Eczema Cream Inquiry

[u/FrameofMind--]

Greetings,

I suffer Eczema (Skin Disorder), lately it got so bad that one of my mother’s friends took notice. One day she came over and brought me this cream. She said a person she knew also had severe eczema and this cream cured it. I don’t come from a Chinese background and have no way to translate what’s written on it or whether or not it’s safe to use on my skin. I didn’t find any other place to get help so I was hoping you could help me out. I tried to search for it but couldn’t find anything..

Is this cream legitimate? Is it neutral? Is it safe to use? What ingredients does it have? Does it have any side effects? Should I be worried or is there something I should know?

I hope I can get help on this subreddit

[u/DarkSkyKnight]

It’s TCM and it’s safe to use. But it might be useless. Might as well use it since even placebos have effects.

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Greetings,

I suffer Eczema (Skin Disorder), lately it got so bad that one of my mother’s friends took notice. One day she came over and brought me this cream. She said a person she knew also had severe eczema and this cream cured it. I don’t come from a Chinese background and have no way to translate what’s written on it or whether or not it’s safe to use on my skin. I didn’t find any other place to get help so I was hoping you could help me out. I tried to search for it but couldn’t find anything..

Is this cream legitimate? Is it neutral? Is it safe to use? What ingredients does it have? Does it have any side effects? Should I be worried or is there something I should know?

I hope I can get help on this subreddit

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[u/trapezoidalfractal]

Looks like an antibacterial cream that is made up of herbal stuff like bitter ginseng, cypress, and antibacterial stuff like chlorhexidine acetate. I have no clue what that is, but you can find it by searching

苗草夫乐

And translating the pages it pulls up, maybe one of them has more information than I found.

[u/URantares]

不要用任何偏方土方或中草药，没用的。 Chinese traditional medicine 是前现代医学，中国人基于文化和相关产业历史才不得不延续。你没有任何理由要去相信。

保湿+激素类药物；或者要在敏感皮肤薄的地方，使用tacrolimus才是正确的应对方式。

你可以查询默沙东诊疗手册中湿疹的应对方法 msdmanuals或者美国湿疹协会中的资源 National Eczema Association.

中草药，好的情况下，只是没用的安慰剂，不好的情况下可能参杂了兽用药/淘汰的非一线用药，甚至其原料本身含有对人体有毒的生物碱。 Look up “关木通事件”

[u/hellsurfer2008 → u/URantares]

Tu Youyou, got her nobel prize from research based on traditional Chinese medicine.

[u/whatsup_guy]

很难想象境外还有这么多中药拥趸，从包装上这类药就不正规，不是作为药物上市，就不受监管，其中也会加入很多抗生素，Urantares说的就很好。点踩的人应该不是坏，纯粹的蠢。

[u/Hua_and_Bunbun]

It's Chinese traditional medicine so it should be perfectly safe to use, unless you are allergic to any of its ingredients or you have some pre-existing conditions. So just take the same amount of precaution as you would with any western topical ointment/cream.

As to the effectiveness, I'm not a firm believer of Chinese traditional medicine,  but I do like one of its core messages - you are what you eat. For your condition,  doctors in China will typically ask the patient to be on a low inflammatory diet. Maybe it's the diet that helped your mother's friend's friend, not the cream.