Traditional Chinese medicine explains that this syndrome is caused by heat and blood dryness, prolonged course of disease, dark consumption of yin and blood, blood deficiency and wind dryness, and exogenous cold.
Blood deficiency and wind dryness are actually two dialectical terms in traditional Chinese medicine. Blood deficiency refers to the pathology of physical weakness caused by lack of study. Blood deficiency and anemia can be caused by excessive blood loss or chronic bleeding, viscera deficiency and hypofunction or disorder of metaplasia and blood. Clinically, it is generally divided into deficiency of heart and blood, liver blood deficiency and deficiency of both heart and spleen. Wind dryness refers to the combination of wind and dryness, which is often felt in autumn dry season. The clinical manifestations are headache, fever, aversion to cold and anhidrosis, nasal congestion, dry mouth, dry throat, dry cough, chest tightness, costalgia, dry skin, thin and dry tongue coating and floating pulse. If we put blood deficiency and wind dryness together, it means that blood deficiency produces wind, and liquid dryness produces wind, which is collectively called deficiency wind moving internally.
Signs: at first, the skin appeared dry and moist, and later it became rough and thick, like moss and mat lines; Macula is mostly reddish or light brown; The skin surface is quite dry, like dried fish skin, covered with chaff-like scales, and in severe cases there will be cracks of different lengths and depths; I feel itchy badly, especially at night. When I scratch it, I have itchy marks all over my body and blood scabs. The fingernails are dry and lose luster; Accompanied by listlessness, palpitation and insomnia, shortness of breath and fatigue, constipation; The tongue is red and cracked, with little or mirror-like moss and thin and weak pulse.
Nursing: 1. Most of the symptoms of this syndrome are generalized rash and itching all over the body, so patients should be advised not to eat fishy food and spicy wine and cheese diet, and their personality should be stable to avoid anxiety and anger.
2. The affected area should not abuse external drugs with strong irritation, nor should it be scalded with hot water or soap to avoid sun exposure or cold stimulation.
3. Timely mineral spring bath, bran bath and starch bath, and topical skin care oil can keep skin soft, reduce scales and control itching.