What are the treatments for hand eczema?

Speaking of eczema, many friends think that this skin problem only occurs in newborns. In fact, even adults may suffer from eczema. However, the main site of eczema in adults is the hands. Traditional treatments cannot be used to treat hand eczema. Generally, topical medications for hand eczema can only temporarily suppress its symptoms. Therefore, patients are advised to use traditional Chinese medicine to treat eczema, which is the only cure. Specific treatments for hand eczema include:

Traditional remedies for eczema

1: Medicinal wine therapy

Prescription: 100 grams of yam seeds (also known as sweet potato seeds and earth melon), 500 ml of 75% alcohol.

Usage: Fry the medicine until it turns yellow, grind it into powder, soak it in alcohol for 48 hours, and apply it to the affected area. Twice a day, 20 minutes each time. This product is poisonous and should not be taken internally.

Efficacy: The cure rate is 100% after 1-3 weeks of medication.

2: Non-drug therapy

Product Name: Potatoes 100g

Usage: Wash, peel, grind into paste, apply to the affected area 0.5 cm thick, bandage with gauze, change 3 times a day.

Efficacy: After applying the medicine for 7 days, the cure rate reaches 100%. Especially effective for osmotic eczema

Diet therapy for eczema

Recipe 1 Imperata root and coix seed porridge

Ingredients: 30 grams of fresh Imperata root and 300 grams of raw Coix seeds.

Usage: Boil Imperata root for 20 minutes, remove the residue and keep the juice, add raw coix seed and cook into porridge.

Efficacy: Clears heat, cools blood, removes dampness and promotes diuresis.

Indications: Eczema with accumulation of damp-heat, with redness of the skin lesions, extensive papules and blisters, and red urine.

Recipe 2: Job's tears and mung bean porridge

Ingredients: 50g mung bean, 50g coix seed

Usage: Add water and cook into porridge.

Efficacy: Clears heat and removes dampness.

Indications: Acute eczema with skin erythema, papules, blisters and excessive exudation.

Recipe 3: Mung Bean, Lily and Job's Tears Soup

Ingredients: 30 grams of mung beans, 30 grams of lily, 15 grams of coix seed, 15 grams of water chestnut, 15 grams of Chinese yam, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Usage: Put mung beans, lilies, coix seeds, water chestnuts and yam into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, and add rock sugar when they are well cooked. Take it in 2 doses a day for several days.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and detoxifies, strengthens the spleen and removes dampness.

Indications: Eczema due to spleen deficiency and dampness, skin lesions are not red, there is a lot of exudation, itching is not severe, stomatitis, greasy tongue coating

The above are all treatments for hand eczema. Patients may wish to try the above methods. I believe that good treatment results can be achieved. However, these methods are relatively slow. If the patient's eczema symptoms are more serious, it is recommended to use topical ointments to relieve the symptoms first, and then use diet therapy to regulate the body and prevent the recurrence of eczema.