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Jenelle Trampush
Hello!
I’ve been struggling to manage my psoriasis and it has predominantly been just on my scalp but now seems to have migrated in other areas, ie inside and outside of the ears and lower back.
Calendula seems to work well externally , however I’m unfamiliar with what internal herbs could be introduced orally.
Any suggestions?
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Greg Boggs
I would start taking some things to help out the liver, something like Burdock Root. A lot of the times when you can help out the liver, skin issues will clear up. Also, my mom gets bouts of psoriasis when she gets really stressed, so if that is a cause for a flareup, see what you can do about adding some destressors in your life.
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Greg,
Thank you for this response. I had been thinking to myself that I should be doing a liver , heavy metal, parasite cleans in segments as well to help . I don’t want to cause complete chaos with my immune system trying to do to much as once though.
What do you think ?
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Cleanses can certainly be a good thing to do every now and then, but yeah, take it easy on doing them though. If I were going to do a cleanse, I would go through Doc’s cleansing protocol and see how that affects me before going on and doing other things. Since I’ve never done a herbal cleanse before, I’d certainly like to follow a plan that someone I trust has already tried and tested on lots of other people before me.
I did also want to mention that my wife and I have made a herbal balm out of tallow, oil, calendula, comfrey, and lavender and it has helped just about every skin condition we have come across. It’s helped with my mom’s psoriasis when it flares up, my buddy’s kid’s eczema, my parent’s dog’s hot spots, etc. My wife has posted the recipe we use somewhere on the forum here if you’re interested.
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Dawna Donker
New to forums so not sure where to look for your recipe of herbal balm for psoriasis
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I found it for you:
Here is the recipe
1 cup tallow
1 cup dried herbs (by volume)
1.5 tbsp olive or coconut oil (optional)You melt down the tallow in a pot on low, and once it’s a liquid add in the cup of herbs (by volume) and let it infuse for an hour or so keeping the heat on low. The recipe we originally found (from milkandhoneyherbs) says that the longer you can let the herbs stay in there the better, but we felt an hour was long enough. Once you’re done with that, you’ll want to strain the tallow so you don’t get a bunch of herb chunks in your new balm. By recommendation of someone else here on the forum, we put a thin towel inside of a potato ricer and strained everything through that. Also, if you want to add in the oil, here is where you would do that, it just makes it have a softer consistency. Here you have a couple of options, option 1 is you can just pour it into little containers and let it cool, and then congratulations you’ve made your balm! Option 2 is to let it cool a bit to where it is still in liquid form but not hard yet, and use an emulsion blender and whip it up. We’ve done both ways and found that using the emulsion blender is really nice because it makes it all into a nice, smooth lotion. This really is an excellent skin healer and I cannot recommend it enough!
If you want to experiment more, check out Doc’s lesson on infused oils and lotions in the Medicine Making series.
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