Reply to Sarah - Alternative Medicine Message Board

Farmer Sue Tickle · 02-01-2003, 04:54 PM

I felt this was getting off the topic of anxiety which is why I started a new thread.

We plan to resume my wife's studies in about a year or so. We're emigrating back to where she began her studies and hope to resume them at the same college. I have considered training myself, but I think one medic in the house will be enough, otherwise we'll be just too virtues with no vices! I'll still keep reading and encouraging my friends to go and see good practitioners but unless something catastrophic happened to my wife I don't think I'd take it up as a career.

Sarah68 · 02-02-2003, 03:17 AM

That will be good for your wife anyway, but keep up your own reading, even if only for the interest.

I don't know whether you would be able to help me with a friend's eczema problem from your knowledge? She gets very stressed and all her problems are worse from stress. She gets very dry and itchy eczema on her eyelids, under her arms and in her ears. She also gets terrible period pains too and eveyrthing seems to become worse with the stress and periods. When she gets stressed, she tends not to look after herself that well anyway, but has changed to using soya products.

I was wondering if she could use a detox? What do you think?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Sarah

Farmer Sue Tickle · 02-03-2003, 10:28 AM

I certainly can't help your friend's eczema problem from my own knowledge except to consider some good oils like flaxseed regularly. I do have some outstanding resources which I will look up and report back, but don't expect any lightning responses.

For the stress, take up some serious meditation. My wife, who's never really had bad period pains because of long-standing good nutrition has pretty much eradicated all pain and cramping after taking up a blood type diet. Bear in mind that this was gravy and that your friend can get good benefits from nutrition.

I'd see a good nutritionist (they appear to be VERY hard to find, sorry!) to get acids, fats, etc. in balance before you do a detox.

Sarah68 · 02-03-2003, 03:54 PM

Thanks for that anyway. I have told her about the nutrition part of it and she assures me she is going to try and improve.

I have the Eat Right for Your Type book so I think I will lend this to her.

As for the detox, I think I will persevere with the homeopathic route for now and will see what happens. I have done this myself, so know that it works and if she detoxes a little, it may help the remedies to work better anyway.

Thanks again.

Farmer Sue Tickle · 02-04-2003, 01:09 PM

I've discussed ezcema with a few friends and sources and I think (again, only my opinion) that if it's not due to a deficiency of, it certainly can be helped by, Essential Fatty Acids.

When I mentioned some good quality oils, like flaxseed, it might be a good idea to up your friend's intake of fatty fish (easier to take and closer to the higher bond EPA than flaxseed - long story!). A safe way to try this might be to swap out some other protein sources and insert coldwater fish at meal times four times a week for two weeks, to see how her skin responds. The best sources of EFAs in fish start with sardines and mackerel, then salmon, then anything else from cold water. Sardines and mackerel are very cheap and very nutritious. Make sure they're fresh!

After two weeks, check on the skin. If there's a little improvement, maybe try extending the protocol for a bit longer, making sure you aren't sacrificing any food groups by doing so (except dairy which we don't really need and calcium, Vit D, etc. can be sourced easily elsewhere if not from the fish).

I used to eat fish four times a week in Sydney and had dry skin. It turned out I had a fungal infection (candidiasis/thrush/athlete's foot) and wasn't absorbing. I got rid of it, ate the same, and now my skin is the envy of my wife!

Good luck and let us know how you get on.