This disease refers to a chronic inflammation of the hair follicle and sebaceous gland and frequently occurs in females and males in adolescence, accompanied often by seborrhea. It can be cured naturally or relieved mostly after adolescence. This disease is a disease of multiple factors and its pathogenesis is still not known completely. Usually, it is believed to be related to the production of free fatty acid in the local area by propionic acne bacillus in the sebaceous under the function of androgen. This disease belongs to the category of "Acne of Lung Wind" and” Acne" in Chinese medicine. The disease can be caused by improper food intake, and excessive intake of greasy and sweat foods, which result in accumulation of heat in the lung and stomach to fumigate the face along the meridians, plus secondary infection of pathogenic wind. It can recur repeatedly in severe conditions to lead to failed function of qi activity, phlegm accumulation and blood stasis.
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1) Ingredients: Honeysuckle, wild chrysanthemum flower, dandelion, the root bark of the peony tree, rheum officinale, borneol, kuh-seng and radices semiaquilegiae. Each is 50g. Grind all the ingredients into powder. Every time, get 20g of powder and add moderate flour to mix them up with warm water. Apply the mixture on the face for 30 minutes and take once a day.
2) Ingredients: Oldenlandia diffusa 30g, Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch 30g, scutellaria baicalensis 20g, folia eriobotryae 20g, the root bark of white mulberry 20g, Angelica sinensis 15g, radix paeoniae rubrathe 15g, chrysanthemum flower 15g.
And decoct the ingredients in water.
3) Ingredients: folia eriobotryae 30g, the root bark of the peony tree 20g, radix curcumae 20g, cortex lycii radicis 20g, selfheal 20g, spina gleditsiae 20g, radix paeoniae rubrathe 20g, cicada slough 20g. And decoct the ingredients in water.
4) Ingredients: Scutellaria baicalensis 20g, the root bark of white mulberry 20g, gardenia 20g, dandelion 20g, the root bark of the peony tree 15g, radix paeoniae rubrathe 15g, plantago asitica Linn 15g, haw 15g. And decoct the ingredients in water.
5) Ingredients: Folia eriobotryae 30g, the root bark of white mulberry 30g, golden cypress 20g, wild chrysanthemum flower 20g, dandelion 20g, tokyo violet herb 20g, rhizoma alismatis 15g, goldthread 5g. And decoct the ingredients in water.
6) Ingredients: Forsythia suspensa Vahl 20g, scutellaria baicalensis 20g, radix paeoniae rubrathe 20g, selfheal 20g, sophora flower 20g, the root of red-rooted salvia 20g, rheum officinale 10g. And decoct the ingredients in water.
7) Ingredients: Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch 30g, goldthread 15g, scutellaria baicalensis 15g, golden cypress 15g, gardenia 15g, dandelion 15g, rheum officinale 10g, folia bambosae 10g. And decoct the ingredients in water.
8) Ingredients: Scutellaria baicalensis 20g, dandelion 20g, forsythia suspensa Vahl 20g, the root of red-rooted salvia 15g, radix paeoniae rubrathe 15g, Bulb of Thunberg Fritillary 15g, honeysuckle 15g, liquorice 10g. And decoct the ingredients in water.
9) Ingredients: Fructus arctii 30g, chrysanthemum flower 20g, forsythia suspensa Vahl 20g, Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch 20g, the root bark of the peony tree 20g, golden cypress 15g, tokyo violet herb 15g, oriental wormwood 15g, Radix Gentianae 15g. And decoct the ingredients in water.
10) Ingredients: Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch 30g, gypsum 30g, the root of red-rooted salvia 30g, honeysuckle 15g, the root bark of the peony tree 15g, radix paeoniae rubrathe 15g, folia eriobotryae 10g, rheum officinale 10g. And decoct the ingredients in water.