Healing Acne
Naturally
At age 13 I had acne so severe
it ruined my life. Junior High
School, which is now called
Middle School, is an important
transition time as we move from
childhood to young adulthood.
At age 12 when I started Junior
High I had a clear complexion
and was very popular with the
girls and a class clown and
leader. Around the time of my
13th birthday I began to get
acne or zits as we called them
back then.
This devastated my confidence
and I hated going to school on
Mondays because my face was full
of zits and blackheads. I
started to lose my
self-confidence and became more
quiet and subdued and not
out-going.
My grades all dropped, due to
missing school, and I no longer
was the straight A student I was
in fifth and sixth grade.
I
had acne all through junior high
and high school, until it
started to clear up in my senior
year a bit, but by that time I
had scars all over my face, and
worse I was scarred inside, in
my being, for life.
All of this could have been
prevented. If I knew what to eat
I could have prevented having
acne. So, I am writing this to
the children (teens) who are 12
and 13, or even 14, 15, 16 and
17 and to their parents who are
desperately trying to find a
remedy for their pain.
Vegetables and fruits, and
yogurt and cottage cheese, in
combination with short juice
fasts would have saved my face
from acne.
At that time nuts and fried
foods like french fries were
infamous for causing acne so I
cut them out at age 13. It did
help somewhat, because I could
feel the pimples grow any time I
ate nuts or fried foods.
No grains like bread, or pasta,
or muffins or cookies, is a very
hard diet for a child of 12 or
13, but the scars of acne are
much worse than giving-up some
food groups.
No nuts, seeds, grains, bread,
buns, rolls, pizza, cookies,
muffins, chocolate bars, candy,
pasteurized fluid milk is hard
for a child but the pain of acne
with its physical and
psychological scarring is worse.
The diet is fresh salads of
lettuce, grated carrot, tomato,
spinach dressed with yogurt
dressing seasoned with herbs and
garlic and topped with cottage
cheese or grated natural cheese.
Also steamed vegetables like
broccoli, string beans,
cauliflower and kabocha squash
are eaten. No baked potatoes, or
fried potatoes. Kabocha squash
is the best tasting cooked
squash. It can be steamed or
baked quickly.
As your fat to dress the cooked
vegetables, use butter or sour
cream. Herbs both fresh and
dried, garlic and lemon are the
seasonings, avoiding all salt.
Fresh green vegetables and
cooked starchy vegetables
dressed with plain, natural
yogurt seasoned with herbs and
garlic and cheese are the basis
of the diet.
Fruits also are eaten before the
salad. Wait about 15 minutes
until the fruit digests and then
eat salad and cooked vegetables.
The best fruits to eat, in
moderation, are fresh figs,
cherries, plums, peaches, grapes
and grape juice, strawberries,
blackberries, raspberries,
blueberries, sweet grated apples
and cooked apple sauce,
watermelons and melons.
Avoid dates, dried fruit,
bananas and citrus fruits since
they damage your teeth. Don't
eat excess fruit, just a
moderate amount is eaten before
the vegetables and dairy
products. Drink juices, if
thirsty, before the fruits.
Start the diet with a short fast
of one day.
To start the fast take the
laxative sen or senna in bulk
herb form by boiling a handful
in 2 and a half cups of water
boiled down to 1 cup and then
filter out the herb fiber.
Skip breakfast and drink coconut
water, freshly juiced vegetable
juice, bottled V-8 juice, grape
juice Welch's etc., but no tap
or filtered water which is
filled with inorganic minerals
and pollutants. Distilled water
will suck minerals out of your
body and it's a dead lifeless
substance that is a burden on
your system.
If you clean out the bowels with
a laxative first and then drink
delicious juices when weak or
hungry, the fast will be very
enjoyable and you won't miss
eating at all.
Fast from breakfast on the first
day, then skip lunch, dinner
(drinking juice or V-8 vegetable
juice) then go to sleep fasting,
which is where the real healing
and cleansing occurs.
If you are not hungry when you
wake up do not eat solid food.
When needed take some juice.
Listen to your body when it is
time to eat. It may be later in
the morning or at noon, just
listen, tune-in to your body.
Try to do the one day fast once
a week if possible, in order to
keep the body internally clean
and healthy.
Sometimes you will look forward
to your fast, because you are
completely resting and you feel
great after it's over.
Fasting and prayer was the
remedy given in the Bible for
what ails the body and soul.
Fasting and prayer and a diet of
fresh and cooked fruits and
vegetables supplemented with
natural yogurt and cheese will
heal acne and many other
diseases.
Cooked starches cause so many
ills. Cooked potato, cooked
rice, French fries, corn chips,
bread, muffins, cookies are all
cooked starch which is known to
enter the tissues and clog the
capillaries directly from the
stomach by the process of
persorption.
Nuts and seeds are laden with
highly oxidizable oil which goes
rancid or oxidizes in your body.
You are best eating range fed
chickens, if you have to have
some meat, but it's best to
avoid it since cheese and yogurt
are better sources of protein
than any meat and also they
provide calcium and the vitamins
A, D, and K which are non
existent in non animal foods.
This regimen will heal acne. It
is a strict diet, but enjoyable
once you get used to it.
Make the effort, and avoid all
the suffering I went through
for 6 years as a teenager.
Avoid the permanent scars on
your face and to your psyche by
doing one day fasts and adopting
a natural vegetable, fruit and
cultured milk diet.
Read
The Healing God Spell of Saint
John to find out more
about fasting and the diet.
In addition to diet there are
vitamins.
(Vitamin B5)
Having Severe Acne Really is No
Fun
"I read the usual stuff about
antibiotics, Accutane, herbal
remedies and various over the
counter ointments and creams.
"Been there, done that, tried
that, doesn't work", I thought.
I
clicked to the next page and my
eyes fell upon an article on a
study that had been done in
Singapore with a group of people
of Chinese descent who had acne.
The participants were aged from
10 to 30 years old. The study
talked about how Dr. Lit-Hung
Leung (the doctor responsible
for the study) had given the
participants 10 grams of
Pantothenic Acid (Vitamin B5)
every day in 4 divided doses.
They were also given a cream to
use which contained 20%
Pantothenic Acid.
Within a few weeks, almost every
participant in the study had
reduced their acne significantly
or cured it altogether. They
also noticed an enormous
difference in oil production
(sebum) on their skin and
markedly smaller pores.
After reading the article, I
looked on line and discovered
that Pantothenic Acid is a
water-soluble vitamin.
What this means is that you can
take just about as much as you
want without any overdose
problems as, whatever your body
doesn't need, is simply
eliminated in your urine.
Obviously, from everything I
read online, there was no danger
in trying the large doses of the
vitamin. So, I tried it.
I
went to the drugstore and bought
a huge bottle of Pantothenic
Acid and took my first dose. I
started off by taking 10 grams
(twenty 500mg pills) every day.
Within 3 days of beginning the
treatment, I began to notice my
pores were smaller.
The amount of oil my skin was
producing was also less. As you
could normally run a small car
off the amount of oil my skin
produced daily, this in itself
was a huge development. Then,
within the week, new acne
stopped appearing all over my
body and old acne began to heal.
One month later, I had
completely clear skin. Clear
skin on my face, my chest, my
arms and my back. After over 20
years of severe acne, you can
only imagine how this made me
feel.
I
have since continued to take the
Pantothenic Acid. After about 6
months of staying with the
10grams a day amount, I
gradually decreased it down to 4
grams (8 500mg pills) and that's
what I continue to take daily as
a maintenance dose to maintain
my clear skin.
I
do notice if I forget to take
the pills for a few days, my
skin begins to erupt again.
Going right back to taking the
pills gets rid of the acne
quickly though."
