Is Chinese medicine effective in treating facial acne?

Having acne on your face will give others a bad impression and will also have serious consequences on your life and work. Nowadays, many jobs require regular facial features and a good image. Especially for women, a good face is more conducive to their work. So, how about traditional Chinese medicine in treating facial acne? If you want to know the answer, please read the following carefully!

Traditional Chinese medicine has long discussed acne, and the treatment method is based on individual symptoms and different manifestations of skin lesions, so it often has unexpected miraculous effects than Western medicine.

1. Blood stasis and phlegm coagulation syndrome: The main manifestations are long-term acne, hard texture that is difficult to disappear, pain when touched, or facial unevenness like orange peel. Women may have symptoms such as scanty menstruation, dysmenorrhea, aggravated acne during menstruation, dark tongue with thin coating, and sluggish pulse. This type is more common in patients with long-term chronic acne. The treatment is mainly to promote blood circulation and resolve phlegm, soften and disperse nodules.

2. Spleen and stomach damp-heat syndrome: The main manifestations are continuous acne, which can be squeezed out into yellow-white rice-like lipid plugs, or pus, oily and shiny face, bad breath and bitter taste in the mouth, good and bad appetite, sticky and uncomfortable stools, red tongue with yellow greasy coating, and rapid and stringy pulse. The treatment is mainly to clear away dampness and heat.

3. Heat accumulation in the lung meridian: The main manifestations are the initial onset of acne, redness, swelling and pain, itching on the face, dry mouth, yellow urine, dry stool, red tongue with yellow coating, and floating pulse. The treatment is mainly to clear the lungs and cool the blood.

When the spleen and stomach function is not good, let's say it is 60%, if you consume 100% of the normal amount of food at this time, 40% of the food will turn into heat due to incomplete digestion by the spleen and stomach, and enter the lungs through the meridians and fumigate the face, causing false-heat type acne. At this time, it is not enough to just clear the heat from the lungs and stomach. How to treat facial acne at this time? Experts say that to cure the root cause, it is necessary to regulate the spleen and stomach, and raise yang and disperse fire to cure it. Traditional Chinese medicine can not only clear away heat, but also dissipate heat evil. For patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and heat, if cold medicine is used to clear away heat, it will aggravate the deficiency of the spleen and stomach. At this time, on the one hand, the spleen and stomach should be tonified, and on the other hand, warm medicine should be used to dissipate the heat evil, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach.

Patients should also be careful not to overeat cold or raw foods, and eat less spicy and greasy foods to avoid generating dampness and increasing heat; ensure adequate sleep and not stay up late; and wash your face frequently with warm water in the summer when sebaceous glands are secreting vigorously to prevent oil from clogging the pores.

The above is a brief introduction to how effective traditional Chinese medicine is in treating facial acne. The effect of traditional Chinese medicine in treating acne may be slower, but the effect is still good, and there are no side effects and no harm to the body. Do not use medicines or cosmetics indiscriminately. It is best to consult relevant people before using them. Patients should also pay attention to their diet, avoid eating spicy food, and ensure adequate sleep.