Category: Dermatology

Eczema is one of the most common skin conditions seen in clinical practice. It can cause dryness, redness, inflammation, itching, oozing and scaling, and for some people it can become a persistent or recurring problem. From the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), however, eczema is not simply a disease of the skin. The appearance…

What is Gua Sha?  The Chinese characters for Gua Sha are Gua 刮, which literally means to shave (the lines on the right side of the character are a picture of a blade) or to scrape, and Sha 痧, which contains the character for “sand”, and is the name of the characteristic small sand-like marks…