In our experience as Homeopaths we have found individuals suffering from Psoriasis have in past suffered from

• Mental stress, Tension, Suppression of Desires, or frank grief. The grief or stress need not necessarily be present when the first lesion on skin is seen. The patches are usually observed after the grief and stress is over, and this surprises the patient and hence the patient does not relate this disease to grief directly or indirectly.
• Frequent respiratory complaints like asthma, bronchitis or rhinitis or stomach problems of acidity, gas, dysentery, which have been treated improperly and got suppressed and no longer exist now. They call themselves "cured" of those problems after treatment with conventional line of treatment but one does not realize that the disease has got transferred from this minor ailment to major one like Psoriasis.
• Have a strong family history of Psoriasis.
• In children there need not be history of mental agony or stress nor any rection to drugs. It could be due to suppression of respiratory, gastric or skin disease.

Contributed by Dr. R. S. Sonawane