My skin was kept moist barely from April to October and got dry and scaly from November to March.
In the dry days, numerous tiny white scales fell down when I took off my clothes.
As my AD restored, they became rather smaller and less, but still I was ashamed of them.
The scattered scales could catch people's eyes especially on a dark-colored floor.
It might look fairly dirty, as if I was an unclean person. That made me so sad.
I could pretend there was no problem in my health, because exposed areas like my face, neck and back of hands were almost intact.

However, in fact, I was discouraged.
It reached the bottom in the first half of February, which was the coldest season in Japan.
After I took a bath, I felt very unsteady.
My skin couldn't restore its structure again soon.
I felt as if my skin would crackle all over and my body might collapse.
I could not move until the washed skin barrier would have been regenerated.
I had to take a long rest after bathing and finally, I got out of bed very slowly.

AD symptoms would go up and down like a tide.
Maybe, the tide would be smaller and smaller as a natural recovery process proceed.
Skin is the largest organ in a human body.
It cover all over the body to protect it, measuring 1.6 square meters in size.
We can not change it.
This is my skin. This is my body.
Even if there are merits and demerits, all belongs to me.
I love my life to live with the own skin.

Recently, I can wake up in the morning, in spite of being a night person.
Though I have long been hypotension since childhood, my blood pressure is normal now.
Is it a senile hypertension?
As people get old, their blood pressure often raise to fulfill the required blood circulation despite of arteriosclerosis.
Now I can wake and get up easily every morning, even in winter.
This is the first time in my life. I felt good just like I was reborn.
I think bodies ought to change toward a destination where it should be.
I have to be careful not to alter the destination to a wrong one, i.e., hypertension.

After the long winter, there came another spring.
Very sleepy spring, as Sei Shonagon said.
In winter, our nerves tense and contract blood vessels not to lose inner heat.
Then in spring warmness, nerves and vessels get relaxed.
The brain can easily go into a rest...into another sleep.
We sleep much in spiring, to catch up with the lack of peaceful sleep in winter, as well as to get ready for the upcoming active seasons.

Sleepy spring is also a season of pollen allergy.
In Japan, since there are many cedar trees on mountainsides planted for future wood resources, many Japanese people are annoyed by irritated mucus of nose and eyes due to pollens of cedar (heavy from February to April) and Japanese cypress (mainly in May).
Though I have cedar IgE antibodies in my blood, somehow I still have no symptoms of any rhinitis and conjunctivitis, nor any pollen dermatitis on my face.
I have been suffering from AD only.

This spring, one of my patient of allergic rhinitis reported totally no symptoms.
Knowing that NAET did well to her, I was happy.
I'd like to make another continuous effort to enhance my skill as an NAET practitioner for many patients' better health.

To help me, too, I finally decided to cut down on sugar from my diet.
Refined sugar, refined grains, fats and oils except omega 3 type, food additives and pesticides... they are all said to affect badly to AD.
But I love chocolate and ice cream. Japanese been paste sweets are also my favorite.
Sugar waste vitamin B for its disposal. Vitamin Bs are vital for skin health.
Sugar promote skin inflammation and itching.
And of course, too much calorie intake drive people into weight gain including me, leading to metabolic diseases.
I did know it well, but I couldn't practice it.
I wonder why is it so difficult to resist the sweet temptation of sugar for us.
Now improved health gave me a power to launch a new trial.

Originally I can't eat very much.
A traditional healthy set of Japanese meal consists of rice, miso soup, grilled fish, boiled vegetables with soy sauce and pickles. But I it is too much for me.
I tried to balance everyday meals within small volumes and cut snacks as little as I can.
Then, how will my weight go on?

My theme is always living a happy life with our own constitutions.
It is a difficult issue for us of weak constitutions.
By manual treatments in my clinic, as well as through modern medicines in hospitals,
my wish is to work, facing always to any human allergy day after day.
Sometimes I lose, or all the efforts come to nothing, but I will go ahead tirelessly.
I know many physicians did the same.