Discover why psoriasis and eczema aren’t skin problems, they’re gut and liver issues. Learn how 19 wildcrafted plants heal from within by addressing the real root cause.
If you’ve been treating your psoriasis or eczema with creams, lotions, and topical treatments and still seeing flare-ups, you’re not addressing where the problem actually lives. Your skin isn’t the issue, it’s the messenger. What you’re seeing on your skin is your body desperately trying to eliminate toxicity that your gut and liver can no longer handle.
Let me show you what’s really happening inside your body, and how these 17 wildcrafted plants address the root cause.
The Gut-Liver-Skin Axis: Your Body’s Elimination Highway
Your body has several pathways for eliminating waste and toxicity: your colon, your kidneys, your lungs, and your skin. These systems work in a hierarchy. When your primary elimination routes get overwhelmed or backed up, your body routes toxicity through whatever pathway is still open.
Here’s what that looks like:
Your gut is where you process everything you eat, absorb nutrients, and eliminate waste. When your gut lining becomes inflamed or damaged, what we call “leaky gut,” partially digested food particles and toxins slip through the intestinal wall directly into your bloodstream. Your immune system sees these particles as invaders and launches an inflammatory response.
Your liver is your body’s main detoxification organ. It filters your blood, processes toxins, and packages waste for elimination. But when your gut is leaking toxins into your bloodstream faster than your liver can process them, your liver becomes overwhelmed. It’s like a water treatment plant trying to clean a flood, it just can’t keep up.
Your skin becomes the emergency exit. When your gut and liver can’t handle the toxic load, your body routes that toxicity outward through your largest organ: your skin. The inflammation, the itching, the patches, the weeping, that’s not a skin disease. That’s your body trying to survive by pushing toxins out through any route available.
This is why topical treatments don’t work long-term. You’re trying to block the emergency exit while the building is still on fire.
Why the Liver Matters More Than You Think
Your liver performs over 500 functions in your body, but let’s focus on the ones that matter for your skin:
Detoxification: Your liver processes everything: medications, environmental toxins, chemicals in food, and metabolic waste from your own cells. It breaks down these substances into forms your body can eliminate through bile (which goes to your gut) or through your kidneys.
Bile production: Bile isn’t just for digesting fats. It’s one of your body’s main toxic waste removal systems. Your liver packages toxins into bile, sends them to your gallbladder, which releases them into your intestines for elimination. But if your gut isn’t healthy enough to move that bile out efficiently, those toxins get reabsorbed back into your bloodstream. It’s a toxic loop.
Blood filtration: Every three minutes, your entire blood supply passes through your liver for cleaning. When your liver is congested or sluggish, toxins that should be filtered out stay circulating in your blood, triggering inflammation everywhere they go – including your skin.
When your liver is overworked, your skin takes the hit.
The Lymphatic Connection
Your lymphatic system is like your body’s drainage network. It collects cellular waste, excess fluid, and toxins from your tissues and moves them toward elimination. Unlike your blood, which has your heart to pump it, your lymph only moves through muscle contraction and deep breathing.
When lymph gets stagnant, from lack of movement, dehydration, or toxic overload. That fluid backs up in your tissues. This creates inflammation and swelling. In your skin, this shows up as puffiness, inflammation, and the perfect environment for psoriasis and eczema to thrive.
Moving lymph is essential for moving inflammation out of your tissues.
The Plants That Address Root Causes
These aren’t 19 random plants thrown together. Each one has a specific job in restoring the gut-liver-skin axis. Here’s what they’re actually doing in your body:
Liver Detoxification and Bile Flow
Black Walnut – Stimulates bile production and helps the liver process and package toxins for elimination. Also has powerful antimicrobial properties that address gut infections that contribute to inflammation.
Dandelion – One of the most effective liver support plants on the planet. Increases bile flow dramatically, helping your liver dump stored toxins. Also supports kidney function as a backup elimination route.
Chaparral – Powerful antioxidant that protects liver cells from damage while supporting Phase 2 liver detoxification, the process where your liver makes toxins water-soluble so they can actually leave your body.
River Birch – Acts as a cleansing agent, supporting both liver and kidney elimination pathways.
Gut Healing and Intestinal Integrity
Chickweed – Soothes inflamed gut tissue and helps repair the intestinal lining. Anti-inflammatory properties calm the gut wall so it can heal instead of staying in reactive mode.
Violet – Demulcent herb that coats and protects inflamed gut tissue, giving it space to regenerate. Also supports lymphatic drainage from gut tissues.
Desert Lavender – Directly soothes gut inflammation and helps calm the inflammatory cascade that leads to leaky gut.
Red Clover – Alterative herb that helps restore normal tissue function. Supports gut lining repair while also acting as a blood purifier.
Plantain is repairing gut mucosa.
Lymphatic Movement and Drainage
Cleavers – The premiere lymphatic mover. Gets stagnant lymph flowing, which is essential for moving inflammation out of tissues. Particularly effective for skin conditions because it addresses the fluid backup that creates the perfect inflammatory environment.
Ocotillo – This plant moves stagnation unlike anything else I’ve encountered, especially in the gut and pelvis. When your elimination pathways are sluggish, Ocotillo gets things moving. It’s like opening the drain on a backed-up sink.
Red Clover – Works double duty as both lymphatic mover and blood purifier.
Blood Purification
Blue Phlox – Directly purifies blood, helping remove circulating toxins that would otherwise deposit in skin tissue.
Stinging Nettle – Incredibly nutrient-dense plant that both nourishes and cleanses blood. Provides minerals while supporting the kidneys in filtering blood efficiently.
Burdock– Classic blood purifier that helps eliminate toxins through urine rather than skin.
Anti-Inflammatory Support
Yarrow – Powerful anti-inflammatory that calms the inflammatory cascade throughout the body. Also supports liver function and moves lymph.
Rosemary – Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory. Protects tissues from oxidative damage while reducing inflammation.
Pineapple Weed – Calming to the nervous system and digestive tract, helping reduce stress-driven inflammation.
Immune and System Support
Pinon Pine Resin – Immune system builder and pineal gland cleanser. The pineal gland, often called your “third eye,” regulates your entire hormonal cascade. When it’s congested, your whole system gets sluggish. Pinon Pine clears this, allowing better system-wide function.
Mulberry – Supports blood sugar regulation and provides antioxidants that protect cells during the healing process.
How These Work Together
This isn’t about each plant doing one isolated thing. It’s about creating conditions in your body where healing can happen:
First, the gut-healing plants (Chickweed, Violet, Desert Lavender) calm inflammation and repair the intestinal lining so toxins stop leaking into your bloodstream.
Simultaneously, the liver-support plants (Black Walnut, Dandelion, Chaparral, River Birch) help your liver process the backlog of toxins and increase bile flow to move them out.
Then, the lymphatic movers (Cleavers, Ocotillo, Red Clover) get stagnant fluid and cellular waste flowing toward elimination instead of backing up in your tissues.
Meanwhile, the blood purifiers (Blue Phlox, Stinging Nettle) are cleaning toxins directly from your bloodstream.
And throughout, the anti-inflammatory plants (Yarrow, Rosemary, Pineapple Weed) are calming the inflammatory cascade that creates the itching, redness, and patches.
Finally, Pinon Pine is supporting your entire endocrine system through pineal gland clearing, ensuring all your hormonal signals are functioning optimally.
Your body is extraordinarily intelligent. When you give it the support it needs to eliminate toxins through proper channels, gut, liver, kidneys, it stops needing to push them out through your skin.
We’re Designed to Work With Plants
Animals know this instinctively. When a dog has digestive upset, it seeks out specific grasses. When a bear emerges from hibernation, it eats particular bitter plants to stimulate its sluggish liver. We’re animals too: sacred, embodied, and human animals, and we evolved alongside these plants for millions of years.
Your body recognizes these plant compounds. Your liver has receptor sites specifically designed to work with plant alkaloids and flavonoids. Your gut microbiome evolved processing plant fibers and phytochemicals. This isn’t just alternative medicine, this is how human bodies are designed to function.
The disconnect from plant medicine is new. For the vast majority of human history, we knew which plants addressed which imbalances. We’re just remembering what we always knew.
Using This Formula– Psoriasis And Eczema Relief
This formula works from the inside out. You’re not suppressing symptoms, but addressing the root cause of why your body is eliminating toxicity through your skin in the first place.
Take 3-7 drops under the tongue, hold for 20 seconds, up to 3 times daily for 5 days, then take 2 days off. This cycling prevents your body from becoming dependent on the herbs and allows it to start doing the work on its own again.
This works best in combination with the Psoriasis & Eczema Relief Topical. The internal formula addresses root causes; the topical provides immediate relief and supports skin healing from the outside. You’re working from both directions – inside out and outside in.
Healing takes time. Your gut lining needs weeks to repair. Your liver needs time to process years of accumulated toxicity. Your lymph needs consistent support to clear stagnation. But as these systems come back online, your skin will reflect it.
The patches will calm. The inflammation will reduce. The itching will ease. Not because you suppressed symptoms, but because your body no longer needs to use your skin as an emergency elimination route.
Research
Gut-Skin Axis General:
- Gut–Skin Axis: Current Knowledge – PMC Study
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7916842/
Comprehensive review of how gut and skin dysbiosis are connected through immune imbalance and bidirectional communication - Impact of gut microbiome on skin health – PMC/Taylor & Francis
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9311318/
Systematic review of gut microbiome effects on psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, acne, rosacea, and other skin conditions - Unraveling the Gut–Skin Axis – MDPI Pharmaceuticals (2025)
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9284/12/4/167
Recent research on microbial metabolites and immunological processes in gut-skin interaction - National Eczema Society – Diet and Eczema
https://eczema.org/information-and-advice/living-with-eczema/diet-and-eczema/
UK-based evidence on gut microbiome and eczema connection
Dandelion Liver Research:
- Protective Effects of Taraxacum officinale (Dandelion) Root – PMC
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8063808/
Study showing dandelion root extract reduces liver injury markers and supports bile flow - Hepatoprotection by dandelion – Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
https://journals.lww.com/aptb/fulltext/2020/10010/hepatoprotection_by_dandelion__taraxacum.1.aspx
Review confirming dandelion stimulates bile flow, eliminates toxins, and supports liver regeneration - The Role of Dandelion in Liver Health – MDPI Pharmaceuticals (2025)
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/18/7/990
Confirms European regulatory approval for dandelion as liver and biliary function restorer
Focus Keywords:
- psoriasis root cause
- eczema gut connection
- liver skin health
- gut-skin axis
- natural psoriasis treatment
- eczema from inside out
- leaky gut skin conditions