About my Eczema

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Hey Chris/Dee/Deonia,

 

Wuz it me .. and I thought the problem might be fungal .. but maybe not,

I'd check it out real easy afore I made a cream. I'd dilute Oregano

Hydrosol one part to two parts water and bathe the affected area a

couple

of times a day. IF it wuz fungal, I believe it would go away.

 

If it didn't go away, and I leaned toward thinking it was some kind of

eczemic reaction, I'd start to bath it in straight up Rose Hydrosol ..

no dilution .. for a day or 3 and see what happened. I'm not sure it

would go away PDQ from this but I believe the symptoms would go away

PDQ.

 

I think using either of the above and watching the results would gimme a

better idea of what I might have .. and/or the depth of the problem.

And from a safety point of view, I don't see a downside to either.

 

I believe most common skin maladies will respond to a bath in one or

another hydrosol. Folks who don't live with doctors and drug stores

have been doing this a few thousand years .. not always successful maybe

but enough so that the practice continued for that long.

 

When folks talk about nail fungus and the like - and recommend use of

neat Tea Tree (which I think is like sticking your hand in rat holes in

rattlesnake country) ... I believe they would do better and be safer to

soak in Tea Tree or Oregano Hydrosol. I haven't recommended this cause

it might appear I wuz trying to sell them a helluva lotta hydrosol since

it would take a least a couple'a gallons to do it for a whole month and

everybody doesn't have a few barrels of hydrosol sitting around.

 

Remember .. the hydrosol more closely resembles the true nature of the

healing properties of a plant than does the EO. It contains both the

water-soluable and the non-water soluable chemical constituents.

 

Anyway .. being as I don't recommend treatments to others, that's just

how I would consider treating me or mine.

 

Y'all keep smiling, Butch http://wwww..AV-AT.com

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> In a message dated 02/14/2002 9:55:14 PM Central Standard Time,

> chrisziggy1 writes:

>

> >

> > The beginning of that description sounds kind of fungal in nature .....

> > have you tried using a lotion or cream made with oregano hydrosol for

> > that? I would ...

>

> Oooh Chris, I hadn'lt thought of that one I usually use rose or tea tree

> hydrosol. Gotta get some oregano hydrosol.

> It's really strange and I think a RN friend of mine solved the mystery. All 5

> , supposesdly the best in Fl., dermatologists tried to tell lme I washed my

> hands too much. They ran tests for fungus, everything! Cost me a fortune for

> them to tell me they didn't know what it was. That was 25 years ago, I first

> thought it was a lettuce fungus ( because I was a salad girl in a restaurant)

> then I thought It was a silver fungus ( from cutting fruit and handeling

> coins while making change as a bartender) then I thought It might have been

> from the disinfectant usesd when washing bar glasses, then I thought it might

> be from using chlorine and some acids barehanded ( cleaning commercial pools

> ) For almost 30 years I have tried to get some doctor to give me a diagnosis.

> About a month ago I mentioned that after being dormant for the last 3 years (

> ever since I had been using my own homemade soap) that it had reappeared. I

> went through the whole story ( all of what I have related here and more) she

> told me that when she was just out of nursing school she was always

> reprimanding her fellow workers about protecting themselves while working

> with patients, She ALWAYS wears gloves, no matter who it is. She said she

> encountered a nurse coming out of a room that had a patient with the most

> common thing that you can get in a hospital, A staph infection. Her friend

> laughed and told her she didn't think it was necessary to put the gloves on

> and that she had washed her hands as soon as she got through with him.

> Anyway, to try and make a long story short, LOL, the friend later came up

> with a rash on her hands just like the one I have. ( it only gets on my right

> hand, never anywhere else) Come to find out it was a staff infection. My

> friend said she bet that that is what is wrong with mine. It hides somewhere

> in my body untill I get stressed out, and boy have I been stressed out

> lately, and then it manifests itself where the skin is weakest on my body.

> The more I think about it, the more sense it makes.

> Anyway, in the past, I have controlled it with a steroid ointment called

> " Diprolene " that all the doctors have prescribed, to the tune of about $60.

> for a 2 ounce tube.

> I made a cream using rose hydrosol for the water, and Rose, rosewood, and tea

> tree EO's. and as soon as my hand starts to itch I start using the cream

> every time I think of it. If I let it go to the little blister stage before

> using the cream, it takes about 2-3 days for it to dry up. But if I use the

> cream faithfully or as soon as my fingers start to itch, it never manifests

> itself. That has really made a believer out of me. Deonia