Heal the immune system ??
The immune system is a threat detection and threatassessment system. It is more than just ’self versusnon-self’. For instance, anthrax is certainly not’self’ but is small and simple and is not viewed bythe immune system as a great threat.
Many vaccines are effective only because a large,complex molecule is attached and the immune systemhaving been “hit over the head” learns to treat thelarge molecule and the smaller one as ‘threats’.
What used to be ‘Immunology, Microbiology and GeneralPathology’ in medical school is now usually onehumongous course known as “host defense”.
If psoriasis is viewed solely as a dermatologycondition, little progress will be made. If if isviewed as a cutaneous manifestation of the underlying’host defense’ battle that is being waged, progress ismore likely.
Just as I was unable to get any testing for Pasturellamulticida when I had my intense gout pain, you willprobably be unable to get adequate testing for yourpsoriasis. I actually obtained petri dishes and mediapreparation kits including MacConkey’s Agar Agar and Idid my own testing for P. multocida. My apartment isnot suitable for media preparation or culturing. Iwould have preferred a medical laboratory. The testsare not cheap, it would have been less than twohundred dollars. The doctors would not order thetests. I had to do it myself.