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- 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:
- ...[deleted]...
- >
- > 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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