Allergies can be acute or chronic. Symptoms include: skin rashes that are red or white, develop quickly, and are itchy; nausea is common... and in some cases, it can be dangerous due to suffocation.

Acute allergies are often related to physical health; and can also be caused by consuming stale food (such as fish, shrimp, crab, eggs, etc.); or by an individual's internal constitution, such as excess heat, exposure to cold or hot winds, or sweating. It can also be caused by medications or injections leading to hypersensitivity. Chronic allergies are often due to poor emotional health, liver problems, prolonged weakness leading to heat, or chronic diseases such as intestinal parasites, nephritis, hepatitis, irregular menstruation, etc.



Mung beans can be used as a remedy for allergies - Photo: Thai Nguyen

Some treatment methods

- Boil some papaya stems to make a decoction for drinking. Divide into two doses per day.

- Take 100 grams each of mung beans and soybeans, grind them into a fine powder, add water and bring to a boil, then add sugar and consume within the day.

- Take 12 longan flowers and 30 grams of mint, boil them in water and drink the decoction. Drink one dose per day, divided into two servings. Repeat this process three times to see results.

- Use bitter gourd leaves, loofah leaves, black carp bile, and rapeseed plant in sufficient quantities. Dry the bitter gourd and loofah leaves, chop them into small pieces, and grind them into a fine powder. First, mix them with the black carp bile, then mix well with the rapeseed plant powder and apply to the allergic skin area.

- Boil tea leaves, orange peel, and licorice root in water, then use this water to wash the affected skin area.

- Use 10 grams of osmanthus flowers, add water and boil to make a decoction to drink throughout the day.

- Use 20 grams of winter melon peel, 15 grams of yellow chrysanthemum flowers, 12 grams of red peony, and enough honey. Put the winter melon peel, yellow chrysanthemum flowers, and red peony into a pot, add water, and simmer. Strain the liquid, add honey, and drink as a tea. Once a day, for 7 days constitutes a course of treatment. This remedy also helps to dispel wind and clear heat.

- Use 100-150 grams of chives, 50 grams of spring onion leaves, and 30 ml of white wine. Add water and boil to make a decoction, drink twice a day.

- Take 100 grams of fresh rhododendron leaves, wash them thoroughly, and boil them to make a decoction. Drink half of the decoction and use the other half to wash the affected area.

- Use 200g of water chestnut (a type of tuber commonly used in Southern Vietnam for making sweet soup), 10g of fresh mint leaves, and 10g of white sugar. Wash the water chestnuts, peel them, chop them finely, and extract the juice. Crush the fresh mint leaves with the white sugar, add them to the water chestnut juice, and add 200ml of water. Drink this instead of tea. Suitable for allergies caused by excess heat in the blood.

- Boil equal amounts of sour apple peel and longan peel in water and use the resulting decoction to wash the affected skin area.

Please note that the above are common, chronic allergy treatments. For acute and critical allergy cases (difficulty breathing, respiratory failure, edema, etc.), immediate hospitalization is necessary for appropriate and urgent treatment.

According to Thanh Nien - NT