{"id":792,"date":"2014-05-13T13:55:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T13:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theflowersofaeskulap.com\/cms\/?p=792"},"modified":"2016-12-28T21:22:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T21:22:52","slug":"a-case-of-eczema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theflowersofaeskulap.com\/cms\/case-examples\/a-case-of-eczema\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case of Eczema"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Case of Eczema<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Often people come and ask me if \u00a0\u201cI have something for eczema\u201d. I usually respond with the following story:<\/p>\n

Acouple of years ago, an elderly lady – I will call her M. – whom I had known for many years decided she wanted to give flower essences a try to help\u00a0her eczema. The eczema had appeared more than 10 years\u00a0 prior to our consultation, \u00a0with symptoms of\u00a0 redness and itching. Since then M. had been\u00a0using a cream prescribed by her\u00a0doctor.<\/p>\n

Flower essences work through the body-mind connection, and in the case of physical problems the key is to find emotional\u00a0or other stress factors that either trigger the condition \u00a0or keep it going.<\/p>\n

In M’s case, the eczema had first appeared\u00a0 at a time of major\u00a0 changes her son’s life, including\u00a0 his relationship to his parents. The son had just finished\u00a0 his second university degree and was making decisions\u00a0about his future that M. was\u00a0 not too happy with. At the same the ties between him and the parents were changing towards greater physical distance. M. herself was quite strong-willed \u2013 something running in her family – and at times\u00a0found it difficult to watch others do things she did not consider the best mode of action. She tried not to get involved and\u00a0 not to \u00a0interfere\u00a0so but it was not always easy to\u00a0 battle her own strong will!<\/p>\n

Another factor at the time of consultation was that she had recently\u00a0lost her husband of 50 years and was still hurting from the loss,\u00a0\u00a0 experiencing\u00a0\u00a0depression and hopelessness.<\/p>\n

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Some of the key essences I gave her included Star of Bethlehem <\/i>for the shock <\/i>through her husband’s death, Vine<\/i> to ease the pressure of her strong will , Chicory<\/i> to help her let go of imposing her role as a mother\u00a0 when it was time to let go, and Red Chestnu<\/i>t for worrying about a\u00a0close family member. I also added Crab Apple,<\/i> a key essence for cleansing real and\u00a0perceived impurities. Crab Apple\u00a0<\/em>is considered\u00a0\u00a0a key essence\u00a0\u00a0when dealing\u00a0with eczema or allergies.<\/p>\n

To this I added a number of other essences to help her deal\u00a0 with the loss of her husband and similar issues .<\/p>\n

After taking the blend\u00a0for about 5 weeks, she reported that the itchiness had decreased considerably,\u00a0 only small spots remained of the eczema and\u00a0 both occurred much less frequently. She also mentioned ‘by accident’ that her shoulder which she had injured in a fall several years back had been hurting less in the past 3 weeks and that\u00a0she was now able to\u00a0 water her plants without pain.<\/p>\n

This is a typical example of how Flower Essences work. They are directed\u00a0 less at the\u00a0eczema per se\u00a0 but rather at the stresses experienced by \u00a0the\u00a0individual in question\u00a0and the situation that brought about the eczema.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0 other people with eczema\u00a0 quite different essences may be called for. In Traditional Chinese Medicine\u00a0\u00a0 the lungs and the skin are considered to be related to the Metal Element and the emotion of grief. Grief, a sense of abandonment or rejection,\u00a0are often held in the lungs and can also be expressed through the skin.<\/p>\n

The skin is a key venue through which inner problems, physical or emotional, \u00a0\u201ccome to the surface\u201d. It is\u00a0 a major organ of detoxification and excretion. It also is a boundary organ per se. One may have to look at the boundaries of the individual concerned. Are they too weak, too strong, is the person too sensitive, emotionally or physically? All these questions can be important.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of\u00a0 essences which seem to have a general positive effect with skin problems. Crab Apple<\/em> for cleansing on the physical and emotional level is one of them, Rescue Remedy<\/em>\/ aka Five-Flower Formula<\/em> is another one. Also Self-Heal Cream<\/em> from the Californian line of \u00a0essences has proven helpful in some cases. In most cases it will be necessary to look at the particular underlying issues in addition to using essences which have a more general effect.<\/p>\n

For other uses of Self-Heal Cream and Crab Apple essence, go to http:\/\/www.flowersociety.org\/e-newsletters\/practitioner_reports2.htm<\/a>. You can also search the site for eczma, other conditions or particular essences.<\/p>\n

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