Sounds like Psoriasis. Genitic. No known dietary cure.

Tom Barber

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From: "Tom" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:50 AM
Subject: Dry skin


> Anyone else out there with dry skin? I have had unhealing
> patches of weepy, itchy skin for decades, since college.
> Paleo has helped quite a bit, but not all. Cortisone knocks
> it out for a while, but it comes back. No lotion seems to
> help much.
>
> But... a few days ago on a whim I put a little butter on my
> hands. It seemed to help, so I did it again. It seems to be
> working. Maybe I should try paleo lard?  :-)  Butter is an
> old time remedy for skin, I should have tried it a long time ago.
>
> By the way, to toot my own horn, you can read an article I
> wrote in the current issue of "Primitive Archer", available
> on many magazine racks.
>