The autumn weather turns cool, the climate is dry, the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, when there is an upper respiratory tract infection, it is easy to induce or aggravate the condition of psoriasis。

1. Do you know psoriasis？

(1) Understanding psoriasis

Psoriasis is a common chronic, recurrent and refractory disease in dermatology. The main clinical manifestations are erythema, papules with scales and pruritus of different degrees。In most patients, the onset or aggravation in autumn and winter, and the reduction or disappearance in spring and summer。

The aggravating factors are as follows: psychoneurotic factors (bad mood, stressful events, overwork of the body, etc.), bad living habits (smoking, drinking, lack of exercise, lack of sleep, etc.), infection, improper treatment, etc。

Recurrence season, prevention is key!

(2) Daily life care

Prevent colds, ensure adequate sleep, avoid excessive fatigue, and avoid the invasion of wind, humidity and heat。

It is advisable to choose soft, pure cotton sheets and clothes to reduce skin irritation and friction。 

It is recommended to choose emollients containing natural plant ingredients, fragrance-free and alcohol-free。Choosing appropriate emollients to maintain the integrity of the skin barrier, rational use of emollients can improve the skin barrier function and reduce the recurrence of psoriasis。

Strengthen fitness and cultural and sports activities, can carry out eight duan jin, Tai Chi and other health exercise。

(3) diet conditioning

The diet should be light, eat more fresh vegetables (such as cabbage, carrots, eggplant, bitter gourd, luffa, etc.), fruits (such as apples, pears, oranges, etc.), skin parts of a large number of dedandruff, should increase the intake of protein and trace elements, should eat poultry, livestock, eggs, milk, vegetable protein, etc。

Avoid tobacco and alcohol avoid spicy: Chinese medicine believes that spicy has the effect of divergence, such as pepper, Sichuan pepper, etc., spicy food will aggravate the disease。

Fast fishy food, such as beef and mutton, stinky tofu, seafood and so on。

(4) Adjust your mentality

Mental tension will increase and induce psoriasis, and psoriasis will in turn increase the burden of thought, leading to a vicious circle。We should learn to regulate our emotions, keep enough sleep, maintain a good mental state, and firmly overcome the confidence of the disease。

Establish a scientific medical treatment, standardized diagnosis and treatment of the mentality, serious illness to the hospital in time for treatment, will achieve the ideal effect。

2. Yunnan Special Hospital of TCM Dermatology

Psoriasis treatment big trick

(1) Chinese medicine bath

Traditional Chinese medicine bath therapy is to soak the psoriasis patients with traditional Chinese medicine in the skin lesions, so that the effective ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine directly contact the skin surface of the skin lesions, can play a moisturizing, anti-inflammatory and itchy effect, reduce the psoriasis patients skin dry, desquamation, itching and other symptoms。

(2) Bloodletting through cupping

Pricking and cupping blood letting is to stimulate the local skin's choroid veins to make it bleed, which can play a role in promoting blood stasis, removing blood stasis and generating new effects, so that old blood goes away and new blood is produced, thereby causing the rash to improve。

(3) Fire needle therapy

Fire needle open the door to remove evil, to evil way out, this evil is mostly wind evil, due to wind good deeds and number of changes, can be manifested as itching, and most skin diseases see itching。Fire needle therapy can induce heat to treat fiery skin disease。

(4) Traditional Chinese medicine encapsulation therapy

Encapsulation therapy can increase the penetration of the drug to the local skin, prolong the action time, maintain the local water, maintain the effective concentration of the drug, is conducive to the softening of the cuticle, reduce the scaling off, and promote the recovery of skin lesions。

By Ma Ling, Yunnan TCM Dermatology Hospital