Herbal remedies for a clean
13.08.2007 . Newspaper article published in light of 13.08.2007.
Acne causes physical discomfort, with an emotional and social impact to human life, especially for girls and young women. Physical discomfort can leave unwanted traces on his face, even permanent scars. Much more serious are the emotional, which can lead to mental depression, autoizolare of collective prestige and decrease in school or at work, over which a complex mix of shyness kept her whole life.
Ever, women regardless of age, and they wanted to preserve the freshness of tone and a beautiful and healthy skin. For this they used a whole arsenal of products, or natural chemicals, some of which are supported by a puffery without a precise diagnosis. Given the content different irritant substances, antibiotics, hormones, certain preparations have led many cosmetic dermatological conditions such as baskets, wrinkles, dry skin, swelling or itching.
Acne, with the popular name of trash is a chronic skin condition, manifested by inflammation of glands sebacee sometimes foul when associated with a microbial suprainfecţie, most commonly with staphylococci.
Skin lesions may take many forms and are caused by the formation of comedoane (white or black points filled with sebum, dead cells, hairs and bacteria). May appear microchisturi sebacee (agglomerations of white cells in the horny layer of skin), Papua (swelling roşietice very small, sometimes almost invisible), pimpled (basic yellow with pus, around a hair) and vesicles (blisters with red liquid ). Acne a person can exist all these forms of manifestation, or a part thereof.
In the first phase, around the yarn hair, are proliferating, excess cells comeocite and sebacee gland produces a substance that forms a pimple with white top keratin and sebum. Gradually, these comedoane are close in color and become black due to colorării with melanină and oxidation on the surface of sebumului and impurities.
By pressing a cylinder is removed fat, a few millimeters long, the wings more often on the nose, forehead, eyes and chin line. Less is the locale on the face, neck, shoulders, chest, arms and thighs.
After removing fat filetelor may occur a crust that is completed by a permanent scar.
What forms of the disease may occur
Acne may take various clinical forms, the most common being juvenile acne vulgar that affects adolescents between 14-18 years, following an intensive activities specific hormonal puberty. In addition, the young and hipersecreţie a sebacee glands (skin fat, seboreică), in which large amount of fat causes plugging of skin pores. In girls, juvenile acne is triggered by a few days before the menstrual cycle.
In general, juvenile acne can persist for 3-5 years, but is sometimes extended to 10-20 years. Most often disappears after age 30 years and in women after pregnancy, irrespective of the causes that generated disease.
Trigger main causes of juvenile acne are endocrine disturbances, imbalances between androgen hormones and estrogens, bacterial infections and hereditary factors or psychological origin.
Baskets in adolescents may be harmless, but sometimes quite painful. In extreme cases containing pus and blood which pătează clothes and bed linen, pillows especially.
Statistics show that acne affects more than 90% of young people aged between 12 and 17 years. An example shows that 40-50 million Americans, young and old, suffer from acne.
And children can be affected by acne
Not only teenagers are affected by acne, but also children, adults and even those with advanced age, of both sexes. Over 40% of adult women presenting mau forms more or less severe acne rozacee that appears, first, through a permanent redness, vesicles with training (basic liquid) caused by menstrual disorders, genital (ovarian), gastrointestinal, liver and neurovegetative. Hormonal imbalances stimulates secretion of oil glands sebacee, especially when they overlap on a state of chronic constipation.
Some women have had acne from puberty, but the stress and pace of everyday life alert the main factors leading to the emergence of acne in adulthood.
Frequency as before puberty, acne is more prevalent among girls. During puberty, the disease affects both sexes, with higher complication boys and maturity increase the frequency of the disease in women.
Although the adult age is better supported than in adolescence, late acne is resistant to various local treatments, which discourages the patients and waive any treatment.
In addition to juvenile acne and can rozacee there are other forms with distinct characteristics (acne gastric, liver, intestinal and nervous).
Treatments fitoterapeutice
Besides preparations antibiotics, disinfectants, and hormonal autovaccin used, successfully, many herbs which have properties detoxification, antiallergic, diuretic, astringent and cicatrizate applied in a long-term treatment with role in improving the general metabolism and the glandular.
In domestic consumption is used:
- Infusion of herba-three brothers-stains and antiallergic properties depurative tumors in domestic cleaning;
- Infusion of ash leaves, sage, sorrel and nettle vie (2 teaspoon dried leaf to 300 ml boiling water) to drink after every 100 ml of the 3 main meals, taking anti-inflammatory actions, diuretics and cicatrizate;
- Gemmate infusion of raspberries;
- Decoction of the roots of burdock or dandelion;
- Decoction of leaves of sage, wormwood and pedicel;
- Tecii decoction of beans (the long course);
- Tincture of walnut leaf without petiole (each 15 drops, 3 times daily).
The recipe author
Mixtures of plants used internally have special efficacy in the following recipe suggested by author:
- Three brothers-spotted, alive nettle, sage, ash, chicory, dandelion, fennel and walnut (in equal parts). Is prepared as an infusion of 2 teaspoon mixed in 250 ml boiling water; infuzează be covered 5 minutes, the strecoara daily and drink 3 cups of hot tea before the main meals, with the bitter adaus Swedish (a spoon in cup) .
Tincture of dried marigold for tenure
- Comprese lavement and local infusion or decoction of concentrate from marigold flowers, herba three brothers-and-dappled milfoil, burdock roots, chicory and sea hollyhock, gemmate pound of black poplar, hop cones, and oak bark walnut leaves or mint. Effects of treatment increases, when added 6 tablespoons of vinegar from apples. After drying the skin tamponează skin with tincture of propolis (15%);
- Comprese with tincture of marigold, aloe or juniper (400 macerated in alcohol for 8 days) with anti-inflammatory effects and cicatrizate, especially in dry tenure;
- Comprese to extract hidroalcoolic 40 ° with a blend of marigold flowers, chamomile and lavender, of herba called hollyhock, bark of willow and pine gemmate (each 10-20 g of each), having antiseptic effects, vaso-dilatatoare, lenitive , painkillers and astrigente;
- Cataplasm with infusion of leaves and roots of chicory, leaves of leeks and săpunariţă, crush the onion bulbs;
- Local tamponade 4-5 times daily with slices of cucumbers and tomatoes or tomato juice or fresh cabbage 3 times daily;
- Dab the juice boiled napi;
- With horseradish vinegar soak for 10 days or races radish in vinegar and yeast in the milk to prepare cosmetic masks to be applied on face for 10 minutes, morning and evening, then wash skin with hot water and then with cold water.
Milk lilies against pores dilate
- Milk sacks against lilies preparation of 4 petals white lilies fresh flower, the maceration, the dark, in 250 ml alcohol 900 for 30 days, the solution with very little oil and is scented tamponează cheek, morning and evening, with immediate effect in combating acne and skin catifelarea, especially in fat and tenure pores dilate;
- Antiacneică lotion, prepared in 100 ml water and 100 ml off camphorated alcohol, used in frecţii mild evening, after demachiere;
- Lotions with fresh cabbage juice;
- Ointment prepared from marigold or chamomile gemmate of poplar and black boiled in lard and beeswax which are mild massages.
Treatment apiterapeutic
It made for plugging acneol skin, 2-3 times daily and ointment of propolis (20%), applied 2 times daily on affected places for 2-3 weeks per month.
Diet
It is particularly important because a balanced diet can be a first step in preventing the occurrence of acne and in reducing its effects.
After rash acne will start with 1-2 days rest food, consuming only liquids as depurative juices from tomatoes, beetroot, grapes, oranges, to achieve purification Digest. Follows a controlled daily, taking in the morning, at breakfast, two tablespoons of wheat bran with germinated. In the rest of the day is recommended consumption market gardening with green leaves (parsley, spinach, dill, leeks, lettuce), raw vegetables (carrot, celery, beetroot, coleslaw, white and red, tomatoes, onions, garlic), barley juice .
The daily diet supplemented with lean meat (poultry, fish grilled or boiled), vegetable oil, yeast, bread full, germinated wheat, yogurt, fresh cow cheese, fresh fruit, natural fruit juices.
Water hidratează and purify skin
Cure with vitamins (A and B complex), supplemented with retinoic acid lotion (vitamin A acid) and minerals (zinc and chromium), eliminates acne in 3-5 weeks.
Do not neglect the consumption of a quantity of 1.5 - 2 liters of drinking water quality, which has an important role in skin hydration and purification.
Will avoid allergenic products stimulates secretion glands sebacee: animal fats, fatty meat, sausages, afumături, game preserves, sauces, prăjeli, strong spicy foods and very salt, salads too acre, fermented cheese, caşcavaluri, eggplants, sweet concentrated, chocolate, ice cream, coffee, alcohol, and drink sour.
Boil laundry daily and change the pillow
You should use cleaning products antibacteriană, non-oily, such as clay mask with adaus of echinacea or savory, with good therapeutic effects. Should be washing the face, twice daily with warm water and mild soaps with sulfur or tar, without skin friction. For general hygiene is required boiling laundry body, changing daily and cămăşii face pillow and steam baths to the head and chest (daily every 15 minutes).
Exercise and running (jogging) for 30 minutes can stimulate blood circulation, helping to eliminate toxins. Also, the belts are beneficial sweating (sauna weekly), baths sudorific sun (once daily), without too long exposure times in the scorching heat, and avoid scratching stoarcerii sacks whereas inflamării and the danger of infection, and the remains with scar.
Monthly steam bath, on the advice cosmetician
Will avoid cremele night lotion and alcohol-based and exclude cremele containing isopropyl-isostearat, palmitate-or-stubble which may trigger an acne outbreak.
Under the guidance of a beautician is a monthly or steam bath with chamomile infusion (4 tablespoons water to 500 ml), followed by removal comedoanelor and application of masks for greasy skin and seboreic. Before bedtime is demachiajul required to leave skin to breathe overnight.
In women with acne in pregnancy to avoid using synthetic chemical drugs and antibiotics (eg tetracycline), as health may be affected fetus, with serious, possible malformations in the brain, teeth and bones, deficiencies cranio-facial cardiovascular and central nervous system.
In many situations it is necessary psychological benefit to young shy, anxious, and introverted.
Treatment Spas
It is recommended resorts in the sulphurous water (Herculane, Căciulata, Călimăneşti, Olăneşti, Pucioasa) and baths sun (Mangalia, Eforie, Mamaia).
