Acne

• Acne- What is it?- Acne, a disease of the skin’s oil glands, is the collection of many raised bumps otherwise known as zits, pimples, and white or black heads.
• 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

• Pregnancy with live birth after 3 miscarriages, using Acne as a guiding diagnosis for treatment- Overview- Between the years of 2005 and 2007, patient became pregnant three times, but unfortunately miscarried each one by the eighth week. This woman was hopeful that a new perspective and outlook would be offered to her that would help explain her recurrent miscarriages.
  
• Acne as a tool to guide the treatment of PCOS-

  Acne is a common problem faced by many women in their reproductive years. Often times it indicates elevated androgens (male hormones) and may be associated with menstrual irregularities, and even Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome, a condition that involves two of the following criteria:

• Hormonal acne-

  Hormonal Acne
  

  When pimples appear or increase on a woman's face as she approaches menstruation, she is suffering with 'hormonal' or 'premenstrual' acne. While some only get one or two pimples and don't find them much of a burden, other women's acne can be deep, painful, and widespread, covering their entire face, chest, and back. Besides the risk of permanent scarring from picking pimples, the emotional stress associated with their appearance tends to be the hardest on women. Being more than skin deep, pimples that fluctuate with the menstrual cycle signify an underlining hormonal imbalance and even problems related to a women's fertility.

• Clinical observation on treatment of female delayed acne vulgaris with qingre cuochuang tablet
• Syndrome differentiation and typing of traditional Chinese medicine and the clinical efficacy in 148 cases of acne vulgaris
• Western drug Accutane, for the treatment of acne, found to be linked to ulcerative colitis and bowel disease-

  I recently found several research studies posted on the PubMed research data base that make direct parallels to Accutane use and ulcerative colitis.

• Isotretinoin (Accutane)-induced inflammatory bowel disease in an adolescent.
• Isotretinoin (Accutane) and ulcerous colitis
• Isotretinoin (Accutane)-induced inflammatory bowel disease
• Acne, Accutane, and Infertility-

• Stress, Acne, and Chinese Medicine-

  Acne and stress have a synergistic relationship, meaning the more stressed a person is the more acne they will develop and with more

• The Response of Skin Disease to Stress, Changes in the Severity of Acne Vulgaris as Affected by Examination Stress