I used these books as reference to help me figure out if my eczema was due to too many toxins, or from eating too much sugar, or too much meat, or inflammation -- and it turned out that it was a combination, as I describe in the book The Skin Cure Diet: Heal Eczema from Inside Out.
The main thing to keep in mind as you read these otherwise helpful books, is that they were not written with eczema as the main focus of treatment.
The 2 key differences that I found while trying for a cure, were:
(a) eczema, like many skin disorders, can be much harder to cure than, say, a stomach disorder; skin is your body's largest organ.
(b) due to this, you have use a stricter diet: no grains, starches, or fruit for several weeks.
The closest to this ideal is probably the Paleolithic or "caveman" regime in the Paleo Diet. Also, there are great recipes in most of these books, but keep in mind to tailor them to the diet rules in The Skin Cure Diet: Heal Eczema from Inside Out.
For example, there's a great barley soup recipe in the Complete Candida Yeast Guidebook by Jeanne Martin, but barley is a gluten grain and a starch, so don't have it in the first month, at least, of The Skin Cure Diet. You can try it, when you're in the post-diet maintenance stage and see if you can tolerate gluten without an eczema relapse. Same with fruit, though if you've had life-long eczema, like me, you should really try to go a full year with no fruit.
Similarly, I love Ann Gittleman's approach in the Fat Flush books in saying that we need to give the liver a rest with a detoxification diet -- but if you have eczema, cut out the dairy, gluten and anything sweet or starchy in the diet initially. For example, go with her schedule for her Long Life Cocktail, but exclude the cranberries: go with lemon juice, stevia, and may a little fresh ginger instead.
Please let me know if you have any recommended books on eczema, candida, or related issues to add to this site. Thanks!
