Chinese Medicine for Ichthyosis

  Ichthyosis, known in Chinese medicine as “snake skin ringworm”, is a common genetic skin keratosis. It is regarded as disorder of keratinization or cornification, which is due to abnormal epidermal cell differentiation or metabolism. It mainly manifests as dry and rough skin on the extensor side of the limbs or trunk with rhombic or polygonal scales, with the appearance of fish scale or snakeskin. Depending on the mode of inheritance, it can be divided into autosomal dominant common ichthyosis, sex-linked common ichthyosis, congenital ichthyosis-like erythroderma and lamellar ichthyosis.  Treatment: There is still no ideal treatment plan for this disease. Chinese medicine has unique therapeutic effect in treating this disease. It is advisable to benefit qi, disperse stasis, invigorate blood, harmonize the camp, honor the muscle and moisten the skin, and clear heat and detoxify. For example, the Sui “Treatise on the Origin of Diseases? The snake skin wait ” said “snake skin, by the wind evil guest in the coup also. People couples by the wind, it is closed, so that the blood is astringent and turbid, can not glory and moisten the skin spot peeling, even the shape of the snake scales”. Now it is believed that most of the congenital endowment deficiencies, and lead to blood deficiency and wind dryness, or blood stasis blockage, body and skin loss of nourishment. Insufficient endowment, the kidney essence is weak, the skin is not moistened by the essence and blood and the skin is wrong, the essence and blood cannot moisten, and over time it becomes dry and windy, or it is caused by the external wind evil; stasis of blood is caused by weak endowment, stagnation of qi and blood, poor meridians, and loss of nourishment of the body and skin.