A number of natural remedies may help relieve your psoriasis symptoms. While they won’t replace psoriasis treatments prescribed by your physician, these topicals might help your skin feel less dry, ...

Cayenne (Capsicum annuum, Cap sicum frutescens). Cayenne, its chief component being capsaicin, is one of the herbal medicines with documented effectiveness in the English medical literature. One ...

Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease that leaves patches of dry, thick, scaly skin on the body. Medical experts believe it's caused by an overactive immune system telling skin cells to replicate faster ...

According to the Mayo Clinic, psoriasis is a common skin condition that speeds up the life cycle of skin cells. It causes cells to build up rapidly on the surface of the skin. The extra skin cells ...

The treatment of psoriasis—an autoimmune disease that creates red, scaly plaques on the skin—depends on multiple factors, but two big factors include the severity and the location of the symptoms, ...

This article was medically reviewed by Caroline Chang, MD, a board-certified dermatologist and member of the Prevention Medical Review Board, on August 17, 2019. For most people struggling with an ...

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If you have moderate to severe psoriasis and you haven’t been able to clear your skin as well as you’d like, it may be time to double up. Combination therapy -- using two different psoriasis ...