Magical Chinese Cure All?

I wrote here about the rash that cropped up practically the second I started this cycles birth control regimen. It was itching like crazy and I still have no idea what caused it - hormones? All the medications? Detergent in my sheets? something I touched? A yeast skin rash from the birth control? A combination of the above?

I asked my acupuncturist about it and she said that from a Chinese Medicine stand point, rashes like that are the result of damp heat or "wind" in the skin. She used several points to help clear out heat and dampness in my acupuncture session and gave me this herbal wash that she usually gives to her post postpartum patients to help with healing tears, hemorrhoids, yeast infections and a whole host of other things.

Yin Care

I've been using this stuff for two days and I have to say it's friggin' magical. It's like there's nothing this stuff can't treat.  The ingredient list is full of herbs and extracts, some I recognize and others I'm totally unfamiliar with: 

Extracts & Essential Oils of:

• Di Fu Zi - Kochia
• Yin Chen Hao - Artemisia
• Du Huo - Angelica
• She Chuang Zi - Cnidium
• Shi Chang Pu - Acorus
• Ai Ye - Artemisia
• Bo He - Mentha
• Jin Yin Hua - Lonicera
• Zhi Zi - Gardenia
• Huang Bai - Phellodendron
• Huang Qin - Scutellaria
• Ku Shen - Sophora
• Cang Zhu - Atractylodes
• Tu Jing Pi - Pseudolarix

The list of things this stuff successfully treats is unbelievable. You can use it as a compress, rub, rinse, douche, soak, spray, mix it with a compounding cream and even soak tampons in it. Depending on the ailment you're treating, you dilute it with different amounts of water but you can also use it at full strength.

Topically, Yin care treats:

• Acne, Eczema, Psoriasis, Rashes, Rosacea, Hemorrhoids
• Shingles, Cold Sores, Sty, Athletes Foot, Poison Oak, Poison Ivy 
• Fungal Infections in the nail, toe or skin, Insect Bites and Staph Infections 

 For Gynecological issues, Yin care treats:

• Yeast, Bacterial, Fungal, and Trichomonia Infections 
• Vulvitis, STD
• Cervical Dysplasia, Cervicitis

A herbal solution that treats everything from acne and hemorrhoids to poison ivy and yeast infections? How does this even exist? I can even use it on Milou's flea bite/lick granulomas. This stuff is insane, it's already helping to clear up some acne and a small rash E had.

OMG. Just this very moment I think I figured out what caused the rash on my groin. I'm fairly sure that the day I started birth control I also shaved my bikini line. With E's man scented shave cream. That I am obviously allergic to. Whoops.

I still don't know what caused the one on my stomach but that one is basically gone, so major points to Yin-care.  

Those little dots are the last remnants of the belly rash. Bye bye!