Chinese medicine to tell you; What's the best way to prevent chapping in winter

2018-01-10 People's Daily overseas edition

In winter the weather is dry, and the feet and cracks often confuse people. The clinical features of foot and dry cleft are the rough thickening of the foot skin, the occurrence of fissure and local pain, can be accompanied by hemorrhage, even the walking dare not touch the ground, the activity is limited. Chinese medicine is called "broken boil". This disease is common to the adult, especially the common disease of the old people, often, although it is not a serious disease, but most of the time to delay, make people miserable, especially in winter.

The occurrence of chaps is related to the anatomical and physiological characteristics of local skin and various external factors, as well as the general condition. The anatomical and physiological characteristics of the foot skin is the thickness of the stratum corneum, which can be up to 100 layers, and the keratinocytes are irregular. And the free skin hair follicle and sebaceous glands, which makes the local water retention in the skin, sebum on the skin of embellish is limited by a certain speech &drama, when various external factors, prone to skin chapping. External factors include a variety of physical and chemical factors, such as cold season of outdoor activities, often use cleaner, foot superficial fungal infections and partial excessive friction etc., to reduced skin elasticity, cause cracked after pull.

The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks, is as a result of the cold cold wind outside the skin dry cracked heels so that blood block, the body down, poor blood running, limb, meridians, alongwith gradually withered gradually from brittle, inside by the spleen and kidney deficiency, qi deficiency blood dry, alongwith skin caused by. "The etiology" cloud: "chap, muscle break. In the winter, the touch of cold, hand and foot broken, so called chapped. And even out of the breach." "The symptoms of the disease and the skin and skin of vanity" and the cloud: "the blood of the five viscous, five viscous qi, nourishing the skin. In vain, the blood is weak, and the skin cannot be outgrown.

Combine internal and external factors. To treat foot and chap, first of all should prevent cold and keep warm, in the cold winter, should pay special attention to the feet warm, wear socks, warm shoes. This is very useful for preventing chapped heels. The external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine is mainly composed of invigorating blood, silting and dryness. We can soak the grass, qiang, angelica, myrrh, safflower, blood, red peony root, pawn, raw ground and turnip soup. Traditional Chinese medicine is mainly used for nourishing blood and nourishing Yin. Experience of traditional Chinese medicine available cultivated land 20 grams, 15 grams of radix rehmanniae, cornel 15 grams, 15 grams, lily dwarf lilyturf 15 grams, 15 grams, radix asparagi dittany skin 15 grams, 15 grams of herba schizonepetae, huang jing 15 grams, rhizoma ligustici wallichii 10 grams, 10 grams angelica, safflower, 10 grams.

When the heel appears chapped, there are several points to pay attention to: first, do not cut, tear open the skin, so as not to form the wound; Secondly, don't wear too tight shoes and walk less, so as not to rub the heel, make the cuticle thicker. Also, soak the heel in water for too long and the water temperature should not be too high. Patients who are prone to chaps should eat more oil during the dry and cold season. The disease course is long or old patient should increase nutrition, nourishing qi and blood, appropriate to eat a few pig liver, pig skin, mutton, glue, fish liver oil pills is also very necessary.