Urticaria is a common condition that is a temporary edematous damage to the skin caused by an allergic reaction in the body.

The onset of the disease is rapid, with rapid itching and clamminess of the skin, which quickly subsides. Sometimes several times a day, itching unbearable. When it subsides, it leaves no traces, but scratching the skin because of itching is another matter.

Urticaria is known as ''addiction rash'' in Chinese medicine and ''rubella lumps'' in folklore.

According to Chinese medicine theory, urticaria occurs mainly due to the physique's vegetative qi and blood deficiencies and low immunity. When there is a lot of stress and emotional tension, it can induce this disease.

Allergies, eating foods that cause allergies such as fish, shrimp, crab, etc., and I have seen people drinking alcohol cause hives.

Some people have very heavy dampness, which is deposited in the skin, and this condition is triggered by external wind, cold, dampness and heat. Some people go out into the wind and get rubella lumps.

Some people like to eat fat, sweet, thick and greasy food, spleen and stomach disharmony, dampness and heat, gastrointestinal heat, but also feel the wind, the internal shall not be drained, the external shall not be penetrated, triggering urticaria.

Western medicine treats it with anti-allergy therapy.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) subconditional treatment.

In the wind-heat type, the wind lumps are bright red in color, itchy and feverish, and wind-heat should be dispelled and cleared. The medicines used are thorns, windbreaks, angelica, raw earth, bitter ginseng, cicadas, motherwort, burdock, cangzhu, silver flowers, forsythia, yellow dock, and so on.

In the wind-cold type, the wind lumps are pale or pale in color and should be dispelled to dispel wind and cold. The medicines used are cinnamon sticks, roasted licorice, fuchsia, antifungal, red peony, ginger peel and red dates.

Rheumatic type, with wind lumps in pieces and swelling of the limbs, mostly in the lower limbs, should clear away heat and dampness to dispel wind. Medicinal use of Qiangwu, Fangfeng, Cangzhu, Huangbai, Bitter ginseng, Difengzi, Angelica sinensis, Tribulus terrestris, Cangdongzi, Baiwu Pi, Poria cocos and so on.

For the qi and blood deficiency type with recurrent wind lumps that do not heal over the years, blood should be nourished to dispel wind. Medicines include Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Rhizoma Cicadellariae, Radix Fenghuang Fenghuang, Radix Astragali.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) dialectic treatment is sufficient.

There is a case, every day in hot water will be hives, painful and abnormal, more than half a year. Western medicine can temporarily stop the itching, can not be cured. After seeking treatment from a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, taking fifteen doses of medicine, and then no hair.

Chinese medicine believes that urticaria appear more suddenly in the upper body and head and face, the first feeling of the body skin is particularly itchy, scratching after the manifestation of pale or reddish doughnut (whole or round) is the main thing, this and the wind for the yang evil, easy to attack the yang position, the characteristics of the good line of change is particularly similar, so Chinese medicine will be urticaria called the oil wind, addicted to the rash, rubella block, wind cholera, and so on.

Chinese medicine believes that urticaria is mostly caused by deficiency of yin and blood, blood deficiency generates dryness, excessive deficiency fire, dryness and heat generates fire and wind, or it is caused by the external invasion of wind evils, coupled with overeating spicy stimulation of cold and greasy and lead to. Generally these wind masses can disappear or recede on their own, and their skin is exactly the same as a normal person's after receding. However, there are individual allergic body or more special body may appear the edema, enlargement or expansion of the rash, causing breathing problems or even laryngeal edema and other malignant symptoms, need to rush to the regular hospital for treatment. Chinese medicine believes that if the condition is more urgent, the most serious symptoms should be solved first, and if the condition is not serious then we should start from the root of the disease, seek the most fundamental cause of the disease, and carry out the treatment for the cause. At the same time, Chinese medicine believes that the treatment of wind first treatment of blood, blood line wind since the extinction. Therefore, the treatment of urticaria is mostly from the perspective of clearing heat and cooling the blood, nourishing the blood and moisturizing the dryness of the yin and yin.

Chinese medicine believes that:First, some people like to eat spicy stimulation cold and greasy people, the body's internal environment is often in an acidic state, easy to appear hives. Secondly, people who often smoke and drink, work overtime, stay up late and sleep late at night are prone to hives. Third, poor physical condition, weak body yang qi, the whole body is often afraid of cold, afraid of the wind, cold hands and feet people are also prone to urticaria. Fourthly, people who are weak in qi and blood are prone to get urticaria if they have white or yellowish color, pale paw nails, feel weak when they move a little, always want to sleep, do not want to eat, dizziness, tinnitus, and so on. Fifth, often short-tempered, easy to think about things, easy to sulk people are prone to urticaria. Sixth, children with weak digestive ability, do not like to eat, stomach roundworms, sleep like teeth grinding people are prone to urticaria.

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Urticaria is an increase in the permeability of the body's small blood vessels, which leads to an increase in histamine in the body in the water of the small blood vessels, and thus the appearance of rubella masses, which are unbearably itchy and come and go.

Hives come and go, and it is very itchy. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) considers it to be the work of the wind, and the so-called itch comes from the wind. It can be treated by relieving the surface and sweating. For dispersing wind-cold, there are Gui Zhi Tang, Ephedra Tang, Gui Zhi and Ephedra Tang, and Gui Zhi and Yue Maiden Tang. Yin Qiao San (银翘散) and Sang Ju Drink (桑菊飲) are used to disperse wind-heat.

Wind can be external or internal. Wind can be generated by blood deficiency, so the so-called treatment of wind first treatment of blood, blood line wind since the end. When the blood is normalized, hives will be reduced naturally. Clinically, the commonly used angelica drink, with the four things soup to replenish blood, so that the blood is full, blood normalization will not give birth to wind.

Dampness stagnation, impregnation of muscles and skin, can also lead to urticaria. Clinically often used castor seed drink, wind dispersal, angelica shellfish bitter ginseng pill to remove dampness, so that the wind has nothing to rely on, so there will be itchy hives lingering.

Clinical symptoms of urticaria are too numerous to be discussed in detail in a single article, so if you need to go to a regular hospital.

Urticaria is known as 'addiction rash' in Chinese medicine, commonly known as 'wind therapy block'. Clinical characteristics of the sudden local or generalized size of the wind, itchy and unbearable. They appear quickly and fade quickly, appearing one after the other and leaving no traces when they recede. Severe cases may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, chest tightness, heartburn, pallor, hypothermia, shortness of breath and other systemic symptoms. According to the duration of the onset of the disease, generally the onset of acute, the course of the disease within 3 months is called acute urticaria, the recurrence of hives more than 3 months is called chronic urticaria. According to Chinese medicine; wind, cold, heat, insects, qi and blood deficiencies can cause this disease.

In real life, I'm sure many people have experienced hives. In Chinese medicine, urticaria is also known as rubella bumps, rubella or hives, mainly because the skin symptoms on the body of urticaria patients look like bumps, red and swollen. So, under what circumstances are people's bodies prone to hives? Let's explain today.

Generally speaking, there are many reasons why people are prone to hives, including allergies, poor personal health and wrong dietary habits.

I. Allergies

As we all know, hives are very often caused by skin allergies, and we are often allergic to foods such as seafood, mangoes, or contact with allergens such as pollen. Therefore, when we consume too much food such as seafood or come into contact with pollen, our body can easily develop hives due to an allergic reaction.

II. Personal constitution

People with good physical condition will have better resistance and immunity, so they will not be easily infected by germs or viruses. On the contrary, some people with poor health, resistance and immunity are not good, it is easy to be invaded by germs and infections, and germs and infections will increase the likelihood of hives. In addition, when the human body has a cold and fever, the body is also very easy because of the decline in resistance and hives.

III. Personal habits

In daily life, some people are lazy or busy and neglect to clean their rooms regularly or change their personal clothes. This can easily cause various microorganisms to grow and infect the skin, which can lead to hives. In addition, staying up late for a long time will also increase the probability of urticaria.

Instructor: Su Yufeng, Deputy Chief Physician, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chuzhou First People's Hospital.

She specializes in integrating Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of common internal diseases, such as spleen and stomach diseases, hypertension, diabetes, etc., as well as dietary guidance for chronic diseases.

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Chinese medicine how to understand do not know, why out of this problem can be explained, liver function and intestinal immune shielding insufficient, the body allergens increased, the immune system is over-activated. If you want to cure, regulate the stomach and intestines to nourish the liver and gallbladder, dietary taboos for a period of time usually need a few months can be cured. Mainly and diet unclean nutrition insufficient liver function decline caused.

It should be divided into acute and chronic cases. Acute cases are mostly due to the invasion of external evils, such as wind-cold, wind-heat, wind-dampness, fire-poisoning, food injury, etc., which are similar to bacterial infections, viral infections, dietary allergies, inhalant allergies, etc., as mentioned in modern medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine is mainly used to drive away the evil spirits, and most of the prescriptions used are in the three Yang meridians, such as ephedra soup and gui zhi soup for sweating in the Sun meridian, xiao chai hu soup for regulating the Shao yang meridian, and bai hu soup and elimination of wind in the Yang ming meridian for clearing away the heat.

Chronic cases are mostly related to the deficiency of positive energy, that is, the immune function is not normal, and the allergens may not be detected, but it is easy to have an attack. Chinese medicine is mainly used to support positive energy, and most of the formulae used are in the three yin meridians, such as Lizhong Tang, Angelica Paeoniae Radix and Jade Screen Fung San in the Taiyin meridian, Ephedra, Psoralea and Psoralea Radix and Sihui Tang in the Shaoyin meridian, and Wumei Pill in the syncopal meridian.

Urticaria is a dominant disease in Chinese medicine. While the Western approach is to take anti-allergy medication and slowly reduce the medication, Chinese medicine allows for a variety of ideas and a wider range of approaches.

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Hives this disease is a very common skin disease, we commonly known as rubella, its main manifestation is a lot of small bumps on our skin, protruding from the surface of the skin, some of these small bumps will be connected to a piece, especially when we scratch it, because it is particularly itchy, we will always be unable to resist scratching it, and once scratching is a large area, this itchy and intolerable, but also it is also its most difficult to tolerate.
Besides, the causes of urticaria are also very complicated, some are related to wind, some are related to food and drugs, some are related to sunlight exposure, and some are related to mental factors, in a word, the causes of the disease are very strange, and about 3/4 of the patients can not find the cause of the disease, which brings a lot of trouble to the treatment of urticaria, and a lot of patients suffer from it again and again, and they suffer a lot from recurrent episodes. Today, I will not only share with you the medical cases I have treated, but also share with you an ancient formula in China that specializes in the treatment of this disease. First, let's look at the medical case.
This is a 12-year-old boy, he was 2 days ago, after playing basketball, conscious neck skin itching, and then he began to scratch, the results of a scratch, the neck appeared a large red pimples, the more scratching the area of the red rash, the larger, his mother rubbed some topical ointment, the itching can be alleviated a little bit, but not for long and itchy, and the rash spread to the chest and back and both sides of the upper limbs, his mother and His mom gave him some anti-allergy medicine, but there was no relief. So she brought him to me. His mom used to be my old patient and trusted me.
When this child came to me, the whole body basically have patches and patches of red rash, some places were scratched by the child, there is water oozing out, her mother told me the general situation, I asked the little boy, what do you feel now, he said that he felt itchy all over his body, and a little bit of nausea, last night did not sleep well all night.
I checked his tongue and pulse, red tongue with thin white moss and floating pulse. Urticaria is a disease called rubella in Chinese medicine, which is mainly caused by wind-heat or wind-dampness attacking the human body, which can't be drained internally, and can't be penetrated externally, leading to the formation of wind-dampness or wind-heat in the skin between the coupled tissues. In the Ming Dynasty, Chen Shikong's "Surgery" recorded a special treatment of rubella, eczema formula, this formula is very effective, and is often used in clinical practice. This formula is the elimination of wind, I in the treatment of rubella and eczema, but also often with this formula as the basis for the addition and subtraction, have achieved very good results, basically two weeks can be completely solve the problem of rubella, eczema.
This child is also treated with this formula with additions and subtractions. The formula has thorn mustard, windbreak, cicada metamorphosis, burdock, these four drugs are mainly to ease the wind and stop itching, used to get rid of the wind in the surface of the evil, cangzhu to dispel the wind and dry dampness, bitter ginseng to clear the heat and dry dampness, a small Tongcao seepage of dampness and heat, the three drugs with, clear and benefit the skin to get together between the dampness and heat, together with the gypsum, motherwort to clear the heat and diarrhea fire, angelica sinensis, the groundnut, the flax nut to nourish the blood and activate the blood, traditional Chinese medicine, "the treatment of the wind is first to treat blood, blood, wind from the line", so to add some blood to activate the blood. Chinese medicine says that "treating wind first treats blood, and blood line is extinguished", so we should add some medicines that nourish blood and activate blood, and finally use raw licorice to clear heat and detoxify toxins, but also to harmonize all medicines.
I in the basis of this formula, only added a flavor of white moss skin, to strengthen the power of wind and itching, this child with a week of medicine is basically not itchy, rubella also eliminated a large portion of it, continue to take the medicine a week after the full healing. Urticaria this disease has a chronic recurrence, the same with the wind dispersal treatment, will receive good results, in addition, urticaria should pay attention to diet, can not eat spicy stimulating food, can not eat seafood, beef and mutton and other hair, can not drink alcohol, pay attention to rest, do not get windy and cold.

The causes of urticaria are very complex, and about 3/4 of patients cannot find the cause, especially for chronic urticaria. Common causes include: food and food additives; inhalants; infections; medications; physical factors such as mechanical stimulation, heat and cold, sunlight, etc.; insect bites; psychiatric factors and endocrine changes; and genetic factors.

The disease is diagnosed on the basis of the clinical presence of a hives-like rash. Diagnosis is generally not difficult, but the causes of urticaria are complex, and determining the cause of urticaria is often difficult; therefore, it is necessary to clarify the cause of urticaria as much as possible by taking a detailed history, a detailed physical examination, and relevant laboratory tests.

Some patients may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, headache, head swelling, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and in severe cases, systemic symptoms such as chest tightness, discomfort, pallor, accelerated heart rate, weak pulse, decreased blood pressure, and shortness of breath.

If the disease clears up in a short period of time, it is called acute urticaria. If the disease recurs at least twice a week for more than 6 weeks, it is called chronic urticaria. In addition to the common type of urticaria mentioned above, there are also the following special types of urticaria.

Urticaria from the symptomatic manifestations of the characteristics of the wind blowing will be easy to hair, hair when it comes and goes quickly, and the wind, like the same, take the analogies, therefore, in Chinese medicine belongs to the wind, regardless of the wind-heat, wind-cold, wind-dampness, or blood deficiencies and the wind, always outside and the wind-related. Chinese medicine treatment to identify what type of evidence, that can be used. But all wind because "good behavior and several changes", changeable, so it is more difficult to cut off the root, in the treatment should pay attention to nourish the blood to treat the root and continue to use drugs, in order to be able to achieve satisfactory results.

Urticaria in Chinese medicine is called ghost wind bumps, wind ball, addiction rash. It is characterized by sudden appearance and disappearance, and leaves no trace after disappearance. The cause of the disease is due to the attack of wind evil on the skin, so Chinese medicine is mostly treated with drugs to dispel wind. Recently, due to the changes in people's living habits and disease spectrum, urticaria caused by internal factors is also more frequent, especially the changes in the gastrointestinal tract leading to changes in intestinal micro-ecology, which often becomes a common cause of urticaria. Therefore, while treating urticaria with expectorants, drugs that regulate the gastrointestinal tract should also be used. 下面介绍一个清朝手抄本中治疗荨麻疹的方剂：防风、荆芥、羌活、当归、白芍、白术、苍术、姜半夏、陈皮、茯苓、炙甘草、萆薢、麦冬组成。 It is more effective in treating urticaria with external wind evil and internal stagnation. If there is no dampness, reduce castor oil, and if there is no Yin deficiency, reduce maitong.