Can body odor be treated with Chinese medicine?

Body odor is a relatively common disease. It has a great impact on patients, arouses disgust from people around them, and has a great psychological impact on patients. After suffering from body odor, it is necessary to strengthen treatment, such as using Chinese medicine for conditioning. The effect is quite good. It can be treated with Chinese medicine, such as making homemade talcum powder with Chinese medicine. For more serious cases, formal treatment methods should be chosen, and laser surgery is the most common one.

Can body odor be treated with Chinese medicine?

Traditional Chinese medicine calls body odor "body qi", "fox dryness" and "fox qi", and believes that body odor is mostly related to congenital endowment, which is inherited from the foul air under the arms of parents, which is fumigated to the outside and comes out from the armpits; or it may be caused by eating too much spicy and greasy food, which leads to internal accumulation of dampness and heat; or it may be caused by wearing thick clothes in hot weather and not bathing for a long time, which prevents body fluids from flowing smoothly, causing dampness and heat to fall out and fumigate outside the skin.

The defects of conventional treatment methods for axillary odor: surgical treatment of axillary odor is less invasive, but it can only remove the apocrine sweat glands. The sweat glands cannot be completely eliminated, so they are prone to recurrence.

Most topical medications for treating axillary odor try to cover up the odor with a fragrant scent. They do not address the cause of axillary odor at all and can only relieve the symptoms. However, some drugs (such as Lanweilian) achieve the deodorizing effect by inhibiting the decomposition and secretion of sweat by underarm bacteria.

Homemade talcum powder for external use: (1) Liuyi powder, alum, borneol, mixed in a cloth bag. (2) If body odor is obvious, you can use Mithraseng Powder: sulfur, Cnidium monnieri, realgar, talcum powder, alum powder, grind them into a fine powder and wrap it in cloth to apply on the affected area. First shave the armpit hair, then wash the affected area with soapy water, and then apply the powder bag, 1 to 2 times a day.

Other treatments for body odor

1. Choose drug treatment. External application of drugs mainly has antiperspirant, antibacterial and fragrance-maintaining functions. Generally, it cannot completely destroy the sweat glands, so it can only relieve symptoms but cannot completely eradicate them. Generally, choosing to use drugs such as Xilanxialu, Huxiujing, and Banyueqing can help alleviate symptoms.

2. Laser electrocautery therapy: The armpits are where apocrine sweat glands are densely distributed, and one apocrine sweat gland is connected to one hair follicle. Therefore, destroying the apocrine sweat glands under the hair follicles using laser or electrocautery can achieve the purpose of treatment. Generally speaking, there will be improvement after 1-2 treatments. After one treatment, treat again 3-6 months later. However, this treatment is prone to relapse and its effect is not complete.

3. Small incision stripping surgery: make a small longitudinal incision about 3 cm long in the armpit. This method leaves a small scar, but it is easy to form hematoma and the effect is not thorough.