Gynecological medicine can also treat men’s diseases

           I have treated a male patient, who was in his 60s. He had been suffering from pruritus for more than two years, his skin was rough and purple, dry and flaky, with itchy episodes like pins and needles, with a purple tongue and thin, astringent pulse. Treatment with various methods of Chinese and Western medicine is ineffective, has lost the hope of cure, and do not want to take the suffering of Chinese medicine. I pondered for a long time and prescribed two sachets of motherwort cream for each morning and evening. The old man took the prescription and looked at me with astonished eyes, saying in his heart, “You are not sick in the head, are you?” “I am an old man, how can you make me eat women’s medicine?” I was prepared for this and said patiently, “Taking prescription medicine depends on the composition and function of the medicine. The skin disease you have is old-age itchy skin, caused by blood stasis and blood dryness. The motherwort in the cream has the function of activating blood stasis, and the honey in the formula has the function of detoxifying and moisturizing the skin, so the combination of the two is just right for treating your skin disease.” The old man took the prescription half-heartedly. When I met the old man again six months later, he enthusiastically came up and shook my hand: “Thank you so much, doctor. My itchy skin for many years has been cured by taking Yimu cream.” After a pause: “When someone in our village has itchy skin, I let him take mother-of-pearl cream, but some work well and some don’t. Doctor, do you think this medicine is still bullying people?” I said, “It’s not that the medicine is bullying people, it’s that the medicine is not the right evidence. Motherwort cream is suitable for blood stasis and blood dryness skin diseases, not all skin diseases can be treated. You can’t just listen to the advertisements to cure something or other, but you have to see if the medicine in the formula is for the disease you have. The Chinese medicine is not distinguished from the noble, use the right, gynecological medicine can cure men’s diseases. The old man nodded his head with seeming understanding. When you think about the current Chinese medicine, how many people do not listen to the instructions?