No, all they can do is mask it.
Herbs though!!
Berberine
hydrastine
artemisia annua
golden seal
sweet leaf (monarda)
paul d arco
teasel root
All these were presribed at one time to me by naturopath. I bought them in a alcohol base tincture. Came in 3 bottles, diff. mixtures. Plus the probiotics. Plus I eat a good diet, raw veggies, fruit, nothing packaged, no sugar, but honey. Warning, learned later after being here that, you should never give toddlers honey in ternally!!
All drugs, ALL of them, acidify your gut. All herbs, alkalize. This is what you want. Table spoon of lemon juice 2 times a day helpful in this. Also, eating a capsule size of aloe vera 2 times a day. Don't want to taste that one though!!

yea ive been using herbs, ive made nettle cream and its peeled my eczema offff:S kinda working though

Yea, but you have to keep making it though right. I mean yea, that's good, something besides creams that are bad. I'm sorry, but I don't believe anything topically is gonna heal eczema.

cool im glad youve found a way to heal your eczema i think everyones different and has different ways to handle it but i think the main contributer to the problem is stress, so abolish stress then abolish eczema!!-ive found the homemade creams have actually worked its starting to heal now

Yep, but are you sure you want to say that it is the main contributer?

yea:P im doing a test at the moment i have it on my face and legs im putting the herbal cream on the face and not on the legs(just putting doctors creams on legs and my face is getting beter my legs are reeeeeeeeeeaaaaalllllllllyyy bad what works for you then???

If you like herbal products try a brand called Lavish. It's the best I've ever used and it's totally natural. They have an entire line dedicated just for eczema. Take a look online, I'll attach the link. www.lavishproducts.com (go under the RX category)
Good luck!!!

Hey xo, those herbs I listed above will take any bio baddie out, if properly used. Of course with months, if not yrs. of probiotic use.
Yes I will agree on the stress, if we resay it to be physical stress of how we live. Eating crap that we know just isn't right. Sugars, antibiotics, msgs, and some of the others I can't pronounce. Also chlorinated water, sythetic vitamins, anti bacterials, anti biotics, steroids, food that has never been fed. minerals to have any, nuking ourselves constantly, and literally.
Then put us in a hostile universe that starts attacking us at birth. Stress!!

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right every1 listen up

ive had eczema bad especially on my face then i made a remedy and it cured it, dont believe me? then check my profile pics i took it yesterday and today. make nettle cream, boil nettles put with plain cream and glycerol boil together then let it set in the fridge it peels the eczema away

ALL drugs have side-effects, including herbal drugs (it's worth noting that most modern medicine is derived from traditional herbal medicine).

Scratch -- none of those herbal supplements do anything for eczema (in fact they could be damaging you) and the rest of your advice is nonsense. I have been around the herbal route and it just leads to more misery. Modern dermatology has the best current methods for dealing with eczema -- a fact I learned through bitter experience.

Been reading through the posts and Scratch said he has cured his eczema. Saw where another guy said Scratch had helped him cure his.
I am new here and have suffered so bad that I felt I should come and tell my story. Guess what it is. Left the derms to there deadly cycle. Went to a naturopath. Eczema is clearing up, rather rapidly I must say. No topicals in 2 weeks now.
I like most of what the dude said.

Well, the best of luck to you and I would genuinely love to be proven wrong! :-) Believe me - I don't like doctors either, but they are right about some things.
Personally I have been at my worst during various herbal, homeopathic and naturopathic treatments, whereas by following the derm's advice I have been reliably at my best for the longest time in my life (nearly a year now). I don't need to use steroid creams now that I have it under control (haven't used them in six months). I don't have to eat a strange diet (although, I do eat healthily) and I don't have to take any supplements or herbal drugs.

Truth is for me...I try to avoid Cortison as much as I can as my mum has had chronic excema since she was a baby (she's turning 81 now). She has the thinnest skin as a result. The tinyest bump gives her a HUGE blood bruise. She also has osteoperosis (linked to cortisone).
HOWEVER...having said that, I use a great creme called XMA therapy (see the recommendations area) to keep my eczema at bay but if I have a breakout that I simply can't clear up without cortisone, as a last resort I use Diprisone OV. That will usually clear things up, but as I said, it's a last resort.

Most people of 81 have thin skin just due to normal aging, and osteoperosis is very common in old women.
That said, I too avoid using cortisone creams just because they don't really work in the long term as the skin learns to ignore them. It's a bit like shouting - it works in the short term, but in the long run people just ignore it. Also, because there's no feedback loop involved, it's very easy to use too much and cause skin infections as a result. When they do work they work very well, but since they can't be used long term they're only useful for emergencies.
Therefore, every-day eczema treatment can only realistically consist of healthy eating and a positive attitude, salt-water baths and moisturizing. That won't cure it, but it will minimize it until a genuine (i.e. genetic-level) cure is found (in centuries to come...)