enough.) His itching is severe, especially in the evenings and at night. His sleep is always disturbed and he wakes feeling exhausted. He’s prone to feel very hot all day and night, but rarely sweats.
Or this last one, a female, age 41. She’s had atopic eczema since childhood, and also suffers with asthma and allergic rhinitis. Her skin has been very active for the past 2.5 years, following a period of much stress and frustra- tion in her life. It’s erupted more fully around her under- arms and genitals, and the eczema of the genitals is prone to weep. Her sleep is very disturbed by the itching. Her appetite is poor, and she suffers with much bloating that starts with any food intake and persists all day long. She tends to be constipated with incomplete evacuation of her bowels only every 3-4 days. Her mood is a combination of worried, anxious, frustrated, and irritable, with a tendency toward depression. She’s exhausted and has no stamina. All of these cases are atopic eczema cases. They have some symptoms in common, but they each have their own individual particularities, and this is where Chinese medi- cine truly thrives: in recognizing the individual presenta- tion of any particular disease or complaint, and treating accordingly.
As I mentioned at the close of my last article, skin disease is notoriously difficult to treat—this is true in Western as well as Chinese medicine, and eczema is no exception. Changes don’t happen overnight. That said, most patients see improvement where before they’d found none, and many patients see very significant improvement or complete resolution of their skin problems. For those of you suffering from lesions on the most public part of your body—your skin—please consider Chinese medicine. It may offer you some hope where other methods have failed.
Alexa Gilmore is a board-certified acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist practicing Chinese Medicine at ATX Acupuncture in Portland, Maine. She takes a no-nonsense approach to the healing arts and expects positive out- comes. In addition to providing high quality treatments, she works in partnership with her patients, empowering them to make lasting changes in their health profile by implementing simple, effective principles of Chinese Medi- cine into their daily lives. Learn more about Alexa and ATX Acupuncture at
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