Is Chinese medicine effective in treating acne?

Acne or blackheads often grow on some people's faces, indicating that these people have symptoms of disease in their bodies. For example, there may be endocrine disorders or symptoms of slow metabolism. However, acne can be treated by applying medication or using cosmetics to remove acne. Some methods are more effective, and other treatments can also be used as reference. Is drinking Chinese medicine effective in treating acne?

According to Chinese medicine, acne is mostly caused by improper diet, excessive consumption of spicy, fatty and sweet foods, and external pathogens, which block the hair follicles and prevent the internal heat from penetrating, causing blood heat to accumulate in the face, or heat accumulation in the lung meridian, external wind pathogens, or damp heat in the spleen and stomach, which accumulates internally and steams up in the face. Therefore, treatment is mostly with oral administration of traditional Chinese medicine that can clear lung heat, dispel wind-heat, cool blood and activate blood circulation.

Modern medical research believes that acne occurs due to endocrine dysfunction, hypersecretion of androgen, and abnormal activity of sebaceous glands, which lead to increased sebum secretion, excessive keratinization of hair follicles, poor sebum outflow, and the growth of abnormal bacteria, causing disease.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, the lungs control the skin, and acne on the skin is caused by lung heat. In addition, there is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine theory that "the left liver is on the right lung", that is, the left face represents the liver and the right face represents the lungs, so acne on the cheeks is caused by liver and lung heat.

In this case, drinking Chinese medicine can eliminate acne. First of all, be careful not to eat hot or spicy foods. Eat mainly cool and light food. Eat more grapefruit and hawthorn in the afternoon. Eat less dinner. In terms of daily life, you should go to bed early and get up early, and don’t stay up late. This can reduce liver fire and prevent acne.

Generally, it is necessary to avoid high-fat, spicy and pungent foods such as ginger, garlic, leek, onion, mutton, dog meat and pepper; those with spleen and stomach deficiency, cold hands and feet, loose stools, low blood pressure and bradycardia should avoid raw, cold, greasy and sticky foods such as watermelon, winter melon, radish, mung bean, raw pear, sugarcane, honey and turtle; those with chills and fever, headache and irritability, constipation and yellow urine, mouth and tongue ulcers, boils and tumors should avoid bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, loofah, leek, eggplant, shrimp, crab, snail and clams.

Generally speaking, acne caused by external factors is easier to cure. As long as you pay attention to proper skin cleansing and care, take the right medicine and use some acne-removing products, you can recover. But everyone should remember, no matter how many pimples you have, as long as you have pimples, there must be inflammation, so you must use anti-inflammatory products before removing acne.

Traditional Chinese medicine is relatively safe, but it only regulates the internal organs. The embolus that is blocked deep in the pores cannot be expelled by taking medicine alone. Under the premise of treating the symptoms, although Chinese medicine can relieve the occurrence of acne in a short period of time, it cannot clean the skin and make the pores unclogged, so it cannot eradicate it.

Drinking Chinese medicine will have a certain effect on removing acne. If something was invented and had no therapeutic effect, it would have been eliminated and abandoned long ago.

Analyzing from the causes of acne, male hormone imbalance is the main cause of acne, which is consistent with endocrine disorders in traditional Chinese medicine. However, traditional Chinese medicine blurs the concept of endocrine disorders. There are as many as 75 hormones in the human body, and estrogen, androgen, growth hormone, thyroid hormone, parathyroid hormone, adrenaline, insulin, progesterone, etc. are the more important ones. Among them, as long as the secretion of androgen, adrenal hormone and progesterone is high, it may cause acne, while only estrogen can reduce acne.

As long as you think about it a little more deeply, you will understand that Chinese medicine is only a temporary solution and not a permanent cure. Simply taking Chinese medicine has little effect on removing acne. Moreover, long-term use will lead to pigmentation, which is why people who often drink Chinese medicine have a darker skin color.