Create A Customized Herbal Formula For Eczema

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COMING THIS FALL from BayTree Publications Dr. Shen's Handbook: A Patient's Guide to Chinese Medicine

Eczema is usually a sign of Interior Heat and Dryness.
Several different conditions are diagnosed as eczema.
Heat in the Blood, Yin Repletion Heat, Blood Deficiency Dryness are all called eczema.

Treating eczema requires herbs and acupuncture appropriate to the correct Chinese diagnosis.  Curing eczema requires understanding the root causes.

Finding the Causes

Heat
In terms of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Heat refers to heat you can measure, like a fever, or heat you can't measure, like a hot flash. No matter the type or source of it, Heat sets matters in motion and triggers activity.

Heat appears as inflamation, hyperactivity, or over- stimulation. Heat can come from irritating chemicals, foreign organisms, or by the friction caused by the constrained flow of qi (energy). Heat is also the by-product of our metabolism and our digestion. Hormonal activity causes and is stimulated by heat. An overly stimulating diet can cause excess heat; so can a hyperactive mind or life style. Since friction, caused by the emotional constraint of qi, causes heat, frustration and emotional friction are considered to cause heat as well.

Our skin reflects heat as rashes, redness, pimples, boils, dryness, infections, and other skin inflammations. *Sometimes heat is caused by Blood Deficiency. If blood is deficient, it can cause more problems than just dryness.  Deficient blood cannot properly dilute normal cell wastes (toxins) which must be transported in the blood. Toxic Heat in the Blood will result. This condition will be diagnosed as many different inflamatory skin diseases. Eczema is often diagnosed when internal heat generates dryness in the skin.

Dryness
Dryness can come from heat, fluid deficiency, or a dry environment.  Dry weather, wind, or the influence of drying substances can cause internal and external dryness. Dryness can also come from deficiency of blood or other fluids.  Internal heat, whether from feverish disease or from fluid deficiency, will further scorch the fluids, causing more dryness.

*In cases of blood deficiency, Eight Treasures (Women's Precious Pills) (a 'Blood Tonic') can be used concurrently.

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For those unable to find professional help, the following base formula treats heat and dryness, and can be helpful in most cases. It works best when heat from dietary sources is minimized.

Create A Customized Herbal Formula For Eczema

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Use the base formula alone or add herbs for different kinds of eczema

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For General Skin Dryness add:

More Help with Heat

For Blood Deficiency add: Eight Treasures (Women's Precious Pills)  
For Stress induced heat add: Free & Easy Pills or Jia Wei Xiao Yao Wan.

TOPICAL HERBS FOR ECZEMA

Spring Wind Herbal Ointment for Eczema and Skin Inflamations

sesame oil, beeswax, rehmannia, arnebia, coptis, safflower, tangkuei, peach pit and gancao

Spring Wind Herbal Moisturizing Soap

 Treating Eczema with Foods

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