Chinese Medicine

What is eczema?
Eczema is a medical term used to describe various skin conditions. Also known as dermatitis, eczema causes signs and symptoms like redness, swollen edema, itchy skin, cracking oozing, recurring skin rashes, dryness etc.

Unknown causes for eczema
It is still unknown to us that what is the root or primary cause for eczema. Modern medicine thinks that it might be combined complex factors to cause eczema, including from exterior and interior. Interior factors are so-called “eczema habitus”, which might be related to genetics or genes. People with this eczema habitus are more susceptible to factors such as allergies or exposure to skin-irritating substances. The exterior factors are more complex, including as follows:
        (1) Sea food such as fish, shrimp;
        (2) Powder like pollen, acarid, epiphyte, spore; 
        (3) Surroundings like change of sunlight, temperature and humidity;
        (4) Skin-irritating substances like fur and chemicals like makeup, detergent etc.

In summary, the causes of eczema are various, and vary from person to person.

Eczema and dampness pathogen
Due to the complex and unknown pathogenesis of eczema, modern medicine lack effective methods to get rid of it. The use of steroids, antibiotics, and antihistamines often has unpleasant and sometimes dangerous side effects. But Chinese medicine is a natural remedy and is a more safe and effective way to treat eczema.

Traditional Chinese Medicine names this skin conditions with its dampness pathogen. From TCM perspective, dampness pathogen has its own unique disposition as follows:
      (1) Characteristic of dampness being heavy, turbid and descending. Suffering from dampness, Lower Jiao is the first part to be affected, such as lower limbs, pudendum etc.
      (2) Dampness is yin pathogen, characteristic of dampness being sticky and stagnant. So the condition tends to last for long time and stay uncured.
      (3) Combining with other pathogens such as heat, cold, wind etc., eczema tends to recurrence due to dampness are susceptible to transform into heat or cold.

Get rid of eczema by natural remedy
Traditional Chinese Medicine consider that the root cause of eczema is stagnation of excessive wind, dampness and heat in skin because of the weakness of natural endowment; Or dysfunction of spleen; Or lack of nutrient-blood lead to stagnation of dampness-heat, then eczema grows from malnourished skin due to blood deficiency and wind dryness.

Chinese medicine is the use of completely natural remedy to help in curing eczema. But as you may know that natural remedy is tailored to individual patients depending on their particular diagnosis. So if you have eczema problems, please go and see a local Licensed Acupuncturist or Herbalist, he would give you a full diagnosis based on syndrome differentiation, and then prescribe the formulas which fit you the most.