Pruritus is wind-induced symptoms Chinese medicine teaches you how to stop itching

2018-10-31 People's Daily online - life times

According to traditional Chinese medicine, pruritus is a symptom caused by wind-evil and is related to mental activities. Because, SAO urticant is a kind of feeling above all, swim like the wind does not have steady place, rise over and over, heavy occurrence is upset, insomnia, wait for spirit symptom easily. The treatment of pruritus in traditional Chinese medicine, according to the results of clinical syndrome differentiation and the characteristics of skin diseases, mainly has two major rules.

Wind relief and antipruritic method. It is mainly used for the initial appearance, the wind pathogenic to the muscle surface, skin pruritus, red papule or rubella like damage. Due to the differences in wind heat or wind chill, clinical manifestations can be cold, fever, thirst, pharynx, pulse floating number or floating slow symptoms, commonly seen in acute pruritic skin diseases, such as acute urticaria, acute eczema, skin pruritus. General, in dispersing wind medicine the addition walks the blood to divide the medicine, if angelica, salvia miltiorrhiza, living ground, red peony, chicken blood rattan and so on, stop the itch effect is better, is so-called "cures the wind to treat the blood first, the blood walk wind from extinguishes".

Nourishing blood, moisturizing skin and relieving itching. It is mainly used for skin diseases caused by wind or blood dryness, and its clinical manifestations are dry skin, dandruff, keratinization, chap, dry hair and shedding, and even blood deficiency, thin tongue, white moss, thin or slow pulse. Common in chronic pruritus diseases, such as chronic urticaria, chronic eczema, neurodermatitis, static psoriasis, and so on. The commonly used clinical prescription is: 1. Nourishing blood nourishing drink: take raw land, ripe land, angelica, astragalus, pollen each 9 grams, tiandong, radix ophiopogonis, peach kernel, safflower, scutellaria, 3 grams, water decoction. 2. Blood nourishing and detoxifying decoction: take 30g each of jixueteng, tuckahoe, 15g each of angelica, raw land, Chinese yam, Chinese spirit, beehive, and decocted in water.

For pruritus of different diseases, there are methods such as clearing heat and stopping pruritus, cooling blood and stopping pruritus, removing dampness and stopping pruritus, killing insects and killing pruritus, warming kidney and relieving pruritus, strengthening spleen and relieving pruritus, and soothing liver to stop pruritus. They should be selected flexibly according to clinical differentiation of syndromes, but they should be combined with two basic therapeutic principles.