In the clinic, we often encounter such patients complaining to us: in recent months, the skin has red bumps like small blisters, scratching itchy unbearable, they use potassium permanganate external washing, dermatoprene, Dakin and other creams external rubbing, vitamin C, B2 and paracetamol and other drugs taken internally, but 3 months have passed, not only what improvement, but more and more heavy, the skin thickened and thickened. What the patient described is actually what people often call “eczema”. To date, eczema is still a disease of uncertain etiology, but in general it can be seen as an allergic disease caused by internal and external factors, and is also a more common skin disease during pregnancy. Our ancestors have been using Chinese herbal medicine to treat eczema, which was clearly described in the “Treatise on the Origin of Various Diseases” in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The etiology of eczema is multifaceted: external factors such as climate change, living environment, external sunlight stimulation, animal fur, pollen, etc.; internal factors commonly include mood swings, mental tension, insomnia, endocrine dysfunction or infected lesions. Therefore, when patients encounter changes in internal and external factors, they often cause the onset or acute attack of the primary disease. Modern medicine tends to divide the disease process into three stages according to the patient’s skin lesions, namely the acute, subacute and chronic stages. The eczema of different periods, the skin lesions are not the same, the treatment is also very different, so patients should not blindly use drugs on their own. The skin damage of acute eczema is characterized by primary, polymorphic, dense corn-sized papules, papules and, in severe cases, small blisters with a flushed base. It is itchy, and after scratching the skin damage is oozing and vesicular, with unclear boundaries. If accompanied by bacterial infection, pustules, pus and pus crusts can form, local lymph nodes are enlarged, and generalized eczema is accompanied by fever and other systemic symptoms. And subacute eczema is eczema after treatment or after the reduction of inflammation, redness and exudation is reduced, the lesions are a small number of papules, attached to scales and scabs, can also be manifested as a few papules or small blisters, vesicles, mild infiltration, itching, such as irritants, allergic substances can make the lesions flare up, showing the performance of the acute phase. The chronic phase of eczema is mainly due to improper treatment or repeated attacks, the skin is chronically inflamed, the affected part of the skin thickens, the surface is rough, moss-like changes, attached scales, crust, damage is mostly limited, the edges are clear, the periphery can be papules, papules, paroxysmal itching, lesions such as occurring in special areas, the skin may lose elasticity, cracking, pain, etc.. Therefore, the chronic phase of eczema is quite tricky to treat clinically. The reader can compare their own skin lesions to observe which stage they belong to? Chinese medicine calls eczema “damp poisonous sores” or “damp sores”. These heat toxins may be caused by food, medications or everyday products (such as paints, mothballs, etc.). As for “dampness”, it refers to the body’s function being blocked by dampness, resulting in stagnation. Since 70% of the body is water, if water is stagnant, the body will be in a state of “dampness” and the symptoms will be heavy limbs, edema, spleen and stomach disharmony, and thin stools, which are often complained by patients. In short, patients with eczema suffer from both heat and dampness. On the one hand, the patient has real fire, but because of the stagnant body functions, the liver, the body’s chemical plant, is unable to perform its function of draining and detoxifying the heat toxins from the body through the urine and stool. If the microcirculatory system is not good or the pores are closed, toxins will accumulate in the body. When the accumulation reaches a certain level, or after eating some allergenic food, skin diseases such as eczema will appear. In fact, in addition to skin problems, people with damp-heat may also suffer from chest and abdominal distension, constipation or diarrhea, and short, red and yellow urine. Therefore, for different patients with “dampness”, “toxicity”, or “heat”, different herbal medicines should be used to treat either “dampness” or “toxicity”. When different herbs are used to treat “dampness”, or “detoxification”, or “clearing heat”. The method naturally varies, and can achieve the ideal treatment effect, far from the majority of patients think a dermatoprene can be treated well. The overall purpose of using Chinese herbal medicine to treat eczema is to remove the heat toxins that have accumulated in the body to the outside of the body, and to improve the physique so that the function returns to normal, according to the specific circumstances of different patients and the use of different treatment methods, although Chinese medicine can cure eczema, but because the focus of treatment is not to eliminate the surface skin disease symptoms, but to completely change the physique, so the treatment takes more time, the patient needs to have It is a long-term struggle with the disease. Many patients often ask our doctors the question, “What do we need to pay attention to in terms of diet?” This is an issue of great concern to patients, and in fact a very important issue, as mentioned earlier, dietary factors are often an important factor in triggering the onset of patients, although diet can not cure eczema, but definitely a good way to assist in the treatment of eczema, the patient can play a multiplier effect! Therefore, in order to cure eczema, patients must cooperate with their physicians and start with their daily diet, because if you take medicine to expel the poison of dampness and heat on the one hand, and ingest dampness and heat on the other, how can you heal? Therefore, eczema patients should pay attention to adjust the diet, avoid spicy stimuli, avoid eating allergy-prone items, such as alcohol, seafood shellfish should be prohibited, to a light diet, of course, if the symptoms are severe, but also the first use of internal antihistamines, such as Benadryl, fenugreek, paracetamol, cycloheximide, with sedatives, vitamin C, etc. to improve the effectiveness of the combination. In addition, patients should also avoid various skin irritants, such as scratching, bathing with alkaline soap or excessively hot water, and not letting the sun shine directly on the eczema-stricken area. These seemingly small issues, but it is eczema patients have to understand oh. The actual reason for this is not exact, but as long as the patient is found early and treated in a regular hospital, and the clinical performance of the slow phase is reasonable after the long-term use of Chinese herbal medicine, the cure of eczema is still possible, away from itching, to rebuild your hesitant confidence or just around the corner.