What skin disease is purpura?

Purpura is the name of traditional Chinese medicine, including modern medical diagnosis of thrombocytopenia purpura and allergic purpura, mostly occurs in children. Purpura typical symptoms are located on the skin, visible subcutaneous bleeding points, purple petechiae, so called purpura. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that purpura is a blood disease, can be caused by exogenous heat or damp and warm poison in the muscle surface obstruction blood, broken blood flow outside the pulse to cause bleeding; It can also be caused by deficiency of both heart and spleen in the body, failure of heart-qi to circulate blood, poor function of spleen to circulate blood, resulting in purpura outside the blood circulation pulse. Modern medicine believes that the main causes are allergy and thrombocytopenia. Treatment should distinguish between deficiency and excess, give heat and detoxification or spleen nourishing treatment, and combined with western medicine treatment.