Winter rash 02870...USA
A 63-year-old female suffered from red itchy rash on her back, throughout every winter for the past 15 years. It spread from her back to the abdominal region below her chest and the skin felt rough like a grater. Typically the itching would start when the temperature dropped to single digit (in Fahrenheit); sometimes these symptoms would start in late autumn (September) or early winter. The itch as well as rash disappeared with rise in the temperature every June. When the patient visited the practitioner on 3 September 2015 she was not taking any other medication.
She was given the following remedy:
CC12.1 Adult tonic + CC21.1 Skin tonic + CC21.6 Eczema + CC21.10 Psoriasis…TDS
6 weeks later, on 20 October 2015, the patient reported she did not have rash anymore and her skin felt “smooth like glass”. So, the dosage was reduced to BD but ten days later, she again complained of itching on her back, so the dosage was reverted to TDS and the improvement started.
On 13 March 2016, the patient conveyed she had gone through the peak of 2015-16 winter with neither rash nor itching and had been 100% fine for the past 4 months. The dosage was reduced to OD for a month. As there was no recurrence, it was tapered down to 3TW, 2TW, and finally OW over the next 3 months and then stopped. Seven months later, the patient confirmed in February 2017 that even during the winter of 2016-17 there was no recurrence. As the patient moved away from that area, the practitioner lost contact with her.