Healing Psoriasis The Natural Alternative-PREFACE

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# A New Beginning #

#    When a thing is understood, the cure is half accomplished.   —Anne Shannon Monroe #

On June 10, 1997, one week before I began my European speaking tour, the  
following e-mail came to my office from a Mr. Charles Shannon of St. Albans,  
West Virginia:  
I am sixty-eight years of age, and for sixty-three years of my life, I have  
suffered with psoriasis. Every method has been tried, from tar baths to  
PUVA \[psoralen-ultraviolet light A\], being in the trial government study of  
the PUVA method. The disease always came back more severely—  
sometimes covering 80 percent of my body. I ordered the book \[Healing  
Psoriasis: The Natural Alternative\] on February 27, 1997. After receiving  
the book, I started reading and getting the supplies ready. I really started  
the diet toward the end of March 1997. Now, three months later, I can’t  
believe the results. My skin is almost completely healed! I have followed  
the regimen—diet, etc.; I even stopped smoking. When I started, my back  
looked like the before picture on the back cover of your book. My legs  
healed first, then my back, stomach, face—the arms were the last. I would  
like to thank you wholeheartedly. No scales—no itching—no bleeding. I  
feel as if I can wear a short-sleeve shirt with peace of mind, for the first  
time in my life. May God bless you and thank you so much for caring!  
Mr. Shannon followed the suggestions in the first edition of my book and was  
practically 100 percent clear of psoriasis in less than three months, after having  
suffered with it for sixty-three years! However, let’s be realistic. This is an  
unusually successful case, considering the many years he had the disease and  
how quickly he cleared up.  
Unsolicited letters, e-mails, and reports like this one have come into my  
office from every part of the globe since my book was first published in 1991.  
The reason for such results is that I use an approach to the disease that the  
scientific community has never taken before. The path I have followed for forty  
years is one that views the problem of psoriasis from the inside out rather than

the outside in. The answer to the riddle of psoriasis will never be found by  
focusing the attention on the skin. We must go inside to seek origins and look for  
causes that once found and understood put the patients on the road to recovery,  
provided they are willing to cooperate.  
The purpose of this volume is to bring a ray of hope to the tens of millions of  
people worldwide who suffer from psoriasis, one of mankind’s oldest, most  
elusive, chronic inflammatory skin diseases. This hope is not based merely on  
theory and speculation, but on solid, concrete evidence of results obtained by  
following a regimen of therapy I have developed over the major part of my  
professional career.  
During this time, particularly in the past thirty years, I have concentrated my  
efforts on proving, indisputably, that psoriasis—long classified as “incurable”  
by the scientific community—can be healed in a perfectly natural way. The  
method I have developed is devoid of any systemic or topical drug (they often  
have harmful side effects), uncomfortable messy tar baths, or even potentially  
dangerous forms of ultraviolet light. In short, I contend that psoriasis is one  
incurable disease that the patient does not necessarily have to live with. In many  
cases it is possible for every psoriatic lesion, rash, or abrasion to completely  
disappear, leaving the patient in control of the problem throughout his or her  
entire life. That is the message of this book and the purpose for which it was  
written.  
It may come as a surprise to many that I, a chiropractic physician, have taken  
it upon myself to investigate this dermatological enigma that for centuries has  
frustrated researchers who were seeking a cause and a cure. It may come as  
even more of a surprise to learn that the results I have obtained were achieved  
by practicing well-known, time-honored principles and techniques that fall  
completely under the heading of natural or holistic healing. In other words, I am  
utilizing natural methods, in a new way, on an old disease.  
It is not my intention in any way to minimize the efforts of dedicated  
researchers and physicians in the field of dermatology. Clearly, they have made  
life more bearable for many victims of the disease through endless research and  
various therapies they have developed. Rather, it is my desire to share with  
them the results I have obtained, by revealing the methods I used when attacking  
this disease from a different perspective—from the inside out, as opposed to  
from the outside in.  
Since the cause and true cure for psoriasis remain unknown in the field of  
dermatology, I ask merely that these findings be taken into consideration.  
Without question, further research is needed under better controlled conditions;  
but, given the facts contained here, perhaps a new beginning emerges in  
understanding the disease that will justify such research. I submit that the  
information presented here warrants such investigation.

The approach to psoriasis that I have used is based on the works of Edgar  
Cayce (1877–1945), a remarkable individual whose discourses on healing are  
legendary and are becoming more popular with each passing year. Using his  
advanced theory as a guide to understanding the cause of the disease, as well as  
a suggested regimen of therapy, I have combined my clinical experience and  
slowly evolved a working hypothesis, a natural alternative that, over the years,  
has proven to be extremely beneficial in many cases. I have shown that when  
psoriasis is understood from this new perspective, faith in the process is  
strengthened by logic and reason—or, to put it more succinctly, “It makes  
sense!” as so many patients have said.  
Unquestionably there have been failures, as there are in all research projects.  
In practically every case, however, the reason for failure was found to be the  
patient’s own impatience. Outstanding results were not achieved overnight.  
Most patients who succeeded in ridding themselves of psoriasis did so by  
giving a great deal of time and honest effort and, above all, being persistent.  
Without these invaluable mental ingredients, healing is not only difficult, it is  
impossible. Unless a patient is committed to freeing himself of this disfiguring  
disease, the efforts of both the patient and the physician are ultimately futile. It  
does not necessarily follow, however, that success is guaranteed; but with  
dedication to the regimen, the chances are infinitely greater. To this day, when  
success is achieved, I am amazed to see how a patient’s skin can renew itself  
totally and completely, without even a trace of the devastating lesions that once  
covered the body. I believe it can be done for the simple reason that it has been  
done. This is not speculation; it is a declaration, the proof of which is found in  
the pages that follow.  
The late Gina Cerminara, PhD, author and lecturer, once told me, quite aptly,  
that “the secret of good writing is to be understood.” For this reason, I have  
endeavored to keep it simple, so my readers may grasp the underlying principles  
of the nature of the disease. Consequently, sophisticated medical terminology  
was purposely kept to a minimum. I hope I have succeeded.  
Within the pages of this book, psoriasis may be understood for what it is, and  
with this understanding comes the hope that despite present conditions, a natural  
healing is possible. It is my ardent wish that this is so, for then psoriasis  
sufferers can begin putting their lives in order and get on with the business of  
living, no longer burdened under the yoke of this disfiguring, all-consuming  
disease.  
This book was first released in May 1991 at the Edgar Cayce Center in  
Virginia Beach, Virginia. The very first bookstore to carry it was the little  
Monmouth Beach Book Shop on the Jersey Shore, where I was raised. Now,  
years later, orders for the book come in from virtually every country on Earth.  
Psoriasis is a global affliction with more than a hundred million people

wrapped in its clutches. If ten people can be helped by taking the approach  
outlined in this book, then a hundred can; if a hundred, then a thousand; if a  
thousand, then why not millions? With only a minimum of advertising, the book  
grows in popularity simply by word of mouth, the most effective way to  
determine the value of a book. I sincerely thank the many sufferers who have  
read the book and spread the word. I also thank those who have taken the time to  
write or contact me to express their overwhelming gratitude. There is no greater  
reward for this physician turned author than the results of his labors manifested  
in such a glorious way.  
At the time of this writing, Healing Psoriasis: The Natural Alternative is in  
its seventh printing and has sold over fifty thousand copies in the United States  
and around the world. It has been the number-one best seller in its category with  
both Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com for the past nine consecutive years.  
To date, it has been translated into Russian, Italian, Finnish, and Japanese. This  
is a far cry from humble beginnings in the early 1970s, when my first case of  
psoriasis walked into my office and was healed in a matter of a few months,  
changing the course of the patient’s life and mine.  
Now, John Wiley & Sons, of Hoboken, New Jersey, has taken over  
publishing rights to the book. With this honor granted me, the third phase of one  
of Edgar Cayce’s directives is about to be fulfilled. “First,” he said, “go to the  
individual, then to the groups, and then to the masses.” With John Wiley & Sons,  
the book can now reach the millions of psoriasis victims with a message of hope  
for the healing of a disease that has plagued mankind probably since the dawn of  
history.  
This eighth year of the new millennium marks my forty-eighth year in active  
clinical practice as a chiropractic physician. It has been a rewarding adventure  
—the joy of healing patients goes far beyond what words can express. But it is  
time to move on to new adventures; not to retire, but to aspire. There is much  
more for me to do before I check out here and check in there!  
It has given me indescribable joy and an enormous sense of accomplishment  
to have played a part in this revelation. I have always been of the opinion that  
mankind was not put on this earth to suffer but to live. The misery that plagues  
man is of his own making, through ignorance, selfishness, greed, and an  
unprecedented disregard for natural laws. Know the natural laws and respect  
and adhere to them, and sickness and disease will vanish. This is our natural  
heritage. Psoriasis is only one of the diseases mankind is burdened with, but  
with the evidence presented here, as far as psoriasis and eczema are concerned,  
I would say we are off to a pretty good start.