Spot remover
Q: I have several dry, rough patches on the back of one of my hands that look almost like they have brownish scales on them. It’s not itchy and it doesn’t seem like psoriasis, but I was wondering if you had any information on what it could be?
Dr. Wright: You should definitely have a dermatologist check them out to be sure, but the spots you’re describing sound like a condition called actinic keratosis.
Studies have shown that an extract from eggplant called BEC5 can cure — that’s cure, not just improve — cases of actinic keratosis (and the majority of skin cancers too), usually in two to three months.
To read more about BEC5, refer back to the December 2005 issue of Nutrition & Healing. Subscribers can download it for free by visiting www.wrightnewsletter.com and logging on to the archives with the username and password listed on page 8 of your most recent issue.
