Clinical Manifestations of Damp-Heat Type Eczema:
Symptoms: itchy skin, recurrent red patches, clustered papules, abundant blisters, wet and oozing lesions, bright red base, dark and smelly stool, red tongue with yellow coating, slippery and rapid pulse.
【Green Bean and Kelp Soup】
Ingredients: 30g green beans, 30g kelp, 15g fish mint, 30g coix seed, appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Method: Cut the kelp into shreds, wrap the fish mint in a cloth, and cook them together with green beans and coix seed. Remove the fish mint when the kelp is soft and the green beans bloom. Season with sugar before serving.
Efficacy: Clear heat, eliminate dampness, and relieve itching.
Dosage: Take 1 dose daily for 10 consecutive days.
【Rhizoma Imperatae and Green Bean Drink】
Ingredients: 30g fresh rhizoma imperatae, 50g green beans, 15g alisma, 20g rock sugar.
Method: Cut the rhizoma imperatae into sections and cook it with alisma for 20 minutes. Remove the residue and add in green beans and rock sugar. Cook until the green beans bloom and peel off, then filter out the residue and take the juice.
Efficacy: Clear heat, eliminate dampness, cool blood, detoxify.
Dosage: Take 1 dose daily as a warm drink.
【Lotus Flower Porridge】
Ingredients: 5 lotus flowers, 100g glutinous rice, 15g rock sugar.
Method: Cook the glutinous rice into porridge, and when the porridge is almost done, add in rock sugar and lotus flowers and simmer briefly.
Efficacy: Clear heat, promote diuresis.
Dosage: Take as breakfast.
【Tu Fu Ling Turtle Soup】
Ingredients: 30g tu fu ling, 1 turtle.
Method: After slaughtering the turtle, scald it with boiling water to remove fat, then stew it with tu fu ling until tender.
Efficacy: Strengthen the spleen, eliminate dampness, clear heat, detoxify.
Dosage: Drink the soup and eat the meat, 1 dose daily for 1 week.
