home treatment-natural home remedies for eczema.
One
of the most common of all skin diseases, eczema consist of an inflammation of
the skin of a catarrhal character. It hometreatment is attended with papules, vesicles or pustules, attended with
more or less discharges, and with itching and other symptoms or irritation.
It’s
in fact a symptom denoting the reaction of the skin to various forms of
irritation. It is generally found in persons of morbid constitution where the
excretions of the bowels of kidneys are defective.
Eczema
in its acute form shows itself by redness and swelling of the skin, the
formation of minute vesicles and severe heat and irritation. If the vesicle
rupture, a raw, moist surface is formed, from which a colorless discharges
oozes, which forms skin crusts when it accumulates.
Such
attacks may occur as a result of digestive derangements or in person of
rheumatic or gouty tendency and they tend to appear at certain seasons, such as
springtime. Eczema may be dry, weeping or rub rum where it affects only the
leg.
Administration
of drugs has only a palliative or temporary effect. Homeopaths believe that the
suppression of eczema may produce symptoms of more serious diseases since;
according to them it is the result of spore’s poisons.
The
real cause is the failure of the human system to excrete the poisons from the
various orifices of the body. Water matter is excreted from the rectum, through
the stools, from the bladder through the urine, from the breath through the
lungs and from the pores of the skin.
The
condition of the skin is a very good pointer to the state of health father
Knapp used to diagnose a disease by examining the skin of the patient,
sometimes the pores of the skin of the patient. Sometimes the pores of the skin
are over- worked since the person does not expel the waste matter properly from
the other orifices. That is why the perspiration of some person is rancid: it
may even smell of urine in some cases.
If the orifices given by nature to
expel the waste matter from the body perform efficiently, that is, if the
bowels are clean, water is taken in sufficient quantities, the urine is clear,
the lungs are able to breathe clean, fresh air, and the skin will remain
healthy.
If the pores of the skin are not
given the chance to perform their given duty, the sweat is full of morbid
humors which give rise to the various skin diseases, like eczema, acne, boils
and other eruptions and itch. Trying to cure eczema by skin applications is
like cutting the leaves and branches of the tree in an effort to annihilate it.
The relief, if any, is temporary. If
the exudation is suppressed, it may be a prelude to some other more serious
disease. The best way to deal with eczema is to cleanse the blood and the body.
The sufferer would get as much or fresh air as possible.
Dwellers of airless streets in a
city slum should migrate to the open space of the villages and let fresh air
resuscitate their system. Restrictive clothing should be given up. Two to three
liters of the water should be taken daily and the patient must bathe twice to
thrice in the day.
The skin should be vigorously rubbed
with the palms of the hands before taking a bath. All the parts of the body
should be thoroughly wetted and rubbed to such an extent that the towel is not
needed to dry the skin. The site of eczema should, of course, be spread the
rubbing.
If you can bathe in a lake or a river,
do it by all means, but do not dry yourself with a towel. Lie on the sand or
take a walk so that the water dries in the sun. Take another bath; alternate
your bath with the sunbath. If this is done eat at least twice in a week, it
will help.
The size of eczema should be covered
it coconut oil. It will help the skin to stay soft. An eczema patient must take
an enema if a diet of fruit and fresh vegetables does not help relieve your
constipation. Walking or jogging should be resorted to in order to activate the
bowels. You must walk at the rate of six kilometers per hour for at least two
hours in the day.
Our blood is alkaline and so are
fruits and vegetables. They balance with our blood and should be consumed in
adequate quantities. Salt, cereals, sugar, fats and boiled milk add to acidity
and should be avoided in so far as possible. Onions, garlic, radish should be
avoided.
The treatment should start with one
week of fruits and vegetables. Salt free boiled vegetables with whole meal
flour are recommended after one week’s fruit fast. Coconut oil may be used
instead of ghee. After some time curd and milk could be added to the diet.
Carrot and musk melon is
particularly beneficial in cases of eczema. They should be taken three to four
times daily reducing the intake later on and adding milk and curds. Muskmelon
should be washed down with cow’s milk.
The combination of muskmelon and
milk is not harmful as it is commonly supposed. Sunlight in addition to being
the life-giver is also a nature’s scavenger: it kills all the harmful bacteria.
Sunbathing should be done early in the morning, in the first light of dawn.
Stand or sit in the sun till you perspire: if it is too hot, cover your head
with a wet towel. After you have perspired, take a cold bath.
A light mudpack applied over the
site of the eczema is also helpful in dealing with it. The pack should be
allowed to remain for one hour at a time; it could be repeated twice or thrice
in the day. A mudpack over the whole body dried in the sum and later washed with
cold water could be doubly helpful.
In chronic and more difficult cases
of eczema the patient should be advised to fast at least one day in the week
till he is cured. One weeks fasting could cut down the recovery time
considerably. Prolonged fasting must, however, be undertaken under the guidance
and supervision of a specialist in nature cure since it may raise certain
problems difficult for a layman to deal with.
Eczema as a by-product of dyspepsia,
gout or diabetes could be curd only after those diseases have been successfully
treated. Children suffering from eczema as a result or in sanitary bottle fees
can get relief if kept on fruit juices or water with a teaspoon of honey added.
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