There is a secret remedy for elderly people’s skin itching, and the disease is cured with just one medicine!

Due to their physical and environmental characteristics, the elderly are prone to symptoms of itchy skin. Constant scratching not only causes serious damage to the skin, but also easily leads to infection, and does not improve the itching symptoms. So are there any folk remedies that can effectively relieve itchy skin in the elderly?

Fumigation and washing recipe 1

Ingredients: 30g each of wild chrysanthemum and purslane, 24g of Sophora flavescens, 15g each of Kochia scoparia and Dictamni. 5 grams of Sichuan pepper.

Usage: decoct the above medicinal materials in water for 3 times, filter out the juice each time, mix all the juices after the third decoction, then fumigate and then grind or wet apply, once in the morning and evening every day.

Efficacy: It can clear away heat and dampness, kill insects and relieve itching. It is suitable for treating systemic skin itching symptoms in the elderly.

Fumigation and washing recipe 2

Ingredients: 6 grams of Phellodendron chinense, 6 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, 6 grams of Schizonepeta tenuifolia, 9 grams of Cnidium monnieri, and 3 grams of Alum.

Usage: Put the above medicinal materials into a sandbag and tie it up tightly, add 3000 grams of water, boil it, and then use it to fumigate and wash the itchy skin while it is hot.

Efficacy: This method can dispel wind and relieve itching. Used in elderly patients with systemic skin itching.

Vinegar and Garlic External Application

Use 500 grams of vinegar and 5 heads of garlic, mash the garlic and soak them in the vinegar. It can be used after soaking for one day. Dip a cotton ball in vinegar and apply it to the itchy area every day. It usually takes a week to see results.

Peach kernel porridge

Ingredients: 15 grams of peach kernel, 15 grams of red peony root, 15 grams of cicada shell, 100 grams of polished rice.

Method: Add water to the first three herbs and boil them, remove the residue and take the juice, then put them into the pot together with the cleaned japonica rice to cook porridge. Take it every morning and evening, 7-1 days as a course of treatment.

Efficacy: It can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, dispel wind and cold, relieve rashes and itching, reduce swelling and relieve pain. Suitable for systemic skin itching caused by blood stasis and wind.

Diet therapy of Fangfeng porridge

Ingredients: 15 grams of Saposhnikovia divaricata, 15 grams of ginger, 10 grams of Clematis chinensis, and 100 grams of polished rice.

Method: add water to the first three ingredients and boil, remove the residue and take the juice, then cook it together with the washed polished rice into a thin porridge. Take once daily.

Efficacy: It can dispel wind and dampness, dredge meridians and relieve pain. It is suitable for treating itchy skin symptoms in the elderly caused by skin irritation caused by wind and cold.