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In today's society, people are troubled by various skin diseases, especially psoriasis. Psoriasis often comes back in cycles and rarely resolves completely. From the perspective of Chinese and Western medicine, its cause and mechanism have been explained to a certain extent. It is a contagious skin disease. There is another explanation from the perspective of the Yin-Yang theory, the Five Elements theory, the Zang-Fu theory and the Yuan Qi theory in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The functional relationship of mutual generation and mutual restraint is analyzed here.

Psoriasis is a contagious skin disease caused by Dermatophytes and can be cured. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that blood heat is the main cause and it can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine, that is, the use of targeted Chinese patent medicines for comprehensive internal conditioning.

There are many factors that lead to blood heat, such as internal injury caused by the seven emotions, stagnation of Qi, which turns into fire after a long time, resulting in hyperactivity of heart fire and toxic heat hidden in the blood. It can also be caused by improper diet, excessive intake of fishy and wind-inducing foods, disharmony of the spleen and stomach, poor Qi movement, which turns into heat after a long time and then causes illness due to wind-heat evil.

Pathogenesis

The etiology of psoriasis is relatively complex and the cause has not yet been clearly determined. Most scholars believe that it is related to genetics, infection, metabolic disorders, immune dysfunction, and endocrine disorders. It is becoming more and more common, especially in developed cities. Psoriasis is not an infectious disease, but the skin problems of psoriasis patients often bring great physical and mental pain and economic burden to patients.

Causes

The cause of psoriasis is still unclear, but preliminary observations suggest that it is related to the following factors:

② Genetic factors. It is generally believed that this disease is controlled by multiple genes and is also affected by other external factors.

②Infectious factors. Some people believe that it is caused by viral infection. Although eosinophilic inclusion bodies have been found in the nuclei of epidermal spinous cells, virus culture has not been successful so far. Streptococcal infection may be an important predisposing factor for this disease, as acute guttate psoriasis often occurs before the onset of an eruption of acute tonsillitis or upper respiratory tract infection.

Neurodermatitis is a localized skin nerve dysfunction skin disease, also known as chronic simple lichen. Traditional Chinese medicine calls it "cow's neck sore" or "neck sore" because it often occurs on the neck and looks like the skin of a cow's neck, which is thick and hard. As the Authentic Surgery says: Psoriasis is like the skin of a cow's collar, tough and hard, and feels like rotten wood when scratched. The clinical features are lichenification of the skin, hypertrophy and roughness, severe itching, a slow course of disease, repeated attacks, often not healing for many years, and easy relapse after recovery.