HOW DOES TRADITIONAL EASTERN MEDICINE TREAT ECZEMA?
^top Our clinic treats atopic dermatitis with a holistic view in mind. We do not approach atopic dermatitis as if it is only a skin disease. In traditional Korean medicine, atopic dermatitis and other many skin diseases are a manifestation of an imbalance of the inner body and the outer body. Mainly the prime reason of the imbalance is caused by excessive heat located inside the body. Excessive heat that accumulates inside a persons body should normally be cooled down by regulatory systems like urination or sweating. But if this system isnt working properly for some reason, the heat has nowhere to go but forcibly outwards through the skin. The symptoms of atopic dermatitis appear when this happens. That is why the rashes have colors of red, and the skin itches with heat, and is also why if you take a cool shower the itchiness and the inflammation gets relieved, although for a short while only. The way that oriental medicine treats atopic dermatitis is by letting this inner excessive he
