Effect of Herbal Medicine on Atopic Dermatitis: A review

Abstract

Atopic Dermatitis (AD) is characterized by chronic, relapsing, pruritic inflammatory skin disease, intense itching and recurrent eczematous lesion. Currently, AD cases has rapidly increase 10%-20% in a developing country and had affected one in five individual in a population. Administration of 2, 4-Dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB) can be used to induce atopic dermatitis-like symptoms on mice. Therefore, natural herbal medicine has been used as an alternative approached to treat symptoms of dermatitis compared to corticosteroid cream. This review is an effort to update the herbal medicine used worldwide to atopic dermatitis.