Can acne be cured by taking Chinese medicine

Adolescence is the period of most rapid growth and development for people, and it is also the period when acne grows fastest. During adolescence, people will develop many pimples on their bodies, especially on their faces. The pimples will feel hard to the touch, the skin will appear uneven, and parts of the skin will be red and swollen. Generally speaking, adolescent acne will disappear on its own after a period of time, but some people take Chinese medicine to get rid of acne. So, can acne be cured by drinking Chinese medicine?

"Acne" is also known as acne, "facial pimples", "blackheads", "acne", etc., but most of them are caused by these two reasons. One is that the skin is oily, the sebaceous glands are overdeveloped, and the sebum secretion is vigorous. The pores are blocked, bacteria breed, and the oil is not discharged smoothly. Then the sebaceous glands continue to secrete, and the sebum accumulates in the pores, protruding to form acne. Another reason is that the hormone secretion in the body is unbalanced, causing acne on the skin. This reason is more common in adolescence. The imbalance of hormone secretion will also indirectly cause excessive sebum secretion, which will further aggravate acne. And seriously affect people's appearance.

In Western medicine, it is a chronic inflammatory skin disease caused by blockage and inflammation of hair follicles and sebaceous glands. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the formation of acne is closely related to physical constitution. Acne is more likely to get worse when the physical constitution is mixed with climatic conditions! People who are prone to "acne" are mainly divided into five types: heavy lung and stomach fire, phlegm and dampness obstruction, phlegm and qi stagnation, liver qi stagnation and Chong and Ren disorders. But from a clinical point of view, a patient often has several conditions mixed together. For patients with phlegm-damp constitution, acne conditions are often easily aggravated if the weather is hot and humid or cold and dry.

So the question is, why do acne recur after taking Chinese medicine?

Acne is actually caused by a combination of factors including your daily living habits, emotions, stress, physical condition, etc. It is a process that accumulates over time.

In people's minds, Chinese medicine is synonymous with being natural, non-toxic, and having no side effects. Many people even use it to cook and add some Chinese medicine when making soup. In fact, this is a misunderstanding that needs to be corrected. As the saying goes, "all medicines are poisonous to some extent." Some Chinese medicines are toxic if taken in excess, and may even cause irreversible liver damage. The Chinese medicine for treating acne has very strict requirements on the prescription. If it is not used accurately, it will affect metabolism, so it cannot be eradicated.

Chinese medicine needs to be taken for a long time and is mainly for internal regulation, but it cannot expel black and white acne and various dark spots deep in the skin. It can only relieve the occurrence of acne, but cannot clean the skin, unclog the pores, and cause cross infection. Therefore, it delays the best improvement period and will cause the acne to continue to worsen.

Taking Chinese medicine cannot cure acne. Chinese medicine only regulates the inside of the body. The oil and toxins clogged deep in the pores cannot be expelled by applying Chinese medicine alone. Under the premise of treating the symptoms, it can only temporarily relieve the outbreak of acne, but it cannot clear the roots of acne and clogged pores. Moreover, long-term use will cause pigmentation and darker skin color. Taking Chinese medicine without the right medicine can make facial acne more severe, so taking Chinese medicine cannot eradicate acne! To treat acne, it is necessary to find out the root cause of the problem, which is the key to targeted care.

Taking Chinese medicine also requires a process. When you see acne reappear after taking Chinese medicine, it is actually the remaining heat and toxins in the body gradually coming out.

When pimples appear, it seems to be caused by dampness and toxins. Clearing away dampness and heat and detoxifying can treat the symptoms, while strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness can be the fundamental treatment. In the process of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, weakness may occur and the spleen may not be able to be replenished. Some will break out temporarily, but overall, more acne will disappear than appear. When the spleen and stomach function is gradually adjusted, the skin will produce less oil, and the greasy sebum will not clog the hair follicles, so it will naturally not get inflamed, and the acne will get better! The skin will become more and more delicate and smooth!

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.

Drinking Chinese medicine will have a certain effect on removing acne, but it cannot cure it completely. If something is invented and has 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, 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. To cure acne, you first need to understand the cause of your acne and choose the correct and effective method to care for it. We cannot take Chinese medicine blindly. Only symptomatic treatment can effectively help our skin.