Professor CHEN Jinlian's experience in treating pruritus skin diseases with the Erfang decoction
Pruritic skin disease is an important common disease in skin diseases.It has the characteristics of complex disease,chronic and prolonged.It is mainly manifested as skin itching symptoms,which seriously affects the physical and mental health and quality of life of patients.Modern medicine often uses antihistamines,hormone drugs and other drugs for treatment,which have obvious adverse reactions and side effects for a long time,even easy to produce dependence.TCM medicine has the unique advantages of flexible differentiation and treatment,reducing side effects,and enhancing efficacy in the treatment of pruritus skin diseases.Professor CHEN Jinlian,a famous dermatologist of traditional Chinese medicine in Hunan Province,believes that wind pathogens are closely related to pruritus skin diseases after decades of clinical experience and practice.Professor CHEN believes that both internal and external factors are considered,and treats the disease from the perspective of wind.The treatment is to remove the external wind and put out the internal wind.The author was fortunate to learn from Professor CHEN Jinlian for three years.Now,CHEN's experience of the Erfang decoction(二防汤)in the treatment of pruritus skin diseases is summarized and introduced combined with cases,so as to provide reference for the treatment of pruritus skin diseases with TCM medicine.