Q I'm looking for a place to visit near Dong-gu, Incheon. How does the first consultation proceed?
A At the first consultation, we listen in detail to when and which area itches, your stress, sleep, eating habits, and scratching habit, and examine your skin and overall body condition. Based on that, we determine the pattern diagnosis, treatment plan, herbal prescription, and lifestyle management direction together.
Detailed Answer
When you first come, we ask thoroughly and examine: which area itches most and when, whether it is worse at night, how your stress, sleep, and meals are, and whether you have an unconscious scratching habit. We look at the degree and color of thickening and whether there is oozing or sores, and also take into account any medications you are applying or taking. Based on this, we guide you on a treatment direction and lifestyle management suited to your body's condition.
Korean Medicine Clinic Perspective
Even for the same neurodermatitis, the prescription differs depending on whether it is a Heart-fire type with strong heat of the mind, or a blood-deficiency-with-wind-dryness (hyeolheo-pungjo) type with dried-up body fluids. At Dongjedang, we consider it important to fully grasp the person's pattern diagnosis at the first consultation, and to establish a plan that — rather than looking only at the thickened skin — addresses, along with preventing scratching, the body's root cause that created the itch.
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