How to cure eczema naturally: a sufferer who gave up on Western medicine talks about successfully controlling her symptoms
Ashley Pang exhausted the Western medicine playbook in her frustrating and painful search to control her eczema. She finally found success through a combination of natural supplements, fasting and alternative therapies such as reiki
A week before the wedding of a close friend, Ashley Pang pulled out, having caved at the thought of facing an inquisition about her red, raw, raging skin. “I was so tired of explaining and telling people [about my skin problem],” she says.
From a young age, Pang had struggled with eczema, a condition that makes skin red and itchy. She had tried almost every remedy in the Western medicine playbook, including steroidal drugs, anti-allergy medications, antihistamines and supplements.
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In 2015, when she skipped the wedding, she was following a regimen suggested by a fellow eczema sufferer who claimed to have successfully overcome it through a combination of probiotics, omega-3s, vitamin B supplements and more.
Pang was advised that toxins would be released during the regimen’s initial healing process, but she was ill-prepared for the year and a half of “torture” that ensued, with her skin perpetually swollen, itchy and peeling.
“I was crying, asking ‘What is happening?’” she says. It was especially challenging for someone who worked in the world of fashion public relations – an industry where looks count – and she regularly wore hats to conceal her condition.
Now, however, she is hatless as she sips a flat white at Tom Dixon x Nodi, a cafe in Hong Kong’s SoHo neighbourhood. She does not look like someone grappling with severe body issues.