Psoriasis is commonly known as “psoriasis”. In Chinese medicine, it is named “dry ringworm”, “white ringworm”, “white shell sore”, “snake lice”, “wind ringworm”, “white H”, “pine skin ringworm” and so on. Psoriasis is clinically divided into four major categories: the common type: about 94.6% of psoriasis; the pustular type: about 0.77% of psoriasis; the arthritic type: about 3.3% of psoriasis; and the erythrodermic type: about 0.98% of psoriasis. According to the different stages of disease development, the lesion manifestations have their own focus, and the common psoriasis is generally divided into phases: progressive phase, stationary phase and receding phase. Drain Pengcheng, Department of Dermatology, Workshop
Traditional Chinese medicine focuses on the whole person, and is good at looking at the outside and knowing the inside. It is good at studying and adjusting the inner connection between the internal organs, qi and blood, and meridians, and considering and treating the whole person as an individual. Because TCM is a macroscopic, holistic and dynamic study and observation of the human body and diseases, it not only believes that human beings are products of nature, but also believes that “the human body is a small world”, and that the invasion of the human body by external evil is mostly the result of the fight between positive and evil, and its pathogenesis is related to both internal and external causes, but more emphasis is placed on internal factors. TCM also believes that the same kind of evil can manifest itself in different symptoms when it invades people with different constitutions, so that different treatments and prescriptions can be formulated; “different treatments for the same disease” and “same treatment for different diseases”. It is more capable of “tailoring” and formulating individualized treatment plans according to the specific conditions of patients, so as to achieve the shortest course of treatment and the best curative effect.
Chinese medicine has accumulated decades of experience in the treatment of psoriasis, and has a set of rules for the treatment of various types of psoriasis, with a variety of treatment methods, such as the identification of evidence, or the use of drugs for different diseases, or the treatment of multiple prescriptions, or the treatment of single prescriptions, or internal consumption, or external use, etc. The prescriptions used are very rich, with flexible routes of administration, less toxic side effects, more consolidated efficacy, and good long-term effects.