I think much has been already said. Let MelissaassileM decide which way to go to void more confusions. If decide for allopathic, fo;;owing link can be informative otherwise experianced homeopaths alike Dr. PANNAKKAL and others are here to help.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/e...cle/000853.htm

Best luck.

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Melissa,
I basically want someone to tell me whether homeopathy will work for me?
Homoeopathy will work for you if the case will be taken properly and maintained as per homoeopathic law,I mean totality of symptoms.
I have had eczema since birth. I have a family history of eczema/asthma.
In most of the cases it is seen that Asthma and Eczema are interconnected. Thats why Homoeopathy is the best choice to cure as a good homoeopath never takes a disease or organ as an entity.Homoeopathy is a wholistic treatment.
Your case seems miss managed,thats why it took so much time for giving any relief to you.

Try with a new homoeoapth or tell your homoeoapth to retake the case or u can try on line with this link http://www.hpathy.com/
Hope to know you got relief.

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Thank you all so much for your advice. I am happy that I have heard information for and against this treatment and I appreciate all of it equally.

From what I have read I feel that I would like to continue with my homeopathic treatment and am asking my Homeopath to re-take my case for me.

I understand that I am a very complex person with alot of emotional and mental issues which must be dealt with as well. This aspect I have been told needs to 'heal' first before the body responds and I do understand how it works. Im sure I am proving to be a more difficult patient for her but from the information I have had, it sounds like I will get through this. The more information I recieve the better I feel about it so keep it coming!

I was browsing around the Otherhealth forum and discovered your post on November 23 about your chronic Eczema which you have suffered from for many years. I do not usually visit the specialist forums like Skin and I note that you have not received any positive inputs from the consultants on this forum so far. I would have responded to your post if you had used the Discussion section of this forum.

I have had some success in the treatment of chronic Eczema and a recent case was that of a 88 year old electrical engineer, since retired, who informed me that he was suffering from this ailment from the age of 15.

He noticed considerable improvement after taking the remedy that I prescribed to him in 3 days and in a week all his lesions were not scratching any more and in a month they had all dried up and for the first time in his life, is not bothered any more from his eczema. You can read more details about this case on this forum by doing a search for Eczema or by searching for the posts that I have made on the Discussion section of this forum which I visit daily.

The remedy that I prescribed and gave him is Arnica 30c and I shall copy below my standard instructions for the use of this remedy and if you decide to use it, please report your response on this forum.

Method to be followed to make the wet dose.
Get a 500ml bottle of spring water from your supermarket.
Pour out 50ml
Put in 3 globules of Arnica 30c
Hit the bottle hard on your palm or a cushion and watch for the water to fizzle like when you open a bottle of soda. This is succussion and it lifts the potency of the remedy slightly and helps the body to recover from the eczema.
Sip a teaspoonful twice daily after succussing the bottle every time before each dose.

No coffee, cola drinks and sausages, ham, bacon which contain saltpeter as they all antidote the Arnica.

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Please beware the Joe's advice is not in any way homeopathic. It's never good to self-prescribe, or to use remedies in the way that Joe has suggested above.

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Joe's advice is totally unhomoeopathic and shows his ignorance about homoeopathy. Homoeopathy treats the patient and not the disease. There is no difference with allopathy here.In homoeopathy you cannot presecribe in the name of eczema. Any remedy even Arnica may come if it suited to the patient. So Arnica will cure only cases beloging to the peculiarities of Arnica as every remedy do.

Patients visit this forum after their desperate experiences and suppressin from various treatmnets. And they are unaware of the principles of homoeopathy. The post like this will only mislead them and divert them from higher possiblity of the real homoeopathic treatment.The conditions like eczema needs correct internal treatmnet according to the patient rather than mere guesswork.

Homoepaths all over the world are treating eczema successfully in real manner. In my experience I had treated innumerable cases with success by homoeopathic method. So misleading patients to more complication by unhomoeopathic methods will not be tolerated in this forum as this is a homoeopathic forum.

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In Defense of my concept of Homeopathic treatment

I am copying a post that I have just made on the Hpathy forum in response to that of Gina Tyler, a senior Homeopath which will I hope will serve to answer many of the posts that homeopaths of the classical school have made upbraiding me which I believe will be of general interest to all who have done so:


G Tyler wrote:
Dear Joe


I agree with all that have posted to your last comment but one thing to
add myself;


I can see you have a giant caring heart of gold,you give freely of your
'limited ' knowledge what ever that might be. Yes i understand well to see
a person suffer so much and this person cannot afford to go to an MD for
full casetaking,you offer your help free of charge ,that is comendable,it
shows you help out of 'love and care,compasion'. But one must further
your study of homeopathic principles,this will help even more,your
passion is obvious joe.


I come from the lonely place of a 'volunteer homeopath',there are only
a handfull on this entire planet that are willing to do homeopathy for free
to help the poor that cannot pay.I do
understand.................................your motives.


Gina Tyler






Dear Gina,

I have just seen your post and felt that I must thank you for your support
of my attitude to Homeopathy.

I believe that you would have noticed that all I seek to do is to use the
time that I have at my disposal from my official duties as the CEO of our
business organization, to help those who post on the 4 Homeopathic
forums that I visit on a daily basis. I also spend some time with patients
who call for assistance at my residence and I find that the number is
gradually increasing as I treat all free of charge.

As you would have seen from the many comments that were posted on
the thread that I posted on 3 forums entitled "To all classical homeopaths
who have criticized me" I seem to have roused up a hornet's nest which
very few other homeopaths who visit these forums would dare to do. I did
so as I felt that it was time that I showed the homeopathic world what
they have so far missed in not using my own method of diagnosis and
treatment which to my surprise I find, is the method that is used by the
majority of homeopaths in our sub continent. It is only the 'classical'
types that refuse to see the proverbial wood for the trees, and I believe
that I am not far wrong in voicing the suspicion that I have been having
for some time, that their "Holier than Thou" attitude is prompted by the
fact that these classical types, by virtue of their keeping up this
"mysterious" aspect of homeopathic diagnosis and treatment which those
who have made the grade in Homeopathy and built up their practice do
so, as they fear that persons like me who try to help anyone who posts
on the forums out of a sense of service, free of charge, would divert their
patients thereby causing some loss of revenue to themselves. They then
resort to the scathing criticism that you would have noticed they have
mounted against me in the hope that I will get fed up and leave of my
own accord or on the other hand they perhaps look forward to my being
banned from some of these forums which, I believe can happen, except
for the ABC where I feel very welcome. I also believe that they resent the
successful case records that I have recorded of my experience with
Arnica and a few other remedies which I have specialized in using.

My question to these classical homeopaths who delight in criticizing me
is: "Why do you not at least consider that there may be some benefit that
you can give your own patients by following my example and prescribe
for the ailment and not only for the symptoms ?" I have done my bit in
openly recording my experience in using Arnica for the control of
Diabetes, Eczema, Cellulitis, Eases Urine flow caused by BPH, Control
Incontinence, Overcomes Jet Lag and many other ailments which I have
listed in my article on the forums. It is indeed a shame that all they have
done so far except for you Gina alone, is to criticize me. I must admit that
I did expect this criticism but when one of those exalted types indicated
that my records were outrageous and called me a DANGEROUS MAN, I
must admit that this did anger me. This pompous fool seemed to equate
me with some form of dangerous chain poisoner who used Homeopathic
remedies to aid him in his nefarious work . I have not encountered this
individual on any forum ever before and I condemn his audacity to call me
a Dangerous Man ! It is precisely this pompous attitude that I am sick
and tired of reading about when it comes from people who are here today
and gone tomorrow.

I am gratified to note that you have followed my many posts on the
forums and commented on the attitude that I have displayed to help
anyone whom I feel I can. It really amazes me to note that only a very few
of those who are quick to attack and criticize me show their own
expertise in their one upmanship against me, and put their money where
their mouth is and spend their time more usefully by prescribing for even
one ailment posted by a sick person. Their attitude of not helping is
symptomatic of their attitude where they feel that their presence on the
forum is only good enough to criticize me but not to help suffering
humanity.

You have suggested that I further my studies of Homeopathic principles
but I do not have the time today to do so. I do however keep abreast of
homeopathic matters on the web which I believe is more useful today
than only reading and memorizing the classical texts. I would like to
confirm that I can also prescribe in the classical tradition if I so choose to
do so with assistance from my Radar 9.1 software which I can use to
equate the diagnosis and treatment that any one of the classical types can
offer if they choose to do so. However I have discovered that the remedies
that are suggested by this software have not always helped me to
alleviate the ailment of my patients and it was only when I used my
default remedy for the respective ailment, that a positive response was
evoked from the patient.

I have proved beyond doubt that in spite of this criticism that I have been
subjected to, I have achieved some unprecedented success in the
treatment of difficult cases like that of Rahul, the 21 year old boy whose
parents were desperate for a cure to bring him back to life after 2 months
in a coma and I had the courage to suggest Arnica 1M which helped to
wake him up in a week. He is reported now after about 16 weeks after his
accident to be talking and complaining of pain in his head. The other case
that I really enjoyed getting involved in was that of another old man of
82 years who had lost all motor control in his extremities, and I was able
to return him back to normal life again with Arnica 1M in about 2 months.

It is interesting that no other homeopath dared to suggest a remedy for
these cases and I had the greatest satisfaction in helping these patients
who may perhaps not have come back to normal life if I did not suggest
my favourite remedy Arnica, for which I am not any more surprised
whenever it brings forth another miracle cure.

I am confident that my method of diagnosis and treatment of the ailment
and not the symptoms will eventually be found to be the more logical
approach which future homeopaths hopefully will follow after they have
been relieved of the brain washing that they have received during their
studies. It is just this pretense of the Holier than Thou attitude that
irritates me especially when those who pontificate about the danger of my
method, which according to them only results in the suppression of the
ailment and not the cure, know fully well that my method of treating the
ailment is practiced by the large majority of practicing homeopaths
throughout the sub continent.

I am glad that you count me among the handful of "volunteer
Homeopaths" who are willing to help others with our own concept of
Homeopathy, free of charge. I would like to add that I am impelled to do
so as I have ample proof that although the majority of the classical school
of homeopaths choose to deride me and my efforts to help humanity, the
good God has accepted my role in doing so and has blessed me with a
level of wellness which many who are 25 years junior to me envy. I believe
that it is my duty to give thanks to this Supreme Being by helping
suffering humanity to the best of my ability, braving the taunts and jibes
that the classical school have leveled at me, perhaps motivated by their
insane jealousy at the success of the method that I have adopted of
healing.

I invite them all to bury the hatchet and as I stated above put their money
where their mouth is, and spend more time on the forums motivated by a
positive attitude to healing instead of their present negative attitude of
compelling me to waste my time in rebutting their taunts at the expense
of the time that I can devote to healing.

Warm Regards

Joe De Livera
Colombo
Sri Lanka


PS.

To Pannakkal

I note that you take exception to my prescribing Arnica for Eczema. I would like to assure you that I have used it to cure, and I mean CURE many cases which had defied the efforts of classical homeopaths who had all given up with their classical formulas.

I presume that you have never thought of using my favourite remedy ARNICA for ECZEMA and would recommend that you too do so, irrespective of your prejudice against me and my method of treating the ailment and not the symptoms of the patient.

I must admit that I do admire the vacant threats that you made in your post:

"So misleading patients to more complication by unhomoeopathic methods will not be tolerated in this forum, I warn you. Such post will not be encouraged and will be deleted as this is a homoeopathic forum."

I would request you to open your mind to my way of practicing Homeopathy which has brought about so many Miracle cures especially of Eczema with Arnica that you are advised to add this ailment to your own Repertory for future use.


Joe De Livera
Colombo
Sri Lanka

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Colombo
Sri Lanka

You can talk like this manner to unexperieced drs or people who don't know homoeopathy. Iam in this field for the last 21 years and treated lakhs of cases. As for exzema cases I already said I treated innumerable cases with success by homoeopathic manner. By giving Arnica to every cases is totally unhomoeopathic and shows the lack of knowledge. There are hundreds of remedies and by their correct selection we can achieve cure. For this you have a better knowledge of Materia Medica and Organon.

I can also give large number of cured cases with homoeopahy with evedance. Fibroids,Ov.Cysts,Qadriplegia,Comma,Epilepsies,Ecz emas,Psoriasis,Lichen,Schizophrenias,Vitiligo,Asth ma,Allergic rhinitis,Infertility,Kidney stones,Gall stones,Pancreatic stones etc etc by well selected remedies according to the patient. Iam hundred percent satisfied with real practie of homoeopathy.

Giving Arnica to all cases is not homoeopathy, You can give a new name for that.

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