Curing Acne Naturally in Asheville

Many conditions that manifest in the superficial or exterior aspect of the body – for example the skin – are not only exterior conditions caused by things impacting from the outside but are also conditions that have a relationship to the internal organs and their dysfunction. A good example is the relationship of a deficient immune system ( internal ) to an increase in colds and flus ( external or superficial illness ). Chinese medicine, in particular, views this relationship as an important causative factor in medicine and acts to treat both the external condition and the underlying internal imbalance or issue in an effort to resolve the external condition.

Many skin conditions are considered internal/external conditions even in conventional medicine. Acne, as we just have read, is one such skin condition. And it has been only recently that the internal treatment of acne has been addressed by conventional medicine. However, the side effects of the main medications are fairly severe placing young people who are greatly concerned with their external appearance to weigh this against damage to internal organs and processes.

Chinese medicine seeks to resolve the condition of acne by resolving the internal imbalances while treating the external result of that imbalance simultaneously. It seeks to rebalance the system rather than suppress the symptom. This requires personal engagement by the patient with their own health outcomes especially as it relates to diet. And this is sometimes a hard thing for an adolescent since they have the highest caloric requirements of any group of humans, and also may not see the connection between what they put in their mouths and what happens with their skin.

The organs involved in acne vulgaris include the lungs (skin), liver (gallbladder), and stomach. The lungs include the skin in Chinese medicine because the skin acts as a temperature regulatory and venting system for internal heat through the pores. The body, of course, should be warm or we would not be of this world. However, certain internal conditions can cause a level of internal warmth, or heat, that is not conducive to health. Hyperthermia ( heat stroke ) is the most obvious example. However, inflammation within the body also causes low-level heat. The lungs act as a ventilation system for this heat. The causes of inflammation are many but some are hormonal imbalances, trauma, digestive dysfunction, cancers, chronic diseases, and so on.

1) Excessive consumption of a diet that is high in refined carbohydrates, sugar, and fats, 2) the use of certain pharmaceutical drugs, and 3) the confluence of puberty may cause heat to accumulate and injure the organs, producing inflammation and sometimes even poisons internally. The liver and lungs in Chinese medicine have an intimate relationship. When the liver function is overheated this heat can be vented through the lungs via the skin. It is not atypical for adolescents, who are passing through the eye of the needle into adulthood as they acquire an adult body, to run hot and have hormonal imbalances that register as heat in the liver. This heat is vented through the lungs. At the same time, the intense need for calories in a young adult can lead the individual to eat anything and everything in sight. This includes many foods that are ultimately feeding this cycle of liver ( or gallbladder ) heat. Concurrently it can cause heat in the stomach and an intestinal disharmony that alters the natural fauna and flora balance of the colon. In fact, anaerobic bacteria multiply in a colon swamped with fats and bile acids, sugar, and no roughage from a poor diet. Add to this a lack of vegetables and fruit and there is a good opportunity for the body to find a means of discharge, especially in a young person through the skin since the lungs and large intestine are considered coupled organs with a special energetic and physical relationship.

It turns out that the stomach, lung, and gallbladder meridians all traverse the face. And activity related to the functioning of these organs can express in the skin of the face either through healthy or unhappy skin especially of the face.