Dr Bronner's

[Caroline]

Hey and thanks for the reply.

I didn't think it would help to ease up the P that was there but I just wanted to wash with something natural and something that would not flare my skin up, but this stuff seems to have done. I am pretty sure it is the tea-tree oil that in it because for me it seems that I have some kind of reaction to the stuff. I am set on tackling this naturally because it seems to me (and this is my theory of looking into what psoriasis is and how it functions) that the plagues and skin side of it is merely a symptom. Like for example if you have say cancer you will have various symptoms and one could be a terrible cough. You wouldn't try and treat the cough to resolve the cancer. I believe that psoriasis is linked with the gut seeing as the gut has a huge role to play in the immune system and P is an autoimmune disease. 

Anyway what are the tablets you are taking? I am curious to know how the work and what exactly they are. 

Tom

Hi Tom,

Welcome to psoriasisclub.
Always nice to meet new people who take the dive into the forum.

Indeed psoriasis is an autoimmune disease. Currently there is still no-one who exactly knows what is the cause and what is exactly wrong. The skin situation is only the outer symptom of a much more complex problem.
What we do know is that there is a genetic component in it and we also starting to suspect that there is a whole range of autoimmune diseases that seem to be interrelated.
If you read my DMF thread, Dimethylfumarates and Psoriasis, then you will see that there is done a lot of practical research by a set of doctors in Germany and in the Netherlands.
From there research it seems that something has gone with the energy cycle of the cells, so they have been aiming on this point. If this knowledge has also reached scientific and pharmaceutical research I don't know. What is shown by the big pharma is that they are aiming, at least with their biologics approach, on the blocking of certain genetic expressions like IL-17 and others, and they have success with that.

The awkward thing that remains, but that I cannot explain, is that the 'old' approach of DMF works against almost all autoimmune diseases, like Crohns, MS and psoriasis (and more).

Do look around on the forum, ask if you want to know something, and just mingle.

Caroline.