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"When I go to bed at night, I keep a knife next to my pillow all year round, which is specifically used to hang up itch." Mr. Shi smiled while looking at camera.

54-year-old Mr. Shi has been suffering from psoriasis for almost 20 years. Over past 20 years, he has never worn short-sleeved shorts, and swimming in water has become a luxury for him.

"When shaking hands with others, people will pretend to be invisible to avoid them and almost lose social contact." Mr. Shi took initiative to lift up his clothes to hide his illness like a "fig leaf". After illness, I also experienced a lot of emotions. In fact, many people have more or less prejudices and misunderstandings about psoriasis. Today I will tell you about it.

Psoriasis is commonly known as psoriasis and there are basically 4 types

Psoriasis, also known as psoriasis, is a chronic inflammatory skin disease. Depending on place of origin, psoriasis can be divided into four types: psoriasis vulgaris, arthropathic, pustular, and erythrodermic.

1. Normal

Psoriasis vulgaris is most common type, with disease mainly concentrating on scalp, limbs and trunk. Among them, in most patients with psoriasis, 50% of focus of disease falls on scalp. Psoriasis vulgaris manifests itself as red papules, plaques or plaques on skin, and on surface of papules there are silver-white phosphorous scales of irregular shape and size. Gently scrape off silvery white phosphorus with your fingers and a small amount of blood will come out of it.

2. Arthropathy

Clinically, arthropathic psoriasis is relatively rare and mainly affects joints such as fingers, wrists, and toes. Symptoms of psoriasis of joints are mainly redness, inflammation, swelling and pain in joints, as well as effusion in joint cavity.

3. Pustular

Pustular psoriasis is also less common and is mainly associated with factors such as infection, stress, and medication. Pustular psoriasis usually appears on palms or soles of hands and has an acute onset that can spread throughout body in a short period of time, causing red, swollen plaques and punctate-sized pustules. When pustules dry out, they form yellow-brown scales that expose skin and cause pain. In addition, it is accompanied by symptoms such as persistent fever, swelling and pain in joints.

4. Erythrodermic type

Erythrodermic psoriasis is also rare in clinical practice, but it is a serious and life-threatening disease that requires timely inpatient treatment. Erythrodermic psoriasis usually affects armpits, thighs, and navel, but can quickly spread throughout body as red, shiny, itchy skin over large areas of body, which then flakes or secretes an unknown fluid. At same time, it is accompanied by unpleasant symptoms such as severe pain, palpitations, chills or fever.

What causes psoriasis? How does Chinese medicine treat?

Psoriasis is a skin disease with relapsing and intractable characteristics that not only has a serious impact on appearance, but also interferes with normal life and poses health risks.

So, where does psoriasis come from?

External factors

Chinese medicine believes that pathogenesis of psoriasis is closely related to rheumatism. Lack of yang qi and invasion of yin evils lead to any local stagnation of qi and blood, blockage of meridians, damage to epidermis of skin, and further lead to psoriasis.

Internal reason

In addition, traditional Chinese medicine also believes that psoriasis is associated with blood deficiency, increased blood temperature and blood stasis. Blood deficiency, loss of yin and blood in body, deficiency of liver yin, or dysfunction of spleen and stomach will lead to inability of blood to metabolize, resulting in blood deficiency type psoriasis. Heat of Blood When heat enters blood, blood flow is accelerated, which can easily cause bleeding and rashes, leading to heat-blood type psoriasis. Blood stagnation, qi and blood flow unevenly, and skin becomes dehydrated, resulting in clogged meridians, qi and blood stagnation, and blood stasis-type psoriasis.

At present, psoriasis is mainly treated with traditional Western medicine, but it is difficult to achieve a radical cure. The practice of traditional Chinese medicine has proven that effect of using traditional Chinese medicine to treat psoriasis is better than that of Western medicine.

For various types of psoriasis in Chinese medicine, there are mainly following treatments.

1. Prescriptions for psoriasis with blood heating: raw sophora japonica, shandi, imperatae rhizome, powdery mildew spatolobus, comfrey root, danshen, rubia.

2.Indications for psoriasis with stagnant blood type: smilax smilax, diding, dandelion, scrofularia, wild chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, forsythia, capillary.

3. Recipes for psoriasis of blood-dry type: Rehmannia glutinosa, white peony root, white fresh skin, angelica, radix radices, Shouwu, hive, asparagus.

4. Recipes for psoriasis of rheumatic type: Forsythia, honeysuckle, Lingxian, Fangji, talc, coix, red bean skin, silkworm excrement.

5. Appointments for septic psoriasis: rhemania, forsythia, honeysuckle, Chinese skullcap, dandelion, chrysanthemum chrysanthemum, Chinese koptis, phellodendron bark, licorice.

The above recipes should be brewed in water, and dosage should be prescribed depending on syndrome. The course of treatment is one month.

Psoriasis, treat "heart" first

In life, many people are afraid to avoid psoriasis patients when they see them, for fear of getting infected. There are also many psoriasis patients who, due to discrimination, do not dare to go out or socialize, which leads to low self-esteem.

So is psoriasis contagious? Certainly, psoriasis isIt is an immune disease and is not contagious. So far, no scientific studies have demonstrated presence of infectious bacteria, fungi and other agents in psoriatic lesions. Therefore, we can safely contact with psoriasis patients and look at them with normal eyes.

According to statistics, there are more than 125 million psoriasis patients in world, and more than 6.5 million patients in my country have to live with psoriasis.

Psoriasis patients should try their best to control their emotions and not chase after success. To cure disease, you must first cure heart. You can join some psoriasis clubs. Some sick people really want to cure disease, but they do not have patience, they try whatever medicines and methods are used, or they neglect daily care of sick.

Because etiology of psoriasis is relatively complex and difficult to treat, patients experience intense physical and mental pain. Therefore, we must learn to prevent psoriasis, such as keeping room clean and tidy, ventilate and ventilate to avoid more skin irritation, and at same time, we must develop good life habits, stay up late, work regularly, and actively enhance immunity. Reduce the risk of developing psoriasis.