Treatment of urticaria based on TCM classification

Nowadays, many parents will not let their children play with children with urticaria, for fear that their babies will also be infected with urticaria. In fact, parents don’t need to worry too much. Urticaria is not contagious among children. Urticaria is a relatively common skin disease, mainly caused by baby’s food allergies or skin allergies. At this time, just take the child to the hospital for treatment in time.

1. Wind-heat type

Symptoms: Most common in acute urticaria, due to external invasion of wind and heat, which invades the skin and muscles and damages the blood. Symptoms include red wheals, which are aggravated by heat and relieved by cold, and are more severe in summer and less severe in winter. Symptoms include aversion to cold and fever, thirst, irritability, sore throat, red tongue, yellow coating, and floating and rapid pulse. The treatment should be to dispel wind and clear heat, while cooling the blood.

Dietary prescription: Carrot, water chestnut, bamboo shoot soup

Ingredients: 3 carrots, 8 water chestnuts, 1 jin of sugarcane, 5 qian of light bamboo leaves, 3 qian of raw licorice, 3 qian of duckweed, 1 liang of fresh coriander (added later).

Preparation method: Wash the ingredients, put them into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, then simmer for 1 hour over low heat, then add fresh coriander and it is ready to drink.

Efficacy: Clears away heat, detoxifies, relieves muscles and relieves rashes.

Note: Light bamboo leaves have the effects of clearing away heat and relieving restlessness, and promoting urination; raw licorice has the effects of invigorating qi and replenishing the middle, clearing away heat and detoxifying; duckweed has the effects of inducing sweat and relieving exterior symptoms, clearing rashes and relieving itching, and promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.

2. Wind-cold type

Symptoms: Due to the loss of defense, wind and cold attack from outside, and disharmony between Ying and Wei. The wheal is light or white in color, aggravated by wind or cold, relieved by warmth, and caused by pruritus. It is more severe in winter and less severe in summer. The tongue is pale, with white fur and a floating and tight pulse. The treatment should be to strengthen the Wei and Ying, resist wind and dissipate cold.

Dietary prescription: Ginger sugar and vinegar drink

Ingredients: 2 taels of ginger, 1 tael of brown sugar, 1 tablespoon of vinegar.

Preparation method: Cut the ginger into thin strips and put it in a pot, add 3 bowls of water, boil and simmer for 5 minutes, put it in the pot with brown sugar, simmer until the sugar is dissolved, and add the vinegar last.

Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and stomach, anti-allergic to wind-cold type, used for urticaria caused by food allergies.

Note: Ginger has the effect of warming and dispelling cold.

3. Damp-heat type of the stomach

Symptoms: Due to poor spleen function and exposure to wind and cold. The wheal is red or light in color, with severe itching, accompanied by abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, constipation or loose stools, poor appetite, red tongue, yellow and greasy tongue coating, and slippery and rapid or soft and rapid pulse. Treatment should be aimed at strengthening the spleen and regulating qi, dispelling wind and dispersing cold.

Diet therapy example: Houttuynia cordata syrup

Ingredients: 5 qian of Houttuynia cordata, 1 liang of mung beans, 1 liang of red beans, 1 liang of fried lentils, 1 liang of raw coix seeds, and 4 candied dates.

Preparation method: Put the above ingredients into a pot, add 6 bowls of water, simmer for 1 hour, and fry until 2 bowls are left. Remove the houttuynia cordata and add white sugar.

Taste and take. Take once a day for seven consecutive days.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and removes dampness and toxins.

Note: Mung beans have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. Lentils are slightly warm in nature, sweet in taste, and have the effects of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness.

4. Blood heat type

Symptoms: Most common in artificial urticaria (skin scratch sign), due to fire in the heart meridian and heat in the blood generating wind. Generally, there are fewer urticaria on the body. Every night, the skin first feels burning and itchy. After scratching, red and purple strips will appear. The more you scratch, the more they appear. When it occurs, the patient feels irritable and restless, the pulse is stringy, slippery and rapid, the tongue is red with a thin yellow coating. The treatment should be to cool the blood, clear the heat, eliminate wind and stop itching.

Dietary prescription: Cicada molt and winter melon soup

Ingredients: 5 qian of cicada shell, 3 qian of peach kernel, 8 qian of raw earth, 5 qian of imperata root, 8 water chestnuts, 1 jin of winter melon (with skin and core), and 2 liang of lean meat.

Preparation: Wash, peel and slice the water chestnuts, wash all the ingredients, add appropriate amount of water, turn from high heat to low heat and simmer for 2 hours, add salt to taste.

Efficacy: Winter melon clears away heat; cicada shells dispel wind and heat, and have anti-allergic and calming effects.

5. Blood stasis type

Symptoms: Due to blood stasis blocking the meridians, the Ying and Wei Qi cannot be circulated, and wind-heat or wind-cold fight against each other. The wheals are dark red, the face is dull, the lips are purple, or the wheals may appear on the waist, under pressure from a watchband, etc. The pulse is thin and wiry, and the tongue is dark purple. The treatment is suitable for promoting blood circulation and dispelling wind.

Dietary prescription: Sichuan Lean Meat Soup

Ingredients: 3 qian of Chuanxiong, 4 qian of whole angelica root slices, 4 qian of peach kernel, 2 qian of cassia twig, 4 red dates (pitted), and 2 liang of lean meat.

Method: Wash the lean meat; wash the Chuanxiong, angelica, cinnamon twig, and red dates (pitted), put all the ingredients into a clay pot, add appropriate amount of water,

Bring to a boil over high heat then simmer for 2 hours and season. Drink as you like.

Efficacy: Promote blood circulation and dispel wind.