Summer acne treatment

Acne is a disease caused by overactive hair follicles and sebaceous glands in the skin, causing excess sebum secretion while the hair follicle openings are blocked due to hyperkeratosis...

Acne is a disease caused by hair follicles - sebaceous glands in the skin overactive, secreting too much sebum while the hair follicle opening is blocked due to hyperkeratosis, sebum is stagnant in the pores, forming acne. When acne is formed, there is often the development and proliferation of a type of bacteria in the pores, causing inflammation and redness of pustules.

According to traditional medicine, the cause of boils is fire poison, some cases often recur due to infection which traditional medicine calls heat in the blood.

Depending on the disease, use the following treatment:

Inflammatory phase (initiation)

Symptoms: Small pimples form, itchy, hot, want to scratch, at this stage use heat clearing, detoxifying, anti-inflammatory methods.

Prescription: 8g of perilla, 20g of honeysuckle, 16g of horsetail, 12g of smilax glabra, 40g of roasted black beans, 8g of licorice root, 12g of heliotrope, 12g of epimedium, boil in 750ml of water until 250ml remains, divide into 3 doses per day.

According to traditional medicine, boils are caused by fire poison.

Pus phase

Symptoms: Pimples swell into pus-filled boils, hot, red, feverish. Use the method of removing toxins and pus.

honeysuckle

Prescription: 20g honeysuckle, 12g forsythia, 12g scutellaria, 12g soapberry thorn, 16g dandelion, 6g tangerine peel, 8g fritillary, 4g licorice. Boil 750ml of water until 250ml remains, divide into 3 doses per day.

Pus rupture stage

Use the method of decellularization (removing necrotic tissue, healing the skin).

Prescription: 16g uat kim, 12g dang quy, 16g astragalus, 12g sinh dia, 12g scrophularia, 8g dan bi, 16g codonopsis, 16g honeysuckle, 6g licorice. Boil 75ml of water until 250ml remains, divide into 3 doses per day.

During the pus rupture stage, the abscess must be cleaned regularly and dried with sterile gauze to avoid re-infection.

According to SK&DS