ACNE / PIMPLES

Acne causes a great deal of embarrassment when people tend to be sensitive about their personal appearance. Acne is an inflammatory skin disease affecting the sebaceous glands (glands which produce and oily secretion) and hair follicles. These glands are especially large upon the nose where their openings are clearly visible. The lesions are usually found on the skin of the face, neck, chest, back and shoulder. It occurs in both sexes particularly between the ages of 14 to 25. In women it tends to become worse during menstruation. Acne consists of small superficial sebaceous cyst, black head or comedones which indicate the mouth of small sebaceous ducts chocked with dust or dirt, from which a long, wormy- looking fatty mass can be squeezed.

Acne is the bane of the beauty conscious female and a boon for the drug manufactures. Millions of people find employment in the production of lotions, creams and drugs claiming to expense but without effective results. The only thing that they do is to suppress the action of the sebaceous glands temporally.

DO YOU KNOW WHY ACNE APPEARS?

• All forms of acne appears in wrong eating habits such as excessive consumption of starch, fatty food, deep fried items, sugar, irregular interval of eating.

• Imbalance of hormonal secretion.

• Dyspepsia

• Chronic constipation. When the bowel movement is not regular, the waste matter is not eliminated as quickly as it should be and the blood stream becomes surcharged with toxic matter. The skin makes an extra effort to eliminate excess waste matter results in acne and other forms of skin diseases.

TRY THIS OUT IF YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM ACNE

• The surest cure is to improve your diet which must not contain any sugar, fat, tea, coffee, alcohol or tobacco as it tends to increase acidity and hence dyspepsia and constipation.

• Since constipation is the major cause for acne, it will be wise to review my previous blog on constipation.

• Another way to deal with acne is dietary which should include fruits, vegetables, salads, sprouted seeds, and nuts.

• Hygiene of the whole body must be looked after properly and a lot of fresh air, exercise and wash should be taken to reactivate the pores to expel the poison from the body through profuse sweating and cleansing.

• Take plenty of fresh water so that your bladder ejects the toxic matter through its activity.

• Hot fomentation should be applied locally or steaming of face can open up the pores and to bring out the morbid matter, after about 15 to 20 minutes of this treatment follow up with cold water wash.

• Deep swabs of cotton in freshly prepared lime and rub it on your face or affected area gently. Let the juice dry on itself and then wash it after sometime. This process not only removes the dirt from the pores but also gives it a glow of freshness.

• Grated cucumber applied over the area leaving it for 30 minutes is also an enhancing method and best tonic for the skin.

• Paste of fenugreek leaves applied over the affected area every night before going to bed and morning wash with warm water it prevents pimples and black heads.

• Pounded orange peels with water applied regularly are also a beneficial treatment in acne.

• Vitamin A, E and niacin taken as therapeutic purpose has been treated successfully.