Skin Issues/Abnormalities

Foods to Eat More Of: 

• Fruits: avocado, apples apricots, berries, cantaloupe, grapes, mangoes, papayas, pears, pumpkin
• Vegetables: arugula, beets (including green tops), broccoli, cabbage, carrots, collard greens, cucumbers, kale, romaine lettuce, spinach, squash, turnips, watercress
• Olive oil, soy products, seeds (especially flax, pumpkin, sesame, sunflower)
• Lentils, fish (especially salmon, sardines, mackerel, tuna), oats, sea herbs, spirulina, whole grains, yogurt

Foods to Avoid or Minimize: 

• Excessive salt/sugar
• Meat/shellfish, dairy products (except yogurt), oranges, chocolate, refined flour
• Coffee, black tea, soda, alcohol
• Cherry Angiomas (red spots, flat or raised) may be caused by bromide/bromine poisoning - most commonly found in enriched flour.

Essential Oils:
*If additional information or precautions are available, the links below will direct you that information.  If not, you will be directed to Amazon for purchasing options.

• Boils:  Chamomile, lavender, rosalina (on location)
• Blisters: Lavender, patchouly (on location).
• Broken Capillaries: Chamomile, cypress, lemongrass, geranium (on location).
• Calluses: Melrose, oregano (on location).
• Cellulite: Cypress, lavender, grapefruit, lemongrass, rosemary (on location).
• Cherry Angiomas (red spots, flat or raised): Tea Tree oil mixed with olive oil.
• Corns: Peppermint, chamomile, lemon (on location).
• Dry Skin: Lemon, myrrh, chamomile (on location).
• ​Lipomas (Lumps under the skin): Sage, tea tree and/or frankincense (1/2 teaspoon essential oil to 1 Tablespoon carrier oil).
• Moles: Melrose, geranium, lavender, frankincense (on location).
• Oily Skin: Vetiver, spikenard, lavender (on location).
• Spider Veins: Basil, birch, cypress, lemongrass (massage toward heart).
• Stretch Marks: Lavender, myrrh (on location).
• Warts: Tea Tree Oil - Put several drops on skin compress (apply at bedtime, remove in the morning until wart heals). 
• Warts: Cypress, lavender, elemi, lemon, melrose, oregano, spikenard (mix with apple cider vinegar - apply compress on location - 3 days on & 3 days off).

Natural/Herbal:  (How to Use & Where to Buy) 

• Overall skin health:
  • burdock (root, leaf, seeds), calendula, dandelion (root & leaf), echinacea, elder, evening primrose oil, fennel seeds, German chamomile, golden seal, ​gotu kola, ​lemon balm, licorice, oat seeds, red clover flower, stinging nettle, turmeric, yellow dock
  • Externally applied products containing avocado
• Dry skin:
  • ​Evening Primrose, elder
• Freckles/Skin lightening:
  • Elder
• Rashes: 
  • Burdock, Stinging nettle (especially if allergy-related)
• ​​Boils: 
  • Externally: Burdock, slippery elm, chickweed, tea tree and echinacea.
  • Internally: Hemp agrimony, garlic, maitake or echinacea. 
  • Mix leek juice with bread to make a poultice.
  • Make a fig poultice and apply to affected area.
  • Ointments containing marshmallow and slippery elm.
• Lipomas (Lumps under the skin):
  • Make an ointment out of Neem oil, Flaxseed oil and cooled green tea.
  • Mix raw honey with some flour an apply to lump.  Apply a thick layer. Cover with paper towel or bandage and leave it on 24-36 hours.  Remove and repeat for 1 week. (try to use dark honey with whole grain flour).
  • Mix 6 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, 2 Tablespoons organic beeswax, 1 Tablespoons turmeric and 1 Tablespoons chickweed powder.  Melt beeswax and add olive oil.  Remove from heat and stir in herbs.  Apply cooled mixture to lump. 
  • Castor Oil.
  • Lemon Juice.
  • 2 Tablespoons Apple Cider Vinegar taken orally before bed and/or 1 glass of water with 1-3 teaspoons of raw organic apple cider vinegar 1-3 times a day.  Adding honey may help with taste & healing as well.
  • Mix 1/2 teaspoon turmeric to 1 Tablespoon carrier oil (olive, castor or coconut).  Apply to lump (may stain skin/clothes).  
  • Chickweed, juniper.
  • Thuju Occidentalis - mix extract with water and apply 2-3 time daily.
  • Burdock root, Turmeric root or dandelion root (in pill form) - 4 capsules twice daily with meals for at least a month.
  • Turmeric (mix with milk or water and drink 1-2 times daily).
  • DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) - apply to clean skin with clean hands.
  • Iodine - Use q-tip to apply twice daily. 
  • Drink at least 2 glasses a day of green, chickweed and/or bamboo tea.
  • Bentonite clay: Mix with water and apply to affected area.
  • Mix 1 teaspoon raw honey with avocado, lemon juice, egg white, coconut oil or yogurt and apply to lump.
  • Mix water from 1 green tea bag with 2 Tablespoons plain yogurt and apply to lump.
  • Mix 2 teaspoons honey with 1 cup of green tea and apply to lump.
  • Cherry Angiomas (red spots, flat or raised): 
  • Apple Cider Vinegar: either applied directly to skin, or ingested.
  • Increase Iodine consumption.
  • Insert a needle or pin into a cork - or hold with a tweezers (so you don't burn yourself).  Heat up the needle and apply to angioma.  It should scab over and heal in about a week.
  • Poke spot with pin (multiple spots if large) - apply an apple cider vinegar soaked cotton ball with a bandage/tape and leave on 30 minutes (or longer).  Repeat daily until spot scabs over.
  • Make a paste by mixing sandalwood powder and fresh basil or strawberry leaves (crushed).
  • Mineral oil of magnesium applied to area.
  • Cansema or bloodroot applied to area.
  • Pascalite clay applied to area.
  • Epsom salts or celtic sea salts with hydrogen peroxide applied to the area.
• Moles:  Poke spot with pin (multiple spots if large) - apply an apple cider vinegar soaked cotton ball with a bandage/tape and leave on 30 minutes (or longer).  Repeat daily until spot scabs over.Apply castor oil daily until gone. 
• Warts/Corns:
  • Vitamin C Powder: 1/2 teaspoon can be mixed with a little water and applied as a skin compress twice daily).
  • Garlic Oil: Moisten a  skin compress with garlic oil (apply at bedtime, remove in the morning until wart heals).
  • Goldenseal: Soak a skin compress with tincture  (apply at bedtime, remove in the morning until wart heals).
  • Pau d'arco:  Soak a skin compress with tincture  (apply at bedtime, remove in the morning until wart heals).
  • Aloe Vera Gel: Put dab of gel on skin compress.
  • The sap of both greater celandine and dandelion and wood spurge, which can be squeezed onto warts 2-3 times daily.
  • Raw onion juice.
  • Fresh crushed thyme leaves.  
  • Castor oil (cover with gauze and leave for 30 minutes).  Do this 3 times daily for about 3 weeks (or until wart disappears). ​
  • Apply pure apple cider vinegar on the wart and immediately cover with baking soda (as much as you can pile on). Leave for 10 minutes, then wash off.  Repeat 3 times daily until wart disappears (should work within 1 week).  
  • White sap from dandelion stems rubbed directly on area.

Thorns/Splinters:

• hawthorn, slippery elm
• Ointments containing marshmallow and slippery elm.

Supplements & Homeopathic: (Where to Buy)

• Warts: 
• Vit A: 50,000 IU twice daily for 10 days (pregnant women should not exceed 5,000 IU daily).
• Vitamin C: 1,000 mg 3 times daily (reduce if it causes diarrhea). 

Mind-Body Connection:​​

• Boils and warts can represent unresolved anger/hate.  

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