Seeing a Medical Intuitive for Eczema

I saw a medical intuitive for eczema in a desperate attempt to cure it.

The route I took to finally putting down my credit card to work with this medical intuitive for eczema was a bit interesting.

A post-doc friend of mine had recently recommended this book called Anatomy of the Spirit after I said I’d recently read this super fascinating (and super woo-woo) book called The Cosmic Serpent. The Cosmic Serpent is written by an anthropologist, Jeremy Narby, and largely recounts his time in the Amazon where he explored indigenous shamanic knowledge, biology, and broadly, consciousness.

It’s a lot, but it did open my mind a bit. Anatomy of the Spirit is by one of the most “famous” and “successful” medical intuitives. It’s about spirituality, energy medicine, and health, broadly speaking. I had no idea what energy medicine was before reading this book. Apparently, medical intuitives can “talk” to our bodies, even through the phone. What blew me away from this book and from my own medical intuitive experience, was that the medical intuitive literally just calls their patient on the phone (without video) and takes a moment to “connect” to the other person’s body. Once connected, they’re off to the races.

The first few pages of the Anatomy of the Spirit book are actually quite fascinating. A Medical Doctor, Dr. Norman Shealy, recounts his work with Caroline (the author). Essentially, they shared a patient and Caroline was able to describe a disease the patient had before the patient’s test results came back and the “western” diagnosis was confirmed. Apparently this happened numerous times. If true, that’s absolutely wild.

Anyway – back to my journey to my medical intuitive: I had just finished Anatomy of the Spirit and was waiting in line at my medical clinic to get my first COVID booster (so this was roughly Fall/Winter 2021). I got to talking to the woman in front of me about very standard small talk stuff.

I then was next in line and had to push my sleeve up. Of course, my arm was riddled with eczema and the woman saw this. After we both got our shots, she politely asked about my arm, and I mentioned it was eczema. She immediately followed saying she knows this wonderful medical intuitive who has been said to rival Caroline Myss.

This blew my mind – how did this seemingly very “normal” woman know about Caroline Myss, and how was it possible that we were discussing Caroline Myss, in a western medical environment, when I had literally just finished Caroline’s book? In short, it all seemed too fateful to not at least give the medical intuitive she recommended a try. Could this medical intuitive cure my eczema?

I’m not going to name this medical intuitive because her suggestions didn’t end up helping me and so I cannot endorse her. That said, she may actually be wildly helpful for other people, whether through the Placebo effect or through actual intuition.

The process went like this: pay, fill out relatively lengthy medical background forms, talk on phone, get some live readout on the phone, and get full readout via email later.  I purposefully wrote very minimal detail on my medical background forms because I wanted to see whether she could actually pick up on what I already knew was going on, at least by western terms.

On the day of my appointment, I got a call from her number. She said hello, and then very quickly said: “give me a moment to connect to your body.” I waited in silence for maybe 30 seconds and then she said “okay I’m connected.”

Then…nothing she said was particularly extraordinary, but I’d call some of it “interesting.”

Immediately upon “connecting” to me, she said I was in a “fight or flight” mode. This made sense as I was in a particularly stressful season of life and work and obviously aggressively scratching all of the time is not necessarily a “low stress” activity. Interestingly, two separate Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners – one acupuncturist and one herbalist told me essentially the same thing verbatim. Though I believe they both more or less said “your mind is crazy.”

At least they told it to me straight!

Later in the “conversation” with my body,  she picked up on my body “asking” for more fruits. I’d been limiting fruits at the time as I was trying to follow an ayurvedic diet which suggests minimal fruits. This was mildly interesting. She also nearly immediately noted that my spine was out of alignment and suggested I get myofascial release done.

I wasn’t aware of what this was prior to our conversation. It’s a massage therapy technique that releases tension in the fascia, the connective tissue in our bodies. My issue was apparently up near my upper spine and neck, which makes sense given I work a desk job. I’ve kept this recommendation in mind as I’m sure it would feel great, but I haven’t tried this yet. It does seem that most massage therapy places can do this, though. That said, I can’t see the link between myofascial release and eczema.

She also mentioned I should consider getting my copper IUD taken out. Honestly, I think this was just a medical record thing, not necessarily my body telling her that. She did pick up on a lot of “toxins” and thought I had a parasite. Most alternative medicine doctors seem to think I have a parasite. My Ayurvedic detox was largely to get rid of some unknown parasite. My acupuncturists and herbalists in Traditional Chinese Medicine have not explicitly mentioned some sort of parasite contributing to my symptoms, though. I should find out for once and for all whether I have some nasty parasite in my gut from the stool testing I’m completing with my naturopath. More on that here.

Other than that, this medical intuitive for eczema mostly suggested typical naturopathic sorts of things. She suggested eating more vegetables, fats, proteins, and fruit. She recommended dry brushing and cold showers to move the lymphatic system better. Note, I have noticed marginal improvements from cold showers – more on that here, as well as sweating each day. She suggested dandelion tea, castor oil hot packs (already tried – details here), and the skeletal alignment as mentioned.

In terms of mental health, aside from noting the “fight or flight” respose, she mentioned I need to express my feelings more and let people in (probably true). She mentioned I need to learn to let go and live with the flow (definitely true).

So, she didn’t really tell me anything I didn’t already know. If the copper IUD suggestion had worked, though, for example,  I would have been shouting her name from the rooftops. I hadn’t heard of that before meeting her.

Her pinpointing my mental health state was pretty interesting, but who knows, maybe the above resonates with nearly anyone?

Overall, this was an interesting experience but given it didn’t point to any sort of eczema “cure” for me, was it worth it? Probably not in my case.

Note: if you made it to this page directly, please take a look at the main page of this site, which outlines far more “standard” potential cures for eczema that I’ve tried at the top!