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Cutaneous tuberculosis
DESCRIPTION Cutaneous tuberculosis (CTB) is essentially an invasion of the skin by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the same bacteria that cause TB of the lungs (pulmonary TB). Cutaneous TB is a relatively uncommon form of extrapulmonary TB (TB infection of other organs and tissues).
HERBS OF CHOICE Herbs are often used in combinations when combating an illness. Some of the most frequently used herbs are listed below. These nine herbs were picked up from different herbal combinations and are not meant to form a recipe. Our reference code for the different combinations of herbs used for this condition is TCB. This listing is not meant to diagnose, only to inform. This is of course not a complete list and is not meant to be used in the place of a doctor's advice. Click the image of each herb for a brief introduction in terms of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
CLINICAL SUCCESS IN CHINA Chinese herbal doctors have reported some successful applications of these herbal combinations:
  • During observation on 50 patients with Lupus vulgaris, receiving treatment with herbal remedy, 25 cases were judged as healing (full recovery and symptom free), 24 cases other significant improvement. Physicians judged the clinical efficacy to be good or excellent in 98.0%.
  • During other observation on 19 patients with Erythema induratum (Bazin disease), receiving treatment with herbal remedy, 15 cases were judged as healing (full recovery and symptom free), 3 cases other significant improvement. Physicians judged the clinical efficacy to be good or excellent in 94.7%.
  • During other observation on 10 patients with Miliary tuberculosis, receiving treatment with herbal remedy, 8 cases were judged as healing (full recovery and symptom free), 2 cases other significant improvement. Physicians judged the clinical efficacy to be good or excellent in 100%. Followed up at 2 years, no relapse occurs. Check the table below for details.
Cases
Healing
Significant
improvement
Total
cases
%
50
25
24
49

98. 0
19
15
3
18

94. 7
10
8
2
10

100
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Authoritative Oriented Recipes: All these well chosen herbal combinations source from experienced and authoritative experts, and have been most commonly recognized by the practitioners in this field. When you choose a herbal remedy there are two important things among your concerns: a good recipe and a correct way to cook it. A good recipe is half the good results.

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Safe and Side Effect Free: All these herbs have been being used in China for thousands of years, and have been proven to be safe. In fact most Chinese herbs are tonics without side effects. What important is that experienced practitioners should know how to use herbs to avoid possible side effects.
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Several different types of cutaneous TB exist. Direct infection of the skin or mucous membranes from an outside source of mycobacteria results in an initial lesion called the tuberculous chancre. The chancres are firm shallow ulcers with a granular base. They appear about 2-4 weeks after mycobacteria enter through broken skin. The immune response of the patient and the virulence of the mycobacteria determine the type and severity of cutaneous TB.
TB verrucosa cutis:
  • Occurs after direct inoculation of TB into the skin in someone who has been previously infected with mycobacteria
  • Presents as a purplish or brownish-red warty growth
  • Lesions most often occur on the knees, elbows, hands, feet and buttocks
  • Lesions may persist for years but can clear up even without treatment
Lupus vulgaris:
  • Persistent and progressive form of cutaneous TB
  • Small sharply defined reddish-brown lesions with a gelatinous consistency (called apple-jelly nodules)
  • Lesions persist for years, leading to disfigurement and sometimes skin cancer
Scrofuloderma:
  • Skin lesions result from direct extension of underlying TB infection of lymph nodes, bone or joints
  • Often associated with TB of the lungs
  • Firm, painless lesions that eventually ulcerate with a granular base
  • May heal even without treatment but this takes years and leaves unsightly scars
Miliary TB:
  • Chronic TB infection that has spread from the primary infection (usually in the lungs) to other organs and tissues via the bloodstream
  • Skin lesions are small (millet-sized) red spots that develop into ulcers and abscesses
  • More likely in immunocompromised patients, e.g. HIV, AIDS, cancer
  • The patient is generally sick
  • Prognosis is poor (many patients die even if diagnosed and treated)
Tuberculid:
  • Generalised exanthem in patients with moderate or high degree of immunity to TB because of previous infection
  • Usually in good health with no identifiable focus of active TB in skin or elsewhere
  • Erythema induratum (Bazin disease) presents as recurring lumps on the back of the legs (mostly women) that may ulcerate and scar.
  • Papulonecrotic tuberculid results in crops of recurrent crusted skin papules on knees, elbows, buttocks or lower trunk that heal with scarring after about 6 weeks.
  • Lichen scrofulosorum is an extending eruption of small follicular papules in young persons with underlying TB.
SYNONYMS  
  • Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis
  • Lupus vulgaris
  • Scrofuloderma
  • Miliary tuberculosis
  • Tuberculid
SYMPTOMS Symptoms vary with the different types of cutaneous tuberculosis as describe above.
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