How to use Goldenseal Herb as an acne treatment

How to use Goldenseal Herb as an acne treatment

Herbal practitioners now consider Goldenseal a “natural acne” treatment, anti-inflammatory and mild antiseptic/astringent. Goldenseal can also help with digestive problems, loss of appetite and liver disease. The astringent effect affects the mucous membranes of the lungs, intestines and body skin. Goldenseal tastes quite bitter, promotes appetite and aids in digestion and triggers bile secretion.

Goldenseal has direct antimicrobial effects, but can also act on intestinal bacteria, whose numbers are reduced after taking Goldenseal. This in turn leads to reduced digestive problems and also helps in ridding the skin of acne marks and body toxins.

Goldenseal is considered a mucosal stimulant, but does not need to come into contact with mucous membranes to achieve this effect. If you chew some goldenseal in your mouth for a few minutes, you will feel the tingling sensation on the nasal mucous membranes. There is also increased flow of mucus from the membranes, resulting in a very runny nose. Goldenseal also contains astringent properties that also counteract this mucus flow. It is a strange effect, resulting in a runny nose when the sinuses are congested, but is checked by the astringent action of Goldenseal. If we consider the traditional herbal mechanisms of action, it is believed that this effect of increasing the flow of mucus, on the one hand, causes the evacuation of harmful substances from the body, but also triggers the antibacterial effects of mucus on the membranes and skin of the body. Therefore, Goldenseal is considered very useful for the internal membranes, but also externally on the skin of the body in the fight against acne bacteria.

So take Goldenseal three times a day, usually for 8 – 12 days:

3 – 4 grams of root or herb as a tea

3 – 4 ml tincture extract

Apply cool compresses of the herb to acne-prone skin. This simply means brewing the herb in hot water, straining it, and placing it in a thin piece of cloth. This can then be applied to the acne-prone skin of the face, back and chest. Initially there is a hot feeling on the skin, but this goes away - followed by a pleasant "radiant feeling".

This astringent effect of Goldenseal causes increased blood flow to the body's superficial skin, which in turn stimulates tissue healing and accelerates the resolution of acne spots. In addition, goldenseal exerts its antibacterial effects, reducing the acne-causing bacteria that give us the characteristic spots and scars of acne. This is a soothing, natural acne treatment that deserves more recognition in the ongoing fight against acne from doctors and patients alike.

Inspired by Thomas Carlile