How to reduce and prevent melasma through traditional Chinese medicine treatment?

Chloasma is a common skin disease, which is more common in women. It can cause a devastating blow to the beauty of the face and seriously affect women's physical and mental health. Chloasma is difficult to treat. Once it occurs, it takes a long time for women to cure it. Moreover, many women cannot achieve the desired effect even after careful treatment, which has a serious impact on their mood and appearance. In recent years, traditional Chinese medicine has played a significant role in the prevention and treatment of chloasma. Let's take a brief look.

1. Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment

1. Internal treatment with Chinese medicine: First, treat the liver: Chloasma is directly related to poor qi movement, liver depression and collateral stagnation, so we should start with treating the liver and follow the principles of soothing the liver and regulating qi and promoting blood circulation and unblocking the meridians. Taohong Siwu Decoction and Danggui Shaoyao Powder can be used together to effectively treat patients with spleen deficiency and diarrhea; Danzhi Xiaoyao Powder can effectively treat patients with liver depression and qi stagnation. Second, treat the spleen: The spleen is one of the main organs of the human body. Only when the spleen is full can it smoothly transport fine substances, effectively nourish muscles, and maintain the face. Excessive thinking will induce dampness and stagnation, affect the generation and distribution of qi and blood, and eventually form chloasma. Therefore, the spleen should be treated, and the medication should be used in accordance with the principles of tonifying the spleen and replenishing qi and replenishing qi and blood to achieve ideal results. Guipi Decoction can effectively treat patients with spleen deficiency, and Danggui Shaoyao Powder can effectively treat patients with spleen deficiency and failure of clear yang to rise. Third, treat the kidney. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kidney yin deficiency leads to insufficient essence and blood, which is the main cause of chloasma, so it is necessary to carry out yin-nourishing, kidney-tonifying and blood-activating treatment. Among them, the Bushen Huayu Capsule can play an ideal kidney-tonifying effect and accelerate the recovery of the patient's skin lesions.

2. External treatment of traditional Chinese medicine: External treatment is also a reliable means of traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of chloasma. It is diverse, simple to operate, and fast in effect, so it is widely used in clinical practice. First, Chinese medicine mask therapy: The mask is mainly composed of Chinese medicine, especially Chinese medicine with mild medicinal properties. It is applied to the face in the form of a mask. There are many targets. The drug ingredients can act directly on the skin, exerting ideal blood circulation and blood stasis and whitening and freckle removal effects. Furthermore, the mask can also effectively absorb the patient's facial dirt, promote pore tightening, lock skin moisture, improve skin elasticity, etc. Second, Chinese medicine cream: Take an appropriate amount of Chinese medicine and skin care matrix, mix them together, make a semi-solid preparation with appropriate viscosity, and apply it to the patient's face, which can play the role of lubricating the skin, local effect, and protecting the skin. Chinese medicine cream has good absorption effect and strong targeting effect, so it is widely used in clinical practice.

2. Prevention through Traditional Chinese Medicine

The causes of chloasma are complex. Dysfunction of internal organs and the inability of qi, blood and essence to nourish the internal organs are the main reasons for dull facial skin. Excessive emotional stress, excessive anxiety, high life pressure and other factors lead to emotional imbalance, which causes disorder of internal organs and qi, and the inability of qi and blood to ascend to nourish the facial skin, which is the main cause of chloasma. In view of this phenomenon, the prevention and treatment effects can be achieved through Chinese medicine emotional therapy. Introduce the causes of chloasma to high-risk women, inform them of the harmfulness of chloasma and the degree of impact on facial aesthetics through various photos and typical cases, and raise women's awareness of preventing chloasma. Explain the causes of chloasma to women, clarify the impact of emotional imbalance in the occurrence and treatment of the disease, and advise patients to adjust their emotional state, which will undoubtedly have a good preventive and therapeutic effect. Based on women's emotional state, we teach women how to regulate their emotions, such as emotion intervention methods such as worry overcoming fear, joy overcoming sadness, etc. We encourage women to improve their character and speak up when they have opinions. They should not keep things and emotions bottled up in their hearts. This will allow patients to develop a positive and optimistic attitude. This will undoubtedly regulate women's Qi state, reduce the incidence of chloasma, or assist Chinese medicine in effectively treating chloasma.

Diet therapy: Before chloasma appears, or after a little chloasma appears, actively implementing Chinese medicine diet therapy can undoubtedly effectively improve the patient's physical condition, reduce the incidence of chloasma, and slow down the speed of chloasma. However, the physical constitutions of different women are different. Based on the physical conditions of women, guiding patients to diet therapy and regulating their current physical constitution can undoubtedly effectively prevent chloasma. Women with Qi stagnation often have dull complexion, sallow complexion, irritability, depression, and often have symptoms such as irregular menstruation and premenstrual pain. This type of women should start with soothing the liver and regulating Qi to prevent chloasma. Donkey meat is the first choice of food, which can relieve irritability; kumquat is the first choice of fruit, which can relieve depression and regulate qi; when choosing other ingredients, the main ones should be those that promote qi, including white radish, beef, kelp, banana, lotus root, sword bean, orange, etc.; when choosing Chinese medicinal materials to match food, lotus seeds, ginger, amomum, hawthorn, bupleurum, and jujube seeds can be selected; typical dietary prescriptions include kumquat tea and donkey meat with fermented black beans. Patients with blood stasis constitution often have insufficient blood and essence due to kidney deficiency, so they should start with promoting blood circulation and nourishing the kidney. They can eat more foods such as hawthorn and rapeseed, and can also eat more fruits such as oranges, papayas, and plums. Patients with yang deficiency constitution should start with nourishing the kidney, warming yang and invigorating qi. Eating more dog meat, mutton, chicken, beef, hairtail, glutinous rice, milk, walnuts, carrots and other foods can nourish the kidney, warm yang and invigorate qi.

3. Summary

Chloasma is a common disease, but it can have a serious impact on the patient's face and psychology. Actively implementing traditional Chinese medicine prevention and treatment can effectively improve the condition and reduce the incidence of chloasma.

Author of this article: Tong Xin Shenzhen Pengai Medical Cosmetology Hospital Department of Cosmetic Chinese Medicine