Introduction to Immune System & Chronic Conditions
Have you ever noticed that your eczema flares up around the same time as your stomach is acting out and your asthma feels worse on those days? If you’ve seen this happen before, you may have classified it an unusual coincidence, but it’s not.
At CCube Homeopathy, Dr. Rashmi Chandwani often explains that this is all about the same immune system that’s struggling and it’s telling you it’s working by showing it through the organ that is affected the worst at that point in time.
The skin, gut, and lungs communicate continually. They all use the same biological space, have the same immune pathways, and utilize the same microbial connections. If this shared biological system is out of balance, it will not only continue to degrade, it will constantly move and manifest in other locations on its journey to total systemic collapse.
This article will explain how chronic skin issues, gut distress, and respiratory issues are essentially the same problem: three different lenses viewing the same fire. This article will also explain why treating the entire person in states of chronic illness through homeopathy will eliminate the fire at its source.
One Immune System, Three Surfaces
How many times does your doctor only give you the surface view of your immune system? There is more than just what is happening at the site of some injury — in fact, your entire body works together as an immune system. As a physician, it is imperative to understand this.
Many physicians fail to clarify that your immune system is not exclusively contained within your blood or lymph nodes. The majority of your immune system actually functions over three large areas — the outer layer of your skin; the lining of your intestines; and the mucosa of your respiratory tract. This area is often referred to by scientists as the “mucosal and epithelial immune systems of the body.” It is the largest peripheral immune system inside humans.
If these three areas of the body are working together, then there is little inflammation occurring. However, if inflammatory levels begin to rise dramatically as the result of several years of stress and/or toxic exposure, then your entire immune system will begin to misfire. Since the immune system is an interconnected system, once it begins to misfire, it will begin to misfire throughout your entire body.
At CCube Homeopathy, Dr. Rashmi Chandwani often sees this interconnected immune imbalance reflected in chronic skin, gut and respiratory cases.
Your Skin Tells You About Your Gut Health
Conventional dermatology continues to disappoint those seeking a cure for their apparent “skin problems,” because there is almost never only a skin issue associated with the way your skin looks. At CCube Homeopathy, Dr. Rashmi Chandwani explains that the skin often mirrors deeper internal immune disturbances.
Our immune system regulates chronic conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, and acne. This regulation generally begins in the gut.
Eczema is often described as dry skin or an allergic reaction. The atopic dermatitis that we see with eczema develops due to a Th2-skewed immune response in which the helper cells in our immune system react to triggers inappropriately. This inappropriate response is strongly linked to gut dysbiosis. Hence, when our gut flora is not in balance, it weakens the skin barrier function and also decreases the local skin immune function.
Psoriasis is similar, but from a different perspective. Research has consistently shown that psoriasis involves changes to the gut microbiota. The autoimmune attack on the skin involves overactive T cells and does not start at the skin; it starts from a chronically dysregulated immune system in which the gut plays an important role.
Several studies link rosacea to gut conditions, such as small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). Homeopathy believes that any skin rash or eruption is the body’s attempt to expel something out of balance internally. If you suppress these eruptions with steroid creams and do not treat the source of these eruptions (the immune system and microbiome), the condition will be suppressed (not gone) and will return internally either in the gut or in the lungs. For over 100 years, homeopathy has described this as “suppression,” and modern immunology is slowly catching up to that realization.
At CCube Homeopathy, Dr. Rashmi Chandwani often addresses these chronic eruptions constitutionally rather than suppressively.
The Gut Is the Centre of Your Immune System
If there is one thing that you take away from learning about gut health — it is this: The digestive tract is not just for digesting food. 70% to 80% of our immune system is located in our gut. Your gut lining has gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT), which releases secretory IgA antibodies that line mucosal surfaces all over your body (the lungs, skin) and help to keep them protected. Your gut microbiome is made up of trillions of bacteria, fungi and viruses that have been training and calibrating your immune system since birth. When your microbiome is damaged, the effects are felt outside of your stomach — something frequently observed in patients treated at CCube Homeopathy by Dr. Rashmi Chandwani.
The gut’s ability to function like a barrier is a good example. A broken gut barrier caused by leaky gut results in bacterial toxins entering your bloodstream, which creates a systemic immune response in the body. This immune response can lead to skin inflammation, joint pain, or respiratory allergies, due to it having a systemic immune response that occurs throughout your entire body instead of locally. Leaky gut also serves as an example of how IBS, IBD, and non- tolerance to gluten all exhibit the result of an immune and gastrointestinal breakdown; only at different degrees of severity.
Asthma and Rhinitis Are Also “Silent” Problems of the Gut
The entire respiratory tract, which includes your nose, airways, and the very deepest part of your lung, is a large mucosal surface and is constantly being monitored by your immune system for the presence of foreign substances. Your respiratory tract also has a microbiome, and your respiratory tract is wired into the same overall network with your digestive tract.
Recent research in the field of immunology has established that asthma is a Th2-dominant immune imbalance, which is the same type of immune imbalance that occurs with eczema. Studies have shown that improving the balance of the gut microbiome has decreased both the severity and frequency of asthma attacks. The same effect can be seen with allergic rhinitis (hay fever), COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), and recurrent upper respiratory infections. This gut-lung relationship is something Dr. Rashmi Chandwani often addresses in chronic respiratory care at CCube Homeopathy, especially in patients presenting with asthma alongside digestive disturbances.
The Gut-Skin-Lung Axis: Why You Often Have More Than One Condition
Recent research in immunology has established a term for this network: the gut-skin-lung axis. It refers to the bidirectional communication between different organ systems through common metabolic pathways, as well as through shared immune pathways, microbial metabolites, vagus nerve stimulation, and mucosal associated lymphoid tissue (MALT).
Research published in the journal Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy in 2025 showed that MALT is responsible for linking the immune systems of the lungs, gastrointestinal system, and skin via the production of IgA antibodies at mucosal surfaces. Therefore, if there is an imbalance in any part of this system, it will affect all three systems.
This is a pattern long observed in homeopathy and repeatedly encountered at CCube Homeopathy by Dr. Rashmi Chandwani. For example, a child prescribed steroids for eczema frequently develops asthma within a few years. Similarly, individuals diagnosed with allergic rhinitis usually have some underlying form of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) almost always report having long-standing gastrointestinal issues. These conditions do not simply occur in isolation, but rather are the result of one shared immune system imbalance acting upon the entire body and finding multiple ways to express itself in each affected individual.
What Is Dysbiosis? Why is It Such a Widespread Problem?
Dysbiosis – an alteration in the microbiome, leading to a reduction in diversity or function – is one of the predominant contributors to the chronic disease epidemic we are experiencing today. The factors causing dysbiosis are easily identifiable:
- Overusing antibiotics strips the gut of diversity, whilst also weakening the mucosal immune system and even after one course, the gut microbiome has been impacted for months after the antibiotics have stopped.
- Chronic stress causes an increase in cortisol, which impairs the function of immune cells and causes disruption to the gut-brain axis.
- Dietary changes result in ultra-processed foods starving beneficial bacteria, and supporting the growth of pathogenic species. Even short term dietary changes can change the composition of gut microbiome within days.
- Environmental toxins change the structure of microbial communities, and can initiate low-grade chronic inflammation.
At CCube Homeopathy, Dr. Rashmi Chandwani often connects these triggers with chronic eczema, IBS, allergies and asthma patterns.
When dysbiosis exists, the immune system can no longer rely on its tolerogenic response to its own gut microbiome, the inflammatory pathways of the immune system continue to remain activated, and the imbalance between the pro-inflammatory and regulatory responses continues to occur.
This results in the immune system not being able to modulate itself, and a chronically inflamed and hyperreactive immune system emerges, which is the ecosystem in which eczema, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), asthma develop and the co-occurrence of all of these disorders are expressed in some patients.
Homeopathy & Its Alternative Methodology
Homeopathic medicine looks at the body as a whole and tries to find the root cause of the illness. This is different than Western medicine, which will give you steroids for your skin, inhalers for your breathing, and acid reducers for your stomach while completely ignoring your immune system that is affecting the disease process in all three areas.
At CCube Homeopathy, Dr. Rashmi Chandwani asks why the patient is experiencing this immune imbalance in the first place.
Homeopathy works on correcting the immune system imbalance, not just your symptoms, without any suppression of the immune response, without systemic side effects, and treats the entire patient as a whole rather than treating each body part in isolation from the others.
Remedies are chosen for each patient based on all aspects of that person’s health, including what other diseases the patient may have, their family history, their triggers for their diseases, and what helps or hurts their immune system – an approach central to CCube Homeopathy and Dr. Rashmi Chandwani’s treatment philosophy. For example, two patients may come into the office with the same skin disease; they will receive completely different remedies because of the difference in their immune systems and constitutional makeup, even though they have the same skin disease.
Common Remedies for Immune System Disorders
- Arsenicum album — good for patients with anxious, nervous constitutions who have a lot of respiratory infections, food sensitivities, burning skin rashes, and irritable bowel syndrome, and whose symptoms get worse after midnight.
- Sulphur — good for patients with a lot of heat and/or red skin; hot, dry rashes; itching; and/or inflammation make their skin burn or be raw. Also indicated for patients with hot and/or a lot of heat who have vomited or have diarrhea from spicy or too much food, will vomit or have diarrhea from too much spicy or food, or have headaches that occur with the increase in temperatures.
- Calcarea Carbonica— Prone to infections, low energy, and occassional skin problems or gut issues, people who are generally anxious about things weighing them down tend to feel this way. They often have a fair complexion and are generally cold.
- Natrum Muriaticum — Conditions of very dry or cracked skin often means the other symptoms, such as allergies to the respiratory tract or symptoms of the digestive system are also more likely to occur. Many of these people have underlying issues in their gut that are emotionally based such as feelings of grief or those feeling suppressed.
- Lycopodium — Conditions such as IBS, flatulence, skin problems, and frequent respiratory illness in someone who presents themselves as having a calm demeanor, but is an anxious person full of apprehensions and has low self-confidence.
- Silicea — Slow to heal, have many infections, chronic skin or respiratory infections. They help to build up your body’s defenses at a deep level to enable your body to have long-term, genuine immunity.
These constitutional approaches are individualized at CCube Homeopathy by Dr. Rashmi Chandwani based on the patient, not just diagnosis.
What Activities Can Support the Gut-Skin-Lung Axis?
The benefits of homeopathic treatment depend a great deal on how you take care of your body in your daily activities. Below are a few ideas on how to improve your health from a homeopathic perspective:
Eat more fibre and increase your dietary (cultured) variety. All forms of bacteria (not just probiotics) can thrive on plants so give some extra attention to eating lots of different kinds of vegetables and fruit. Eat fermented foods in your diet (yogurt, kefir, kanji); put emphasis on sleeping for 7-9 hours on average; the body’s immune system generally works to repair itself primarily at night—if you don’t sleep enough over a long period of time, it will have a negative effect on your body’s immune response; and finally, managing stress in your life.
Active Stress Management (not passive): Yoga, pranayama, 20 minutes of walking outdoors daily; all have measurable anti-inflammatory effects & can be used proactively. Have your Vitamin D levels checked; Deficiency levels in urban India are increasing due to higher rates of eczema, asthma & Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Be deliberate in your use of antibiotics; every course that is given destroys/grows back your gut microbiome for months after the course has been completed. You should consider your probiotic supplement following the use of an antibiotic, as standard.
These supportive measures are routinely encouraged at CCube Homeopathy, where Dr. Rashmi Chandwani integrates lifestyle guidance with constitutional prescribing.
Cure The Root Not Just the Symptoms
There is no question anymore: chronic skin, gut and upper respiratory problems are not independent failures of different organs but rather a breakdown in the immune conversation of the whole body.
When you treat the eczema patch without looking at why your immune system is inflamed, you are trying to cut the tree while the roots are still diseased. One patch clears but another one develops. Or your asthma worsens. This is not bad luck, but rather the outcome of suppression as seen from within.
Homeopathy treats not the disease but the person with the disease.
At CCube Homeopathy, Dr. Rashmi Chandwani treats you as a complete individual, looking at your immune constitution, your gut history, your skin, your airways, emotions and family patterns. By prescribing carefully according to your constitution, CCube Homeopathy works toward restoring immune balance so the body can heal itself gently and sustainably.
If you are ready to stop managing symptoms without discovering the underlying cause — whether eczema, IBS, asthma, psoriasis or recurrent infections — Dr. Rashmi Chandwani and CCube Homeopathy can help.
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