How is acne caused in traditional Chinese medicine?
1. Wind-heat syndrome of lung meridian: facial flushing, acne, fever, itching, pustules, thin yellow fur, red tongue, rapid pulse and other symptoms.
2. Damp-heat syndrome of spleen and stomach: the rash is red, swollen and itchy, often accompanied by symptoms such as poor stool, indigestion, abdominal distension, yellow greasy fur and slippery pulse.
3. Liver-qi stagnation syndrome: It is more common in women, and the rash appears repeatedly, which is obviously related to the menstrual cycle.
4, liver and kidney yin deficiency syndrome: more common in adults over 30 years old, rash color is not fresh, common complexion is dull, pigmentation, mental fatigue, thin white fur, slippery pulse and other symptoms.
What are the symptoms of acne?
1, punctate acne
The symptom of this kind of acne is small white spots scattered on the face, close to the skin color. If you squeeze by hand, you can squeeze out a yellow-white translucent fat plug with stripes or rice grains. There are also little black spots, which are formed after oxidation.
2, atrophic acne
It refers to the "pit-shaped" scar formed by the damage of papules or pustular acne and the destruction of sebaceous glands, which is more common in patients with long-term illness and recurrent attacks, but has not attracted attention.
3, papular acne
The most common symptoms of acne are mainly inflammatory papules, which are higher than the skin, as big as rice grains to peas, dense, and some are hard, reddish or crimson in color. Sometimes blackheads or sebum plugs with black tips can be seen in the center of the papules, sometimes itching or pain.
What is acne?
Acne is a common disease in adolescence and a chronic inflammation of sebaceous glands in hair follicles. Pathogenic factors include endocrine factors, abnormal keratinization of sebaceous ducts in hair follicles, microbial infection and immune factors. Skin lesions mainly occurred in cheeks, forehead and nasobuccal sulcus, followed by chest, back and shoulders. The initial lesions are conical papules with the same hair follicles, and the top is formed by melanin deposition. Aggravated blackheads form inflammatory papules with small pustules at the top, and inflammation continues to develop, forming nodules or cysts. Severe can form scars and sinuses, accompanied by obvious pain.
How to prevent acne?
1, pay attention to face cleaning: wash your face with warm water, because cold water is not easy to remove oil, and hot water promotes sebum secretion, so irritating soap is not needed. Sulfur soap is good for acne. Don't use oily cosmetics such as vanishing cream.
2, a reasonable diet: eat more fruits and vegetables, eat less stimulating foods such as fat, sugar, spicy, and keep the stool smooth.
3, do not squeeze acne by hand, so as not to cause suppuration and inflammation. After the abscess is absorbed, it will form scars and pigmentation, which will affect the appearance. Antibiotics are effective for serious infections.
4, combining work and rest, maintaining a happy spirit, is very beneficial to the treatment of acne. Don't bear the burden of acne, so as not to cause neuroendocrine disorders and aggravate acne. If you feel that the acne on your face doesn't matter, you don't need to take medicine, and wait for it to subside naturally, because acne generally won't leave any traces after it subsides.