What herbs to take for acne Herbal prescriptions for acne

Acne is also known as "wine pimples", "lung wind acne", "lung wind sores", etc. This disease is caused by the heat of the blood in the lung meridian, which fumigates the head and face, or by over-eating spicy and oily food. This disease is caused by the spleen and stomach, dampness and heat, and dampness and heat smoldering up through the meridians.

Yin Chen

The volatile oil of Inoceramus has a strong inhibitory effect on pathogenic fungi, and the decoction has different degrees of inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other bacteria.

Forsythia

It is an important medicine for sores, and it can penetrate the muscles and relieve superficiality, clear heat and dispel wind, so it is an important medicine for wind-heat.

Salvia miltiorrhiza

Salvia miltiorrhiza is bitter and slightly cold in taste. It is used to enter the Blood, descend and move the Blood, and is suitable for those with blood heat and stagnation, and is mostly used for skin diseases with blood heat and stagnation. In addition, Salvia miltiorrhiza is an important blood invigorator and blood tonic, with anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic and anti-coagulant effects.

Wild Chrysanthemum

Wild chrysanthemum disperses fire and Qi, eliminates carbuncles and poison, furuncles, scrofula, and sore eyes, and is a good medicine for treating carbuncles and sore throats.

Tiger Balm

It is used to promote blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis, to relieve menstrual pain, and to promote the flow of menstrual water and to break the arteriosclerosis of retained blood. It is bitter and cold in taste, good at clearing heat and detoxifying, treating sores and swellings, and can be taken internally and used externally. Modern pharmacological research has shown that it has antibacterial, antihypertensive, hypolipidemic, anti-cough and asthma, hemostatic, anti-inflammatory and other effects.

Chinese medicine prescription for acne

Lung meridian blood heat type acne

Main symptoms: Flushing of the skin on the cheeks and forehead, dense or scattered small papules with blackheads or small pustules, pain, accompanied by bitter and dry mouth, constipation, red tongue, thin yellow fur, and counted pulse. Treatment: Clearing the lung and cooling the blood, dispelling wind and draining heat. Remedy: Loquat and lung clearing drink plus reduction. Loquat leaf, mulberry bark, scutellaria, gardenia, chrysanthemum, peony bark, raw gypsum (first decoction), raw licorice, bitter mouth with Huang Lian, dry mouth with Sheng Di Huang and Xuan Shen, constipation with Sheng Da Huang (later down). Usage: Decoction in water, 1 dose daily, divided into 2 doses of warm.

Spleen and stomach dampness and heat type acne

Main symptoms: Rashes all over the face, or in severe cases spreading to the chest and back, red with pustules or even small nodules, painful and obvious, accompanied by taste, abdominal distension, short urine, dry stools for several days, red tongue, yellow greasy coating, smooth pulse. Treatment: Clearing the spleen and resolving dampness, draining heat and clearing the internal organs. Remedy: Yin Chen Artemisia Tang with reduction. Yin Chen, Gardenia jasminoides, Scutellaria baicalensis, Phellodendron cypress, Coix seeds, Plantago ovata (packet), Zelia, Rhubarb (later), Poria, Liu Yi San (packet). Pustules plus dandelion, zihua di Ding; nodules, cysts plus Xia Ku Cao, Kun Bu, oyster; less abdominal distension plus raw hawthorn, Chen Pi; urine yellow short plus Mu Tong, light bamboo leaf; difficult to move stool plus Xuan Ming powder (punch), senna leaf. Usage: Decoction in water, 1 dose daily, divided into 2 warm doses.