What are the symptoms of blood dryness and dampness?

Dryness, heat and dampness can easily cause patients to develop rashes, eczema or itchy skin. Some of these problems may also manifest as athlete's foot, dizziness, itchy skin, acne, etc., but these phenomena are not uncommon. Whether it is a man or a woman, if you have this constitution, you must pay attention to correct conditioning. You can eat some blood-cooling foods such as mangosteen and tortoise jelly, coix seed and yam, etc.

1. What is blood dryness?

Dry blood mostly refers to damp heat and dry blood. This is because the human body is invaded by damp and hot evil spirits and is not cleared out in time. This causes internal heat in the blood or long-term accumulation of heat toxins, which cannot be discharged internally or released externally, resulting in the loss of body fluids and blood. The skin is deprived of nourishment, resulting in a series of symptoms such as rashes, eczema, itchy skin, freckles and blackheads, red face and nose, sores and swelling, athlete's foot, scabies, dizziness, and dry stools. Among them, eczema, skin itching, acne, etc. are the most common symptoms of people with dry blood.

2. Blood Dryness and Blood Heat

Blood dryness belongs to the category of internal dryness, which is mostly caused by excessive blood loss, late stage of febrile disease, long-term illness that consumes essence and blood, and internal blood stasis.

Blood heat is caused by the invasion of exogenous heat evil into the body, which accelerates blood circulation. The pathological state manifested by bleeding, blood stasis and other symptoms is mostly caused by evil heat entering the blood. It can also be caused by long-term depression and excessive emotions that turn into fire. Clinically, it can be divided into three categories: blood heat and wind excess, blood blazing heat, and viscera and organ fire excess.

3. Treatment of blood dryness

The treatment and conditioning of blood dryness mainly focuses on clearing heat, removing dampness and cooling blood. This can also be achieved by eating foods that cool the blood, or by taking Chinese medicine or ready-made medicines.

Foods that cool blood: Foods that clear away heat and reduce fire include mangosteen, tortoise jelly, kiwi, etc. Foods that can cool blood include duck meat, red beans, water chestnuts, winter melon, dragon fruit, pears, carambola, strawberries, watermelons, melons, grapefruits, oranges, mulberries, etc.

Traditional Chinese medicine for cooling blood: including coix seed, raw rehmannia root, poria cocos, yam, fresh imperata root, etc.

Chinese patent medicines for cooling blood: Dermatological Blood Poison Pills, Danggui Kushen Pills, Detoxification and Beauty Capsules, etc.