Western medicine believes that urticaria is mainly manifested as wheal or vascular edema. Antihistamines are often used to treat urticaria, such as loratadine and cetirizine.
How does Chinese medicine treat urticaria?
It can be seen that Chinese medicine is closely related to wind, so the rash caused by urticaria is also called "wind mass". This coincides with the cognition of western medicine.
Therefore, the treatment of urticaria must first cure the wind.
Chinese medicine believes that treating wind first cures blood, and blood comes out by itself. Therefore, to treat urticaria, it is necessary to promote blood circulation and dredge menstruation.
As mentioned above, western medicine believes that urticaria is partly caused by vascular edema, so it is best to have a certain diuretic effect.
In addition, urticaria has another feature, that is, itchy skin.
To sum up, the treatment of urticaria should not only dispel wind, but also promote blood circulation and regulate menstruation, promote diuresis and relieve itching.
Today, I will introduce a little-known Chinese medicine, Lulutong, which can be used for urticaria.
Passepartout tastes bitter and flat, and enters the liver and kidney meridians.
Chinese medicine believes that bitter taste can dry and damp, so Passepartout has the functions of dispelling wind and removing dampness, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals.
Whether it's rheumatic joint pain, numbness and contracture,
Or qi and blood stasis, venous obstruction, hemiplegia after stroke, can be improved with Passepartout.
Imagine that numbness, contracture and hemiplegia of limbs after stroke can be effective, not to mention the wind mass of small urticaria.
Passepartout is particularly good at studying classical literature,
Passepartout, long and round, has many honeycomb holes on its surface.
These caves are not separate individuals, but extend in all directions and connect with each other, hence the name Passepartout.
Chinese medicine takes this image and thinks that it is very similar to the pulse condition of the meridians extending in all directions of the human body, and can connect the meridians.
The occurrence of urticaria is mostly caused by blockage of meridians in the body, otherwise there will be no wind mass formed by local skin uplift.
In short, it is a word "Guo".
Whether it is promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and dredging menstruation,
Or soothing the liver and regulating qi, dredging channels and activating collaterals,
Or if the milk doesn't flow, it is right to use some passepartout.
Passepartout tastes bitter, stops diarrhea, can induce diuresis to reduce swelling and treat edema.
It is often used with herbs such as Poria, Polyporus and Alisma orientalis.
So the vascular edema caused by urticaria is not a problem for Passepartout.
Passepartout also has the function of relieving itching, which is mostly used for rubella itching.
It is often combined with Kochia scoparia, Tribulus terrestris and Sophora flavescens for oral administration or external washing.
Finally, it should be noted that this medicine has the function of dredging menstruation and is not recommended for people with menorrhagia and pregnant women.