The famous vinegar egg has a significant effect on treating eczema.
1. The efficacy of vinegar and eggs
1) Vinegar: It tastes sour, bitter and warm. Its functions include promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, digesting food and resolving accumulation, reducing swelling and softening hardness, detoxifying and killing insects. It is used to treat ringworm and ulcers. In ancient clinical practice, it was often used for sore throat, swelling, carbuncle, swelling poison, mass aggregation, jaundice sweat, postpartum blood dizziness, itching of the vulva, bloody stool, etc. In modern times, it is often used for elderly health care, prevention and treatment of hypertension, arteriosclerosis, colds, hepatitis, atrophic gastritis, biliary ascariasis and other diseases.
2) Egg: Mainly refers to chicken eggs, sometimes duck eggs, goose eggs, pigeon eggs, quail eggs can also be used. Chicken eggs are sweet and neutral (egg white is sweet and cool), with the function of nourishing yin and blood, moistening dryness and stopping wind. Clinically, it is often used to treat physical weakness, postpartum disease after weakness, dizziness and fever, sore throat and red eyes, insomnia and dreams, anemia and vomiting blood, scalds and burns, etc.
2. Preparation and dosage method of vinegar egg
Vinegar generally selects high-quality edible vinegar as appropriate, such as Zhenjiang vinegar in Jiangsu, Baoning vinegar in Sichuan, and old Chen vinegar in Shanxi. Chemical vinegar, vinegar essence and other high-concentration vinegars should not be used. Select fresh chicken eggs (duck eggs, pigeon eggs, goose eggs, quail eggs can also be selected for certain diseases) and soak them in 150 ml to 200 ml of vinegar. After soaking for two days until the eggshell softens, break the only inner skin covering the egg, mix the egg white and yolk evenly, and then place it for one day before eating. Generally, a vinegar egg liquid can be taken for a week (about 30 ml per day). When eating, you can add 2-3 times warm water, dilute and eat, while applying external Chinese medicine at the same time.