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Australian-Greek woman specialising in Chinese Medicine

Dr Irene Prantalos

Source: by Dr Irene Prantalos

Dr Irene Prantalos was suffered psoriasis when she was young. But her gradually got better by taking Chinese medicine. Now she has become a specialist of Chinese medicine and would like to help more people who suffer from skin problems.


The first time that Irene tried Chinese Medicine was 15 years old and she refused to take the herbs that stank. But she tried it again at 19 years old, and and the results were fantastic. Within 2 months her skin was NORMAL.  So she decided to study it and applied at RMIT in Melbourne. 

When she graduated, she opened her own practice, which she still runs in Surrey Hills, Victoria.

Irene states: “The biggest realisation was that there are other people just like me suffering.

From this need came my motivation to make a product to help the skin from the outside in, to make a product that taught sufferers their diet and lifestyle impacts their health and a product that shares my experience in books people can read and follow what I did to help them manage their psoriasis.”


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