Eczema and xue question

If you look on our eczema treatment page you will see a large number of possible underlying patterns and they are not all damp or wind related. Only your practitioner would be able to answer what diagnostic pattern yours is arising from. From previous posts you have a bit of layered set of conditions/patterns, so self-diagnosis would be hard to do in a linear fashion like you are trying. From a practitioner perspective, treatment in cases like yours is more akin to peeling back an onion - you certainly start by trying to determine the root imbalance/pattern but even if you are sure of what that is there are many steps towards getting to the point where you can safely treat that. Our acupuncture treatment prognosis guidelines gives some basic information on that topic.

With dampness from a weak spleen, for example, you generally have to clear damp first and then tonify and tonifying first can create damp-heat. That’s just one of many possibly related examples.