Also known as Golu Kola and Indian Pennywort, Centella Asiatica is a herb possessing natural antiseptic properties. It was traditionally used to
Archives for March 2010
What to avoid!
Caring for a child with atopic eczema is never easy, but there are many things that you can do or not do to make life easier.
Relax & Take Control of your Eczema
There are so many factors in our environment that will trigger an eczema flare up that it is difficult to know where to start to avoid them.
Psoriasis – Signs & Symptoms
Psoriasis has some very distinctive signs and symptoms. The most distinctive of these being the psoriatic lesion as it is sharply defined against the normal skin. Characteristically it is…
Eczema Wonder Drugs Giving Our Children Cancer
Eczema is a chronic inflammatory skin condition affecting millions of children and is often very difficult to treat. Steroids have always been the doctors preferred option of treatment until several years ago when two new wonder drugs appeared on the market. Two wonder drugs that have proven to be quite controversial and possibly very dangerous […]
Propolis
PROPOLIS – a powerful, all natural antibiotic also known as Russian Penicillin.
Propolis is a product from the bee-hive. Honey-bees collect the sticky, brown resinous substance from various plants. In the hive the bees mix the propolis with wax and use it to sterilise their home against infection and as a multi purpose cement and varnish.
No School Today – My Child Has Eczema!
Being a parent is one of the most difficult jobs in the world. If in fact not the most difficult. As a child gets older and enters into the school world a parent is frequently faced with the question of whether their child is well enough to go to school or not.