(How to treat eczema: be careful of repeated flare-ups and eat more cooling foods)

Introduction: Should we often eat foods that clear heat and remove dampness to prevent eczema recurrence? Eczema is a common skin disease. It is an allergic reaction. The ancients called it "infiltration sores," "spinning ear particles," "hydrangea wind," and "milk ringworm," all of which are manifestations of eczema.
Prevention of eczema recurrence Eating foods that clear heat and remove dampness
Traditional Chinese medicine believes this disease is mainly related to dampness. Dampness can accumulate heat, manifesting as damp-heat syndromes. Over time, dampness damages the spleen, heat damages yin and blood, resulting in a mixed deficiency and excess syndrome. Acute eczema often presents with damp-heat syndrome, while chronic eczema is often a mixture of deficiency and excess. Treatment should involve both internal and external medications.

Patients with eczema can often eat foods that dispel dampness or clear heat and dampness, such as coix seed and winter melon soup, or drinking cucumber or loofah soup, which also has an auxiliary therapeutic effect. Traditional Chinese medicine has shown good treatment results for this disease. Eczema is characterized by erythema, blisters, exudation, erosion, itching, and papules. Due to the presence of dampness, recurrences occur. \1 Damp-heat syndrome
Most commonly seen in acute eczema. Symptoms include red skin, papules, or millet granular rashes, blisters at the tip, itching, tearing and oosing into patches, scabs may form, accompanied by dry mouth with little drinking, yellow urine, yellow greasy coating, red tongue, slippery rapid pulse. Treatment should focus on clearing heat and dispelling dampness. The following formulas can be selected: 1. 6-10g Scutellaria baicalensis, 10g phellodendron bark, 10g atractylodes, 12g sophora root, 15g plantain grass, 10g porus porus, decocted in water and taken orally. 2. Smilax poria 15-20g, coix seed 30g, akebia 10g, dandelion 20g, licorice 3g, decocted in water for oral administration. 3 Sophora flavescens 50g, Shechuangzi 30g, Xanthium seed 15g, decoct in water to obtain the medicinal liquid and wash the affected area.
4 Huang Lian 10g, Scutellaria 10g, calcined gypsum 10g, calcined calamine 12g, borneol 0.5g, mix into fine powder and set aside. If the skin is eroded and fluid, sprinkle the powder on the affected area; if the water is small or incomplete, mix well with sesame oil and apply externally.
5 100g fresh verbena, decoct in water to obtain the medicinal liquid, let cool, then wash the affected area. (6) 200g fresh purslane, decoct in water, take the medicinal liquid, and apply moistly to the affected area. Used for skin erosion and yellowish fluid.