Treatment for acne on face during menstruation

We know that female friends are prone to various situations during their menstrual period. This is because the immune function of female friends decreases during their menstrual period. Some female friends are prone to breast pain during their menstrual period, while some female friends are prone to acne on their faces during their menstrual period. The appearance of acne brings great troubles to female friends. Below we will introduce the treatment methods for acne on the face during menstruation.

If the evil spirits and diseases carried away by menstrual blood are invisible, then the heat toxins discharged from the skin during menstruation - acne - are visible to many people. Menstruation comes once a month and is a channel for women to detoxify. It can help women expel various stagnant heat and fire toxins from the body. Some women will develop some pimples on their faces about 10 days before menstruation, which will quickly subside after menstruation; or women who already had acne will have their acne significantly worse before menstruation, and the symptoms will be significantly alleviated or even disappear completely after the menstruation ends.

Why does this happen? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that acne occurs when heat toxins in the body are released to the face and skin. If a person is under great stress, holds a grudge, or often eats spicy food, heat and toxins can easily accumulate in the body. If a person has abundant Qi and blood in the body, these heat toxins will automatically dissipate. For example, getting angry, sweating during exercise, and getting acne are all ways to vent heat toxins. Because some women are more introverted and their internal fire is not strong, these heat toxins and acne are usually difficult to dissipate. Only during the menstrual period, when the liver yin blood flows downward and the liver yang qi moves upward, can the damp heat and toxic fire in the body be driven out. Only then will acne appear on the surface of the skin. Chinese medicine calls this "toxin carbuncle".

Acne during menstruation is most common in people with a damp-heat constitution. People with a damp-heat constitution generally have oily skin, easily dirty hair, bad breath, and if the pimples are scratched, small white fat particles will overflow, but there will be no water (tissue fluid) or pus or blood. At the same time, they will also have symptoms of irritability, heavy or unclean menstruation, and the color of the menstrual blood will be reddish and the blood will be sticky.

If there are too many pimples, you can use some self-conditioning methods, such as drinking mung bean soup, barley porridge, chrysanthemum tea and other foods that clear away heat and reduce fire. Chrysanthemum tea can reduce internal heat because most flowers bloom before the summer solstice, and only chrysanthemums can survive until late autumn and have the unique energy of autumn and winter. By the same token, honeysuckle is also a relatively cold-resistant flower. Its vines and leaves are called "honeysuckle vines" when used as medicine. There is also a folk saying that "freezing pomegranates to death and sunburning melons will not affect honeysuckle." This shows that honeysuckle has strong cold-resistant and astringent properties and can reduce internal heat.

【Home remedies for reducing internal heat and removing acne】

Double flower tangerine peel tea: use 3 grams each of chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and tangerine peel, boil them in water and drink as tea. Very suitable for people with damp-heat in the liver and spleen.

Chrysanthemum acne-eliminating water: Use 5 to 10 chrysanthemums every night, boil them in a cup of water, then use a cotton swab dipped in the water to clean your facial skin. It can also play an auxiliary role in controlling acne.

In the above article, we introduced that female friends are prone to various situations during menstruation, so we recommend that female friends must pay attention to their food, clothing, housing and transportation during menstruation. The above article introduces in detail the treatment methods for acne on the face during menstruation.