Clinical Experience of Qin Zhenhua in Treating Cutaneous Pruritus
10.13359/j.cnki.gzxbtcm.2025.10.031
- VernacularTitle:秦振华治疗皮肤瘙痒症临证经验
- Author:
Limei ZHU
1
;
Yiban XU
;
Junfeng TANG
;
Jia LIN
;
Wenliang ZHONG
;
Zhenhua QIN
Author Information
1. 福建中医药大学,福建 福州 350000
- Keywords:
cutaneous pruritus;
pathogens stagnating in the muscular superficies;
clearing heat and removing toxins;
releasing muscles and dispersing pathogens from the superficies;
dispelling wind to relieve itching;
Yinqiao Xingzi Decoction;
Qin Zhenhua
- From:
Journal of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2025;42(10):2578-2583
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
This study summarizes Professor Qin Zhenhua's clinical experience in treating cutaneous pruritus using a modified self-prescribed formula,Yinqiao Xingzi Decoction.Following the viewpoints from the classical Chinese medical literature and after years of clinical practice,Professor Qin proposes that the onset of cutaneous pruritus is often associated with the attack of exogenous pathogens,disharmony of qi and blood,or debility due to prolonged illness.The disease primarily involves the skin,with the fundamental pathogenesis of pathogens stagnating in the muscular superficies.Clinically,the treatment is frequently conducted from the perspective of fire-heat syndrome,and the therapeutic methods of clearing heat and removing toxins,releasing muscles and dispersing pathogens from the superficies,and dispelling wind to relieve itching are utilized.The approaches aim to cool heat in the blood,expel pathogens from the muscular layer,eliminate heat for stopping itching,and extinguish wind for calming the skin.The basic prescription,Yinqiao Xingzi Decoction(composed of Lonicerae Japonicae Flos,Forsythiae Fructus,Armeniacae Semen Amarum,Arnebiae Radix,Tribuli Fructus,Dictamni Cortex,Kochiae Fructus,and Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma),is used by modification depending on the predominance of pathogenic factors of wind,heat,dryness,or dampness-toxins,and according to the various syndromes like blood-heat,yin deficiency,or qi-blood deficiency.Yinqiao Xingzi Decoction is applicable to cutaneous pruritus with the most of clinical common syndrome types,but it is unsuitable for cases caused by yang deficiency or qi stagnation with blood stasis.
