Traditional Chinese medicine may be helpful in the treatment of eczema:
Adults with eczema also can benefit from traditional Chinese medicine, Japanese researchers report.
They studied 274 men and women who had suffered from eczema for an average of 12 years. Nearly one-third had severe or very severe symptoms, with patches of chronically itchy, dry, inflamed skin over at least 10% of their body.
“Medicinal Chinese herbal remedies were selected and administered in accordance with the sufferer’s symptoms — an approach known as Sho in oriental medicine,” says Yoshiteru Shimoide, MD, head of the Yoshiteru Shimoide Clinic of Internal Medicine in Kagoshima City.
After 3-4 months of treatment, 87% of the patients were symptom-free. An additional 12% markedly improved, he tells WebMD.
One patient showed mild abnormalities in liver function, which were alleviated by stopping the herbal therapy.
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