Chinese medicine for tinea pedis and tinea nail

  Tinea pedis is called foot dampness or stinky snail in Chinese medicine. It is characterized by blistering, peeling, erosion and cracking of the skin between the toes with a special odor. It can be divided into 3 types: blistering and scaling type, impregnated vesicles type, and hyperkeratosis type according to clinical manifestations. The disease (especially the impregnated erosion type) is prone to secondary bacterial infections, which can lead to ringworm rash in severe cases. Chinese medicine treatment of this disease is mainly external treatment, “Medical Zong Jin Jian” has “(treatment of stinky snail) method should be licorice coix seed decoction wash, chew fine tea leaves coated; dry is yellow Lian paste moistened; ragged very much, should use goose palm skin, calcined sex, research powder, sesame oil dressing, very effective.” The record of the 3 types of treatment for this disease has proposed a good treatment method. The common treatment methods of this disease are briefly introduced as follows: 1. Blistering and scaling type The rash is mainly blistering, and the blisters form dotted or ring-shaped scales after drying. The rash is mainly blistered, and the blisters dry up and form spots or rings of scales. Use Sheep’s Foot Root San (200g of Sheep’s Foot Root (Rhubarb), 50g of alum, from the “Medical Jinguan – Essentials of Surgical Methods”); or Leaky Loo Soup (50g of Leaky Loo, Bupleurum, Licorice, Wujia Pi, Sophora root bark, 150g of Tribulus terrestris, from the “Surgical Preparation” and “New Compilation of Experimental Formula”). The above drugs decoction of water, soak feet or wet compress, 2 times a day.  2, impregnated vesicles type rash to the skin impregnated white and the surface is soft and easy to peel off, treatment can be “appropriate to use goose palm skin, calcined sex, research, fragrant oil dressing.” (The Golden Guide to Medicine); “first to acid pulp tofu water wash three times. Find hanging hooks and leaves, the ground storm twisted leaves (i.e. raspberry leaves) pounded fine, into the salt some less Q (an, cover the meaning) of.” (Medical Compendium).  3, hyperkeratosis type rash to dry, flaking, chapped, the choice of Huang Lian cream, moisten muscle cream, red oil cream, Xiong Huang cream and other external application, 1 to 2 times / day. “Toe dry, often coated with Huang Lian cream” (“Tong Yuan Medical Book (Surgery)”) 4, tinea pedis secondary infection rash to vesicles, redness, oozing, combined with poisoning, the choice of Huang Ding water lotion soak feet, followed by Qing Dai San, vegetable oil mixed into a paste, applied externally to the affected area; or “Jie Ying San treatment feet dampness into sores, itching Can not be when, crawl the flow of yellow water. The dried Capricorn sheep dung for the end, placed on the tile, the hand of bamboo wood fire burned as ash, and research fine. The first wash with onion and pepper soup, the second with sesame oil mix thick compress, to camellia leaf fomentation (yan, cover, cover the meaning of) of the, silk binding four or five days can be.”  The mild symptoms of tinea pedis are mainly itching, and can be washed with salt tea soup and then sprinkled with white alum powder. “If the toe is usually itchy, but wash it with salt tea soup and sprinkle it with calcined dead white alum powder.” (“Tong Yuan Medical Book (Surgery)”), in addition to alum 9g, Wang Bu Liuxing 30g treatment, daily with a portion of medicine, boil water half a pot, while half warm feet soak 15 minutes, twice a day, soak again with warm. (This is a skin disease caused by fungal invasion of the nail plate. Almost any fungus that causes the disease can cause nail infection (see clinical manifestations), both directly due to trauma and secondary to tinea capitis. The disease is usually caused by nail infection in cases of nail damage, susceptible people, and decreased immune function of the body. Due to the thick nail plate, it is difficult for the medicine to penetrate and the infection is often not easily cured. The disease can be treated with white fenugreek in Chinese medicine.