1.What is wind-heat sore? What are the characteristics? A: Wind-heat sores are an acute self-limiting skin disease with a rash as red as a rose and flaking as chaff, characterized by the initial appearance of a rose-red mother spot with chaff-like scales on the trunk, followed by the appearance of more, similarly shaped and smaller subspots in batches, equivalent to western medicine’s rose pityriasis. 2.How do wind-heat sores occur? A: Patients due to over-eating spicy roast, emotionally suppressed depression and fire, resulting in the blood contains heat, wounding Yin into the wind, and then feel wind-heat external evil, and finally inside and outside the combined evil, wind-heat stagnation in the skin, depression closed coup and become. 3.What are the clinical manifestations of wind-heat sores? Are there any specific tests? A: The clinical manifestations of wind-heat sores: the disease occurs in young and middle-aged people, mostly in spring and autumn, and the lesions are called mother spots and child spots. The lesions are called mother spots and child spots. They first appear somewhere on the trunk or proximal extremities, and are about finger-covered or slightly larger round or oval light red or yellow-red scaly spots, called mother spots or primary spots. This kind of mother spot is easily ignored by patients. One to two weeks after the appearance of the mother spot, most erythematous spots similar to the mother spot but smaller in shape appear on the trunk and proximal extremities, which are called daughter spots or secondary spots. The lesions are transverse or oblique, oval, with the long axis in line with the skin lines, slightly wrinkled in the center, with clear borders and irregular edges, slightly jagged, with chaff-like fine scales on the surface, mostly isolated and not fused. After the appearance of the daughter spots, the color of the mother spots turns to be darker. The color of the rash varies from bright red to brown, brownish-yellow or grayish-brown, and the lesions are usually found on the chest, abdomen, proximal extremities and neck, especially on both sides of the chest, and a few are also seen on the upper part of the femur, but not on the face and lower legs, and the mucous membranes are occasionally involved. The whole body may be pruritic to varying degrees, and some patients may initially have generalized symptoms such as discomfort, headache, sore throat, mild fever, and swollen B-nuclei in the neck or axillae. There is no specific test for wind-heat sores, and the diagnosis can be made clearly by clinical manifestations alone. 4. How should wind-heat sores be treated? A: The treatment of wind-heat sores is based on evidence-based treatment, as follows: wind-heat skin evidence: the onset of the disease is urgent, the lesions are round or oval light red patches with fine wrinkles in the center, the surface has bran-like scales, accompanied by irritability and thirst, dryness and redness of the urine, red tongue, white or thin yellow coating, floating pulse; treatment is based on draining wind and clearing heat to relieve itching, and the formula is based on the addition and subtraction of the following: Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Radix Bupleurum, Cicada, Zhi Mu, Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, Radix et Rhizoma Hu Hu, Radix et Rhizoma Jing, Atractylodes Macrocephala. The rash is bright red or purplish-red patches, with more scales, larger lesions, more itching, accompanied by scratch marks, blood scabs, etc. The treatment is based on clearing heat and cooling blood, nourishing blood and moistening dryness, and the formula is based on cooling blood and eliminating wind: raw earth, angelica, thornbush, cicada, bitter ginseng, tribulus terrestris, Zhi Mu, raw gypsum, licorice, water hyacinth powder, peony bark, etc. In addition, acupuncture can be used. External treatment can be applied externally with Sanhuang lotion or 5% to 10% sulfur ointment, and also with 30g of bitter ginseng, 30g of serpentine seed, 12g of Sichuan pepper and 12g of alum in decoction. 5.How should I take care of wind-heat sores? A: It is advisable to maintain a relaxed mood, do not eat spicy and fishy hair; pay attention to skin cleanliness, avoid hot water; drink more water and fresh vegetables, keep the bowels open; avoid using topical drugs of excessive concentration.