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Food therapies on psoriasis

Synonyms:
  1. 银屑病的食疗
  2. 銀屑病的食療

Psoriasis is a chronic, obscure, recurrent skin disease.Chinese medicine called "psoriasis".Its clinical features are silver white scales based on erythema, papules, if we scrape the scales, shining membrane shows up. If the membrane is broken, petechial hemorrhages appears. The damage of the skin can be of variety with long course of disease, uncertain state of illness and not easy to conquer.

Food therapeutic principles：

  • 1 Intake foods that are digestible and nutritious such as eggs, milk, bean products, fish, snakes and so on.

  • 2 More fresh fruit and vegetables should be intaken, such as pears, apples, sugar cane, banana, orange, watermelon, cucumber, tomatoes, cabbage, carrot, etc.

  • 3 Drink more bolied water, green tea, chrysanthemum tea, etc.

  • 4 Avoid spicy and pungent foods such as pepper, black pepper, garlic, onion, mustard, etc. Avoid all kinds of seafoods, such as shrimp, sea fish, crabs, and mushrooms, mutton.

  • 5 Avoid fried and greasy foods such as grilled chicken, roast pork, roast mutton, french fries, fat pork, butter cake, etc.

General applied foods：

  • 1 Shou wu & chuan shan jia wine： Shou wu 30 grams, dang gui shen 30 grams, 20 grams of pangolin, tortoise shell 10 grams, 20 grams of sheng di, shu di 20 grams, 15 grams ce bai ye, 30 grams of pine needles, wu jia pi 30 grams, 20 grams of toad, chuan wu 5 grams, 5 grams cao wu. Mix the grounded materials into empty bottle with 3000 grams of yellow rice wine, open it 7 days after the sealing. Left the dregs for reserve. Take on empty stomach.

  • 2 Viper wine: one viper, 15 grams of ginseng, safflower 6 grams, 2 kg of Chinese liquor. Soak the snake in the clean bottle with ginseng, safflower and fter 7 days of it’s ready to serve.

  • 3 Dark plum paste: 2500 grams dark plum, clean and melt into 500 ml paste. Apply 3 times a day, 10 grams each time with warm water.

  • 4 Er gua soup: one papaya, 500 grams white gourd, 300ml honey, 2 grams of ginger. Clean papaya and white guard and boil with sliced ginger and honey. Switch to slow fire and continue boil of 10 minutes. Drink up the decoction to eat up papaya. Apply continuously for 3~5 days as one course of treatment.

  • 5 peanuts,dates, red bean, peanut beans, coix seed porridge: peanut 90 grams, red bean and red dates 50 grams, 90 grams coix seed. Apply once every 5 to 7 days.

  • 6 bing lang & ginger sauce porridge：ginger 10 grams, honey 50ml.100 grams of Japonica rice. Boil the grounded ginger for 15 minutes, cool it and collect the decoction. Mix the thick porridge with ginger sauce, bing lang sauce and honey. Apply on empty stomach for 2 times a day and 5~7 days for a course of treatment.

  • 7 olive tea ：12 olives, 10 grams of jie geng, 10 grams of shan dou gen, Da qing ye 30 grams, add appropriate amount of water and make tea.

  • 8 Gui ling tang：one turtle, tu fu ling 250 grams. Remove tortoise head for reserve. Boil the tu fu ling and discarding residue. Add in the reserved turtle and boil for another 3 hours. Eat turtle meat, and drink decoction. Apply one time a day for constant 2~4 days.

  • 9 Gou qi zi& pigeon soup：30 grams of shan yao, bei qi 30 grams, gou qi 30 grams, one pigeon (remove hair and viscera).Mix the above all in the pot until it’s fully cooked. Drink the decoction and eat pigeon meat.

Feng re xie zao symptom

clinical manifestations:

Red skin lesions with continuously new erythra appear; increasing number of erythema; consequent thirsty; yellow urine and dry excrements; red tongue and yellow greasy fur; slippery and rapid pulse.

Food therapies principles:

Clear heat and detoxification, cool the blood and invigorate the circulation of blood.

1 Huai hua & tu fu ling porridge: sheng huai hua 30 grams, tu fu ling 30 grams, 30 grams Yin hua, hong hua 9 grams, 60 grams of jing mi. Boil the first four ingredients and collect about 1000ml decoction, then mix with rice, brown sugar and cook into porridge. Apply one time a day for continuously 7~10 days.

2 Yin hua er gen decoction：50 grams of jin yin hua, bai mao gen, fresh mao gen each 100 grams, 30 grams of sheng di. Boil the four ingredients and collect the decoction. Drink Frequently.

Yu zhi ji fu symptoms

Clinical manifestations：

Dark red skin, dark purple tongue with petechiae；thready and slow pulse.

Food therapies principle：

Activating blood circulation & dissipate blood stasis

  • 1 San hua porridge: huai hua 30 grams, 30 grams of ling xiao hua, hong hua 15 grams, 100 grams of jing mi. Cook the above ingredients and leave 1000ml decoction for use. Then mix the decoction with rice making them porridge. Apply two times a day.

  • 2 Tian qi dan shen chicken：15 grams of tian qi, 30 grams of dan shen, one hen (about 1000 grams), proper amount of onion, ginger, rice wine, sugar, salt. Cook the hen and add all the seasonings for 3 hours until it’s well done. Eat up in 3 days as a whole course of therapy.

Xie xu feng zao symptom：

Clinical manifestations：

Skin lesions with much crumbs；dry in mouth and excrement；light red tongue with white coating.

Food therapies principles：

Nourish the blood and activate the circulation； expel the pathological wind and moistening the dryness.

Therapeutic plans：

  • 2 Shou wu mulberry drink：shou wu 30 grams, mulberry 30 grams, dang gui 12 grams, sheng di 30 grams, gou qi zi 30 grams, 12 red dates, proper amount of crystal sugar. Boil the first six ingredients and add crystal sugar, wait to melt. Drink 1 time a day. Continue apply 10~15 days for a course of treatment.
  • 3 Gui di black beans stewed with turtle：one turtle, beans 50 grams, shu di 30 grams, dang gui 15 grams, yu zhu 15 grams, 15 grams of ginger, white onions and proper salt. Clean the turtle, cut and boil for 3 minutes. Mix all the materials into the pot and make them well done. Have the meal two times a day and apply every other day as one course of treatment. Apply 4 to 5 courses in total.