CONCLUSION: Topical indigo naturalis (the Chinese herb Qing Dai)
ointment was a novel, safe, and effective therapy for plaque-type
psoriasis.

Psoriasis has been diagnosed as a disorder for thousands of years in both the east and western worlds. Chinese medicine has always viewed psoriasis as systemic disease that responds very well to the use of internally administered medicinals. Modern western medicine has struggled with it's understanding of psoriasis, in both treatment and diagnosis, and it has only been in the recent past that psoriasis is being viewed as a systemic problem.

Sometimes it seems that the simpliest and common things are the best for us. Tumeric (Curcumin Longae) the common kitchen spice and Chinese herbal remedy (Jiang Huang), was shown to be very effective at reducing the thick plaques of psoriasis. In fact the researchers who did the study found that Tumeric was twice as effective as the western drug calcipotriol, also known as Dovonex.

BACKGROUND: Phosphorylase kinase (PhK), also known as adenosine
triphosphate (ATP)-phosphorylase b phosphotransferase, integrates
multiple calcium/calmodulin-dependent signalling pathways, including
those involved in cell migration and cell proliferation, while coupling
these pathways to glycogenolysis and ATP-dependent phosphorylation,

This study was undertaken to assess the efficacy of the herose formula
as a treatment for psoriasis patients who have been previously treated
with immunosuppressants. The study was an open one conducted in one
center. Fifteen patients were instructed to take four herose capsules
(450 mg per capsule) three times a day for 10 months. At each visit the