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The Sudbury Star,Life & Homes |
The seabuckthorn, a prickly dry stick of a plant with little yellow berries, lives on land mainly in the coastal regions of China and Russia . Its berries produce all sorts of essential fatty oils. Eastern medicine has used this plant for thousands of years. After extensive testing, Western medicine has finally caught up.
It turns out Seabuckthorn can cure acne, rosacea, as well as some cases of psoriasis and exzema. Just how? Well the oil smothers a microscopic parasite called the Human Demodex, also know as the hair follicle mite, which lives in human and animal hair follicles and sebaceous glands (glands attached to the follicles).
I spoke to Derek Lepage a spokesperson for FaceDoctor Soap, and product line that uses this oil to treat the parasites. Lepage actually uses one of the company’s products, FaceSurgeon Soap, Which contains a higher concentration of the Seabuckthorn oil. His problem is boils. “With boil break-outs the sebaceous glands are infected. It’s very painful. I used to have to get them surgically removed,�? Lepage explained.
FACE FACTS
Symptoms of a Human demodex infestation. Your skin is rough and has a tendency to flush around your facial region or there is considerable hair loss.
*FaceDoctor soap cost $19.99. Available at most pharmacies as well as online at www.facedocotor.ca. A bar last one to three Months.No more, thanks to the soap and the thistle plant. Lepage also avoids pizza, a food that trigger more oil to flow to the glands and thus promotes mite infestations. |
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Back in the 1980 people who had stomach ulcers due to “stress�? and would pop antacids. Then the world learned that ulcers were bacterial in nature and could be treated with antibiotics.
Human Demodex represents a similar breakthrough for those with skin problems. The facedoctor.ca website states that DR. Qu Kui Zun conducted three decades of worldwide clinical observations and epidemiological studies involving 905,801 participants of various races, ages and occupations. He found that almost every human has the parasite, about 97 per cent of the population. However, in some people the parasites multiply to a greater extent causing skin eruptions and inflammations.
So in the past, doctors have treated the bacterial infection but not the cause, explained Lepage. Taken antibiotics would help for a period but as soon as the patient had finished with their course, the infestation would return with a vengeance.
While this type of oil has been available in health food stores for about 15 years, this is the first time it has been available in pharmacies and is being marketed to the public. Lepage said that Canadian government is conducting its own studies on the oil. Perhaps researchers will find other uses for the plat as well, he said. In Eastern Medical centers, it is ingested orally to treat those with cancer and peptic ulcers, he said.
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