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Lydia Segal, 43
New York, NY
Psoriasis

Thank you for the opportunity to share my experience at Paracelsus.

I went to Paracelsus because I had suffered from horrible psoriasis since the age of 11. I used to have four-inch raised scaly patches covering both elbows, extending down my forearms. Now and then, I’d also get itchy patches of psoriasis on my scalp, jaws, hip, fingers, and even my eyelids.

My parents had taken me to numerous dermatologists over the years. But nothing could really help – not anti-pruritic pills, not regular creams, not diet, sun, or sea. The only thing that stopped the itching was a very strong cortisone cream. But the minute I'd stop using it, the itching would return with a vengeance. The cortisone cream also created unpleasant side-effects, including food allergies. After some years, I tried an acupuncturist. He prescribed a tea that made me sleep very deeply, perhaps so that I wouldn’t scratch, at least while sleeping. So for years my only choices seemed to be either cortisone or going into a semi-coma!

Everything changed when I went to Paracelsus. I had had no experience with biological medicine. However, the biological approach made a lot of sense to me: to make the body’s inner terrain healthy and inhospitable to disease. But I actually think Dr. Thomas Rau, the head of the clinic, is beyond designation of this or that medical approach.

When I walked into Dr. Rau’s office, he focused on me as whole – not just on my test results or elbows. I had the feeling that he was almost more interested in how I spoke than in what I said, even though he took notes. He seemed to be carefully observing the space around me – perhaps the aura, energy field, or whatever people may call it, -- and words didn’t matter much.

I told Dr. Rau that my psoriasis first appeared after I had been given a prescription drug at age 11 to fight some infection I had. The doctor had given me a dose for a person four times my weight. By the next morning, I had swelled up like a balloon . When the swelling subsided, I was left with psoriasis, and the rest was history.

I couldn’t remember the name of the drug I had been given. Dr. Rau guessed that it was a form of Amplital. "I think it must have been Amplital," he said with confidence. It blew my mind that he should have been able to guess; he had just met me a few minutes earlier. But that’s Dr. Rau. He has extraordinary intuition and knows, sometimes within minutes, what is wrong – without needing lab tests or the patient’s exact recollection of the progression of their illness.

Dr. Rau prepared a cocktail of different homeopathic preparations to inject into meridian points in my tonsils, kidney points, and elbows. This is called “neural therapy.” Included was the homeopathic antidote to Amplital – the potentized form of the very poison that he believed had produced the psoriasis. Also included was the homeopathic antidote to penicillin (I had mentioned I was al lergic to it), and homeopathic remedies (glandula suprarenalis and hypophysis) to strengthen my adrenal glands. He explained that he thought my adrenals were exhausted and not producing enough cortisol. Needless to say, my blood-work, which had not yet arrived from the lab at the time, would prove him right!

My psoriasis vanished within four days. I wish I had taken before and after photos, because it was nothing short of unbelievable. I think several factors contributed, in addition to the neural therapy. For example, I received ozone treatments and infusions to clean up toxins and stimulate my immune system. These treatments felt wonderful. The Clinic was sunny, peaceful, and gave me a good feeling. The nurses I had were caring. The surrounding landscape was breathtaking. The water in Appenzell, the canton in which the Clinic is located, is really pure and delicious.

In addition to helping me with psoriasis, the treatments I received at Paracelsus helped me in other ways that I did not expect. For example, I feel I have much more energy. I used to get very tired in the afternoons. Now I don’t. Also, my periods, which used to be highly irregular as far back as I can remember, have become regular. That’s amazing to me. And I no longer have dizzy spells, which I used to have with some frequency. To me, this means that the healing therapies at Paracelsus go very deep. They’re not treating symptoms, but root causes.

I hope that many others will be able to benefit as much or even more than I have from Paracelsus. People might think of it as a place to cure illnesses like cancer and Parkinson’s. But based on my experience, they should also consider it to heal psoriasis and even problems like irregular menstruation and dizziness.