How to treat cold urticaria

Oriental medicine often calls hivescold, hidden diagnosis, cold diagnosis. Illness can be caused by a decline in the body's resistance, an imbalance of yin and yang, dysfunction of internal organs... or by external pathogens that invade the body when the body is weakened and cause illness.

Typical symptoms of the disease are the sudden appearance of rashes on the skin, raised above the skin surface, with clear boundaries, light pink in color, lighter in the middle, in spots, in clusters, round or zigzag, varying in size and number at times, limited to certain areas or spread all over the body. The more you scratch, the redder and itchier the rash becomes.

In mild cases, the rash only appears for a few minutes, then disappears, leaving no trace. This is mild acute urticaria. In this case, you may only need to drink plenty of water and avoid going out in cold weather. You should wear warm clothes. Folklore often uses hot roasted rice bran, wrapped in a cloth and gently rubbed on the rash areas.

Oriental medicine uses appropriate medicine based on specific symptoms.

How to treat cold urticaria

Acute form

- Symptoms:The rash appears on exposed skin areas such as the face, arms and legs. Itching occurs and worsens in cold wind and improves in warm weather. The tongue is pale red with white coating; the pulse is floating on the skin.

- Use one of the following remedies:

Lesson 1:12g of basil, 6g of duckweed; boil and drink like tea. Drink continuously for 5 days.

Lesson 2:Cinnamon 6g, Vietnamese balm 10g, perilla 10g, onion 15g (with the whole root), fresh ginger 8g, boil and drink during the day, drink continuously for 5 days.

Lesson 3:6g of Vietnamese balm, 8g of perilla leaves, 6g of ligusticum wallichii, 6g of cinnamon, 6g of white peony, 5g of licorice, 5g of fresh ginger, 5 jujubes. Boil in water and drink during the day, drink continuously for 5 days.

- Uses:Dispels wind, disperses cold, reduces itching. Used for acute urticaria. Avoid scratching vigorously as it can cause scratches, bleeding, infection, or even secondary infection.

When hives last for more than 3 months, even if they are intermittent for many days, they have entered the chronic stage.

Chronic form

- Symptoms:The disease lasts for a long time, occasionally flares up, and is worse in the afternoon and evening. Accompanied by irritability, anger, dry mouth, red tongue, and weak pulse. The disease can occur in all four seasons.

- Some of the following remedies can be used:

Lesson 1:10g angelica, 10g white peony, 6g perilla; boil in water and drink during the day, drink continuously for 7 days.

Lesson 2:Use 12g of rehmannia glutinosa, 10g of Eclipta prostrata, 10g of honeysuckle vine; boil in water and drink during the day, drink continuously for 7 days.

Lesson 3:15g raw rehmannia, 10g white peony, 10g red salvia, 6g angelica, 6g ligusticum wallichii, 10g scrophularia, 10g processed polygonum multiflorum, 10g peony bark, 6g cyperus rotundus, 6g licorice. Boil in water and drink during the day, drink continuously for 7 days.

- Uses:Nourishes blood, moistens dryness, dispels wind, and relieves itching. Used in severe cases, with weak blood and qi, and recurrent hives.

In the chronic form, the disease can be relieved or aggravated depending on weather and environmental conditions.