Anti-spot detoxification and beauty-nourishing tea in summer
Theme: motherwort tea
Ingredients: 6 grams of motherwort, a little brown sugar and green tea.
Practice:
1, wash motherwort with cold water first, brew green tea with boiling water for a few seconds, pour off the water and leave the tea for later use;
2. Put motherwort and tea leaves into a pot or pot of boiling water, boil for about 5 minutes, add brown sugar and stir, and then cool it to make tea.
This product can relieve summer heat and remove blood stasis.
Reminder:
First, motherwort promotes blood circulation, removes blood stasis, yin deficiency and blood deficiency.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that motherwort is bitter and cool, enters pericardium and liver meridian, and has the functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, regulating menstruation and eliminating water. It can treat irregular menstruation, dystocia, postpartum blood halo, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, leakage during collapse, hematuria, diarrhea, carbuncle, swelling and sores, etc., and can be taken orally or externally.
It should be noted that female friends with yin deficiency and less blood should avoid taking it.
Second, motherwort can make tea or boil water for external application.
Motherwort tea is made with brown sugar, which has high nutritional value and is rich in riboflavin, carotene, nicotinic acid and trace elements such as manganese, zinc and chromium. It has the effects of enriching blood and benefiting qi, promoting blood circulation and relaxing muscles and tendons, warming spleen and strengthening stomach, removing blood stasis and promoting tissue regeneration. The recipe is delicious and tonic, and is mainly used for treating postpartum dull pain in the lower abdomen, preference for pressing, scanty lochia, dizziness, tinnitus, pale complexion, reddish tongue, thin fur and weak pulse.
Motherwort can also be washed and boiled to help eliminate spots on the face.
Third, pay attention to drinking tea, don't drink on an empty stomach
The ancients once said? A cup of tea early is better than a robber in a poor house? It is not advisable to drink tea on an empty stomach in the morning. Because drinking tea on an empty stomach dilutes gastric juice, reduces the function of gastric acid, hinders digestion, and affects the absorption of protein, which is easy to cause gastric mucosal inflammation.
In addition, drink tea in moderation, and avoid excessive drinking tea because tea contains caffeine. Excessive drinking tea will cause anxiety, irritability, insomnia, palpitations and other symptoms, which will lead to poor sleep, inhibit gastrointestinal peristalsis, hinder digestion and reduce appetite.
Types and prevention methods of common facial spots in summer
(1) Chloasma
clinical picture
It is common in young and middle-aged women, and it often occurs symmetrically in the zygomatic and buccal parts of the face, showing a butterfly shape. It can also involve the skin around the forehead, nose and mouth, and most chloasma occurs in the sunburned parts of the face. Typical lesions are tan or dark brown patches with different sizes, which are aggravated in spring and summer and weakened in autumn and winter.
According to the distribution of skin lesions, it can be divided into butterfly type, upper face type, lower face type and universal type. The color spots will change with time, pregnancy and sun exposure will worsen the lesions, and the symptoms of patients will gradually decrease after old age. Chloasma needs to be differentiated from acquired nevus of OTA (ADM), which is sometimes difficult to distinguish, and some patients suffer from both diseases at the same time, so it is necessary to distinguish them carefully and treat them step by step.
The causes of chloasma are complicated, including constitution, ultraviolet rays, hormone levels and oral contraceptives. Recently, more and more studies show that factors such as impaired skin barrier function and skin micro-inflammation play an important role in the pathogenesis of chloasma.
Treatment and prevention
The treatment of chloasma is very difficult, so far there is no effective radical cure. Some treatments for epidermal pigment may temporarily relieve (such as exfoliative dot-matrix laser, fruit acid, etc.), but they have no effect on deeper chloasma and are prone to recurrence.
General treatment:
Remove possible causes, strictly prevent sun, change bad skin care habits, and strengthen skin sun protection and moisturizing. Chloasma caused by birth control pills should be stopped. Keep an optimistic mood and have a good sleep.
Local treatment: hydroquinone and its compound preparations, Qianbaihydroquinone, etc. are the most commonly used external preparations for chloasma. Others, such as retinoic acid, azelaic acid, tretinoin preparations and traditional Chinese medicine extracts, also have certain curative effects.
Systematic therapy:
Vitamin c and vitamin e
Vitamin C can prevent the oxidation process of melanin metabolism and inhibit melanin synthesis. Vitamin E can scavenge free radicals and prevent the oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids in the body. The combined application of the two has a synergistic effect.
glutathione
The molecule contains active sulfhydryl groups, which can inhibit tyrosinase activity, reduce the antioxidant effect of unsaturated fatty acids and eliminate free radicals. It can be combined with vitamin C for oral administration or mixed intravenous drip to improve the curative effect.
tranexamic acid
The conservative treatment of chloasma patients with oral tranexamic acid has a good effect. It can be taken at a low dose (250mg twice a day) for a long time (6-30 months), and it usually takes 1-2 months, and the effective rate reaches 80%. It has become the first choice to treat chloasma in Japan. Its therapeutic mechanism is not clear. It is worth noting that while taking drugs orally, patients must be told to stop all cosmetic operations that irritate the skin and avoid further excessive stimulation of facial skin, especially chloasma. Some people even think that this is more important than taking drugs themselves.
Photoelectric therapy:
Q-switched 1064nm Nd :YAG laser: The mode of large spot and low energy is adopted, which has a certain clinical effect and few adverse reactions, but recurrence is common.
Non-exfoliating dot matrix laser: Its principle is to generate array-like tiny beams to act on the skin, and the moisture in the skin tissue absorbs the laser energy, forming a plurality of tiny thermal damage areas with columnar structure, which then stimulates a series of skin biochemical reactions and destroys melanocytes. Because it does not vaporize tissues, it only coagulates epidermis and dermis containing water, so there are few adverse reactions such as pigmentation after operation.
Treatment: oral tranexamic acid+low energy intense pulsed light +LED red light?
Intense pulsed light:
It is a kind of incoherent light with wide spectrum, which belongs to ordinary light rather than laser in essence. The principle of treating chloasma is to destroy cells containing melanin and repair skin barrier function through selective photothermal action. Some scholars have used intense pulsed light combined with Q-switched1064 nm Nd: YAG laser to treat the disease and achieved good long-term curative effect.
Factors such as impaired skin barrier function and skin micro-inflammation play an important role in the pathogenesis of chloasma. Based on this new concept, we should re-examine the treatment of chloasma. The treatment of chloasma not only needs to treat the primary skin lesions, but also should give priority to rebuilding the damaged skin barrier function. Through the reconstruction of barrier function, it is of great significance for the treatment of chloasma to reduce skin irritation, eliminate inflammatory reaction, stabilize melanocytes and reduce pigmentation.
The significance of preventing howling:
Strict sun protection and enhanced moisturizing play an important role in the prevention of chloasma.
(2) Freckles
clinical picture
It is an autosomal dominant inheritance, and it often occurs at school age (which is different from other spots). Skin lesions are common on the face or exposed parts, with small spots isolated from light brown to dark brown, which are more common on cheeks, lower eyelids and nasal roots, and can also involve upper eyelids, forehead, back of nose and mouth, and even widely distributed all over the face.
After ultraviolet irradiation, tyrosinase activity in melanocytes of freckle skin increased, and a large amount of melanin was produced. Therefore, the relationship between freckles and sun exposure is very significant, and the number, size and color of pigment spots depend on the amount of sunlight absorbed and the individual's tolerance to sunlight. In summer, freckles are large in number and dark brown in shape, but will be reduced in autumn and winter.
Treatment and prevention
Traditional treatment:
Including topical drugs (such as hydroquinone cream, tretinoin and rhododendron acid), chemical peeling and cryotherapy. However, these treatments have been rarely adopted because of their low non-selective effect and great damage to epidermis.
Laser therapy:
Frequency-doubled Nd: YAG (532 nm) laser, Q-switched ruby laser (694nm), Q-switched emerald laser (755nm), etc., have very good therapeutic effects, and generally only need 1-2 treatments to achieve complete elimination. The disadvantage is that the epidermis will be slightly damaged during treatment, and there will be redness and scab after operation, which will take several days to recover.
Due to the skin characteristics of the yellow race, some patients will have a certain degree of pigmentation after treatment, and a few will be more obvious. Generally speaking, laser with longer wavelength, such as 755nm laser, is less likely to form color deposit, while laser with shorter wavelength, such as 532nm laser, is more likely to form color deposit.
Generally speaking, patients with obvious freckles can get ideal curative effect, while those with fuzzy freckles have relatively poor curative effect.
Intense pulse therapy:
IPL has large facula, high efficiency, and can be used to treat the whole face without omission, with little pain and slight postoperative reaction. During treatment, the epidermis will not be damaged, and only micro-scabs will be produced, so the construction period will be endless, and there is basically no pigmentation after inflammation. The disadvantage is that the number of treatments is more, and it takes 3-5 treatments to achieve the basic removal effect. However, with the appearance of DPL (narrow-spectrum pulsed light), the selectivity for pigments is better, which can reduce the number of treatments.
The significance of sun protection:
Sunlight can aggravate the symptoms of freckles, so freckles will be more obvious in summer. ? Spot? Flowers? Spot? After treatment, the grass should be more strictly protected from the sun, because freckles are hereditary, so even if they are completely removed, as long as they are not protected from the sun, enough damage will be accumulated. But it's not a recurrence, but a new one (the new spot can be in the original place or something else).
(III) Seborrheic keratosis-senile plaque
clinical picture
Commonly known as senile plaque, it is the most common facial stain, and it usually occurs in the elderly after 40 years old. Skin lesions are common on the face, scalp, trunk and upper limbs, with a diameter of1mm ~1cm, or a few centimeters, with light brown to dark brown spots or flat papules, uniform color, smooth surface or slightly papilloma-like, and the number increases with age. Generally, the side faces are slightly more than the front faces.
Treatment and prevention
General treatment:
0.025~0.05% tretinoin ointment for external use.
Photoelectric therapy:
Frequency-doubled ND:YAG laser (532nm), Q-switched Ruby laser (694nm), Q-switched Emerald laser (755nm) and intense pulsed light have good effects on senile plaques that do not rise above the skin surface, and can be completely removed by 1-2 times. For those senile plaques that are higher than the skin surface, the best treatment method is CO2 laser, which has a definite effect, but it is necessary to avoid leaving scars after too deep treatment. Some lesions have both flat and higher parts than the skin surface, so we can combine the above two methods for comprehensive treatment.
Treatment: frequency doubling ND:YAG laser (532nm)?
The significance of sun protection:
The most important factor causing senile plaque is ultraviolet light, and it can even be said that senile plaque is the result of long-term ultraviolet radiation. Therefore, strict sun protection is the most important thing to prevent senile plaque.
(4) Brown-blue nevus
Also known as acquired nevus of OTA, acquired dermal melanocytosis (ADM). Although it is? Mole? , but often with? Spot? Hanging out together, also suffer together? Sun exposure? Tired, so I also attended this article as a good friend.
clinical picture
Most of them are 16~40 years old, and they begin to get sick after 20 years old, and they are more common in women. They have typical distribution and morphological characteristics of color spots, and they are prone to zygomatic, temporal, eyelid and alar parts, and will not involve the palate and eyeball. The lesions are taupe, dark gray and dark brown spots with clear round and oval boundaries, the size of millet to soybean, isolated and not fused, and distributed symmetrically. 20.9~25% patients have family history.
Treatment and prevention
Laser therapy:
Q-switched ruby laser (694nm), Q-switched alexandrite laser (755nm) and Q-switched frequency doubling ND:YAG laser (1064nm) can be used for treatment, generally 3-5 times, with an interval of more than 3-6 months each time, and the skin lesions can be completely removed. If patients with brown-cyan nevus are accompanied by chloasma, it is suggested to treat chloasma first, so as to avoid stimulating melanocyte activity and aggravating chloasma lesions during laser treatment of brown-cyan nevus, and at the same time reduce the risk of pigmentation after laser treatment.
Significance of sun protection: The occurrence of brownish-blue nevus is related to many reasons, but ultraviolet rays can aggravate skin lesions, so we should also strictly protect ourselves from the sun.