Acne
Acne- What is it?
Skin and Fertility
A few weeks back Dr. Lorne Brown, the clinical director of Acubalance Wellness Centre, interviewed me on how I use skin to help me diagnosis fertility problems. Have a listen to the podcast.
Chinese herbs found to be as good or more effective than some western drugs for acne.
Three common Chinese herbs were found to be effective in controlling Acne vulgaris.
Specifically,
Huang Lian, rhizoma coptidis, was found to have comparable results to erythromycin.
Bai Zhi, Angelica dahurica, was found to be more effective than retinoic acid.
Activity of eleven kampo (Traditional Japanese) formulations and eight kampo crude drugs against Propionibacterium acne
We reviewed the susceptibility of Propionibacterium acnes to eleven Kampo formulations and to eight Kampo crude drugs that had been studied by examining their minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) in 1990 and 1995. P. acnes strains were most sensitive to Oren-gedoku-to (OGT) among these Kampo formulations. Coptidis Rhizoma (CR) and Phellodendri
Anti-acne effects of Oriental herb extracts: a novel screening method to select anti-acne agents.
The acne-therapeutic effects of Oriental herb extracts were investigated in terms of antichemotactic effect on polymorphonuclear leucocytes, antilipogenic actions, antibacterial activity against Propionibacterium acnes and resistance induction potency in the bacteria. The ethanol extract (0.01%) of Angelica dahurica markedly suppressed neutrophil chemotaxis, comparable to the effect of
