Suppressive Treatments for skin disorders can harm

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In a message dated 2/15/04 5:25:24 AM Eastern Standard Time,

acu writes:

 

> Please give an example where treating a skin disease symptomatically

> will end up causing harm.

>

> Thx,

> Godfrey Bartlett

>

 

I am not necessarily addressing Chinese medicine unless it is used in a way

to force the body to clear the skin disease without also going to the root

cause and alleviating it at the same time. To clear a rash or any other ailment

by

force without addressing the root cause is called suppression. Suppression

will drive pathologies deeper into the mental, emotional and physical bodies.

 

" Direction of cure " is a concept first described by Constantine HERING, MD

(1800-1880), the " father " of American homeopathy, and it is used by

homeopaths, chiropractors, naturopaths and many other healing modalities to

follow the

body's healing response to any curative modality. Chiros call it retracing.

 

Based on keen observation, Dr. Hering concluded the curative process must

occur in specific directions, which he elucidated as follows:

 

*From above downwards, (i. e. from shoulder to wrist). *From within outward

(this happens when there is a skin eruption, an attack of diarrhea, vomiting

etc) --- from center to periphery.

*Symptoms improve from the more important vital organ to the less important,

superficial one; i.e., from the heart to the skin. *Symptoms disappear in the

 

reverse order of their appearance (the last symptom is the first to go and

the first is the last one to disappear).

 

Often when a child has poison ivy or eczema they can be treated with calamine

lotion or steroids. This stops the itching and makes the skin look and feel

better but it did not address the true infection which can be in susceptible

individuals driven deeper. A few months or years later they develop asthma or

heart problems.

 

Often when we give a homeopathic remedy for asthma a skin eruption will

occur. This is a good thing. As long as it is on the skin it is moving out and

not

deeper. If the rash is a curative reaction we should not treat the rash

especially if it is something they have had in the past. Sometimes they don't

remember until queried extensively.

 

I was using silica to help expel a deep splinter in the heel. A boil erupted

on the chest within inches of where a recluse spider bite was suppressed with

antibiotics and surgery about 6 years before. I am sure it prevented a deeper

pathology such as a breast tumor from developing.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Has anyone else seen asthma or bronchial infections appear after suppressing

a skin ailment?

 

 

 

Sunny