For most skin diseases, itching is probably the most common symptom of skin diseases, and for itching, many people associate it with what we call our daily diet, because there is a Chinese saying that “disease enters through the mouth”. In reality, do we really need to avoid eating? Is it true that if we have a skin disease, especially if it is accompanied by itching, we need to avoid eating? What is hairy food? In daily life, what we call hairy substances, mainly include: raw onion, ginger, garlic, fennel seedlings, toon, leek, beef and mutton, seafood (fish, shrimp, crab), white wine, red wine, yellow wine, etc.. Chinese medicine said the taboo on the science? Are we going to be meticulous, after having pruritic skin disease, strict abstinence from eating all hairy things? Or do we have a skin disease, regardless of what we eat? Or is it a regular, purposeful diet based on your own experience? (For example, if you have an itchy skin disease and eat some raw garlic one day, and the itching gets significantly worse, you should remember in your mind that you may be sensitive to garlic, so you should try to abstain from eating garlic, especially during the period when the itchy disease is not healed). In the usual clinic, the doctor has too many things to do and is busy, so for the patient’s question “Do I need to avoid eating”, many TCM doctors will say, try not to eat some hairy things. In fact, the understanding of this sentence should be “everyone should be selective and purposeful according to their own body experience, rather than blindly abstaining from all hair products, which is actually a very unwise choice, because the actual situation is that you may only be sensitive to one or a few of the hair products, and in many cases, even if you abstain from all hair products, you may not be able to eat them. In many cases, even if you avoid all the hair products, your condition will not be relieved by your avoidance. (Many people have a feeling: see what they want to eat, but because of skin disease alone need to avoid eating, and determined not to eat, the heart is very painful, this blind avoidance of food, over time will not only lead to your nutritional problems, but also cause psychological problems, both of which are harmful to the skin disease and not beneficial). I hope that the next time you encounter a similar situation, you will be able to do so with a purposeful avoidance of food! Please don’t listen blindly!