Agonizing over those hot itches, unbearable flushes and sleepless nights? While conventional medication attempts to solve the problems on the surface level, incorporating the appropriate raw foods and adopting a more natural overall lifestyle can tackle the problem at its roots.

I had a sudden outburst of ezcema on the back of my neck during a time in my life when I had long hair. I was using the most expensive salon shampoos, treatments and conditioners - which of course are laden with chemicals and preservatives. After a shower, my wet hair with all the “leave-in treatments etc) always sticks to my neck before it dries.

Eventually, a small bump developed, which grew into a patch of itchy rashes and then it did not go away until more than a year later. Doctors told me it was eczema, which “cannot be cured”, and they gave me creams after creams to apply.

It was such an agony! Whenever the itch flared up, I could not sleep, became irritable and eventually scratching turned into burning pain when the skin tore. Everything you are going through right now, I assure you I totally understand!

The creams always worked only for the first time, and I had to keep changing medications and doctors. I stopped seeing the last doctor which prescribed me the same medication as my first doctor! I believed I actually went one full round in Singapore!

Refusing to admit defeat, I read further into eczema. That happens to also be the time when I was deeply intrigued with raw foods, and testing it on myself. I also discovered interestingly that, Traditional Chinese Medication’s explanation for eczema is similar to one of the main principles of raw foods - ie. eczema is a symptom of a deeper condition of the liver being unable to carry out it’s detoxification properly, and disruption of the body’s natural healing and rejuvenation process. TCM’s solution to this is to use herbs for regulating and reviving the body’s natural ability to carry out its normal functions.

And then, at the skin level, the eczema will heal.

After experimentation of eating raw foods in different ways (whether in the form of Dr Graham’s 80/10/10, the usual Raw Gourmet high-fat-low-greens, Victoria Boutenko’s Green For Life approach, Dr Ann Wigmore’s Sprout for Life, and even the conventional just-eat-whatever-raw approach!) I finally arrived at a stage where I completely healed my eczema using no creams, no doctors, no expensive medication bills, but just raw foods.

Although there are enough information in my head to fill a book, let’s just be simple here. If there is anything you can take away from here, I want you to just remember 6 basic points:

1) Aim for at least 1 green smoothie (with at least 250g of organic greens and more if possible) per day, and make sure you rotate your greens weekly.

2) Drink at least 4 litres of pure filtered water (I can’t stress this enough!), if you exercise or live in a hot climate like Singapore - feel free to drink more if you need to.

3) Make sure to add ground flax seeds, raw organic corn, raw coconut oil, avocados into your meals everyday somehow. Find a way to incorporate these foods into your diet by adding into salads, smoothies etc.

4) Run as far as you can away from seafood.

5) Use high quality raw virgin coconut oil to soothe the rashes for a change instead of the conventional heavy-smelling medicated creams.

6) Connect with Nature everyday. If you have a garden with real soil, take off your shoes and walk/stand on the soil for 15 mins everyday. If you don’t have a garden, try planting some house plants and touch organic soil everyday with your hands, or walk frequently in the park and rub your bare feet against grass for 10 mins. This is not hype and I’m not kidding you - connecting with Nature is as important as the rest of the points!

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