psoriasis advice

Hi Lilyflower

So sorry to hear your Mum is struggling so - she must be so very uncomfortable :(. before any advice, I'm sending Love, Light and Healing to her.

[url]There is a lot[/url] a registered [url]Nutritional Therapist[/url] would be able to do to help her - with her list of possible drugs and problems involved I couldn't even begin to advise.

To give you some idea of what might be involved, a lack of omega 3 and 6 oils, vitamins A and D (and most of the other vitamins and minerals like zinc too, and especially B vits for stress) will not help her situation. There is a likelihood of an autoimmune involvement and/or food intolerance, so gut probiotics (therapeutic dose) will also probably be necessary. may make all the difference.

I'd look at getting her a quality juicer to get as many phytonutrients from mostly raw vegetables into her as possible. A lot of the supplements can be added to the juice. There is heaps that can be done, but it will have to be specific to her. For example a diet free of wheat and dairy might make all the difference, but it might be eggs that are the problem - it all needs investigating. Some herbs to help support liver detox function may be helpful, but she'll need the right ones.

In my experience the creams can only be palliative and do not deal with the cause, and it sounds as though there is a lot that needs sorting one way and another, but it is not impossible to help her. See if the Dr will test her vitamin D levels for a start and ask him if she really needs to be on statins as it has been proven clinically that they do not help woment over 60 so the drugs may be overloading her system unnecessarily.

There is a lot than can change her health status with the correct food and supplements, so hope she is more comfortable soon.

Sooo agree with everything Caroline has suggested! And, it most definitely is an auto-immune disease.

I have a close friend who was plagued with this problem from childhood. It wasn't fully addressed until she was 54, shortly after her father had died (her mother died when my friend was in her teens). She was on all sorts of meds for conditions she wasn't actually sure she really had - she was just given stuff to try by the GP - one being blood pressure pills, prescribed when she was 30, as her blood pressure was 'up a bit' when she went to see him after a particularly difficult time in her life - she stopped taking them when she went veggie (after her Dad died) - her new GP couldn't understand why she had been prescribed them in the first place!!!

She was referred to a hospital dermatology department when the psoriasis became really bad, in 1998, and they did all sorts of things to try and help. Coal tar wraps, light therapy, mud baths - you name it, they tried it - whilst it helped improve the condition of the skin briefly, it didn't address the cause.

After her Dad died, she changed her diet, having spent her entire life catering, and caring for him - he was always a meat and two veg with potatoes man - she was really a natural vegetarian.

She also underwent hypnotherapy - on advice from me!!! She had spent her adult years being treated like a child by her father - was very timid and had no confidence at all. After a few sessions of hypnotherapy she blossomed - it was wonderful to watch! The stress that she had experienced for all those years just fell away. I really believe that 'dis-ease' manifests as a direct result of what is going on in the brain. Psoriasis is definitely linked with stress. Now, 3 years later, whilst she still has some nasty scarring from the psoriasis, and it is still hanging around her elbows, knees and hands, the rest of her skin is looking remarkable. She has arthritis in her knees, hips and hands, but finds that it is manageable, and she gets to a pool as often as she can, to exercise which helps the joints. The only 'medication' she takes is aspirin - the other stuff she takes is supplements recommended by nutritionist (see Caroline's link for the Register).

7. (Q) Please give me the cause and cure for the so-called psoriasis with which I am troubled.
(A) The cause is the thinning of the walls of the intestinal system, which allows the escaping of poisons - or the absorption of same by the muco-membranes which surround same, and becomes effective in the irritation through the lymph and emunctory reactions in the body.
An effective cure for same is first being mindful of the diet, during the periods when these necessary elements would be given for creating those activities within the system to close such conditions:
In the system we would use elm water and saffron water. These would be taken in the ordinary drinking water, during periods of one, two to three weeks at a time. All the drinking water, carrying, then, either a small quantity of elm or the Saffron.
For this adds to the assimilating system those properties that become effective to the aiding of building within the system itself those conditions that will overcome such activities in the system.
The diet during such periods should be more of vegetables than of meats or sweets, so that there are those reactions that make for better unification in the membranes reaction within the body.
These will be found to be most effective with this body. --------------- 15. Pancreas, spleen and gall ducts show irritation; and fullness in the gall duct, as torpidity in the liver would naturally indicate; as well as disturbances in the jejunum where thinning of the walls of the intestines makes for disturbing forces. [Psoriasis]
13. (Q) In his present condition would it be well for him to use the remedy for psoriasis given in a previous Reading?(A) This is very well; the elm and the saffron. These, though, do not take until there has been a thorough reaction from the quinine and senna - which are the active principles in the Bromo-Laxative Quinine. This is a bromide, with senna and quinine.
18. (Q) What should be done for small patches on skin in nature of Psoriasis? (A) As indicated, the character of the rubs and the establishing of a better circulation - especially through the irrigations, the fumes, the diets, and the precautions in those things indicated, will remove these disturbances. Get the poisons out of the system through the colonic, the sweats and massages - which will also bring relief from the muscular aches and pains.
12. (Q) Does the skin condition still come from thinning of intestinal walls, as indicated? Would you advise any local application when it is irritating? (A) As it is a psora [psoriasis] condition, its action or activity is from through the small intestines. Use Resinol, - but use it at night and then you wont have to have it on during the day when you go about and among people.
8. (Q) Will the Forces suggest a local application for the speedy and complete removal of psoriasis patches all over the body? (A) Lets get at the base of the condition, if we would make a COMPLETE removal of the conditions! These may NOT be done speedily, for the CAUSES must be removed, else we will have a continued return of the condition. The eliminations as set, or by those activities in the manipulative forces with those properties as given into the system - and later with those applications as may be given, as just outlined - will make for a removal of these splotches.

HERBAL DRINKS AND EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS
1. The primary herbs for the correction of Psoriasis are: The American Yellow Saffron Tea, Slippery Elm Bark Powder, Camomile Tea and Mullein Tea. The preparation of the teas are enclosed herein. Take the Yellow Saffron Tea more often than the others, but alternate this with the Camomile Tea. 2. External applications consist primarily of baths using Cuticura soap, followed by Cuticura Ointment, then in turn followed by Resinol Ointment gently rubbed into the lesions. Sleep overnight with it on, bathing in the morning again with Cuticura soap. 3. Massage the body, periodically, with a mixture of Olive Oil and Peanut Oil (equal parts). - After the massage, if conditions permit, bathe in sunlight, but not to the point of becoming sunburned. If direct sunlight is not possible, for any number of reasons, the PROPER USE of Ultra-Violet Light may be very helpful. Extreme caution must be applied here. One should not expose any one area of the body to Ultra-Violet light for a period over 1 to 1 1/2 minutes. Be sure eye protectors are on you and the light is a minimum of 40" away. 4. For major circumscribed lesions, it has been found very helpful to apply warm Castor Oil on the lesion, then wrap the area with Saran Wrap and leave it that way for several hours. This will help heal the surface cells. Apply this method at least twice a week until the area clears up. This can also be done with the Olive Oil - Peanut Oil mixture. USING SAFFRON TEA AND SLIPPERY ELM BARK POWDER. SAFFRON TEA - Begin with Yellow Saffron Tea, a pinch of the American Saffron in a cup of boiling water, allow to stand for 30 minutes, strain and drink each evening when ready to retire.
GROUND ELM BARK - Occasionally, about two or three times a week, drink Elm Water - a pinch of ground Elm (between thumb and forefinger) in a cup filled with WARM water, not boiling water; allow to stand for 30 minutes. Drink this preferably in the morning rather than at the period when Saffron Tea is taken.

my friend got some products from body empire they're supposed to be making a whole series dedicated to psoriasis treatment, your Mum should try it