Using herbs to treat acne is nothing new. In fact, in Chinese medicine, herbs and herbal acne remedies have been used for years as a means to help calm the inner turmoil in the body to help the acne heal and also to stop new acne lesions from forming. Acne is, after all, a form of inflammation and irritation, and Chinese medicine practice is to treat what they term as “internal heat” by using a “cooling” herb or natural remedy to counter the internal heat caused by raging hormones, free radicals that are roaming rampant, destroying healthy skin cells and taking precedent over the good skin cells. And then there are also other potential deficiencies in the body, such as zinc deficiencies or other vitamin or mineral deficiencies that have been determined to be a possible reason or contributing factor to the continuation and formation of acne vulgaris. Herbal acne remedies are usually seeked out by those that have either already tried traditional “medical” acne treatments like tetracylcine or a variety of other antibiotics (which I personally am against, being on long term antibiotics is not good for the body), Accutane, erythromycin, Retin-A and other topical acne treatments as well as medications taken orally, or they don’t want to go down the medical road, and would like to try to holistically (naturally) treat their acne with herbal acne remedies instead. Whatever your reasons may be for searching for alternative methods to treating your acne without traditional medications or straining visits to the dermatologist, you should know that there are some excellent alternatives that qualify as “herbal remedies” in that they use a base of plant-derived nutrients and therapeutic herbs in their formulas as a means to target the causes of acne internally. As a teenager, the internet was not really available, so I didn’t have the resources to do the right research and find a good herbal acne remedy , so I was relinquished to going to the dermatologists office over and over again after nothing worked correctly and got rid of the acne for me. My parents wasted hundreds of dollars. I was first prescribed an antibiotic called Tetracylcine, and that made my skin extremely photosensitive (sensitive and susceptible to sunlight and sunburn), and it also would render a birth control pill ineffective. There are also long term consequences to taking antibiotics for a long time. There has been much speculation that taking antibiotics long term may even promote breast cancer later on in life, among other health issues it is suspect in having a part of. I was also prescribed numerous topical remedies, including Retin-A, which just dried my skin out so bad it would chafe and bleed in the winter. I still didn’t have clear skin. Now, with the offerings of superios products in the realm of herbal acne supplements , like the one we discuss here nonstop, which I used successfully for a course of six months a while ago, and have had minimal issues with my (now) adult acne since, young people and older people with acne have some serious alternatives that work for getting rid of acne. It’s just a matter of finding what works for you.

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