Herpes simplex is a common skin disease caused by viruses. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is called "fire sores", "hot sores" and so on. Herpes simplex usually occurs when there is an acute fever or other causes that cause a decrease in the body's functional resistance.
The disease is caused by infection with herpes simplex virus, which enters the body through the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract, mouth, genitals, or skin breakage. Easily lurking in the blood, normal mucous membranes, saliva, and possibly in multiple organs or nerve tissues, most of these viral infections have no obvious clinical manifestations. When human body function is reduced due to lesion infection, fever disease, or due to pregnancy, excessive fatigue and other reasons, the virus in the body will be infected and cause the onset of the disease.
Patients initially have a burning itch, then a red patch that quickly turns into a small, dense blister the size of a corn grain or mung bean. The fluid of the blisters is transparent or cloudy, and the blisters break down into a red erosion. If there is no infection, it will dry out the scabs, leaving temporary pigmentation or superficial blister marks after healing, which can cause nearby lymphadenopathy. Herpes simplex tends to occur at the junction of the skin and mucous membranes, especially at the corners of the mouth, the edge of the lips, around the nostrils, and also occurs in the oral mucosa, tonsils, buttocks or genitals. Men suffering from genital herpes are prone to prostatitis and inflammation of the bladder and urethra. Female onset of cervix or genitals can cause pain in the lower abdomen, increased discharge, and local necrosis and ulceration of herpes. Herpes simplex is easy to occur in adults, and the course of the disease is generally self-healing in about 7 to 15 days, and the disease is prone to recurrence.
<h1>Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of herpes simplex: diagnosis should be convenient according to the location of the disease and cluster blisters, easy to recur, etc. Diagnosis should be made by a differential diagnosis of skin diseases similar to herpes zoster, copper money eczema, pustular eruptions, etc. </h1>
Herpes simplex is more common in traditional Chinese medicine after suffering from fever, and its clinical manifestations are general malaise, red patches or blisters on the skin, obvious burning pain and itching in the local area, and are easy to occur in the genitals or face. TCM dialectical treatment can be divided into the following two types of treatment:
(1) Hepatobiliary damp heat evidence: herpes occurs in the genitals, and is accompanied by dizziness, chest fullness, irritability, dry mouth, yellow urine, dry stool, yellow tongue, red tongue, and slippery pulses.
Treatment of hepatobiliary damp heat evidence should clear heat and dampness, prescription medicinal gentian diarrhea liver soup plus or minus: gentian herb 10 grams, mutong 8 grams, psyllium (bun frying) 15 grams, Fukuzawa diarrhea 15 grams, chai hu 10 grams, angelica 15 grams, gardenia 12 grams, skullcap 10 grams, raw land 10 grams. Decoct in water, fry 3 times for a total of 750ml, take in 3 divided doses, 1 dose per day.
(2), lung and stomach wind fever evidence: the disease rash is easy to occur on the face, to the mouth and nose around the most common, the incidence of the skin has red patches, blisters, burning stinging pain, will cause physical discomfort, yellow urine, dry stool, thin yellow tongue, red tongue, pulses and slippery numbers.
Treatment of lung and stomach wind fever should be diarrhea fire detoxification, dispersion of wind and heat, prescription medicinal silver warp scatter addition and subtraction: honeysuckle 15 grams, forsythia 30 grams, reed root 15 grams, light tempeh 10 grams, hercules 15 grams, light bamboo leaves 12 grams, raw licorice 10 grams, peppermint 10 grams, wattle mustard spikes 10 grams, bitter orange stems 10 grams. Decoct in water, fry 3 times for a total of 750ml, take in 3 divided doses, 1 dose per day.
<h1>【Warm tips】: The prescription drugs that appear in the text, before using the prescription drugs, please consult a professional Chinese medicine doctor and take it under the guidance of a doctor. </h1>
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