Home Cleaning Products – Here’s How to Protect your Skin
Chemicals in home cleaning products can affect your health, especially your skin! Many chemicals in cleaners can make skin sting, itch, and cause a red...
If your use of topical steroids now has you on a roller coaster with your skin symptoms, if they no longer work like they used to but giving them up makes things worse, Amethyst can help. Our goal is to return your skin to normal so you don’t have to use topical steroids, and you can enjoy recovery that lasts.
Below are articles from our site that may help you understand more about TSW and how your own personal healing can begin:
Nina’s Story: Healing TSW
Before Nina called Dr. Olivia Hsu Friedman, she’d been suffering from Topical Steroid Withdrawal (TSW) for five years. Her case was extreme and debilitating, with...
Tap Water: Can it Irritate Sensitive Skin?
If you keep changing your skin products and regimens, but still find your skin is itchy, flaky and dry, or your flare-ups persist, there may...
Podcast: How TCM Can Help TSW
Is Gan Cao (Licorice) Safe for Treating Topical Steroid Withdrawal?
TSW: When Should I Start Herbal Medicine?
Many Topical Steroid Withdrawal (TSW) patients wonder, “When should I try herbal medicine? Is it good for the beginning stages of TSW? When it’s flaring? ...
TSW: How Are Herbal Medicines Prepared?
In a previous article, How does TCM customize treatment for TSW? we delved into how we match herbal formulas ingredients to a person’s individual TSW presentation at...
Approaching TSW thru Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
Even though we think of TSW as a modern condition that’s been on the rise since the advent of steroids, the Chinese documented symptoms of...
Video: Traditional Chinese Medicine Meets Topical Steroid Withdrawal
Molly Evans, ITSAN board member, welcomes Dr. Olivia Hsu Friedman and Nina Adjin (patient) to talk about Topical Steroid Withdraw (TSW) and how Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) can be used to treat TSW.
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