Studies Show That Chinese Healing Herbs Can Be Used For Treating Eczema
If you have to deal with the pains of eczema, you know all too well the misery that it can cause. However, a remedy may have been discovered in the form of Chinese healing herbs.
Recent studies, presented at the yearly meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, suggest that orthodox Chinese herbal treatments might be of assistance in treating both children and adults.
In order to address patient worries about whether such an approach is beneficial, and is safe to use, medical researcher Julia Wisniewski, MD, of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York undertook studies of 14 children who were suffering from eczema and were treated using traditional Chinese medicine between August 2006 and May 2008.
Each of the children drank Erka Shizheng Herbal Tea twice a day, soaked in an herbal bath for a minimum of 20 minutes, and applied a herbal cream to their skin throughout the day. They also were treated using acupuncture.
At the beginning of the research period, over 50% of the children had severe eczema symptoms; after 8 months of this regime, the majority were suffering from only mild symptoms. Participants also required a smaller amount of medication (steroids, antibiotics and antihistamines) after just three months of the start of the treatment.
These herbal treatments were safe, and caused no unnatural liver or kidney function.
As for adult eczema, a team of researchers in Japan learned that grown ups can also benefit from Chinese medicine. Their work involved 274 adults who had suffered with eczema for around 12 years on average. About a third had symptoms that could be categorized as severe or very severe.
After 12-16 weeks of treatment with herbal remedies that had been selected based on the patient’s symptoms, 87% were free from eczema symptoms. Another 12% were said to be much improved.
Therefore, even though more work is required, these research results offer promising results and suggest that, if you suffer with eczema, you should at least be considering the use of traditional Chinese treatments and healing herbs.
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