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Dr Shen's Complexion Pills
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Now On Sale $24.95
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Shen Clinic Made with concentated herbal granules. Job's Tears Seeds - Yi Yi Ren 100 - 500mg capsules 1.78 ounces |
Daily dose for the average person is 3 capsules, 2-3 times a day.
*In cases of blood deficient acne, Women's Precious Pills (a 'Blood Tonic'), used with Heat Clearing herbs to clear the acne . Another source of these heat clearing herbs can be found in Margarite Acne Pills.
Other formulas used to clear heat from the skin include: Lien Chiao Bai Du Pien, Xiao Feng Wan, and Yin Chiao Cheh Tu Pien (most commonly used for colds and flu)
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Acne and other inflamatory skin diseases are symptoms of internal heat and damp. Curing these conditions requires clearing excess heat and draining dampness. Modern day products such as Pro-Active, Phi So Hex, and Clearasil, do not address this problem.
Heat
Heat sets matters in motion and triggers activity. Heat shows as inflamation, hyperactivity, or over- stimulation. Heat can come from irritating chemicals, foreign organisms, or by the constrained flow of qi (energy).
Hormonal activity causes and is stimulated by heat. An overly stimulating diet can cause excess heat; so can a hyperactive mind or life style.
Our skin can reflect heat as rashes, pimples, infections, redness, and other skin inflammations. Sometimes the "heat" is caused by normal body wastes which are transported in the blood. When the blood is deficient, swellings can appear on the skin and will be diagnosed as acne or other inflamatory skin disease.
Dampness
Dampness indicates excessive water in the body's tissues. Microrganisms such as bacteria, fungus, virus, etc. thrive in excessively damp body environments.
Excess damp can be seen as, swellings, cysts, pimples, pus, and fluid discharges.
Dampness is often caused by water accumulation due to the body's inability to cook off the water (spleen yang deficiency).
Living in damp environments can also penetrate the body causing internal dampness.
Common sources of heat in the body: 1. Overconsumption of stimulating foods 2. Hormonal activity 3. Exertion or physical activity *4. Blood insufficient to clean toxins 5. Agitated thoughts 6. Atmospheric heat (hot weather) 7. Constraint of qi |
Common sources of damp in the body: 1. Weak digestion causes water to accumulate |
Dietary imbalances or extremes will negatively effect the organs and the qi. An excessively stimulating diet, for example, will stimulate body processes, triggering infinite variations of inflamation, fever, hyperactivity, or hormonal abnormalities. Such patterns appear as fevers, sweats, insomnia, hyperthyroid, inflamatory skin conditions, etc,. These conditions will be worsened by over-consumption of foods considered "hot", stimulating, or yang in nature. Overstimulated people may benefit from foods that are considered "cool", "calming", or "yin". Conversely, those who have cold, or "yang deficient" conditions such as low blood pressure, hypersomnia, sciatica, hypothyroid, Hashimoto's complex, etc., may do better with a more stimulating (yang) diet. Keep in mind, when altering your diet, that moderation rules. Changes are most sustainable when they are introduced gradually. |
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STIMULATING (Yang) |
NEUTRAL |
CALMING (yin) |
Apricots*
* Classified in some texts as stimulating and in others as neutral
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Almonds Apples** Art i c ho k e, Jerusalem Art i c ho k e Beans, Kidney** Bean sprouts Beets Black mushrooms Blueberries Cabbage Carrots Catfish Cauliflower Carob Cheese Clams** Coconut Oil Corn Currant Eel Figs Guava Grits Honey Huckleberries Mackrel Maple Syrup Milk Nutmeg Okra Olive Oil Papaya Peanuts Pecans Perch Pinto Beans Pork Potatoes Pumpkin Seeds Quail Raisin* Rice Sardines Sesame seeds Shark Shitake Mushroom Sugar, white Strawberries String bean Sturgeon Tapioca Taro Turnip Vanilla Whitefish Winter squash Yam Yogurt
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Abalone
* *Classified in some texts as calming and in others as neutral
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