nummular or atopic?

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On 10/1/02 5:12 AM, " "

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> Is this nummular eczema or atopic?

>> Simon

 

What is nummular ecxema? What is your take on the TCM diagnosis of

" atopic " ? If a patient is atopic do you have special treatment protocols?

What about patients who's skin flares like a bug bite with the needles? Has

anyone been effective in helping someone stop being atopic?

 

Thanks,

 

Sharon

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Dear Sharon,

nummular excema is diagnosed by appearance, which is of disc shaped

lesions that are well defined and distibuted on the extensor surfaces

of limbs and trunk. It occurs in middle aged people esp men and young

women and is mostly due to liver and gallbladder dampheat. Prehaps

the easiest skin disease to treat.

 

My take on " atopic " , which is heavily influenced, as I mentioned, by

Mazin Al-Kafaji, is dependant on its disease context. So in the case

of atopic eczema it is to take a simple range of patterns; damp with

heat, heat with damp, and hot blood with wind and then two much rarer

presentations; spleen vacuity with dampness and blood dryness with

wind. The main approach is attacking and allowing the righteous qi to

recover of its own accord once the pathogen is removed Whilst, on the

other hand, in the case of asthma, supplementation is the first

principle. I don't have an approach to atopy per se but I think that

given the success of herbs with eczema and asthma in terms of degree

of improvement and length of remission of symptoms, despite exposure

to allergens, that they must intervene quite far down the line.

 

Simon

 

, Sharon Weizenbaum <sweiz@r...> wrote:

 

 

>

> > Is this nummular eczema or atopic?

> >> Simon

>

> What is nummular ecxema? What is your take on the TCM diagnosis of

> " atopic " ? If a patient is atopic do you have special treatment

protocols?

> What about patients who's skin flares like a bug bite with the

needles? Has

> anyone been effective in helping someone stop being atopic?

>

> Thanks,

>

> Sharon