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Traditional Chinese Medicine / External herbal ointment for scald/empyrosis/ burn pain

For external injury as burning pain, herbal ointment treatment is one of TCM specialit ies , especially to patients who are allergic to steroid or chemical ingredients. Shown in the pic, the patient got burn on Feb 28, after using the TCM white ointment for 3 days, the wound dried soon and reducing the pain day by day. As his description, before if he got burn, the wound always turned to phlycten and easily got infection. Since he used the TCM external treatment, the burning wound recover a lot faster than before. After routine diagnosis, external herbs are prescribed for different types of derma, injuries and pain problems. With thousands of years wisdom, natural herbal combination were made by rich experience and based on the knowledge of Chinese Medicine.

Acupuncture and TCM for atopic dermatitis / eczema/ allergic rhinitis

Patient of years of eczema on both elbows, suffered from skin itchy and off. Mainly came for allergic rhinitis since he was small, after acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine treatment, his situation is under well controlled from allergy in single morning to almost none. In TCM point of view, “lung governing skin and hair”, therefore, his skin reflects the heat in the lung, which we focus on clearing the heat and strengthen his digestive system as he had constipation as well. If you learn TCM, that’s called earth(stomach, spleen) generates metal(lung, big intestine). Here’s the definition of eczema in dermatitis explanation as reference: Chronic eczema: multiple episodes of acute and subacute eczema have evolved and become chronic inflammation. The skin of the affected area thickens and becomes dark red and pigmented. When lasting, the skin lesions are thick and dry and easy to chapped. It is common in crus, hand, foot, elbow, vulva, anus and so on.