How does Traditional Chinese Medicine treat neurodermatitis?

Patients with neurodermatitis will experience symptoms of itching. If they scratch, lichenification will occur. The symptoms are sometimes mild and sometimes severe. Generally, the symptoms will be obvious in summer and will be alleviated in winter. Some Chinese medicine prescriptions can be chosen to treat this disease.

1. Take appropriate amounts of Polygonum multiflorum, Angelica sinensis, Schizonepeta tenuifolia, sesame, Sophora flavescens, Rehmannia glutinosa, and white peony root. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, for 10 consecutive doses.

2. Take appropriate amounts of Schizonepeta, Saposhnikovia, Radix Rehmanniae, Angelica, Periostracum Cicadae, Atractylodes, Poria, Gypsum, Sophora flavescens, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, and Arctium lappa, and appropriate amounts of Akebia and Licorice. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into 3 doses. For those who suffer from restlessness, insomnia, and severe itching at night, add appropriate amount of calcined dragon bone or oyster. For unbearable itching, add appropriate amount of silkworm pupae or black-necked snake.

3. Take equal parts of raw pinellia, blister beetle and white wolfbane. Grind them into a fine powder and mix with appropriate amount of rice vinegar to form a paste. Apply to the affected area, lightly apply once a day, stop when blisters form to prevent excessive damage. Blisters should be used.

4. Take appropriate amounts of soaked ginseng, adenophora, white peony root, and red calamus, appropriate amounts of atractylodes, Poria, raw rehmannia, and Chinese wolfberry bark, appropriate amounts of tangerine peel and licorice, appropriate amounts of angelica, moutan bark, and Uncaria rhynchophylla (added later), and appropriate amounts of astragalus. decocted in water and taken orally.

5. Take appropriate amounts of whole worms, Sophora flavescens, Sophora flavescens, fried Sophora japonica seeds, Clematis chinensis, Dictamni cortex, Angelica sinensis, Red Peony Root, Ligusticum chuanxiong, raw licorice, and raw Job's tears, decocted in water and taken orally.

6. Take appropriate amounts of moutan bark, gardenia, bupleurum, angelica, white peony root, red peony root, mint, Millettia reticulata, Imperata root, and raw licorice, decocted in water and taken orally.

7. 1 pit viper, 500 ml sesame oil. Soak a live pit viper in a bottle filled with sesame oil, seal the bottle and bury it 60 cm underground in a cool place. Take it out and use it after 3 months. Apply externally to affected area, twice a day. Adapt to the long-term and difficult-to-heal neurodermatitis. 15-24 grams of Xanthium sibiricum, 9-12 grams of Saposhnikovia divaricata, 9-15 grams each of Agkistrodon acutus, Angelica sinensis, Paeonia lactiflora, and Tribulus terrestris, 9 grams of Cortex Moutan, 15-30 grams of Millettia reticulata, 18-30 grams each of Rehmannia glutinosa, Kochia scoparia, and Dictamni cortex, and 6-8 grams of cicada shell. Decoction in water. Suitable for neurodermatitis.

8. 30 grams each of raw leeks and garlic. Mash into a paste and heat slightly. Apply vigorously to the affected area, 2-3 times a day, for 1 week. Suitable for neurodermatitis. Appropriate amount of fresh loofah leaves. Wash and mash. Apply to the affected area until the skin turns red. Apply once every other day. 7 times constitute a course of treatment. Suitable for neurodermatitis.

How do old Chinese medicine doctors treat neurodermatitis? I believe that through the above introduction, everyone has some understanding of the methods of old Chinese medicine doctors treating neurodermatitis. The methods introduced above are generally the methods for treating neurodermatitis. However, due to the different actual symptoms of each patient, the choice of medicinal materials will also be different. Therefore, in the actual treatment method, everyone should still focus on the prescription prescribed by the doctor.