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.
• 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