Cases of Chronic Eczema

In 2002, without my having advertised it as my specialisation or programme, many people came to me asking me to cure their or their children's eczema. I expect that the television programme I mention elsewhere in this book may have had something to do with it. The programme included a girl who I had permanently cured of serious atopic eczema. All these people had already tried the medications available before coming to my door. Of course, eczema was never the sole ailment. There were always other chronic problems stemming from greater or lesser general disharmony in the higher creative sphere. Since autopathy "never cures the illness but the whole person" (cf. Hahnemann), and does so according to Hering's laws (i.e., from the centre outwards), we must always first address the deeper problems and only then can we come to eczema, which lies at the person's periphery, on his skin.

In all following cases the "autopathic bottle" was used.

A thin, thirty-year-old woman with a reddish face, a graduate of two universities and a keen skier, related to me the following story: atopic eczema from the age of one, when it was at its worst. Her whole life she had treated it with corticoids, ointments and pills. The eczema is all over her body and on her face, red, scarlet stains, dry skin, flaking, itching, sometimes she scratches until she draws blood. It is worse from autumn to spring, very dry. It is always aggravated by stress and anxiety.

Since the age of one she has also suffered from allergies - tests have found her to be allergic to hay, mites, dust and pollen. In addition to eczema, this manifests itself in hay-fever during the pollen season.

Once a week she has a bad headache and has to take a pill for the pain. She is very sensitive to the cold, although she also reacts badly to heated rooms.

A month and a half later she told me the following: shortly after visiting me she used an autopathic preparation 120 C. The following day the eczema immediately worsened, growing redder and itchier, she felt as if she had flu. She also had a cold. Right at the beginning she exchanged the medicinal steroid ointment for a non-medicinal cream. She kept taking the pills. The eczema remained roughly in its original form (as if she had been using the medicinal ointment), but her headaches improved significantly. She no longer had to take pills to counteract the pain every week. After taking the preparation she didn't once have recourse to tablets. She only had one headache during that month and a half, and even that was mild.

Seven months after taking the preparation: For about three months there was no sign of eczema on her face. Everyone can imagine how important a change this must have been for the young woman. The eczema had also almost completely disappeared from her neck and chest. It persisted only on her elbows and knees, where it had appeared during the first year of her life. The feelings of nervousness disappeared with the eczema. She no longer suffered any headaches and, although it was the pollen season, neither had she experienced any allergic reaction! She was very happy and satisfied.

The return of the fine-matter creative principle to its proper function had caused the health problems to retreat from the centre outwards: first the headaches had disappeared, to be followed by the hay fever and finally eczema, disappearing from the head (from above) downwards.

The question strikes me: Was this a cure for headaches, eczema and hay fever? The answer is straightforward: No, not at all. It was a cure for the woman's spiritual, fine-matter principle. This governs everything in a person. We suspect that this woman's karma, her thoughts and actions in this or previous lives, had been above-averagely good. This is the only way to explain how problems that had persisted for thirty years, almost since birth, could recede so quickly during the space of just half a year after a single use of the preparation.

A ten-month-old baby girl has eczema on her face and all over her body, with the exception of her back. It started during the second month of her life on her eyelids, then affected the face before spreading to the stomach and limbs. The skin is typically red, in some places it is dry and flaky, in others the rash is moist. The eczema itches badly; the girl scratches a lot, even in sleep, and thereby makes the eczema worse. At night she doesn't sleep and cries. It improves outside in cool weather but is aggravated by bathing. She is highly sensitive to sound: when someone coughs or a dog barks outside she cries. She has a constant need to be held and pacified. She can't bear being alone and can't sleep on her own in a room. Small, malodorous white pustules are forming in her armpits. Her mother tells me she is rather backward in her development: at ten months she still doesn't crawl. I recommend a homeopathic remedy.

Two months after administering the remedy the mother reports to me that the eczema has substantially improved. The child no longer cries at night. The smelly pustules no longer form in the armpit. She walks and is generally much better in her movement.

Another month goes by and her mother tells me: "It's great!" The rash is hardly visible, she no longer scratches her face, only her hands and legs. It's passing without any further intervention.

One month later the eczema worsened again. The homeopathic remedy was repeated in the same potency and two months later in a higher potency. The eczema again receded, but more slowly than previously. Five months after administering the remedy it lingered in the recesses of the elbows and knees. She still scratched at night. She was given an autopathic preparation of 120 C potency. Five days afterwards she came out in pimples all over her body, which then disappeared over the space of a week. The eczema remained only under the knees. She sometimes scratched in places where the eczema had already disappeared.

Check-up after half a year: The eczema has completely disappeared. No more scratching. Talks well and is making good progress. Being alone in a room is no longer a source of concern for her.

Another case: Again a ten-month-old girl, with eczema from the age of three months. Scratched terribly, her face raw, despite being treated with a variety of medicines. Over the previous two months the eczema had improved slightly, although during that period her bronchial tubes had become inflamed. She coughed and wheezed constantly, her throat was filled with phlegm, which woke her at nights. Her mother is an asthmatic and is worried because at some point in her life she had experienced a similar chain of symptoms, i.e., eczema followed by chronic inflammation of the bronchial tubes and then asthma. Sometimes the girl's cough would pass, only to return again a week later. In addition, she often vomited and had suffered accordingly for a long time.

The mother gave the child an autopathic preparation with potency of 200 C.

Check-up after one month: The cough has greatly improved and she has stopped vomiting entirely. The eczema (a peripheral problem) has yet to change.

Check-up after another four months: The child is doing well, doesn't have eczema, doesn't vomit and doesn't cough.

Another case: Atopic eczema had afflicted a baby girl immediately after being brought home from the maternity hospital. Within a week her whole body was covered. Intensive conventional treatment had no effect. In the fourth month she was brought to my consulting room. She was scratching herself till she drew blood - in the night they had to sew up her sleeves to stop her from scratching. It itched acutely and the child cried all day long. I recommended a homeopathic remedy, which however is difficult to prescribe for babies as their personality features are insufficiently developed to provide an accurate prescription. You have to try out a variety of remedies.

Check-up after one month: Nothing has changed and now the child has stopped sleeping at night. She cries the whole night through - she croaks and wheezes and scratches.

Check-up after two months: The child still sleeps very badly, and at times doesn't sleep at all. The eczema fluctuates from very bad to better, but with no satisfaction. She scratches at night. I recommended a 40 C autopathic preparation.

Check-up after three months: On the second day after administering the preparation the eczema visibly worsened. The child, however, was obviously more cheerful. The next night she slept far better. After one week she slept the entire night, which had never happened before. Her mother said that over the past few months she had slept only half an hour during the day and half an hour at night, and the rest of the time she cried. Three months later the eczema had also improved greatly. She was happy and active.

Check-up after five months: No rash whatsoever on the face, a little on the neck. Otherwise the rash was only visible at the ends of her hands and legs. Sleeping at night, wakes to drink and then falls asleep again. Autopathic preparation of 120 C.

Check-up after six months: Irritable after taking the preparation, the eczema returned on the face the following day. This disappeared again the next day. Persists only on the legs. Suffered a strong cold.

Check-up after nine months: Face and body clean. A slight reddish spot sometimes appears briefly and then disappears. Sleeps normally.

One final case of eczema: A girl of seven, lively and communicative. Eczema under her knees and in the hollows of her elbows, around the neck. Itched. If someone caressed her she would immediately start to scratch. She had had the condition from the sixth week of life. Her parents only used herbal therapy and acupressure. This had once helped, but no longer. The girl was friendly and very sympathetic, overly sensitive. She often cried. They had discovered several allergies: she had suffocated after eating a poppy-seed cake, and had broken out in a rash after chocolate. She lived in the country. She was also allergic to dogs and horses. After she stroked a dog she came out in a rash and her face swelled up. She was very fond of animals. Autopathic preparation of 120 C.

Check-up after one month: Her face reddened slightly after the preparation and stayed that way until evening. After four days the eczema on her legs worsened for a couple of days. Some marks appeared after that, but after one month the eczema had improved enormously. She cried far less than before, as her watchful father had noted.

Check-up after four months: Until recently, through the summer, she had been without any problems whatsoever. Her condition had previously always been aggravated during summer. She no longer had a reaction to dogs. Now, though, eczema had reappeared in the hollow of her elbow. Advice: to wait. I considered the mild return of eczema at a time when otherwise her condition was marked by improvements in her psyche and her allergies to be a manifestation of the six-year-old symptom in accordance with Hering's law of from the inside outwards. Or - while internal matters improve the surface can still worsen until the organism is entirely healed.

Check-up after six months: This didn't take place. The mother just called to say that they weren't coming to the arranged check-up as her daughter no longer had any problems to discuss.