten Free no more Eczema. She has one bite of Gluten she has red itchiness. Allergy tests do not always tell the truth!
Is it true that kids can grow out of it? Or do they suffer into adulthood? My middle daughter had infantile eczema that she grew out of, but my youngest didn’t start having flare ups until she was around 2, she’s 3 now and this summer was the worst :/.
I had exczema for two years on one foot and one index finger. It was treated with topical steroids which have left me with fungal infections of the toe nails since, but did not cure the skin rash. And yes I felt that I was paying for all past sins with the pain and ich. It went away within days when I stopped drinking coffee. Any slip ups would cause a flair up until I had been off it for about ten years. I can now enjoy my organic fair trade coffee again.
The cure for my sons eczema at 6 months old was very easy, after I finally found a doctor that knew what to do (an Allergist, not a dermatologist). First, we had him tested for allergies. That day I started bathing him everyday in the sink so I could sit him up in water that covered most his of body. Immediately after a 20 minute (no shorter) bath I covered his whole body, including cheeks, in Vaseline. His skin was clear and itch free by the end of the week. I also eliminated those allergens (wheat, dairy, peanuts, eggs) from my diet as I was breast feeding him. Keeping those allergens out of his diet helps keep his skin clear so we only have to do Vaseline maybe once a week or so. He is four now, and itch free, unless we forget to do our Vaseline routine.
after the vaseline aplication what do you put him in to sleep? does it get everywhere?
In Homeopathy, suppressing symptoms on the skin will drive the illness deeper into the tissues, so if he starts getting odd other symptoms, even though the skin is clearer then that may be an indicator to change oils.
Mineral oil is insoluble, but fat soluble molecules dissolve into it and are removed when the mineral oil passes thru the skin and body. This causes deficiencies in fat soluble nutrients, so then you trade one problem for another.
A better choice for a topical ointment is an unsaturated fatty acid.
When my child has skin eruptions, I prepare organic beet greens. It helps the gall bladder move the gunk out.
Sarah, Thank you for your comprehensive and well researches posts! Fantastic!
It.must be healed from the inside out…I cannot understand why some people don’t get that.
My son suffered eczema when he was very young and the conventional meds he was given were the catalyst for our whole foods and holistic journey (he is 19 now and the picture of health!) A holistic nutritionist we saw at the time likened steroids to a radio. She said that the steroids are turning down the sound but the music is still playing. Once you stop using the steroids, the music is turned up even louder than ever at that point. Vicious cycle.
Jess,
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