Remarks and a remedy for Skin Problems

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.

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We have also put up an informative Web site about our formulas and Boevnite. You can visit the Free Formulas for Natural Healing site here.

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.