From: fish@ecst.csuchico.edu (Kevin Haddock)
Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
Subject: Re: Eczema and holistic cures
Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:44:49 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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In article <22DEC199211370552@cc.weber.edu> tscwhitehead@cc.weber.edu (Clarke Whitehead) writes:
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> Recently, I posted a question
>on the HOLISTIC internet list asking for advice regarding treatment for
>Eczema, and received dozens of different approaches including the
>exclusion of milk, wheat, citrus, etc, from the diet, ointments,
>Preparation-H, meditation, lemon-juice fasts, chants, etc, etc, etc.
>
>With the complex relationships between nutrition, life styles, mental
>attitude, etc.  How do you isolate the actual problems creating such
>ailments.  I recently (about a month so far) eliminated milk from my
>diet to see if that had an effect.  I have also been cutting back on
>fats and eating more fruits and vegetables.  The Eczema got much worse
>for a while, and now is starting to settle back down after resorting
>back to the old Hydrocortizone ointment.

Chances are you hit upon something you were allergic to.  There are two
possible explanations for this as far as I know.  First, according to
Dr. Mendell's book (as I mentioned in a previous posting), we have zones
of allergic response.  This causes people to have addictions to exactly
the substance they are allergic to.  You get an increased allergic
rection when you eliminate or reduce the allergen.  You will continue to
have allergic response until you have eliminated all traces of the
allergen from you system.  This can be very difficult to do because the
allergen can be hidden in a lot of different food substances or may not
even be food related at all.  The most common allergens are things that
are found in our diet and environment that are in a highly refined form
that the normal body barriers (i.e. lungs, intestines, skin, etc..)
are not equipt to reject.  The most common are: orange (from concentrated
orange juice), wheat (refined flours), corn (oils, sweeteners), sugar
cane and beet, and petroleum vapors (natural gas stoves, plastics,
automobiles, etc...).  Each person has a different response based upon
thier genetic makeup and environmental exposure.

The second possibility is that there are organisms feeding upon the
substance that gives you trouble and you are not allergic to the substance
but are allergic to the waste byproducts of these organisms.  When you
quit eating (or smoking) the substance the organisms starve and for
a short time release more waste byproducts because thier dead bodies
are being broken down and absorbed by your system.  The series of
books based upon 'The Yeast Connection' describes the work done in
this area.

>  Do I have to go through this
>type of trial with every possible contributor? 
> ...[deleted]...

In summary, you don't need to rely on voodoo or snake oil to get well
holistically, there is a lot of good, solid, science out there to help.

Best of luck and look forward to getting your feedback on these books,

-Kevin
fish@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

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