Eczema is known as wet sores in Chinese medicine, and skin wet sores can be treated with Chinese medicine.
Eczema is a kind of allergic inflammatory skin disease with main clinical manifestations such as itching and oozing, generally focusing on internal treatment, Chinese medicine treatment is a characteristic treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, which needs to be based on the different identification of blood deficiency and wind dryness, spleen deficiency and wetness stagnation, and dampness and heat embedded in the skin and other different identification of the taking of medication.
1. Blood deficiency, wind and dryness: Angelica sinensis drink can be taken internally to dispel wind and stop itching (stop itching by removing the wind that invades the surface of the muscle), nourish blood and moisturize the skin. This medicine is mainly composed of Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Radix Polygoni Multiflori, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong and Radix Fenghuang, etc. It can treat the disease of prolonged duration, with lesions that are dark in color or hyperpigmented, with severe itching, or lesions that are rough and hypertrophied; accompanied by dry mouth and lack of desire to drink. Avoid scratching the affected area during the medication.
2. Spleen deficiency and dampness stagnation: Ginseng and Atractylodes Macrocephalae can be taken internally to strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness. This medicine is mainly composed of ginseng, poria, lentils, lotus seeds, etc. It can treat the symptoms of slow onset, redness of skin lesions, itching, vesicles after scratching, and visible scales; accompanied by low appetite, and fatigue (lack of spirit). Do not use this medicine if you have a cold or fever.
3. Dampness and heat embedded in the skin: take Dioscorea villosa with gentian diarrhea and liver soup to clear away heat and dampness to stop itching. The main drugs are gentian herb, Coix lacryma, Herba Euphrasiae, Scutellaria baicalensis, etc. It can treat the acute onset of the disease, with redness and burning of the skin lesions, itching and oozing; accompanied by body heat, heartburn, thirst and other diseases. Use with caution in pregnant women.
The adverse reactions and contraindications of the above drugs are not clear. Dyshidrotic sores patients are recommended to actively go to the hospital for consultation, with the Chinese medicine practitioner for diagnosis and treatment, do not self-medication.