The hectic pace of life today gives no time to attend to the small things that keep happening in our life.The rash that appeared the other day just before the meeting.and went away all by itself.It would have even missed being noticed had it not been for the meeting.
Skin is the one of the most abused organ I feel.Because anything on the skin has to immediately go away-seems very frustrating when it does not.India being a social place we are always meeting some-one or other,people are quick to notice and quicker to comment and advice.....blah blah.So we desperately need some cream to apply and the skin to look normal.Most of my patients don't realize that they are applying steroid creams.Nobody asks nobody tells.The problem with them is they are good-very good.The skin problem vanishes just as they wished it.How good it would have been had it remained so.But it does not and hence we are at the cream again, and again.By the time it soon grows into a problem and the cream does not remain so good either.
Homeopaths want skin cases to come early to them so that we can give faster results and patient finds it comfortable to continue our medicines.Oh but we almost never get them. Homeopathy will address the complaint at different levels including the family tendency to skin complaints etc.Many times stress is an important part in skin complaints like lichen planus and we go into the details of the stress and try to resolve them in way that is possible for the patient.
An irritated skin in a child can also be a reflection of family disharmony which has to be re-aligned.In many cases I have seen the discord between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law aggravating the skin complaints in child.
Excessive itching of the skin represents suppressed hostilities and feelings.In suppressed societies one cannot openly express the feelings getting generated and hence gets expressed on skin.In all such cases the itching will be disproportionate to the complaint.Like I had a child who would get severe itching at all night and would keep the mother awake-now hardly any skin complaint does that.It means that child wants mothers attention..
In a majority of cases homeopath will not give any creams or ointments unless expressively asked for because he believes them to be useless.Homeopaths will take a detailed case and work out all the factors and try to set things right.Then he would start constitutional medicines for healing it from within.Many times when the case comes in aggravated state there are medicines given for INSTANT relief along with the other.Now there is a sort of race between the disease and the medicines and only when the medicines win the case effects will start to be seen.No new spots or no increase in skin complaint is a fair response in the initial part of treatment.
Once it happens the relief is good and does not come back.Patient feels a sense of wellness and so other complaint develops.People often tell me that doctor I got rid of eczema but now I have bronchitis-this is not happy news.It is deterioration of illness from skin to bronchus.
Homeopaths are concerned about overall health, give them time ,give them faith so that they can help you better.
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