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Natural Cures for Psoriasis
Psoriasis is a condition where red patches appear on the skin. These then become white and scaly. it may occur on any part of the skin including scalp and nails and can also appear in the elbow fold and armpit. It is not known what causes psoriasis but stress, infections and certain drugs can trigger it. In some cases it is an inherited disease. It is not infectious but causes significant distress.
Psoriasis is associated with an inflammatory arthritis known as psoriatic arthropathy (psoriatic arthritis)
Psoriasis Treatments
Modern Western Medicine
Steroid creams like Betnovate and Locoid are used as are Coal Tar and Dithranol creams. These have potential side effects and while they help they do not cure the condition. In severe cases Ultraviolet light is used in hospitals. Lastly and rarely doctors will use cytotoxic drugs such as Methotrexate and these must be used under hospital supervision.
Complementary Therapy
Please help us to help you by letting your practitioner know about Natural Cures from Shared Care so that they might contact us (email to:- editor(at)shared-care.com) with their evidence to add their therapy to this list.
The therapies/educational systems shown below have been noted as helpful for Psoriasis
| Environmental Medicine |
| Hypnosis |
| Naturopathy |
| Acupuncture |
| Ayurveda |
| Chinese Herbal Medicine |
| Neurolinguistic Programming |
| Reflexology |
| Reiki |
| Traditional Chinese Medicine |
| Western Herbal Medicine |
Please also check out Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for lists of those whose approaches don't fall into any specific category.
The following practitioners have indicated that they have a special interest in Psoriasis
Please click on the "more.." button for fuller details.
| Miss. | Janine | Fahri | London | Great Britain | |
| Ms. | Ellen | Kratka | Connecticut | United States of America | |
| Dr. | Don | Farrow | North Carolina | United States of America | |
Natural Cures for Psoriasis Blog
Add your contributions to the "Natural Cures for Psoriasis" blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to the topic of this page that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Psoriasis Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| Psoriasis Australia Inc. | Australia | National |
| Psoriasis Society of Canada | Canada | National |
| Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthropathy Alliance | Great Britain | National |
| Psoriasis Association | Great Britain | National |
| Psoriasis Help Organisation | Great Britain | National |
| Psoriasis Scotland | Great Britain | Scotland |
| SkinCell | Great Britain | National |
| The Alliance for Action on Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis | Great Britain | National |
| Psoriasis Association of Ireland | Ireland | National |
| National Psoriasis Foundation of the USA | United States of America | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
Places to Eat and Stay, Tourist, Town and Travel Guides
These sections are designed to provide help in finding restaurants, cafes, hotels, resorts, towns, beaches, travel companies and so on that are user friendly for our communities.
Shopping Zone
There are lots of good things related to Natural Cures for Psoriasis in the stores accessed below. Please have a look.
Editors Choice
Not all good things come from Amazon. The following are my choices of goodies that I have come across or in which I have had some involvement. If you want to add anything please email me (editor(at)shared-care.com) with details
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | Gluten free cookbook; lots of good recipes |
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | |
| Dr Michaels New Horizons | Self help tapes from No Panic |
| No Panic | |
| Lumie Sunlamp | Sunlamp for SAD (works for me! (ed)) |
| Lumie | |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | Free downloadable book about treating migraine |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | |
| The FISH Plan for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Free downloadable book about treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| The FISH Plan for IBS | |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | Necessary dietary reading for everyone |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | Great cookbook by Glenis Lucas. Introduction by me! |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | |
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