How does Traditional Chinese Medicine treat skin diseases?

Skin diseases are common in daily life. Skin diseases include allergies, inflammation, or various skin symptoms such as eczema and urticaria. Skin diseases can be treated with Chinese herbal medicine, which is not only gentle and non-irritating, but also very good for the skin. You should also pay more attention to your daily diet and try not to eat spicy food.

Skin allergies are a common disease, but the prescription is not complicated. Some people choose to apply hormone ointments, but the effect is not ideal and the side effects are serious. Some Chinese medicines can achieve the effect of strengthening the body and eliminating evil. The medications include goldenseal, wild yam, lithospermum officinale, Houttuynia cordata, etc., which can achieve the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. In addition, skin allergies will be accompanied by unbearable itching symptoms, and Chinese medicines such as Tribulus terrestris and Dictamni need to be added to relieve itching.

Skin diseases: a light diet is recommended

People with skin allergies, in addition to staying away from allergens such as pollen and dust, should prevent diseases from entering the body through diet, eat less greasy meat, and avoid eating seafood and kelp.

Spring is the season when people with dry and neutral skin are most susceptible to skin allergies. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "nature and man correspond to each other". When people take care of their skin in spring, they should eat less peanuts, melon seeds and other nut snacks and spicy foods to avoid heat and internal heat. They should eat more soup, porridge and some yin-nourishing foods, such as dates, wolfberries, etc.

Especially for friends suffering from allergic skin diseases, a light diet is more suitable. In your daily diet, you should eat more vegetables, eggs, vegetable oils, etc. These foods contain many vitamins that are beneficial to skin health. In addition, you must also take in some minerals, such as magnesium, potassium, etc. These minerals can eliminate fatigue, help digestion, and promote blood circulation, which is beneficial to skin beauty.

Chinese medicine uses heat-clearing and blood-cooling drugs to treat allergies

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is caused by "blood heat", so some Chinese medicines that clear heat and cool blood should be used to treat it.

1. Lithospermum officinale

Nature and flavor: bitter, cold.

Meridians: Enters the heart and liver meridians.

Efficacy: Clears heat, cools blood, detoxifies and relieves rash. It has antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal effects and is often used for purpura, hematuria, hematemesis, measles, etc.

2. Kochia scoparia

Nature and flavor: cold in nature, spicy and bitter in taste.

Meridians: Enters the kidney and bladder meridians.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and dampness, dispels wind and relieves itching. Used for painful urination, vaginal itching and leucorrhea, urticaria, eczema, and skin itching.

Cosmetic application: Kochia scoparia seeds are good at dispelling wind, dampness and relieving itching, so they are used to treat skin and vaginal itching in women, painful urination, etc. caused by rheumatism and heat. Sophora flavescens is bitter and cold and has strong heat-clearing ability, so it can be used externally to treat itchy sores caused by heat toxins, and internally to treat diarrhea, dysentery, jaundice, etc. Kochia scoparia and Phellodendron amurense: Kochia scoparia can treat stranguria, promote diuresis, and clear away heat, and its effect is similar to that of Phellodendron amurense.