Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease commonly known as “psoriasis”. The basic lesion is a red papule, often fused into patches with distinct margins, covered with multiple layers of silvery-white scales, and a shiny film that may be seen to bleed in spots when peeled away. The lesions vary in form. There are four clinical types: the common, pustular, arthritic and erythrodermic types.
One of the questions: Is “psoriasis” ringworm?
Psoriasis is a fungal skin disease that occurs in the summer and can be easily controlled and cured with antifungal medications. “Psoriasis, on the other hand, is an immune chronic skin disease that is characterized by excessive epidermal proliferation and division and has characteristics similar to benign skin tumors, making it more difficult to treat.
The name “psoriasis” has been used in Chinese medicine for a long time, but it refers to a skin disease that is morphologically like a bull, which is a neurodermatitis in modern medicine, which is a completely different disease from psoriasis. In Chinese medicine, psoriasis is called “Bai H”, which describes the appearance of bleeding on the skin with a dagger, which is in line with the clinical performance characteristics of psoriasis.
Question No. 2: Is psoriasis contagious?
The most worrying issue for psoriasis patients is often whether the disease will be contagious to their families and friends, not only that, many people in society think that skin diseases are contagious, not to mention “psoriasis”? As a result, many psoriasis patients are afraid to go to public places to participate in activities, for fear of receiving the blank stares of others. Here it can be said with certainty: so far there is no evidence-based medical evidence published that psoriasis is contagious, so psoriasis is not a contagious disease, the disease itself is not contagious, it is an immune disease.
It is because of the existence of the misconception that psoriasis may be contagious that it has greatly increased the psychological burden of many patients, causing them to be afraid to contact their families, to participate in social activities, and even their job search will be affected by this, which is unfair to psoriasis patients. Scientific research has so far not cultured infectious bacteria and fungi, as well as other factors, in the skin lesions of psoriasis. People with psoriasis can live, work and enjoy the rights and freedom to enjoy life as normal people do.
Question No. 3: Does a good or bad mood directly affect the disease?
To this question, the answer is yes, psoriasis is a disease closely related to physical and mental factors, and the number of patients who have psoriasis induced or aggravated by mental factors is on a significant rise. Some patients are stimulated by external social factors and their own psychological disorder factors leading to the occurrence of this disease. For example, during World War II, a large number of Japanese POWs were found to suffer from psoriasis during their capture by the U.S. Army, but after being released to their home countries after the war, most of them were not cured. This indicates that mental factors play a large role in the causation of the disease.
During the onset of psoriasis, neuropeptide indicators rise significantly, and at the same time, these substances can lead to the imbalance of immune balance in the body, which is directly involved in the occurrence of the disease, and at the same time, because of the adverse mental and psychological stimulation can make the central nervous regulation dysfunction; through the hypothalamus activity, it can affect the neuroendocrine system; it can also affect the immune function through the hypothalamus and the hormones it controls secretion, and physiologically change the original dynamic balance of the human body It can also affect the immune function through the hypothalamus and the hormones it controls, physiologically altering the original dynamic balance of the body and causing pathogenesis. In other words, mental factors can induce psoriasis through the neuro-endocrine-immune pathway. Psoriasis is not a contagious disease, and patients and families need to lighten the burden of thought. A healthy and good state of mind is the key to success and the golden key to a cure.
Therefore, psoriasis patients should pay more attention to psychological regulation. Sometimes it happens that the more worried about the disease being bad, the more likely it is to aggravate the disease, which is extremely harmful to the disease itself, and it is especially important for psoriasis patients to maintain a good state of mind and psychological quality.
Question 4: Will psoriasis be hereditary?
Many studies have shown that although psoriasis is related to hereditary factors, heredity is not a decisive factor, and the onset of psoriasis is often triggered by environmental, mental and infectious factors. More psoriasis patients have no history of psoriasis at all in their fathers or grandfathers. From the domestic and foreign research literature, a large number of psoriasis patients are reported to have a family history of statistical information, but so far none of the information can completely prove that the cause of psoriasis is purely hereditary. Therefore, there is no need to worry about heredity to the next generation, psoriasis patients can marry and give birth as normal people.
Question No. 5: Can psoriasis be cured?
This question is the most concerned issue for psoriasis patients. Can it be cured and how can the treatment be carried out? It should be said that the condition can be controlled, that is to say, clinically cured, after regular combined Chinese and Western medicine treatment. Sometimes, when patients are in a hurry and see some medical advertisements that can cure the disease, they rush to ask for treatment. Sometimes, the treatment is really effective and the skin lesions are quickly controlled, and just when the patient is happy, the disease suddenly worsens, sometimes the skin all over the body turns red, there are pustules, or symptoms of joint pain appear, and the disease can no longer be easily controlled, and sometimes it is life-threatening. In fact, this is all the fault of hormones, and immunosuppressants, I earnestly hope that psoriasis patients can realize this.
Do not abuse hormones.
Hormones have a very unique role and can treat a variety of diseases, but some adverse reactions will occur in the treatment, and if they are used improperly and abused, they will bring serious harm to patients. Such as diabetes, osteoporosis, gastric ulcer, hypertension, cataract, easy infection, euphoric mental symptoms, etc. Although oral or intramuscular injection or acupuncture point injection can make psoriasis subside quickly, once the drug is stopped, it will rebound, deteriorate and become more difficult to treat, and some of them can even become pustular and arthritic. Patients in European countries have been consciously not using topical hormones since the 1980s, and the occurrence of non-common psoriasis has been greatly reduced.
Do not abuse immunosuppressants.
Psoriasis has the phenomenon of epidermal cell proliferation and immune inflammation. Antitumor drugs have the effect of inhibiting cell proliferation and immunosuppressants have the effect of inhibiting immune inflammation, so the treatment of this disease is effective. However, while anti-tumor drugs kill or inhibit tumor cells, they also have inhibitory and damaging effects on other normal tissue cells of the body; immunosuppressants have inhibitory effects on normal immune functions and reduce the immunity against infection, and their prolonged use may inhibit the immune function of clearing cancer cells, which may lead to malignant tumors.
Chinese medicine has unique advantages in the treatment of psoriasis, and according to the principle of “seeking the root of the disease”, it starts from the treatment of blood division, and through regulating the immune function of human body, it can achieve the efficacy of remission of psoriasis, and the efficacy is consolidated and lasting, therefore, it advocates the combination of Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of psoriasis, and the combination of Chinese and Western medicine has a broad The combination of Chinese and Western medicine has a broad research prospect.