The need for a combination of acupuncture and medicine to treat acne

       Acne is a multifactorial disease, and it is difficult to achieve rapid and long-lasting efficacy with a single drug or acupuncture treatment, while practice shows that the combination of acupuncture and medicine can significantly improve the apparent efficiency and total efficiency.  1. The combination of acupuncture and medicine can make up for the regulatory deficiencies of acupuncture or medicine: acne has a relatively long disease course of 3 to 6 months, and the lesions are mainly on the face, and most patients are under greater psychological pressure and are in urgent need of a fast and fundamental treatment method. Drugs are used to regulate the overall function of the body through targeted local treatment, but the use of drugs alone will inevitably result in slow onset of action and toxic side effects brought about by long-term use. Acupuncture is to stimulate the body’s overall regulatory function to correct local lesions, but its therapeutic ability is limited, fast-acting and not lasting. The combination of acupuncture and medicine can make up for the deficiencies of both regulation, so that the overall and local regulation at the same time, with fast onset and lasting effect, to improve the therapeutic effect.  2. The combination of medicine can achieve the effect of internal and external treatment: acne is a disease of the sebaceous glands, the development of which is closely related to the level and metabolism of hormones in the body. The combination of acupuncture and medicine is not only a combination of treatment methods, but also a combination of treatment concepts. The combination of acupuncture and medication can play the role of external treatment by stimulating acupuncture points on the body surface and internal treatment by stimulating medication internally, so that the inflammatory lesions on the surface of acne can be relieved and the root cause of acne can be effectively controlled.  3. The combination of acupuncture and medicine can promote the absorption of drugs: Some studies believe that acupuncture can improve the internal environment of the body and strengthen the absorption of drugs.  4, the combination of acupuncture and medicine can reduce the toxic side effects of drugs: The combination of acupuncture and medicine is used to treat acne, in part because acupuncture can improve the symptoms and signs caused by the side effects of drugs, and its effect can reduce the amount of drugs, thus reducing the side effects of drugs and improving immunity. Effectively reduce hormone levels.