Skin: Don't press the panic button
An article by
Dr Asghar Ali Shah
Homeopathic Physician
Published in The News International on July 11, 2009
Skin is one of the primary indications of health. It is not merely a protective covering for the body. It has many functions some of which are important that unless most of the skin works efficiently, we many die.
The skin not only protects us from bacteria, viruses and other invaders from the outside world but also offers sacrifices in fight against internal enemies of the body.
In the natural course of a healing process our bodies throw diseases from more important to less important organs i.e. from the center to the circumference. In this natural course of fighting away the disease the skin is the last organ where the disease expresses itself before leaving the human body for good.
The skin eruptions in measles and chicken pox, whose victims are often children, being a sigh of relief for a physician and for experienced parents as well.
Because they understand the rash means the viral infection, which kept the child ill, is leaving him healthy and immune against measles, chickenpox etc. for the rest of his life.
In fact all systems of our body are interlinked in an amazing way. When it comes to fighting away a disease be it stress, asthma or an infection, different systems of our body team up under the command of immune system. There is only one immune system for different parts of our body. All tissues of different organ of our body work in a marvelously coordinated way under the command of the immune system.
The skin conditions, no doubt keep the patient uncomfortable and steroidal creams are used to relief the itch and pain. But suppression drives these diseases back into the core of the system that that becomes harder to and can even be life threatening.
The modern research has unveiled links between the suppression of skin conditions and diseases like allergies, heart trouble, hypertension, diabetes. In homeopathic treatment of skin conditions there are no suppressive treatments. The disease is eliminated in an extremely gentle way.
I find it extremely difficult to convince my patients suffering from various skin problems to stop applying ointments and add other medications externally on the affected parts of the skin. I explain to them that if cause is external like burn or cut, there’s no harm in applying a suitable medicine on the affected part but if the cause is not external then avoid applying anything on it. In fact the disease like eczema psoriasis and many other skin conditions, which have mostly their origin in the disordered immune systems of the patients, become more complex and deep rooted after the application of creams and ointments on them.
I remember many years ago a man brought his ten year old son for treatment of severe asthma. I took this case, studied his symptoms and prescribed the indicated homeopathic medicine.
After a few days the man came to me and said that the boy’s asthma was no more but a few pimples had appeared on his face. Then he produced a tube of betnovate from his pocket and told me that he get it from a doctor for external application on the pimples. I warned him not to press the panic button. He was told that if he suppressed the rash by applying the ointment on it asthma would reappear. Fortunately he understood the point and his son remained free of asthma by the grace of ALLAH.
Dr Asghar Ali Shah
Homeopathic Physician
Published in The News International on July 11, 2009
Skin is one of the primary indications of health. It is not merely a protective covering for the body. It has many functions some of which are important that unless most of the skin works efficiently, we many die.
The skin not only protects us from bacteria, viruses and other invaders from the outside world but also offers sacrifices in fight against internal enemies of the body.
In the natural course of a healing process our bodies throw diseases from more important to less important organs i.e. from the center to the circumference. In this natural course of fighting away the disease the skin is the last organ where the disease expresses itself before leaving the human body for good.
The skin eruptions in measles and chicken pox, whose victims are often children, being a sigh of relief for a physician and for experienced parents as well.
Because they understand the rash means the viral infection, which kept the child ill, is leaving him healthy and immune against measles, chickenpox etc. for the rest of his life.
In fact all systems of our body are interlinked in an amazing way. When it comes to fighting away a disease be it stress, asthma or an infection, different systems of our body team up under the command of immune system. There is only one immune system for different parts of our body. All tissues of different organ of our body work in a marvelously coordinated way under the command of the immune system.
The skin conditions, no doubt keep the patient uncomfortable and steroidal creams are used to relief the itch and pain. But suppression drives these diseases back into the core of the system that that becomes harder to and can even be life threatening.
The modern research has unveiled links between the suppression of skin conditions and diseases like allergies, heart trouble, hypertension, diabetes. In homeopathic treatment of skin conditions there are no suppressive treatments. The disease is eliminated in an extremely gentle way.
I find it extremely difficult to convince my patients suffering from various skin problems to stop applying ointments and add other medications externally on the affected parts of the skin. I explain to them that if cause is external like burn or cut, there’s no harm in applying a suitable medicine on the affected part but if the cause is not external then avoid applying anything on it. In fact the disease like eczema psoriasis and many other skin conditions, which have mostly their origin in the disordered immune systems of the patients, become more complex and deep rooted after the application of creams and ointments on them.
I remember many years ago a man brought his ten year old son for treatment of severe asthma. I took this case, studied his symptoms and prescribed the indicated homeopathic medicine.
After a few days the man came to me and said that the boy’s asthma was no more but a few pimples had appeared on his face. Then he produced a tube of betnovate from his pocket and told me that he get it from a doctor for external application on the pimples. I warned him not to press the panic button. He was told that if he suppressed the rash by applying the ointment on it asthma would reappear. Fortunately he understood the point and his son remained free of asthma by the grace of ALLAH.
