This is a chronic skin disease on the nose with unclearly demarcated erythema and dilated capillary blood vessels without pain or itching. The erythematous skin lesion may occur on other parts of face, and small nodules and pustules may occur on or around the skin lesion.
It can be divided into 3 types: Patients with accumulation of heat in the lungs and stomach may have erythema and dilated capillary blood vessels on the nose, which are more apparent after intake of hot drink and food or after being affected by hotness; patients with attack of excessive toxic-heat pathogens may have papules and pustules besides the erythema and dilated capillary blood vessels, constipation and passage of dark urine; and patients with blood stasis may have dark red thickened skin lesions on nose and face with apparent dilated capillary blood vessels and skin vegetation.
Recipe l: One fresh white gourd.
Administration: The white gourd is cut into pieces and squeezed to produce a juice for extemal application to the skin lesion several times.
Indication: The white gourd juice can clear heat and eliminate poison to treat acne rosacea due to attack of excessive toxic-heat pathogens.
Recipe 2: Equal amounts of Pipaye (loquat leaf) with the hair removed, and Zhizi (cape-jasmine seed) and liquor 10 ml.
Administration: The above 2 herbs are ground to prepare a powder for oral intake of 6 g with liquor, 3 times a day.
Indication: This recipe is used to treat acne rosacea due to accumulation of heat in the lungs and stomach.
Recipe 3: Fresh wild rice stem 30-60 g.
Administration: A decoction of wild rice stem is drunk once a day for 10 days.
Indication: The decoction of wild rice stem is used to treat acne rosacea due to accumulation of heat in the lungs and stomach. At the same time, the wild rice stem may be pounded to prepare a paste for extemal application to the skin lesion at night and cleared away in the next morning to improve the therapeutic result.
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