Remarks and a remedy for Skin Problems – Erika Price

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Remarks
and a remedy for Skin Problems
By Erika
Price, DIHom, DHM, BIHF (U.K.).
Homeopathic
Self-Sufficiency www.geocities.com/HotSprings/7776/

Skin Care and the
Problem of Poisons * Alternatives
to Poisons
New Developments for Skin Care:
Boevnite^®

Treating skin
problems: Graphites as an example

Therapeutic
Uses * Tendencies * Skin Problems * Unhealthy Skin * Acne * Cracks
Finger Nails * Dermatitis * Eczema * Psoriasis * Itching
* Poison Ivy & Oak
Dandruff * Scars * Sebaceous Cyst * Sensations

Modalites
* Remedy Interations

Skin Care and the Problem of Poisons:

Whether because of vanity, skin discomfort, or
disease, most people are using unhealthy and unhelpful preparations
on their skin. Steroids like cortisone, antibiotics, antifungals,
antihistamines, Retin-A, and most cosmetics either are or contain
harmful drugs, toxins and chemicals. Even the simple moisturizers
and “soothing” lotions tend to contain many chemicals. It
should also be pointed out that many of the so-called
“natural” preparations contain potent toxins and
chemicals, and that natural herbal-based ointments can contain
suppressants too. Zinc oxide paste is one example. Meanwhile, most
of the herbal and homeopathic topical ointments commonly available
are, at best, marginally useful and address only a limited number of
disorders.

The harm to health caused by the widespread use
of topical drugs and cosmetics applied to the skin is overwhelming.
The suppression, repression and restraining of skin disorders and
diseases is dangerous to the health of the whole body. The skin may
be the least critical organ of the physical body, but its low
hierarchical position does not prevent it from being of major
importance in the scheme of suppression. On a daily basis the skin
is the organ of the body that is most universally suppressed by
prescription and non-prescription drugs and chemicals. In addition
to the direct harmful effects that these toxins can produce, the
suppression of disorders more deeply into the system can produce
grave long-term results.

Alternatives:

There are alternatives to the toxic approach. The
treatment of skin disorders can be very successful with homeopathic
remedies taken internally, but it can also be complex and it usually
entails a consultation with a homeopath. There is still a need,
largely unfilled until recently, for good topical preparations to
aid in healing the skin, for not everyone will have access to good
homeopathic care and, even when under such care, good topicals can
be most helpful in speeding the healing process and avoiding the
discomforts of skin problems. Unfortunately, the best topicals are
still not widely available. In fact, I have to make them for my
patients.

New Developments for Skin Care:

Several years ago my mate (who is also the
webmaster for this site) and I discovered a previously unknown
natural healing mineral in the Tropics. We named it Boevnite^®.
It’s completely non-toxic and it is amazing for treating skin
problems and many injuries. There is simply nothing – natural or
pharmaceutical – that works as well or as fast for the majority of
skin problems. And there are no toxic affects associated with it. We
have developed a number of pure, healthy homeopathic and herbal
formulas using Boevnite. They are extraordinarily helpful during
treatment with internal homeopathic remedies and also when used by
themselves. They are available in my practice and they can be made
to order.

Click here:
Homeopathic
Self-Sufficiency www.geocities.com/HotSprings/7776/
for consultation and fees information for my practice.
We have also put up an informative Web site about our formulas and
Boevnite.




Treating Skin Problems:

The skin is a part of one’s whole being and a
patient’s whole case should be taken when treating a skin problem.
Attending to the skin symptoms alone will rarely suffice. I will give
here only one example of the many homeopathic remedies for the skin:
Graphites.

Graphites
[black lead carbon]

Therapeutic Uses:
Polycrest with main sphere of action on skin. Thickening and
induration of skin, glands, eyelids, nails, scars.


Tendencies:
Chilly indoors and outside. Left-sided symptoms.
Obese or rounded appearance with large face and head. Weight Problems
with obesity and unhealthy fat, stockiness with excoriation of
thighs while walking. Fair complexion.



Skin Problems:

• Unhealthy skin–
  with persistent dryness of some areas; is hard and rough; chapped
  dry patches of skin; spotty and greasy; skin cracks and is painful;
  every little injury suppurates pus or oozes a watery, transparent,
  sticky honey-like fluid.

• Acne– that oozes clear
  fluid, and after healing leaves a raised scar.

• Cracks/fissure- on
  finger joints and in bend of joints; on nostrils, lips, behind ears,
  on nipples, fingertips are painful, worse in winter.

• Finger Nails– thick,
  cracked, crippled brittle, crumbling, deformed; and finger nails are
  rough, and black (as if rubbed with black lead); painful, sore as if
  ulcerated.

• Callouses– with
  deep cracks; the skin in general can be dry and hard with horn-like
  callous.

• Eruptions– itchy;
  rawness in bends of joints, groin, neck, behind ears; prickly heat
  rash and sweat rash.

• Blotches– with
  eruptions that itch and ooze.

• Dermatitis– rough
  skin with cracks.

• Eczema– moist; on
  rough dry skin with scabby eruptions; alternating with internal
  affections; on face, around mouth, nose and wings of
  nostrils, chin, on the corners of eyes and mouth crack and ooze a
  gluey honey-like discharge, and are thick, tenacious and very itchy;
  of eyelids– eruption is moist and fissured (split), lids red
  and margins covered with scales or crusts; of ears with moist
  eruptions that ooze thick honey-like fluid behind ears, cracks; on scalp,
  with sore scabs, hair is dry and falls out; of hands, bends
  of joints, between fingers.

• Psoriasis– skin
  thickened, moist, crusty, oozing eruptions, exuding thick gummy,
  honey-colored pus; behind ears, palms, back of hands; skin
  thickened, rough and dry.

• Itching– with
  burning and smarting; on becoming warm in bed; pimples and vesicles
  that itch; scratching until too raw; wandering itch; during menses;
  worse in the evening, and before a storm.

• Poison Ivy or Oak–
  with itching vesicular eruptions and watery blotches.

• Dandruff– with
  itching, moist scalp and scaling crust that smells and is worse
  behind ears.

• Scars– thick scar
  tissue, hard, break open, from burns, becomes painful, tearing and
  drawing pain; old scars that are hard and re-open, ulcerate and
  burn; itching with stinging or burning in spots, in rough dry skin,
  scratches until raw, moisture after scratching smarting, worse at
  night, during menses, in warm bed.

• Sebaceous cysts–
  that are weepy and ooze.

• Sensation of
  cobweb over their face.


Modalities:
These are the very important modifying influences and
circumstances with aggravate (make worse), or ameliorate (make
better) the person and their symptoms:

Graphites Modalities:

Worse from < Cold, and damp
conditions; night, before midnight, on waking; warmth of bed;
wet feet; during and after menses; menopause;
suppression of skin eruptions with steroids; scratching;
left-side; empty swallowing; sweets, seafood, vinegar, fats,
pork, hot drinks.

Better from > Open fresh air,
wrapping up warmly; in the dark; resting; night; belching;
after eating, warm food and drink, warm milk, milk, wine


The remedy interactions
for Graphites [GRAPH]:


Is Antidoted by: ACON, ARS, CAMPH,
CHIN, NUX-V.

Incompatible with: RHUS-T, wine.

It antidotes: ARS-I, RHUS-T. Is
Compatible with: LYC.



Copyright
© Erika Price, DHM. 2000