The best way to deal with eczema is to cleanse the bloodstream and the body. The treatment should start with a fast on orange juice and water from five to ten days, depending on the severity and duration of the trouble. This fasting will help to eliminate toxic waste from the body and lead to substantial improvement. In some cases, the condition may worse in the beginning of the fast due to the increased elimination of waste matter through the skin. But as fasting continues, improvement will manifest itself.
After the juice fast, you may adopt an exclusive milk diet with beneficial results. In this regimen, you should take a quarter liter of milk every hour on the first day, every three quarters of an hour on the second day and every half and hour on the third day and onwards. The total quantity of milk consumed each day may be six liters. This exclusive milk diet may be continued for four to six weeks or longer, if necessary. Many cases of eczema have been cured or greatly improved by the milk diet, following the juice fast.
Fruits, salt-free raw or steamed vegetables with whole meal bread or chappatis may be taken after the exclusive milk diet. Carrot and musk are particularly beneficial. Coconut oil may be used instead of ghee.
After a few days, curd and milk amy be added to the diet. You may thereafter gradually embark upon a well-balanced diet consisting of three basic food groups namely seeds, nuts and grains, vegetables and fruits. The large proportion of the diet should consist of raw foods. Seeds and beans such as alfalfa, mung and soybeans can be sprouted. This diet may be supplemented with cold-pressed vegetable oils, honey and yeast. Juice fasting may be repeated at intervals of two months or so, depending on the progress being made. In chronic and more difficult cases of eczema, you should fast at least once a week till its cured.
You should avoid tea, coffee, alcoholic beverages and all condiments and highly flavored dishes, as well as sugar, white flour products, denatured cereals like polished rice and pearled barley and tinned or bottled foods. You should eat only pure and wholesome foods.
Raw vegetable juices, especially carrot juice in combination with spinach juice, have proved highly beneficial in the treatment of eczema. The formula proportions considered helpful in this combination are carrot 300ml and spinach 200ml to make 500ml or half a liter of juice.
You should get as much as fresh air as possible. Restrictive clothing should be avoided. Two or three liters of water should be taken daily and you must bathe twice or thrice a day. The skin, with the exception of the parts be affected with eczema, should be vigorously rubbed with the palms of the hand before taking a bath.
Coconut oil may be applied tot eh portions with eczema. It will help the skin to stay soft. Walking or jogging should be resorted to in order to activate the bowels. Sunbathing is also beneficial as it kills the harmful bacteria, and should be resorted to early in the morning, in the first light of dawn. A light mudpack applied over the sites of the eczema is also helpful. The pack should be applied for an hour at a time and should be repeated twice or thrice a day.
In cases of acute eczema, cold compress or cold, wet formation are beneficial. The affected part should be wrapped with a thick soft cloth. The cloth should be moistened with cold water every 15 to 30 minutes for two hours at a time. The bandage should be left intact, keeping the cloth cold. There may be intensification of itching or pain initially but this will soon subside. A cold compress may be applied twice daily for a week or so.
Steam bath may be taken tow or three times a week with great advantages. There are especially valuable while on the exclusive milk diet. Neutral immersion bath lasting for 45 minutes to an hour will also be helpful.
Certain home remedies have been found beneficial in the treatment of eczema. Of these, the use of musk melon is regarded as the most effective. In this mode of treatment, only musk melons are taken three times during the day for forty days or more.
Mangoes are considered another effective remedy for eczema. The pulp and skin of the fruit should be simmered in a cup of water for an hour. This should be then be strained and applied as a lotion literally to all effected areas, several times a day.
The green leaves of finger miller (ragi) are valuable in chronic eczema. The fresh juice of the leaves should be applied over the affected area. Certain liquids have also been found useful as washing lotions for cleansing the affected parts. These include water in which margosa obtained by decanting cooked rice and turmeric (haldi) water prepared by boiling water to which turmeric powder has been added.
