tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1063416407663011642.post6533828264800919338..comments2024-03-12T14:30:18.196-07:00Comments on End Eczema: Gil Yosipovitch on alternative therapies for itchSpanish Keyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125247451906949noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1063416407663011642.post-2783152946195142882011-06-02T14:39:53.082-07:002011-06-02T14:39:53.082-07:00As someone with eczema and a parent of a child wit...As someone with eczema and a parent of a child with eczema, I know that traditional medicine can't solve the problem (dare I say "yet"?). So I understand why people go looking elsewhere. And because stress and psychology can have a big role in how severe one's eczema is, why not try an alternative therapy that you think might work? Just the feeling that you're taking control may have a positive effect.Spanish Keyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125247451906949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1063416407663011642.post-38032221141384074162011-06-02T14:09:54.355-07:002011-06-02T14:09:54.355-07:00Thanks for posting Y's comments on alternative...Thanks for posting Y's comments on alternative medicine! It nicely illustrates how difficult any approach to treating eczema is - and maybe sometimes it is better not to ask too many questions... It is great to see you posting again!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1063416407663011642.post-42231739886968707862011-05-31T09:00:47.689-07:002011-05-31T09:00:47.689-07:00Thanks for your cheerful comment, Anonymous. It is...Thanks for your cheerful comment, Anonymous. It is good to be back and although if a general cure for eczema is to emerge, it will be from Western science, I have an open mind and continue to be interested in whatever works--including plausible alternative medicine.Spanish Keyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125247451906949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1063416407663011642.post-31970442551033699322011-05-29T01:31:23.855-07:002011-05-29T01:31:23.855-07:00Welcome back.Glad to see you posting again-lots of...Welcome back.Glad to see you posting again-lots of great info as usual! I was interested to see this post from a while ago, as I am in the field of "alternative medicine" and do see a lot of eczema in my practice. I agree with Dr Yosipovitch that each person's itch can be from very different things, and that setting up a trial on acupuncture is hard because western medicine is looking at symptoms, but in Eastern philosophy there can be so many different reasons for the symptom- hence the treatments would be very different for each person(needles would go in different places, for different amounts of time-etc). I work a lot with food intolerances/allergies and find that itch can be caused by food- milk may make one person itch, and eggs make someone else itch. All (same)histamine reactions started by different things.Sometimes it is isn't any I do find it interesting that you don't believe in Healing Touch because there is "no way some person's energy field could influence someone else". I am again with Dr Y when he said "we don't know everything". I think we don't have the ability to measure energy fields yet. I know it doesn't make sense in Newtonian physics, but we have stepped beyond that now haven't we? Quantum physics? String theory? We are just on the eve of understanding much more than we ever have. It may seem incredulous I know-much like in the case of Dr.Semmelweis and Germ/Antiseptic Theory. I could just imagine traditional doctors of the time saying (which they did,apparently) "oh sure! there are little bugs that we can't see, all over our hands that KILL people..ha!- and we can kill them by washing our hands! you are crazy!" and actually he DID have a nervous breakdown. 20 years later they found out he was right. Something to think about?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1063416407663011642.post-78029059314651507262011-05-09T14:30:23.551-07:002011-05-09T14:30:23.551-07:00I know I scratch when I am stressed at work or hav...I know I scratch when I am stressed at work or having a bit of anxiety.Chelseahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01422788357806631730noreply@blogger.com