Dtergent...that is very interesting. I think it might be beneficial for other diseases, not just psoriasis. I'm looking into eastern medicine for my chronic pain which has not been helped in any ways with conventional medicine. When the body is out of balance a lot of things can go wrong. I see a link b/w me eating sucrose and feeling worse. A good, sucrose free diet has been very beneficial. To me it makes sense that psoriasis can be exacerbated by sucrose, I see that stuff as poison. Just to clarify, just cuz I'm anti sucrose does not I'm anti other carbs. Other carbs are needed by the body, like glucose and fructose. But sucrose for some reason seems to cause problems for us, the most visible example being dental problems. Nothing other than sucrose causes dental problems. That stuff rots ur teeth. If it can do that, I don't see a reason it can't do something else inside the body, causing problems. When I eat a lot of sucrose I get stomach aches, body pains and other negative symptoms. I can eat carbs, like fruits and vegetables, as long as I leave sucrose out of my diet.
I think it's a matter of eating NOT JUST the right food, but at the right amounts and the right way. For instance, many medical practices of other cultures advocate eating until you are not quite full yet, some giving prescribed volume of much less than we do. And also you must eat to ensure good digestion-- settled instead of on-the-go, chewing properly, with good posture, with a right mix of fluids to ensure the proper flow of your food. These guidelines are meant to increase enjoyment and quality of life, rather than be a fascist list of limitations.
If you have a garden, you understand the process. Too many "wet", nitrogen components in the compost, like dough (in our bodies, carbs, heavy food like meats without fiber), without the corresponding fiber (dried leaves, stems, wood chips), and your compost will get smelly. In fact, I've put out vats waste like cooked rice, and after a few days, they did smell like rank shit. Too much "dry" matter like all whole wheat crackers or salad greens with just vinegar or something, and you have a very slow decomposition process, but with minimal smell or anaerobic bad-smelling bacteria. The key, for an organism getting 3 doses of meals a day, is to get a good combination of food, liquids, and activity to help it along-- to digest what you had for breakfast, so that lunch goes down easy, and so forth.
Otherwise, you get an accumulation of waste in your body. Sugars are not in themselves bad, but become so not just because of the chemicals in processing, but because they do encourage unpredictable bacterial growth and fermentation. Anyone who produces fermented drinks knows this. White sugar, in particular, has no fiber "buffers" (unlike mascobado, which still has some fiber and other minerals)-- but if you must take it, mixed with hot milk can slow down the too-fast process of absorption.
Lemongrass does a good job of cleansing our bodies. It cleans the blood and gives to our excretory organs what they should process.
It really is all a matter of waste in-waste out.
