Psoriasis, Ketu, and Emotional Numbness: A Vedic Perspective on Skin Shedding
“When your skin begins to peel, thicken, or flake — it isn’t always a matter of dryness. Sometimes, it’s the body remembering what you forgot to feel. What you left unprocessed. What karma is asking to be shed.”
When Psoriasis Isn’t Just Physical
Psoriasis is often described medically as a chronic autoimmune skin disorder. It results in scaly plaques, itchiness, and overproduction of skin cells.
But for many women, it also carries a deeper pattern:
- Emotional flatness
- Energetic fatigue
- Moments of emotional detachment followed by flare-ups
This is where Vedic wisdom brings another layer: the influence of Ketu, the headless shadow planet.
Ketu and the Skin’s Unspoken Cry
In Jyotish, Ketu governs:
- The skin (especially flaking, scaling, and dryness)
- Karma, especially the part we are trying to detach from
- Spiritual numbness, grief without tears, and past-life remnants
- Areas of our lives that feel emotionally abandoned or unprocessed
When Ketu is prominent in a chart (or active by Dasha or transit), the skin may begin to act out what the psyche no longer has words for.
Psoriasis may not be a breakdown. It may be a karmic shedding.
Spiritual Signs of Ketu-Related Psoriasis
Psoriasis with a Ketu signature often shows these traits:
- Flare-ups during emotionally stagnant phases
- Symptoms worsen during silence or isolation
- Patches on arms, scalp, back, or knees — places where we “carry” unspoken burdens
- A sense that the skin feels foreign or “not mine”
Unlike eczema, which can feel inflamed and responsive, Ketu-based psoriasis is dry, old, almost disconnected — mirroring the emotional states it emerges from.
Natural Healing for Psoriasis (Vedic + Herbal)
While steroid creams and immunosuppressants help with the external symptoms, they often leave women feeling frustrated, dependent, or misunderstood.
The Vedic path offers gentle, plant-based, karmically aligned support:
Internal & External Herbal Support:
- Manjistha + Guduchi – purify blood and release deep-seated inflammation
- Neem leaf infusions – taken 2x a week or added to bath
- Aloe + coconut oil balm – for softening scaling patches
- Bakuchi oil (externally) – traditional Ayurvedic remedy for stubborn plaques
- Tulsi tea + Brahmi at night – for nervous system clarity
Still, herbs work best when used in a ritual container — especially when healing must happen at the energetic level.
Core Ritual: Sarvangaushadhi for Ketu-Related Psoriasis
Psoriasis often marks what we’re ready to leave behind but haven’t yet named. For that, Ketu must be honored, cooled, and released through sacred water and herbal vibration.
How to Use:
- Add 1 pinch of Ketu Sarvangaushadhi to your bath each day
- Sit quietly, letting the herbal energy soften the field
- Bathe slowly, allowing grief to surface — even if unformed
- Continue for 21 days, or through one moon cycle
This is more than a treatment. This is a planetary purification ritual.
Lifestyle Practices That Support Skin Shedding
Psoriasis and Ketu both demand stillness, simplicity, and softness.
Try these supportive practices:
- Avoid aggressive exfoliation – the skin is already over-expressing
- Wrap yourself in warmth after bathing – calm Vata, seal in ritual
- Wear soft, breathable cotton – reduce heat and irritation
- Journal when flares arise – what was left unsaid or unfelt?
- Read one verse of the Bhagavad Gita before sleep – especially chapters on detachment
This is about learning to feel what the skin is holding — not just curing it.
A Reflection for the Seeker
You may feel tired of explaining it.
You may feel ashamed of how it looks.
You may even feel… nothing at all.
That’s Ketu. That’s what he brings. And also what he dissolves.
Let your skin flake. Let your old identity fall.
You are not broken. You are in release.
Let ritual become the rhythm through which your soul returns to balance.
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