Symptoms of heat-toxic eczema, TCM treatment of eczema

Eczema is a very common skin disease. Generally speaking, eczema is often caused by related factors, and heat toxin is one of them. So, what are the symptoms of heat toxin eczema?

Symptoms of heat toxic eczema:

The skin lesions are thickened, rough, dry, and scaly, with widened and deepened skin wrinkles, obvious pigmentation and lichenification, excessive itching, thin white coating, and a thready and rapid pulse. In clinical practice, Chinese medicine divides eczema into: damp-heat syndrome, blood deficiency and wind-dryness syndrome.

TCM treatment of eczema:

Prescription therapy

1. 15 grams each of Indigo, Talcum Powder, and Cypress, and 9 grams of Borneol. Grind them into fine powder, mix with sesame oil to form a paste, apply to the affected area 3 times a day. It is effective in treating acute eczema.

2. Grind 10 grams of alum, 30 grams of calamine, 6 grams of borneol, and 15 grams of Sophora flavescens into fine powder and apply it to the affected area twice a day. It is effective in treating scrotal eczema.

3. Grind 100 grams of Evodia rutaecarpa into fine powder, add Fu Qingsong ointment to make a paste, apply to the eczema area 3 times a day. Generally, the itching will stop after one use, and it can be cured in 6-15 days.

External treatment

In case of acute eczema, erythema, papules, papulovesicles and blisters are seen in the early stage, but no erosion and exudation are seen. You can apply Sophora flavescens peel Shuangkang, Ermiao powder, Liuyi powder etc. externally, or use Sanhuang lotion or calamine lotion externally.