Natural treatment and cure for acne. No drugs or surgeries.

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Food is always best medicine

No chemical drugs or expensive and dangerous surgeries, not even herbal concoctions. Just the right diet will treat and cure acne. Learn how.

What is Acne?

Acne is a skin disorder that appears mostly in the face and back. Though it can be painful, it is most often a cosmetic problem rather than a serious health problem for most people. Several factors can contribute to the development of acne and/or make it worse. These factors are diet, hormones, chronic GI tract disturbances and infections and state of mind. Most people with acne are aged between 14 and 25. However, men and women in their 30s and 40s can also get acne. Traditional western medicine emphatically denies any relationship between acne and diet. But is that reasonable?

Traditional Acne treatment

Dermatologists usually treat acne externally with ointments and sometimes with antibiotics and recently with acne cosmetic surgeries and laser therapies, without getting to the root cause of the problem. There is much talk that acne does not have anything to do with diet. They say that acne is a hormonal problem. But, where do hormones come from? Our glands make these hormones. Give the body bad food for a long enough period and it makes bad hormones that cause acne as well as other illnesses. On the other hand, give the body clean nutritious foods and it will make the right hormones that will cure acne.

Available acne treatment can be classified as medicine of the first and second levels among the seven levels of medicine. The current medications used for acne are expensive especially external laser treatment, not offering a cure and have harmful side effects.

Acne in eastern medicine

The face and back are the most expansive YIN parts in our bodies. That is why excess of expansive foods like sugar YIN in our diet weakens these areas and makes them susceptible to health disorders like acne. You can read more about the relation between acne and YIN and YANG in the seven laws of the universe and in what is macrobiotics. It is important to realize that the root cause of acne lies in the intestines. Everything we eat will affect acne positively or adversely depending on the type of foods we consume. Once we understand the principles of contraction and expansion, we will understand why even parsley or lettuce or vitamin C supplements (all extreme YIN), which are considered healthy foods, will aggravate acne. Acne is an illness of the second stage in the seven stages of illness.

Acne natural alternative treatment and cure

Acne is curable with the proper selection of foods. Acne is a YIN condition. One of the contributing factors in the sharp rise in acne cases is that most of our food crops contain large amounts of chemical fertilizer. Chemical fertilizer contains extreme yin elements to speed crop growth. So our modern foods contribute heavily to the increase in the number of acne patients as to many other illnesses. There are foods that will clean the intestines of any infections or toxic build up that led to developing acne and restore skin elasticity, and eliminate any chemical toxins (fertilizer residue, animal growth hormones given to livestock especially poultry, heavy metals, etc.) in the body that might have contributed to developing acne. With the right diet acne will be cured completely. Depending on the severity of the case, it takes weeks to months.

Acne additional natural treatment

In Addition to the right diet for curing acne, our recommended diet plan also includes sometimes temporary home remedies such as compresses of selected vegetables with instructions on how to make these compresses, in order to provide immediate relief for acne sufferers during the first few days of going on the diet until the diet begins to have an effect in gradually curing acne.

Acne and macrobiotics

Most people have come to believe that macrobiotics means eating exotic Japanese foods. This is a misconception. To cure acne you do not have to eat Japanese food. You have to first understand the principles of natural balance explained in macrobiotics in order to understand what has led you to develop acne. Then, macrobiotic principles will help you determine what foods you will have to eat and what foods you have to avoid in order to cure acne.

Read If macrobiotics means eating locally grown foods, why are we told to eat Japanese foods?

If you are an Acne patient and tried macrobiotics (particularly the #7 diet) but found it did not work for you, then the foods you have selected are not appropriate for your condition. Please read: The standard macrobiotic diet does not work for some people. Why?

Acne and the food pyramid

It is true that food is best medicine for acne. But some foods help cure acne and some make it worse. The food pyramid is only a general guideline and does not provide any specific information for the natural treatment of acne.

Acne and vitamin and mineral supplements

Food is best medicine. With a carefully designed diet plan for acne, there is no need for vitamin and mineral supplements. Some vitamin and mineral supplements can have adverse side effects on acne when taken randomly or in large doses. For example, Vitamin C and iron can have severe adverse effects on an acne patient. However, if they are desired, only natural food-based supplements should be selected and taken in moderate amounts. And beware of alleged miracle cures in far away lands.

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Are you skeptical of this acne cure? This is natural, please read back to the roots.

This is not a sales pitch for an expensive herbal concoction or an exotic supplement.

Principles explained above are the laws of nature, and illness is simply the cumulative result of violating these laws. Even Hippocrates said: Thy food shall be thy remedy. It is also mentioned in the Chinese book of internal medicine: What can not be cured with medicine, can only be cured with food. Food really is your best medicine if the illness is acne or almost anything else.

If you decide to treat acne with the right diet, you can order a consultation with us from the top of this page. We can help by providing the appropriate diet plan, and you would not be alone traveling this road! Read about what many famous western doctors said about Food as Best Medicine. And keep in mind that we offer seminars worldwide about nutrition, the art of health and macrobiotics.

You can find more answers and read more about acne and other illnesses and food as medicine in the Frequently Asked Questions section.

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