Hi there,

my mother suffers from lichen ruber planus and over the years has been progressively losing nails of both toes and fingers.
Do you believe that using CP products could help her at least slow down the process?
Thank you.

Serena

Pass on my 'fingers crossed' to her. I've not experienced that.. but I have had lichen planus flare up in my mouth 2x: it's excruciatingly painful. My dad's also had dermal lichen planus - his itches like hell when he gets it... what's more, the only way he can get rid of it is to use bloody hydrocortisone... I don't know which I think's worse :\

Hope SB products help - MSM & Colloidol Silica definitely improved my nails and hair... so that might do something?

xx

Have her try some BioHeal. If it does not help, we will refund the product price.

Thank you Dr. Pickart.
I just ordered it through Diana Yvonne because I don't think you ship to Italy, but don't worry - the cost of the products is not something we can't afford, even if it doesn't work. I appreciate your post, in any case.

Glass Butterfly - thanks for your fingers crossed. May I ask you how you developed it? Doctors told us the origin is probably autoimmune but I gues it's also stress-induced because in her case it flared up after my dad passed away in 1999 (she was 64 at the time). It started in her mouth and on other mucosas (I can only imagine how painful that must have been) but that didn't last long, fortunately. Then her nails started to grow scaly and flaky and now only few parts of them seem to be still "alive", if you know what I mean.
I really hope BioHeal can do something for her, I just wish I had known about this earlier.
What is this MSM Colloidol Silica you mentioned, please?

Serena

Hi Serena,

I honestly don't know how I developed it... I do seem to get it when I'm severely stressed out though. The first bout occurred just after doing my final year exams at University. In fact, thinking about it, the second attack was when I was doing my final essay pieces for my MA... It's awful, it felt like someone sprayed napalm in my mouth and looked a bit like a spider wove a web on the inside of my cheeks - which is why I can sympathise. I'm just hoping it wont happen again!!

My father's attacks are a bit weirder, because he seems to have got his flare ups from working with MDF. At first we thought it was from working with exotic hard wood but, no, both times he'd been sawing & using MDF.

MSM is organic sulphur: it's meant to help with cross linking/breaking down scar tissue/building up healthy collagen. Colloidol silica is sometimes called Silicia (unless that's just the brand name). I like the colloidol form because it seems to work faster and is soothing on the gut. It's basically another supporting nutrient that's just meant to help give you ultra healthy skin, hair and nails. Didn't notice an effect on my skin, but seemed to have an amazing effect on my nails, 'cos they're usually very bendy/soft but when I started taking it they got rock hard. The tablet form of silica doesn't seem to do much (it's in something I'm taking at the moment).

Hope it does help & best wishes xx