Acne or Pimples

• Whiteheads
• Blackheads

• Papules
• Pustules
• Nodules
• Cystic Lesions

Pitted skin (acne scars) and thick scars (keloids) can remain long-term after acne has healed.

After acne has cleared, the affected skin may be darker (hyperpigmented) or lighter (hypopigmented) than before the condition occurred.

People of all ages can get acne, but it's most common in teenagers.

Such changes are common during puberty or pregnancy.

Genetics plays a role in acne. If both of your parents had acne, you're likely to develop it too.

May develop acne where your skin comes into contact with oil or oily lotions and creams.

This can be caused by items such as telephones, cellphones, helmets, tight collars and backpacks.

This remedy can be helpful if acne is worse from eating rich or fatty foods, and aggravated by warmth or heat. It is indicated especially around the time of puberty, or when acne breaks out near menstrual periods. The person often has a fair complexion and is inclined toward soft emotions and moodiness, feeling worse in warm or stuffy and better in fresh air.

A person with deep-seated acne along with a general low immune resistance, swollen lymph nodes, and a tendency toward fatigue and nervousness may benefit from this remedy. Infected spots are slow to come to a head, and also slow to resolve, so may result in scarring. A person who needs this remedy is generally very chilly, but inclined to sweat at night.

Relieves acne located on the forehead and the back, aggravated by heat, and occurring periodically.

This remedy may be helpful for acne with large pustules that are tender to touch, with bluish-red marks that remain on the skin after active infection has passed. The person may be irritable, with low resistance to illness.

Is a medicine appropriate for juvenile acne that suppurates and causes boils. It is indicated in cases where pimples are pustular in nature with thick yellow pus. Calcarea Sulphurica is most helpful where pustular acne oozes yellow coloured pus.

Applied locally stimulates the healing of pustules and limits the risk of superinfection

Pustular acne refers to acne that contains pus. The pus may sometimes be stained with blood. Where pus or blood stained pus oozes out of pimples, Hepar Sulph will be effective. The pimples may be extremely painful here. Acne in youth is also best treated with Hepar Sulph. Relieves pustular acne aggravated by cold weather, with a foul-smelling pus.

Berberis Aquifolium is one of the majorly indicated medicines for acne that result in the formation of scars. This medicine helps clear off acne scars wonderfully well. It is useful where the skin is rough and the acne persists.

Natrum Mur will show best results in itchy acne on oily cheeks. Prickling pain in the acne is complained of. Natrum Mur is also prescribed for acne in girls who are anaemic. It acts especially on the sebaceous glands, and is a very helpful remedy in acne.

There are acne granular like eruption, lumpy, red, burning, suppurating postural like eruptions on the face with red areola have an inflamed base that is red, and sensitive. Acne is in blotches type over cheek and a heat sensation. Postural type of acne. The emotional picture of the person is depression in the deep seated triggers factor. Person is exhausted for life. Generally acne appears at teen age or in younger age groups. Tendency to weight gain, fatty, obese children who are fund of taking more junk foods and fast foods. Person is mentally very exhausted for this big acnes which makinghim/her to a depression state as because of ugly and dirty looking of facial skin.

It is generally prescribed as constitutional treatment for acne. The acne is of postural or nodular type. Ars iod has the symptoms similarities of both arsenic album and iodium. The person is of irritable nature; don’t answer the question asked by the doctor. Anger with irritability and restless nature with an anxiety type constitution. He is impatient and in a constant state of hurry. He becomes indifferent to his surroundings. He is unable to decide between two opinions. Those types of emotional make up initiates to secrete more androgen hormone and that stimulates the sebum gland to secrete more sebum and acne appears. Basing on his/her emotional picture if this medicine is given can help to cure acne for a long term period

It is a great constitutional remedy for any disease including acne. Persons of psoric constitution with pale, weak , timid , shy nature and easily tired on any physical exertion. Weak in the sense of both physical mental state. Feeling of fatigue. Though he has a weakness or fatigue, his body constitution is fatty and obese, gaining weight easily. He has the tendency to sweat a lot on slightest physical exertion. Those people are very susceptible to catching colds easily. The calcarea carb person thinks a lot about very small things. He fears of losing his/her judgement capacity, fears of failure to complete any work perfectly. Always keep engaging her mind on very small silly things and develop anxiety. Fear that something sad or terrible will happen. Fears that people are observing her confusion of mind. There is more sweating on his/her forehead. There are tiny eruptions like black heads on the forehead.

A sycotic group of remedies. The acne generally occurs at teen age and more abundantly found on the chin and side of the nose. The person is of an anxiety, excited and irritable temperament. Sexual desire is increased in women. Bowel motion is not clear of constipated type. Like Nux Vom ineffectual desire for stool with hard, round.

The face is oily, more sebum secretion. The acne are postular types. Generally acne develops in those who have more coffee addiction. Also taking more fatty foods, meats, more sugars, chocolates aggravates the acne eruption in face. There is more acne before the menstrual cycle. Any sort of emotional distress triggers the development of acne. The person is extremely psoric in nature. Very nervous in nature and easily frightened , anxiety with a very restless nature. Sad, depressed for her ailments, thinks can’t recover. The person is very chilly. The patient feels chilly and cold in the slightest cold weather, and cannot tolerate little cold weather. the person has a chronic headache tendency when the stomach is empty, relieves while eating. He has a tendency of feeling hungry in the middle of night i.e. midnight hungry.

The Acnes are of postural, indurate nature. Scars left after the acne heals up. Physical constitution is of obese, younger person. The person is very nervous, depressed, low spirited in nature. The depression is mingled with anxiety and feels as if he would lose his mind. The person feels restless and no sleep at night due to worry or grief from loss of job, loss of business, loss of property, loss of reputation etc. Melancholic nature . and for eruptions of small and large boils in successive crops, mostly on face and trunk, with troublesome itching.

Sulphur is advised for people with dirty, unhealthy-looking skin covered in acne that itch a lot. Scratching worsens the itching. The itching gets aggravated during the night. Warmth, too, worsens the itching. A burning sensation may also be observed.

Bovista Lycoperdon is the most significant remedy that offers help in treating acne that arises or worsens with the use of cosmetic products. This acne is mainly papular. Swelling of cheeks may be noted along with the acne. Pain and itching may attend.

Nux Vomica works well for acne when it is attended with gastric complaints. The gastric complaint is mainly due to chronic constipation or indigestion. The acne may be itchy and accompanied by a burning sensation.