Patients with fire and acne mostly react on the face due to overeating spicy and greasy food and having dampness and heat in the stomach and intestines. Under the guidance of a doctor, you can take honeysuckle tea, wild chrysanthemum tea and other medicinal teas that have the ability to clear heat, remove dampness and detoxify the body. However, the therapeutic efficacy of medicinal tea is not as good as soup, and it is recommended that patients use medication under the guidance of a doctor.
Acne belongs to the category of acne in Chinese medicine, with lung heat and gastrointestinal dampness and heat dominating in the early stage, and phlegm and stasis in the late stage. It can be divided into three types: wind-heat in the lung meridian, damp-heat in the stomach and intestines, and phlegm-dampness and stasis. Clinical manifestations of acne caused by gastrointestinal damp-heat are red, swollen and painful rash, greasy skin on the face, chest and back, accompanied by bad breath and dry stools. Treatment is based on clearing heat and removing toxins to dispel dampness.
Honeysuckle, with the efficacy of evacuating wind-heat, clearing heat and removing toxins, detoxifying and stopping dysentery. It is suitable for diseases such as sores, carbuncles, swollen toxins, wind-heat colds or the early stage of warm diseases. Wild chrysanthemum has the effect of dispersing wind-heat and clearing away heat, subduing swelling and detoxifying, and is suitable for diseases such as wind-heat colds, boils and poisons. However, honeysuckle and chrysanthemum are cold in nature, so it is not suitable for patients with cold spleen and stomach and menstruating women to drink water with it.