My mom 56 years of age is having frequent abscess on her lower limbs. The surrounding skin is also dark. Why is this so? What is the remedy? She is a high blood pressure patient as well as have osteo arthritis. Recently she had an abscess which lead to heavy bleeding through the arteries.

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