Acne
Definition:
Acne is a skin condition characterized by reddened, inflamed lesions (sometimes called pustules or "whiteheads") on the face, neck, shoulders, and elsewhere. Acne occurs most commonly in teenagers and to a lesser extent in young adults. It usually affects those between the age of puberty and the twenties.
Symptoms:
The primary lesion or blackhead develops into a pinkish pustule or nodule. A teenager, sometime pre-teen, often breaks out with a horrible skin condition in which pustules and their scars may cover the skin, which is often coarse and oily. This causes an inferiority complex and other emotional disruption. At this time they may become irritable, snap and snarl at people. They are impossible to live around; why? They are growing into adulthood so rapidly that they are maturing faster than they are equipped.
Cause:
As the teenagers grow up, they, like everybody else today, eat devitalized, dead, "mucus-loaded" junk materials that could only be called "garbage food" or meals without energy and life building materials in them. The rapid change from childhood to adulthood requires foods rich in vitamins, minerals, etc., needed in the healthy body. Also, this condition may be the result in part from excessive stimulation of the skin by androgens (male hormones). Bacterial infection of the skin also appears to play a role. Processed foods are low or lacking in natural hormone and estrogen materials needed in the growth transition to adulthood. The young person's body realizes the lack and the need, and tries to pull the required materials from the body. If they are not there, the strain of trying to produce them causes irritation, a nasty snarling disposition, and a pimply complexion.
We blame the child for not being cooperative, for craving sweets, excess meats and bakery products. The body is craving vitamins and minerals and basic needs for health, and that "craving" is termed "hidden hunger." To pacify this hungry gnawing feeling, the young person stuffs on junk food, adding insult to injury. From this diet comes acne, boils, irritability, the sick and sad youth. The girls have difficult menstrual periods with cramps, flooding, or off-timed cycles, and the boys have a tendency toward early prostrate trouble and unhealthy sex drive.
Herbal Remedies:
Hormone Balance
Hormone Balance is rich with phyto-sterols, which are plant hormones. The body then takes these phyto-sterols and changes them into human hormones via the liver only upon the body's need.
Bowel Cleanse
One of the most important and beneficial factors of our Bowel Cleanse formula is how it stimulates peristaltic action within the lower bowel and the whole body. This allows the bowel to eliminate waste as it should.
ProVital
This daily multi-herb is packed full of phyto-nutrients, whole food vitamins, trace minerals, active enzymes, chlorophyll, balanced amino acids and other important nutrients needed by the body.
