Eczema Treatment And Herbal Law Research

Eczema is a kind of common anaphylaxis inflammation skin disease that named after its cutaneous rash feature. Modern medical science pathogens and pathogenesis mechanism have not been expounded completely. Epidemic disease is studied and the results show that the eczema patient population is large and its symptom causes great suffering to patients. The prevention and treatment of this disease is an important medical and social problem. Immunomodulators, Antihistamines ,etc. are usually used in Modern medical science, although they control symptoms relatively promptly, but long-term application may cause various bad reaction and side effects. Stopping medication too suddenly might cause hyperreflexia and worsen the skin problem.Many ancient books and records of traditional chinese medicine have discussed about the eczema treatment by differentiation of syndrome. Such materials illustrate the advantage of treating eczema using traditional chinese medicine. However, these rich academic resources need to be arranged efficiently in order to promote and inherit the therapeutic methods of eczema.Reviewing TCM literature, Treatment by Differentiation of Syndrome and combination of author’ s clinical experience, TCM believes the etiology for eczema can be caused by insufficiency of innate endowment, or of the improper diet or drinking or excessive intake of wind-stirring acrid or fishy food, which impair the spleen and stomach and cause the dysfunction of spleen in transportation and give rise to dampness-heat brewing in the interior. With the invasion of the wind-damp-heat pathogens from the exterior, the endogenous and exogenous pathogens combine and contend with each other, the nosogenetic substance overflows the skin and lies depressed in the interstice to bring on the disease. The Dampness is the main pathogenic factor. Governed by the excess syndrome at an initial stage, the eczema has the characteristics of. acute onset. While the dampness is not yet conspicuous, the alternate attacks result in itchy skin, erythema and papule appearing on the body surface and the subjective feeling of burning sensation, which are all the manifestations of the wind-heat-damp toxin syndrome. With the progress of the condition, the dampness integrates with the wind-heat. The damp-heat brews, steams and accumulates on the skin, thus causing the appearance of vesicle, bulla, erosion, effusion, which are the manifestations of the syndrome of exuberant damp-heat toxin, This is the heyday of the evolution of eczema. If spleen is encumbered by dampness, as dampness by nature is heavy and turbid, sticky and stagnant, hence the disease is prolonged and persistent, and develops into the syndrome of spleen insufficiency with exuberant dampness, The enduring damp-heat is apt to obstruct the qi activity. Depressed qi transforming into fire is bound to damage the yin-blood. Or the percolation of the water-humor depletes the blood and yin overtime to bring about dryness and engender wind.Hence the skin is deprived of the nourishment and becomes thickening, drying, cracking and with scales, which are the manifestations of the syndrome of wind-dryness due to blood deficiency.From the above evolution of pathogenesis, the therapeutic methods commonly used are: dispelling wind and eliminating dampness, nourishing blood and dispersing wind method, clearing heat and promoting diuresis, clearing spleen and draining fire, clearing heart and abducting dampness, clearing liver and resolving dampness, fortifying spleen and eliminating dampness method, transforming stasis and percolating dampness, nourishing yin and dispelling dampness, nourishing blood and moistening dryness method and so on and so forth.By collecting and analysing the statistics of the prescriptions in recipes for eczema treatment from the TCM literature both ancient and modern, we explore the major therapeutic methods as Disperse Wind, Dispell Dempness and Clearing Heat. The prescription are basically combined with exterior-releasing herbs, heat-clearing herbs, eliminating dampness herbs, itch relief herbs, tonifying and replenishing herbs. Finally conclude the best 25 herbs routinely used as the basic therapeutic method for eczema, such as "fang feng" (Radix Saposhnikoviae), "she chuang zi" (Fructus Cnidii),etc.According to the above-mentioned research result, the clinical observation was carried out by 120 eczema patients to prove the therapeutic efficacy of the herbs. The total effective rate reached 95.84%. This result not only verifies this thesis and medication Iaw for the eczema’ s treatment by differentiation of syndromes, it also shows that the precious experience and knowledge by traditional Chinese medicine is worth our efforts to further inherit and develop.