The weather is hot and my skin itches.

Itching, everyone has experienced it. It is a special feeling on the skin and the most common symptom in skin diseases.

Light itching makes people uncomfortable, and heavy itching makes people irritable. The feeling of itching can't be said. The so-called "can only be understood, but can't be expressed."

Zheng, a Chinese medicine practitioner of Maguang Pharmaceutical Group, said that many people don't know that some common foods actually have antipruritic effects, such as mung beans, pears, red dates and soybeans.

Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the holistic view of dermatosis, that is, "if the disease is inside, it must be outside." Mung beans are specially used to treat heat itching. Because heat itching is caused by fever in the body, and mung beans have antipyretic effect, which is suitable for treating heat itching.

He pointed out that as long as you add water to mung beans until they are slightly rotten, you can drink mung bean water.

In addition, some cool vegetables, such as mint, are very effective for skin itching caused by wind and heat. Mint can be used for external use or soaked in water.

Washing with some common herbs such as cloves, mugwort leaves, Sophora flavescens and Lysimachia christinae can achieve the effect of relieving itching.

Dr. Zheng said: "It is worth noting that Chinese medicine not only treats internal and external symptoms, but also pays great attention to personal care of patients."

He also pointed out that many patients with itching have two illusions, that is, they like to wash with hot water and like to scratch with their hands.

"Hot water will irritate the skin, and the hotter it is, the more itchy it will be. Scratching will damage the skin, and scratching will aggravate itching and bleeding.

"Patients should try to restrain themselves when they itch, or tap the itchy part with their hands to divert their attention."

It is also effective to calm down and keep an optimistic and happy mood to relieve itching. Emotional instability, nervousness or anxiety are the basic causes of itching.

The occurrence of itching may be caused by external factors, so personal hygiene can not be ignored.

Chinese medicine also emphasizes timely sleep; However, many itching symptoms do not need to be nursed back to health.

Skin itching is mostly caused by qi-blood imbalance.

The causes of skin itching are external and internal, mostly caused by qi-blood imbalance. Food can stop.

Common itching includes eating fish, shrimp, seafood, rooster, carp, beef, etc., all of which have the function of "moving the wind". The food containing protein may also make the rash break out or aggravate the original rash, resulting in erythema and maculopapular rash.

There is also an itch caused by alcohol, which is called "alcohol itch". This may be itchy skin immediately after drinking or the next day. Flushing or small red papules may appear when the wine itches.

Patients should appropriately limit the consumption of seafood, bacon, geese, bamboo shoots, peanuts, fermented bean curd and other foods.

Itching patients should try to eat more vegetables and bean products, and ask for low-salt, high-vitamin, light and fresh food.