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TCM Solutions for Hives and Eczema

Food and the environment can trigger symptoms. Learn about how ancient Chinese medicine tackles these skin conditions.
TCM Solutions for Hives and Eczema
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Naiwen Hu
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Skin conditions such as hives (urticaria), eczema (atopic dermatitis), and dyshidrosis, a type of eczema involving blisters, are troubling for many people. In severe cases, they affect people’s mood, sleep, and quality of life.

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has its own ways of helping you nip these conditions in the bud to relieve itchiness without resorting to medication.

Hives

Urticaria, commonly known as hives, is an inflammatory skin disease that affects up to 20 percent of the world’s population during their lifetime. Urticaria is divided into acute and chronic, and most of them are acute.
Naiwen Hu
Naiwen Hu
Naiwen Hu is a Traditional Chinese Medicine physician at Shanghai Tong Te Tang in Taipei and a former Stanford Research Institute scientist. Hu has treated more than 140,000 patients, taught at an American university, and hosts a popular YouTube health program with 900,000 subscribers, as well as international wellness roadshows.