Q I'm 37 and live in Dongincheon. My psoriasis has thick scales and my skin is so dry it cracks. How is a case like this treated at a Korean medicine clinic?
A Psoriasis with dry skin, thick built-up scale, and cracking is often diagnosed in Korean medicine as blood-deficiency wind-dryness (hyeolheo-pungjo) or yin deficiency. In such cases, the treatment centers on blood-nourishing, moistening herbal medicine that replenishes deficient blood and moistens the parched skin, combined with detox acupuncture that discharges toxins and steroid-free natural topical agents. Because the pattern diagnosis considers both lesion characteristics and constitution, the prescription differs even for the same psoriasis.
Detailed Answer
Psoriasis is treated differently depending on its presentation. Medically, it is differentiated into patterns such as wind-cold type, wind-heat blood-heat type, damp-heat type, and blood-stasis type, and the type with dry skin and thick, cracking scale usually corresponds to blood-deficiency wind-dryness (hyeolheo-pungjo) or yin deficiency (eumheo).
Korean Medicine Clinic Perspective
For such a parched type, Dongjedang prescribes mainly blood-nourishing, moistening herbal medicine that replenishes deficient blood and moistens the skin. To this we add detox acupuncture that draws out toxins and steroid-free natural topical agents, so that inside we replenish blood and fluids while outside we restore the barrier, helping the skin recover its innate strength. Because the prescription differs by constitution and lesion even for the same psoriasis, accurately establishing the pattern diagnosis is the starting point of treatment.
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