How to remove sweat stains

Many people don’t know that some of the spots on their bodies are caused by sweating. These spots are medically called pityriasis versicolor. Many patients may mistakenly think that they have other skin diseases when they find tinea versicolor on their bodies and become very worried. In fact, tinea versicolor is not a very serious skin disease. It can be treated with some ointments or medicated baths. Let’s learn more about it in detail.

1. The best treatment for tinea versicolor: teach you 5 ways to easily remove it

Pityriasis versicolor lesions are most common on the chest, back, arms, and neck. Others include face, abdomen, buttocks, armpits, groin, scalp, occipital area, etc. It often worsens in summer and autumn and eases or disappears in winter. Starts out as tiny spots. At the beginning of the disease, patients are often unaware of it, and the rash gradually develops into round or quasi-circular macules the size of corn, soybeans or broad beans. The edges are clear and level with the skin or slightly raised. The surface is covered with very thin bran-like scales and is shiny, especially when viewed against the light, the surface of the lesions is highly reflective. New lesions are dark in color, gray, yellow, brown, tan, or brown. Old skin lesions become pale and white. When new and old skin lesions coexist, black and white are mixed in a mottled pattern, which is quite characteristic and a typical manifestation of pityriasis versicolor. When the scales are removed or the skin lesions are healed, temporary hypopigmented spots remain. Patients often mistakenly believe that they have vitiligo and seek medical treatment.

1. Topical ointments: Modern medicine mainly uses some hormone ointments for external treatment, or washes with solutions. You should take a bath before applying the ointment. It is best to use loofah to gently wipe off the scales, and then apply the medicine.

2. Traditional Chinese medicine bath: Traditional Chinese medicine bath is very effective in preventing pityriasis versicolor. Commonly used ones are mugwort bath, mint bath, chrysanthemum bath, Artemisia annua bath, vinegar bath, salt water bath, etc. The method is very simple, which is to use the above-mentioned Chinese medicine to boil water for bathing, once a week. This method is more complicated.

3. Systemic treatment: For patients with severe illness and long-term unrecoverable disease, systemic medication may be considered.

4. External use prescription: Alpinia officinalis rice vinegar prescription: 20 grams of fresh alpinia officinalis, 100 milliliters of rice vinegar. Method: Crush the ginger, soak it in rice vinegar for 12 hours, and seal it for later use. First wash the affected area with soapy water, then apply the solution with a cotton swab, once a day for 3 consecutive days. The recipe of Alpinia officinalis rice vinegar has the effect of activating blood circulation, promoting blood circulation of the skin and removing spots. Alpinia officinalis is spicy and warm in nature. Enters the lung and stomach meridians. Warming the middle; dispelling cold; removing wind; activating blood circulation. Indications: Cold pain in the abdomen; cough due to lung cold; rheumatic pain; traumatic injury; irregular menstruation; vomiting blood due to overwork. Rice vinegar tastes sour and sweet and is warm in nature. Enters the liver and stomach meridians. It can disperse blood stasis, eliminate accumulation, stop bleeding, calm intestinal tract and detoxify. The acetic acid, lactic acid, amino acids, glycerol and aldehyde compounds in vinegar have a gentle stimulating effect on human skin, can dilate blood vessels, increase skin blood circulation and make the skin smooth.

5. Prescription for external use: Recipe for fragrant, realgar and stemona wine: 10 grams each of cloves, realgar and stemona, 300 ml of wine. Method: Soak cloves, realgar and stemona in wine, remove the residue after 1 week and apply to the affected area. Fragrant Yellow Stemona wine has the effects of detoxification and insecticide. Cloves are spicy, warm and non-toxic. Enters the stomach, spleen and kidney meridians. Warming the middle, warming the kidneys, and relieving adverse effects. It is mainly used to treat hiccups, vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, stranguria, hernia and ringworm. Realgar is pungent, bitter, warm and poisonous. It enters the heart, liver and stomach meridians. Drying dampness, removing phlegm, killing insects and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat carbuncle, furuncle, tooth decay, laryngeal wind and throat paralysis, scabies, waist fire ulcer, damp and toxic sores, hemorrhoids, snake and insect bites, worm accumulation, epilepsy, malaria and asthma. Stemona tuberosa is sweet, bitter and slightly warm. It enters the lung meridian. Moistens the lungs and relieves cough, kills insects and lice. It is mainly used to treat new and chronic cough, tuberculosis, whooping cough, pinworm disease, body lice, and scabies.