Eczema was cured by Arnica — A patient’s testimony.
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Mr. De Livera Healed My Eczema using Arnica 6C
By: tracyjam
Tucson, AZ, USA
April 23 2009
Hello, Mr. De Livera.
I read an old post on ABC Homeopathy forum regarding a man who had severe eczema and you told him to try Arnica 6C. There were other people as well who reported success with this remedy for eczema. So, after suffering with eczema on my face and hands, but mainly my hands, I thought I would try it.
Lo and behold after a few days I had much improved, and now after two weeks, the eczema is gone!!
Mr. De Livera, you have helped me for free via this message board after I had spent over a year and over fifteen hundred dollars visiting a “classical homeopath” once a month for over a year. She never seemed to recognize the urgency of the eczema and seemed overly concerned with my dreams and emotional state. Although I’m sure those are important factors, when you cannot work because your face is red and swollen and burning and your hands are red, swollen and burning, that would seem to take precedence over dreams and fancies.
Thank you, Mr. De Livera, for healing my eczema!!
Tracy J.
TracyJam
Re: Mr. De Livera Healed My Eczema using Arnica 6C
By: Joe De Livera
Sri Lanka
April 23 2009
Hi Tracy,
It is good to know that someone whom I have never treated directly but has read my many posts on the ABC on using Arnica to cure Eczema, thought it fit to confirm the cure of your Eczema, which occurred in just 2 weeks.
As far as I am aware, I was the first Homeopath to use Arnica to help sufferers of Eczema. The Repertories in use today do not list Arnica for Eczema and it is my hope that this remedy will be included in future editions after some testing preferably on a double blind basis. I use it as my default remedy instead of using the classic remedies which often leave the patient in a worse state than when they first saw their classical homeopath. Your experience is the usual run around that many classical homeopaths give their patients and it is no wonder that you did not experience any amelioration of your Eczema.
You may like to know that the main reason why I severed my connections with the ABC and the Otherhealth forums where you will discover that I had been very active for some years, treating in the case of the ABC over 5000 cases in 3 years, was due to the interference that I experienced on them from classical homeopaths whenever I prescribed a remedy which I had used for other patients for the ailment, and which I was sure would work and often cure it, when another patient presented it. According to the strict rules of classical homeopathy one is not expected to prescribe directly on a “this for that” basis which is basically the method used in medicine where a drug is given for a specific disease. Classical homeopaths are instructed to treat the totality of the symptoms presented by the patient and it was due to following these instructions that your homeopath was unable to identify a remedy that would heal the Eczema you presented. She was obviously beating about that proverbial bush causing you so much distress and of course, expense.
The classical homeopaths on the ABC coined a new term for my therapy “Joepathy” which they used in a derisive manner with the warning to the patient that s/he runs the grave risk of catching some more exotic disease. According to them, my Joepathy only served to drive the ailment deeper into their body although it did cure it and they predicted that it would surface sooner than later in this unidentified dreaded disease. I can honestly state that these predictions of doom and gloom never did materialize and I have since used my own remedies with special reference to Arnica but in the various potencies depending on the disease, to help cure the ailments of patients who present their cases on our Forum.
It is interesting to record that this term Joepathy has stuck and was later picked up by the many Search engines which record many of my more interesting cases.
I must admit that I was very shocked indeed to note that you had wasted $1500 over the period of a year and that your classical homeopath’s remedies did not help you in the slightest. Your reported that “She never seemed to recognize the urgency of the eczema and seemed overly concerned with my dreams and emotional state”. It is possible that her strict classical training dictated that she use these factors in arriving at the remedy but one would have expected her to identify the correct remedy during the period of a year which you wasted and the pain and inconvenience you suffered, not to mention the expense that you incurred in treating your Eczema which you finally discovered was cured in just 2 weeks after you used my default remedy Arnica.
I have since modified the therapy I prescribe for Eczema and I now use Arnica 6c exclusively in the Wet dose which as you perhaps are aware, is not used generally by homeopaths. I also recommend that the remedy is directly applied on the lesions as this has always hastened the cure which is first noticed by the patient in about 2-3 days after commencement of the Arnica therapy. I have cured some chronic cases and one case was that of a mother and daughter where the mother had suffered from Eczema since her childhood for over 30 years and had to exist on a daily application of Steroid cream. He skin especially on her ankles was not at all pleasant to see as there was a constant ooze which she had grown used to during the time she suffered from Eczema which she though could not be cured. You can imagine her surprise when she discovered that her Eczema dried up in just 3 days and she was completely cured in a week when the lesions all disappeared. Unfortunately however these lesions have left a dark pigmentation on her fair skin and I am now trying to erase them with Silicea although this is taking some time to return the skin to normal.
I can only presume that this form of classical prescribing is done with a view to milking the suffering patient, all in the name of Classical homeopathy which I am sure was far from the intentions of the Founder of Homeopathy, Hahnemann who lived 250 years ago and who I feel would have changed over to my form of direct prescribing for the ailment, if he had lived in this age.
Thank you for taking the time to record your cure with my Joepathy and if you do experience any recurrence of your ailment you are advised to use Arnica 6c in the Wet dose taken twice daily internally and also applied directly on the lesions as often as is possible.
Joe De Livera