Chinese Medicine for Eczema

Factors such as diet, environment, drugs and genetics can all cause eczema. After suffering from eczema, patients generally feel extremely itchy, and some even scratch their skin, causing great pain to patients. The use of traditional Western medicine is generally used to relieve itching, but it cannot cure eczema, causing eczema to recur, causing more serious damage to the patient's body.

This means that if you want to completely get rid of eczema, it is best to choose traditional Chinese medicine for treatment. There are actually many methods of treating eczema in traditional Chinese medicine, and most of the treatments are based on a combination of medicine and food.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this disease is mainly related to dampness, which can accumulate heat and cause symptoms of dampness and heat. Over time, dampness can damage the spleen, while heat can damage yin and blood, leading to a mixture of deficiency and excess symptoms. Acute eczema is often characterized by symptoms of dampness and heat, while chronic eczema is often characterized by a mixture of deficiency and excess. Treatment should be combined with both oral and topical medications.

Patients with eczema can often eat foods that have the effect of removing dampness or clearing heat and removing dampness, such as drinking soup made from Job's tears and winter melon, or drinking cucumber or loofah soup, which also has an auxiliary therapeutic effect. The disease is effectively treated with TCM. Symptoms of eczema are characterized by erythema, blisters, exudation, erosion, itching and papules. Due to the presence of dampness, the disease recurs repeatedly.

1. Damp-heat syndrome

It is more common in acute eczema. Symptoms include redness of the skin, the appearance of papules, or millet-sized red rashes, blisters on the top, itching, water oozing out after scratching, and the rashes becoming patches and scabs, accompanied by dry mouth, less drinking, yellow urine, yellow and greasy tongue coating, red tongue, and slippery and rapid pulse.

Treatment should be to clear away heat and dampness, and can be selected from the following prescriptions:

1. Take 6-10g of Scutellaria baicalensis, 10g of Phellodendron chinense, 10g of Atractylodes lancea, 12g of Sophora flavescens, 15g of Plantago, and 10g of Poria. Decoction in water.

2. Take 15-20 grams of wild yam, 30 grams of coix seed, 10 grams of akebia, 20 grams of dandelion and 3 grams of licorice, decocted in water and taken orally.

3. Take 50 grams of Sophora flavescens, 30 grams of Cnidium monnieri and 15 grams of Xanthium sibiricum, decoct them in water and use the liquid to wash the affected area.

4. Grind 10g of Coptis chinensis, 10g of Scutellaria baicalensis, 10g of calcined gypsum, 12g of calcined calamus, and 0.5g of borneol into fine powder and set aside. If the skin is eroded and oozing, sprinkle the powder on the affected area. If there is not much water flowing or the skin is not broken and does not ooze, mix it with sesame oil and apply it externally.

5. Boil 100 grams of fresh verbena in water to obtain the medicinal liquid, let it cool and then wash the affected area. ⑥ Boil 200 grams of fresh purslane in water and apply the liquid to the affected area. It is used for skin erosion and yellow discharge.

2. Mixed syndrome of deficiency and excess

It is mostly caused by blood deficiency, spleen weakness, dampness and heat, and is seen in chronic eczema. The symptoms of this syndrome are eczema that does not heal over time, the skin becomes rough and thick, yellow fluid oozes out when scratched, the skin of the affected area is dark in color, the body is tired and weak, the tongue is greasy, the tongue is pale, tender and plump, and the pulse is slow.

Treatment should be aimed at strengthening the spleen and nourishing the blood, and clearing away the pathogens. You can choose:

1. Take 10g of Atractylodes macrocephala, 15g of Poria cocos, 10g of Angelica sinensis, 15g of Salvia miltiorrhiza, 10g of White Peony Root, 15g of Rehmannia glutinosa, 15g of Kochia scoparia, and 30g of Coix seed, decocted in water and taken orally.

2. Grind equal parts of rosin, alum, realgar and yellow ochre into fine powder, sieve, mix the powder with sesame oil and apply to the affected area.

The above is the specific method of TCM treatment of eczema. No matter what causes your eczema, TCM will divide the treatment into the above two situations, and the effect is good. However, it is not recommended that you take it according to the above prescription. After all, different physical conditions will result in different dosages of medicines.