Alternative Treatment of Common Skin Diseases
Alternative treatment aims not only to minimize the patient's complaints, but also to restore the skin barrier function as quickly as possible in order to reduce the effects of irritants or allergens.
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The Goal of the Skin Rash Cream
Dermatitis is a complex clinical picture that must be comprehended not merely as skin disease, but rather as disturbances of the entire organism. An alternative to academic medical treatments is therapy with natural remedies, in view of the fact that they act upon the pathological process of the diseases in accordance with the particular drug-symptom complexes involved (25).
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Active Ingredients
Tea Tree Oil
Tea tree oil has been found to be useful in removing transient skin flora while suppressing but maintaining normal resident flora (27).
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Borage Oil (A Source of Polyunsaturated fatty acids)
The skin epidermis displays a highly active metabolism of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Deficiency of Linoleic acid and gamma lenolenic acid precursors of arachidonic acid results in characteristic scaly skin disorder and excessive epidermal water loss.
In a clinical study of infantile seborrheic dermatitis, daily topical application of borage oil containing 24% GLA has been studied. It has been suggested that GLA is of importance in maintaining normal transepidermal water loss
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Antioxidants
Modern life stress leads to persistent activation of the neuroendocrine stress axis, which causes:
- Increased release of oxygen free radicals.
- Increased release of Nitrous oxide radicals.
- Increased release of pro-inflammatory cytokines.
Bioflavanoids
Flavonoids continue to attract wide attention as possible very useful agents for combating free radical pathologies, i.e. the pathological states associated with free radical overproduction (46). Experimental studies showed that Flavonoids, particularly quercetin, the most abundant flavonoid in plants has cytoprotective potential as they are likely to be important in defending human DNA against oxidative attacks (47). Experimental studies have also shown that flavonoids have protective effect on the skin against carcinogenic agents. (Read
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Natural Vitamin E (Alpha Tocopherol)
The stratum corneum, the outermost barrier of the body is frequently and directly exposed to a pro-oxidative environment, including ultraviolet solar radiation. Depletion of vitamin E, being the major lipophilic antioxidant is an early and sensitive in vivo marker of UV induced photo-oxidation (60). UV radiation causes acute adverse effects like sunburn, photosensitivity reactions, or immunologic suppression, as well as long-term sequelae like photoaging or malignant skin tumors. Combined vitamins C and E reduce the sunburn reaction, which might indicate a consequent reduced risk of later sequelae (61).
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Natural Vitamin A (Retinol and Retinaldehyde)
Vitamin A is the generic term for a variety of fat-soluble substances including retinol, retinylaldhyde and retinoic acid. Vitamin A is commonly known as the anti-infective vitamin and has an essential role in cellular differentiation, the latter providing a unique core mechanism helping to explain the influence of vitamin A on epithelial barriers. Vitamin A has an influence on epithelial barrier. Alterations in the epithelial lining of vital organs occur early in deficiency, suggesting a potentially important role for the barrier function (73).
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Natural Vitamin C (Ascorbic, Ascorbate)
Vitamin C (Ascorbic, Ascorbate) is an essential micronutrient involved in many biologic and biochemical functions. Humans cannot synthesize vitamin C because they lack the last enzyme in biosynthetic pathway.
Known functions of vitamin C are accounted for by its action as an electron donor or reducing agent. Vitamin C is a specific electron donor for 8 enzymes (81,82). (Read
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Calendula Officinalis
Calendula Officinalis L has gained importance in the process of rediscovering natural healing forces. Increasing significance is contributed to calendula ointment, which have been used traditionally for a long time.
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Viola Tricolor
In a multicentre observational study, 127 patients with various types of dermatitis were administered a homeopathic complex including viola tricolor. In 119 of 127 cases, clear improvement with no side effects was observed (99).
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Chamomile
It exhibits antihistaminic effect. Animal experimental studies showed that en-yen dicycloether fraction of the essential oil of chamomile inhibits the release of histamine from the protamine sulphate-provoked degranulation of mast cells, which is the cause of allergic symptoms (102).
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Rosa Canina
The fruits of Rosa canina (Rosaceae) are very rich in carotenoids.
Chromatographic analysis revealed the major carotenoids to be beta-carotene, lycopene, beta-chryptoxanthin, rubixanthin, zeaxanthin and lutein (107).
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Echinacea
The efficacy of the Echinacea root extract as an immunomodulatory has been demonstrated in studies of viral and bacterial infection. The therapeutic superiority of the herbal immunomodulatory over placebo was confirmed as statistically significant and clinically relevant. Studies also demonstrated its efficacy as an immunobalancing agent, which is an antigen-independent mode of phytoimmunomodulation (110).
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