What symptoms of blood dryness require high attention

The disease phenomenon of blood dryness seriously threatens people's health in today's society. It not only has a huge impact on physical health, but also has a destructive effect on the patient's appearance. Therefore, it is very important to prevent and treat blood dryness. Blood dryness is relatively unfamiliar to most people. Let's take a look at the symptoms of blood dryness that require high attention.

1. Definition of blood dryness

To be precise, it is blood deficiency and wind dryness. Aliases (in traditional Chinese medicine): wind-heat sores, psoriasis, white malaria, snake psoriasis, wind pruritus, white scaly wind, (in Western medicine): pityriasis rosea, neurodermatitis, psoriasis, ichthyosis, senile pruritus, seborrheic dermatitis, progressive symmetrical erythematokeratosis, erythroderma. TCM explanation: This syndrome is caused by heat in the blood and dryness in the wind, a long course of illness, depletion of yin blood, which turns into blood deficiency, wind dryness, and external invasion of wind evil. Blood deficiency and wind dryness: actually, they are two dialectical terms in traditional Chinese medicine: blood deficiency and wind dryness. Blood deficiency refers to a pathological condition of weakness caused by insufficient nutritional intake. Excessive blood loss or chronic bleeding, organ damage, decreased or impaired function of transforming essence and blood can all cause blood deficiency and anemia symptoms.

2. Classification of blood dryness

Clinically, it is generally divided into symptoms such as heart blood deficiency, liver blood deficiency, and heart and spleen deficiency. Wind-dryness refers to the combination of two evil spirits, wind and dryness, which is often felt during the dry autumn season.

The clinical manifestations include headache, fever, aversion to cold without sweating, nasal congestion, dry lips, dry throat, dry cough, chest congestion, rib pain, dry skin, thin white and dry tongue coating, and floating and wiry pulse. If blood deficiency and wind dryness are understood together, it means wind caused by blood deficiency and wind caused by fluid dryness, which is collectively called internal movement of deficiency wind.

3. Symptoms of blood dryness

Physical signs: In the early stage, the skin appears dry and not moist, and turns into roughness, hypertrophy, moss-like, and resembling mat patterns; most of the macules are light red or light brown; the skin surface is dry and resembles the skin of dried fish, covered with bran-like scales, and in severe cases, cracks of varying lengths and depths may occur; the patient feels severe itching, especially at night, and scratching will cause itching marks and blood scabs; the nails are dry and lose their luster; accompanied by fatigue, palpitations and insomnia, shortness of breath, fatigue, and constipation; the tongue is light red and cracked, with little or clear coating like a mirror, and the pulse is weak and fine.