A 6-Year Battle of Skin Rash and Marks, Won in 6 Months With Root-Cause Healing Experience
Patient Name:
Rattanleen Kaur
Disease:
Atopic Dermatitis (Chronic Skin Rash / Eczema)
Problems with the Disease:
- Persistent blackish marks and itchy rashes
- Recurrent inflammations under the knees, elbows, arms, legs, and back
- Temporary relief with steroid creams, but frequent relapses
- Increased stress and emotional discomfort
- Dependency on anti-allergic medicines and corticosteroids
- Skin dryness, irritation, and visible scars
How Old the Problem Is:
6 Years (Chronic condition with repeated flare-ups)
Curation Period:
- Significant improvement in 5–6 months
- Dedicated treatment and lifestyle management for 1 year
- Minor relapses were later controlled within 1 month
Patient Review:
After struggling for 6 years with recurring rashes and steroid dependency, I experienced true healing through root-cause treatment, homoeopathy, and disciplined lifestyle changes under Dr Aditi’s guidance. The journey required patience and faith, but within 6 months, I saw major improvement, and within a year, my skin recovered significantly. Today, even if minor flare-ups occur, they are manageable and short-lived. I truly believe in treating the root cause rather than suppressing symptoms.
Treatment Journey
Going back about 6 years, I vividly remember standing among a class full of my classmates when a friend of mine pointed to a blackish mark under my right knee. I got embarrassed since I was wearing a skirt as the school uniform and instinctively wanted to hide it. Coming back home, I noticed that the same black mark was itching and causing discomfort to me. Upon asking my dad, he suggested applying coconut oil to it and booked an appointment with a renowned dermatologist in the city. He diagnosed it as atopic dermatitis and explained all that he could about the disease, also revealing that there’s no permanent cure for it in allopathy, and it is an autoimmune disorder, which is directly linked to your body’s reactions to certain toxins in the blood. He gave me some mild steroid cream, asking me to use it only when inflammation is really bad and to take care of my skin, keeping it moisturised at all times. Along with that, he gave me some anti-allergic tablets and advised me to stay away from packaged food, spices and synthetic preservatives. During the 4-5 days of the visit, the rashes started disappearing, and I was very happy. But about two months later, the rashes started appearing again at the same place and gradually also affecting under my elbows. As any person would, I visited the doctor again and said that I kept my skin moisturised, stayed away from synthetic food, but why did it come back? He reiterated that there is no cure for this disease; all a person can do is control it and sent me back with the same clobetasol propionate cream, which is a corticosteroid used very widely to combat eczema and psoriasis.
Now, that’s when I actually started getting worried about it, but decided to go with the flow, stay away from junk food and continue with my school life. My 10th boards were approaching by that time, and I had started having inflammations more often. I used to calm it down by applying the steroid cream, and it would go away within a week, but appear more frequently the next time. My consultations with the dermatologist also became more frequent, resulting in the same old anti-allergens and corticosteroids. This heightened my stress levels; I thought that this disease would not let me live in peace ever. That’s when I took control into my hands and actually started to research it, and after spending hours on it, what I found was crazy! A little tweak in the lifestyle and diet could turn it upside down! But having learnt about this disease and why it was caused, I was still very hesitant to bring about these changes, as the foods it suggested were not readily available in India, and the content available online was USA-based.
Now, as I was studying what foods could help, it mostly involved fresh greens, fresh fruits, vegetable salads, probiotics, olive oil and suggested replacing white rice with brown rice, our cooking oil with olive oil, wheat with other whole grains like oats, quinoa, ragi, jowar, etc. In a matter of time, someone suggested we try this homoeopathic doctor from Ludhiana, who was a renowned skin specialist. He explained how steroids just suppress and push the dermatitis into the skin layers, which is why it keeps coming back again frequently. He already informed us that it will take a considerable amount of patience and determination to treat it from the underlying root cause, but after paying him two visits and taking medicine for a month, going to Ludhiana again and again got cumbersome. I did not see much progress within that time, but I wanted to continue with homoeopathy. Now, since Dr Aditi was already our family doctor, we went to her for every problem. We finally consulted her, narrating the whole story.
This is when my treatment actually started. I remember visiting her every 2 days in the initial times, crying about how it was getting worse. But I was told that I’m improving every time, and it will take patience for it to be gone completely if I want it to go away forever. Along with monitoring my progress so closely and passionately, I used to discuss my diet with Dr Aditi and how I should only use virgin coconut oil rather than some fancy moisturisers. During this time, the few rashes on my body had actually escalated to other parts of my body, like my full arms and legs and some on my back too. It was definitely difficult navigating through at that time, but my visits to Dr slowly started turning into motivation sessions to keep going and keep having faith in the medicine and my clean diet. Looking at Dr’s passion towards my case was something that always fueled me to not give up. After about 5-6 months of dedication, I actually started noticing significant improvement with the inflammations and rashes. The back and forth between seeing improvement in one area and then getting rashes in another still continued, but having seen results once, that motivated me to keep going. I took medicine regularly, kept my skin moisturised at all times, ate clean, fresh and only homemade food for a year. And finally, the rash scars also start disappearing when using coconut oil. That is not to say it went away forever; it did come back to haunt me 2-3 times after that, but only when my bloodstream was filled with toxins again, and it was nothing close to the nightmare I encountered the first time. I guess that’s just the price I paid to rid my body of the toxins I had accumulated over the years. But the times it came back, it was cured by Dr Aditi’s medicine in a month or so.
This is a story of perseverance and faith, how the simplest things in life heal the best, but you just have to be patient. Now, looking back, there really isn’t a cure for this disease, but flushing the toxins out of your system at once is what I actually needed to combat the disease, which is where effective medicine with essential lifestyle changes comes into the picture. No medicine for any disease cures the disease per se; it rather cures the symptoms so that the disease doesn’t take over again. And homoeopathy has thus been proven to be effective in just that. Rooting out the issue rather than suppressing it. Rooting out a tree takes time, but it rarely ever pops up again, whereas just cutting a tree takes a little amount of time, but it grows back instantly. This analogy has helped me understand homoeopathy much better, which is why I choose to trust it and thus, Dr Aditi, over and over again.
