[Former dietary measures in dermatology--a historical review]

A historical view will be given on forms of diet formerly used in dermatoses (especially psoriasis, tuberculosis, atopic dermatitis, acne, rosacea and seborrhoeal eczema). The use of raw food, milk, and fruit, abstinence diets and juice cures in dermatological therapy still remain just as questionable as the effects of acidified or alkalised forms of food. Their abundance and diversity leads to the assumption that it is clearly not so much the composition of food, but more in the change of food and the extensive natural state of the basic foodstuffs used, which play an essential role in the influence on the progress of dermatoses.