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Natural Cures for Acne
Acne occurs in 2 related forms, acne vulgaris and acne rosacea.
Acne Vulgaris is a common condition of the skin mostly occurring in people between the ages of 10 and 50. It affects mostly the face, trunk, shoulders and back and is caused by an alteration in the skin's response to sex hormones. The effect of that is to produce blackheads that often develop into large unsightly pus filled spots that may produce scars on healing. This frequently causes profound psychological upset because of the appearance of the spots and scars.
Rosacea is a less common condition that predominantly affects the faces of middle aged people. There are no blackheads or whiteheads but an overall reddening of the skin is very marked. Women are more commonly affected than men but the problem is often more severe in men
Acne Treatments
Modern Western Medicine
Acne medication such as salicylic acid, benzoyl peroxide, and antibiotics like as Clindamycin and Erythromycin may be applied to the skin. Antibiotics may also be taken by mouth and these include Tetracycline and Erythromycin. These have potential side effects and need to be used long term to be effective. In women Cyproterone is often helpful. Finally, Isotretinoin is used in severe refractory cases. It is known to cause foetal abnormalities and must be used in conjunction with adequate and, strict measures to prevent pregnancy.
Physical methods of skin cleaning like microdermabrasion can also be used.
Complementary Therapy
Please help us to help you by letting your practitioner know about Natural Cures from Shared Care so that they might contact us (email to:- editor(at)shared-care.com) with their evidence to add their therapy to this list.
The therapies/educational systems shown below have been noted as helpful for Acne
| Aromatherapy |
| Ayurveda |
| Western Herbal Medicine |
| Homeopathy |
| Naturopathy |
| Reiki |
| Chinese Herbal Medicine |
| Traditional Chinese Medicine |
Please also check out Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for lists of those whose approaches don't fall into any specific category.
The following practitioners have indicated that they have a special interest in Acne
Please click on the "more.." button for fuller details.
| Dr. | Don | Farrow | North Carolina | United States of America | |
Natural Cures for Acne Blog
Add your contributions to the "Natural Cures for Acne" blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to the topic of this page that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Acne Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| Rosacea Support Group | Australia | National |
| SkinCell | Great Britain | National |
| Stop Spots | Great Britain | National |
| National Rosacea Society | United States of America | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
Places to Eat and Stay, Tourist, Town and Travel Guides
These sections are designed to provide help in finding restaurants, cafes, hotels, resorts, towns, beaches, travel companies and so on that are user friendly for our communities.
Shopping Zone
Editors Choice
Not all good things come from Amazon. The following are my choices of goodies that I have come across or in which I have had some involvement. If you want to add anything please email me (editor(at)shared-care.com) with details
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | Gluten free cookbook; lots of good recipes |
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | |
| Dr Michaels New Horizons | Self help tapes from No Panic |
| No Panic | |
| Lumie Sunlamp | Sunlamp for SAD (works for me! (ed)) |
| Lumie | |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | Free downloadable book about treating migraine |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | |
| The FISH Plan for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Free downloadable book about treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| The FISH Plan for IBS | |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | Necessary dietary reading for everyone |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | Great cookbook by Glenis Lucas. Introduction by me! |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | |
