When the rainy season and spring and summer alternate, there are always blisters on your hands and feet? And often accompanied by severe itching? In fact, these annoying blisters are commonly known as "sweat herpes"! Chinese medicine says that in order to get rid of herpes zoster, in addition to keeping the skin as dry and ventilated as possible. It is also a good method of self-conditioning and maintenance to make good use of Chinese medicine diet or external application to alleviate it.
Sweat herpes is inflammation of sweat glands? Allergy and temperature and humidity changes in the external environment are both potential causes.
Traditional Chinese medicine Kang said that the name of herpes zoster has the word "sweat", mainly because it was thought that the occurrence of herpes zoster was related to sweat gland inflammation. But in fact, at present, the medical community has confirmed that the cause of herpes zoster has little to do with sweat glands; It is related to many factors, such as allergic constitution, frequent contact with detergents on hands and feet, wearing gloves for a long time, great changes in temperature and humidity in the external environment or excessive emotional stress.
What's more, once herpes zoster breaks out, it is not only easy to cause blisters with different sizes of 1 ~ 10, but also often accompanied by moderate to severe itching. If the patient can't help scratching and scratching at will, not only will the affected part break into soup, but also the skin will have ugly desquamation and peeling problems. In severe cases, it may even increase the risk of infection due to the formation of wounds on the skin, and its danger should not be underestimated.
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Chinese medicine believes that herpes zoster is the chief culprit of abnormal moisture transmission in human body.
How does Chinese medicine treat herpes simplex? Kang, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, pointed out that as early as hundreds of years ago, our ancestors had discovered the symptoms of herpes simplex in the human body and recorded them in the literature catalogue. In the ancient Chinese medicine book "Choosing Doctors" in the Qing Dynasty, herpes zoster is called "ant nest", and its shape is very appropriate: "Ant nest has many hands and feet, which are like ant nests, just like needle eyes, itching into the heart and breaking fat water. 」
Dr Kang Han Jing further explained how to treat and deal with herpes simplex in TCM clinic. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the cause of herpes zoster is closely related to the normal transportation of moisture in human body. Simply put, the changes of personal internal constitution and external environment will further affect the transportation and metabolism of moisture in the human body.
Therefore, if people's diet is often unrestrained, and foods that are difficult for the spleen and stomach to digest, such as raw cold, barbecue and spicy frying, will easily damage the function of the spleen and stomach, cause poor transport and metabolism, accumulate moisture in the body, and then convert heat into damp heat constitution.
If people are in a hot and humid environment, the external heat and humidity will more easily stay on the skin surface of the human body, thus hindering the transfer of water in the body. This is also the reason why herpes zoster is particularly prone to occur in the rainy season. In addition, excessive negative emotions and stress lead to stagnation of liver qi, abnormal discharge of qi and blood and water in the body, which is also the key to the formation of herpes simplex.
The skill of traditional Chinese medicine in treating herpes simplex is to drink "Coix seed gorgon yam porridge" to strengthen the spleen, promote diuresis and scratch.
Kang Han Jing, a traditional Chinese medicine, pointed out that the clinical treatment of herpes zoster mostly starts with helping the water transport and metabolism in the human body return to normal. Generally speaking, in order to effectively eliminate dampness, it is often suggested to regulate the spleen, lungs and kidneys, or supplemented by soothing the liver and regulating qi at the right time.
In fact, the spleen, lungs and kidneys are important organs in charge of water and moisture metabolism in the human body, so if the daily maintenance can moderately replenish the temper, it can promote the transportation and transformation of moisture in the body; And dispersing lung qi contributes to the function of water emitting from the skin surface. Finally, the combination of invigorating kidney and qi, soothing the liver and regulating qi can improve the prolonged course of herpes zoster.
In addition to sharing the general principles of treating herpes simplex in traditional Chinese medicine, Dr. Kang also recommended a Chinese herbal diet "Coix seed and Euryale seed porridge" which is beneficial to strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis, helping to improve the function of the spleen and stomach, and maintaining the immune balance, and provided it to the public as a reference for daily food supplement and maintenance:
Coix seed Euryale ferox yam porridge
Ingredients: 40g of Coix seed, 20g of Gordon Euryale seed, 20g of Chinese yam, and 0/00g of white rice/kloc.
Exercise:
1. Wash Coicis Semen, Semen Euryales and Rhizoma Dioscoreae slices, take a large pot, add cold water that has submerged the medicinal materials, and soak for 30 minutes.
2. Simply wash and drain the white rice, add the spare medicinal materials that have just been soaked in advance, and add the right amount of water.
3. Then turn to high heat and cook. After the ingredients are boiled, turn to low heat and continue to cook for 30 minutes.
3. After cooking, move it into an electric cooker and add 2 cups of water to the outer cooker (stew for about 1 hour).
4. When the rice cooker jumps off, the ingredients can be cooked after boiling, and you can add appropriate amount of salt to taste according to your personal taste.
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In addition to taking drugs, or medicated diet and dietotherapy to regulate physical fitness, Dr. Kang Han Jing also mentioned that in fact, the common water and prescription for external use in traditional Chinese medicine are also very helpful for relieving itching in the acute stage of herpes simplex. It is suggested that people might as well use the following traditional Chinese medicines, make their own lotion for external use to treat sweating herpes, or wet compress the affected area, which is a good way to assist in regulating the local skin immune response:
Sweat herpes lotion
Materials: Radix Sophorae Flavescentis10g, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae10g, Kochia scoparia10g, Cortex Dictamni Radicis10g.
Exercise:
1. Wash the above medicinal materials, put them in a large pot of cold water at 1000 c, and soak them for about10 minute.
2. Then, move the pot to the gas stove, cook it with low fire for 15 minutes, and let it cool to about 35 ~ 40℃. ..
3. Put the soup into a basin and cool it to 35 ~ 40 degrees Celsius. ..
4. You can soak it moderately (limited to 20 minutes each time) and wipe the parts with herpes on your hands and feet. You can also use 4 ~ 5 layers of gauze or clean towel dipped in medicine juice to smear the itchy part of the body, and change the gauze every 10 minute/time, and repeat it three times until the itching is relieved, every day 1 round.
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Finally, Dr. Kang Zhong also reminded friends who have a history of herpes and are troubled that if they want to avoid the recurrence of herpes, they should try to choose light and light food in their daily diet, develop a normal routine and maintain emotional stability, which will help prevent the occurrence of diseases.
The most important thing is to wear loose cotton clothes when the weather is hot, try to keep your skin dry, and reduce the use of detergent or direct hands and feet. If you accidentally form herpes zoster, you should avoid excessive scratching to prevent further infection. It is suggested that vaseline or other moisturizing emulsion with simple ingredients can be applied appropriately to repair the damaged skin when the skin is peeled off and falls off.