The skin, covering the
whole of the body as it does, is a marvellous and intricate piece of bodily
mechanism designed by nature for many purposes, the chief of which is the
protection of the inner organs, the regulation of body temperature, and the
elimination of cell-waste. The skin, while the outer layer, is bound up
intimately with the whole organism, and its healthy and efficient functioning
depends entirely upon the way the rest of the organism as a whole is acting.
When we realise that the skin is directly connected, and very intimately bound
up with the working of the rest of the organism, we can begin to understand
something of the origination of skin diseases. We see that these diseases are
directly connected with the rest of the body, and are indeed the outcome of
internal malfunctioning.
Through the skin, large
quantities of toxic matter can be easily eliminated – owing to the enormous
skin surface – and it is in this way that most of the skin diseases we are
acquainted with originate. They are merely attempts on the part of nature to
throw off systemic poisons and bodily refuse which cannot be eliminated in any
other convenient way. It is evident that man, when encumbered with a chronic
disease that it is unable to overcome with its own power automatically, adopts
the plan of developing a local disease/discharge on some external part, solely
for this objective that by making and keeping the disease on the external
parts, it may thereby silence the internal disease. It thereby transfers the
internal disease to the local affection.
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This is how skin diseases
originate, and to get rid of them, we need to help with the eliminative
process, which is already set in operation by through the medium of the
disease, to literally help the disease right out of the system.
Skin diseases are not
just things that happen to the individual without any reference to his internal
condition. That is precisely why these diseases, when treated purely from the
local point of view, by the application of external ointments and salves, do
not allow the toxic matter at the root of the trouble to be eliminated, as a real
cure demands; it merely suppresses the disease. If treated along these lines,
the disease, if it disappears at all as a result of the treatment, does so only
because the toxins and impurities which the system was trying to throw off
through the medium of the disease have been thrust back into the blood-stream
again, to cause further trouble later on.
If treated holistically
with internal medicine alone and without the use of ointments, lotions,
diseases of the skin disappear, leaving the sufferer in far better general
health than before, because of the great lessening of the total amount of toxic
matter present in the system, and because of the rejuvenation of the bodily
mechanism as a whole, resulting from the treatment.
Having unburdened
ourselves of the foregoing preliminary remarks, we can now go on to outline as
to what patients should expect when under holistic treatment:
l Skin diseases can only be
overcome by a thorough course of systemic holistic treatment aimed at tackling
the inner disturbance.
l Skin lesions should cure
from above downwards. If there are skin lesions on the upper part of the body
as well as the lower parts, the patient should expect skin lesions of the head
to disappear first while those of the feet shall get cured last.
l The more destructive
process should get cured first. If the patient has a lot of cracks accompanying
the lesions, the intensity of cracks appearing should decrease first.
l When a patient is
suffering from a very serious ailment along with the skin complaints, one must
expect the internal or more critical disease to improve first. In such cases, the
skin lesions will be the last to heal.
The writers, Dr S Martins
MD/ Dr D Martins MD, are Consultants at VitaNova Clinics
