剥落的痕迹 瘙痒的痛楚 无人可知 残缺的外观胜似不完美却独一无二
The patterns of skin falling, the pain of itchy is known to nobody. The scattered skin is imperfect yet sole.
Herbal medicine with healing effects and recyclable biomaterials are research aspect that she has searched into. She create bio-products such as gloves and packages derived from aromatic herbs - Pogostemon Cablin and Herba Eupatorii - aquafaba ( liquid from cooked beans ), seaweed, flour, etc.
According to the anti-fungal characteristic of herbal medicines and the herbal biomaterials she made, they are the effect of curing Tinea manuum, which is a dermatophyte infection of one or both hands.
手之疗 配以草药敷之 触可达平缓之道 闻可达安神之道 弃其与水混之可抑菌
The prescription of Tinea manuum can be combined with the application of Pogostemon Cablin, Herba Eupatoriican which have the effects of sedation by touching, healing effects of easing anxiety by smelling, mixed with warm water can have anti-bacteria effects.
By applying the properties of Chinese herbal medicine itself and through continuous experiments, she applied herbal medicine to transform it from flat to three-dimensional and made it into bio-materials, which can be degradable, recycled, and have healing effects, and can be applied to the skin surface.
The thin and smooth material can fit the skin well and make people feel comfortable. The material can be made into wearable accessories, such as glove that can be removed from fingers and palms, so that people can choose what to wear by the part of the skin.
Based on the research, Tinea manuum, it can be caused by various fungi. It causes severe itching. The risk factor is highly contagious, The triggers come from superficial mycosis in skin diseases and can be spread by direct contact or by contact with contaminated material. Besides, the age of the patients and the distribution of pathogenic fungi are shown that the datas of dermatophyte are the largest proportion.
The paper shows that essential oil from the leaves of Pogostemon cablin through in vitro experiment which is found that Pogostemon cablin can be used for the treatment of the dermatophytes, the skin fungus disease.
From the investigation of the symptoms of Tinea Manuum, it can be seen that most of the symptoms will appear in interfinger, volar and palm. Based on this, I decided to design glove on hand.
I designed each part of the glove to be removable, so that people can choose the part to wear according to the range of conditions.
In order to facilitate the degradation and recycling of materials to a greater extent, the packaging I designed is also made of the same materials.
I did some experiments to find out the ideal softness. The thin and smooth material can fit the skin well and make people feel comfortable.
Then I decided the color – I tried to use fruit peels, such as onion peels, carrot peels and cucumber peels to dye the herbal medicine – however, Peel staining has an effect on the original fragrance of herbal medicines and the color of peels are difficult to extract.
Then I found that herbal medicine has a pure natural color by extracting the yellow part of the herb and the originally brown part.
The final product is the biomaterials made from herbal medicines. As a product concept that can be further implemented, the glove shows that each finger parts can be removed and installed at any time, which better enables users to wear corresponding gloves according to their own parts that has Tinea manuum infection.
The package materials are 100% made from bio-materials and ingredients from herbal medicines. And the handle part is designed to have enough length to open the package and take out the required objects as the users’ needs.
