After struggling for about five years, I finally saw a ray of light at the end of the tunnel. It was in April 2002, I attended the Healthy Lifestyle Retreat at Titi Eco Farm. I learned about that retreat from the NTUC Lifestyle magazine. I was interested in that retreat and started to surf the related website, Aromatic Science. I later went personally to Aromatic Science in Chinatown Point, in order to see who Sebastian Liew was. After talking to Sebastian, I decided to join the retreat organised by him.

I suffered from skin problem since 1995. The problem became severe in 1997 after I changed my work place to Jurong. My family doctor thought it could be caused by the "hard water" after I had traveled to other countries. Later the doctor advised me not to take nuts and chocolates. There was one type of medicine subscribed to me helped much, but it made me very drowsy. I needed to visit the doctor almost every three months.

It could be the side effect of that medicine and the pressure of the work, I was not feeling well one of the day in December 2000. I was giddy after lunch that day, and was not recovered after three hours. My colleagues sent me to hospital. I was discharged the second day noon. I did not get a satisfied answer on what I was suffered from. I decided to consult my family doctor. I still felt giddy very often after discharging from hospital and I did not feel like driving to the clinic of my doctor. Therefore I visit the doctor near where I stay.

As the new doctor subscribed the medicine for me and helped me to overcome the giddiness, I changed my family doctor from January 2001. Later I started to refer my skin problem to this doctor. He subscribed medicines for me. Those medicines helped to release the itches and rashes, but the problem repeated about forty-five days later. The doctor and myself finally decided to go through a blood test. Before getting the result, I went for the retreat.

At the retreat, we learned about healthy lifestyle, stayed in the natural environment, took vegetables meals, etc. I felt good during the three days?stay at the Eco Farm. I decided to give myself a chance to heal the skin problem by becoming a vegetarian.

When the blood test result was ready, I went to see the doctor. The result made us very upset as I was not allergy to nine types of food, house dust and house dust mite. My doctor told me that I was very troublesome as he had never seen such a case. I told him my experience about the retreat. He then told me that to go ahead to be a vegetarian.

I took raw vegetables such as carrots, cucumber, green pepper, lotus root, cabbage, celery, parsley, maize, avocado, etc. with brown rice. My skin problem became better, but there were still rashes and itches. I started to visit Sebastian for body massage in May 2002. I later told him about my skin problem. He asked me about my lifestyle. He advised me to boil the vegetables instead of taking them raw. He also blended natural herbs for me to carry out the detoxication. I started my detoxication programme from August till November 2002. During those three months, I still suffered from rashes and itches. But I believed that I should complete the whole course. Therefore I did not take the two-hour-sure-"healed" medicine from my family doctor. I had the confidence in the detoxication program and tried very hard to bear with the itches. Two months after taking the herbs, I noticed that the rashes and itches "moving" from top to the bottom. They appeared under the arms, near the chest, then they moved to the abdomen, thigh, finally to the legs and healed.

Middle left - upper arm

Middle right - flank

Right - thigh