Indigo
Posted Tue 18 Aug 2020 22.57 by BellaMella
Hello
Well I'm up for trying new things. I started a keto diet and I've been eating blueberries for a month... only a little effect.
Recently I've tried a homemade paste of indigo mixed with an oil. I got the recipe from a Chinese Medicine handbook for psoriasis. I just went ahead and bought organic indigo powder from Amazon.
So far I've tried it once, and very good results: after a few hours significantly reduced inflammation and scales.
I'll keep trying it to see if I keep getting these results.
Because I was so impressed with these results, I searched for some scientific papers about what might be going on. Here's what I found:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjd.16807?saml_referrer (I think you'll need an institution login to view) A traditional Chinese remedy points to a natural skin habitat: indirubin (indigo naturalis) for psoriasis and the Malassezia metabolome.
And,
https://academic.oup.com/mmy/article/56/suppl_1/S10/4925974 Malassezia ecology, pathophysiology, and treatment
I'm not a scientist, but could it be that my microbiome has excess Melassezia and indigo counteracts it? I'm excited to experiment on myself.
Will update this thread if anything changes better/worse.
Posted Tue 18 Aug 2020 22.59 by BellaMella
Oh, and also this paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15523360/ Skin diseases associated with Malassezia species
Posted Tue 18 Aug 2020 23.08 by BellaMella
Sorry, I'll stop adding comments... but just wanted to add, this article is really clear, and well referenced: https://www.learnskin.com/articles/indigo-naturalis-for-psoriasis
Posted Wed 25 Jan 2023 17.11 by BellaMella (edited Wed 25 Jan 2023 17.11 by BellaMella)
I used indigo powder and mixed it with beeswax. I followed a recipe in a book by Sabine Schmitz called Treating Psoriasis with Chinese Herbal Medicine.
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