Gillian McKeith's Food Bible (320 page)

Take two teaspoons of apple cider vinegar before main meals to aid digestion.

AVOID

Dairy products. They simply make the condition worse.

Pastries, pies, cakes, sugary cookies, margarine, shortening, fried foods, and foods containing the dangerous form of fat, trans-fatty acids.

Vitamin B
₃
, niacin, on its own, as this may cause you to flush. Instead, take as part of a B complex.

HERBS AND SUPPLEMENTS

Take the herbal extract milk thistle. This helps liver function.

Drink nettle tea at room temperature, which is a good source of the Bs.

Herbal tinctures of red clover and astragalus can help. Make sure they are alcohol-free, though.

The herb burdock root has traditionally been used for this condition. It works on the liver, which is often sluggish.

Agnus castus may help to regulate any underlying hormonal imbalance exacerbating the problem.

Go on a 24-hour detox and take the herb cleavers to help to get the lymph moving in order to carry the toxins more efficiently out of the body. Follow this with a couple of days of just broths, raw foods, and veggie juices.

In every case of rosacea that I have ever seen, the person has always tested deficient in the B vitamins, in particular riboflavin, vitamin B
₂
, which is essential for carbohydrate metabolism, vitality, energy, and the clarity of the skin. So take vitamin B complex.

Low levels of stomach acid are one of the main causes of rosacea. Take betaine with HCL before meals and a digestive enzyme supplement such as pancreatin with or at the end of meals.