In Traditional Chinese Medicine, we research the lupus from the rash. Because the damages’ color, place and size are different, the cause and pathogenesis is also different.
For instance, patients with the facial rash, the back of hand and fingers rash, finger thicking and swelling, itch are usually caused by toxic wind or stagnant heat. In the Treatment Lupus Rash by Traditional Chinese Medicine, we use arnebia root, periostracum cicada, isatis indigotica fort, rhizoma smilacis glabrae, radix sophorae flavescentis, Honeysuckle flower, scutellaria baicalensis etc. to remove the toxic wind or stagnant heat.
Patients with dark red and brown rash on the face are usually symptoms of weakness and blood stasis. In the Treatment Lupus Rash by Traditional Chinese Medicine, we use peach seed, safflower, arnebia root, the root of red-rooted salvia, Euonymus alatus Sieb to promote blood circulation to remove blood stasis and rash.
The symptoms of subcutaneous livedo reticularis, pigmented spots, chromatosis are due to poor blood flow caused by blood stagnation of chill and having too much chilling-blood and nourishing-Yin medicine. In the Treatment Lupus Rash by Traditional Chinese Medicine, we use medicine to invigorate the circulation of blood and warm yang, which get good effect. The medicine is like this, cassia, herba epimedii, zedoary, Szechuan Lovage Rhizome, cassia twig, mulberry twig.
In the Treatment Lupus Rash by Traditional Chinese Medicine, doctors should consider comprehensively patients’ conditions. It usually can’t get the good effect only to treat the skin damages. But holistic treatment, accompanied with medicines to eliminate skin rash, usually makes the body recover gradually and then rash disappear.
· In addition, the Treatment Lupus Rash by Traditional Chinese Medicine can not only eliminate the new erythema, but also old plaque and proliferative plaque. It can also eliminate the trace of erythema and chromatosis. But the effect is got gradually, and the patient should take the medicine for a long time which makes the skin gradually white. We choose these traditional Chinese medicine to adjust internal organs, such as Angelica sinensis, radix pseudostellariae, Polygonum multiflorum, radix paeoniae alba, Radix paeoniae rubra, Fructus Corni, etc.
In the Treatment Lupus Rash by Traditional Chinese Medicine, we don’t choose the medicine of a hot or warm nature, such as Radix Aconiti and Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii, which can treat the livedo reticularis caused by blood stasis and congealing cold, but also promote generating fire to worsen the facial erythema. There are many allergic factors in the skin damages, so chemical medicine and cosmetics should be forbidden and patients should avoid sunshine.
The discoid lupus erythematosus damages is usually stubborn and patients should be patient to make it relieved and disappear gradually.
