How to Cure Acne Naturally======
-In response to a posting I saw on oily skin and acne, I thought I’d
just share this article I had on some directories with you guys for
the overall benefit of the group. Basically free information on
inexpensive all-natural acne solutions.
Check it out.
Do you look in the mirror and see bumps, bumps and more
bumps all over your face
and in the most embarrassing places like right on your
lips?
Do you look at other people’s faces and wonder what it
will be like to have smooth and even skin and not be
told by sympathetic friends and relatives trying to
console you that
"It’s not what’s on the outside that counts but what is
on the inside…"
(Bet you hear this and go…yeah, that’s easy for you to
say, you don’t have acne!)
Take it from a guy who was afflicted with acne for
close to 8 years…this image distorting skin crisis
characterized by bumps, excessively oily or dry skin
and an accompanying low self-esteem and depression (in
most cases) is simply horrifying!
The good news my friends is if you suffer from acne, or
know someone who does, it can be controlled and
eventually cured without spending tons of money on
drugs, visits to dermatologists or as I have heard,
even plastic surgery. Trust me, I have been there and
know how acne can ruin a person’s whole self-image and
the desperate measures one might be considering to get
rid of it.
The first thing any acne sufferer must realize is that
any disease-regardless of its medical diagnosis-is a
product of constipation, a clogging up of the body
tissues. Consequently, as the body fights to unclog its
organs, the process becomes manifested in several
ways.
Disease is an attempt of the body to rid itself of
these toxins and since, according to Dr. Stanley
Burroughs, the skin is the next most important
eliminating organ (second only to the lungs), acne is
merely an indication that you need to cleanse yourself
internally and take simple measures to alleviate the
outer symptoms as the cleanse proceeds.
Just how does one do an internal cleanse?
Well, as I have mentioned in quite a few of my
articles, the best way to do an internal cleanse (and
the fastest I must say) will be to undergo a juice or
water fast. Being a radical discipline, it must be
undertaken with care but it is with confidence in a
fast’s unmatched ability to restore health that you can
be rest assured to see a drastic improvement in your
skin condition at the end of about a 3 to 4 day fast.
As a preliminary stage to a fast and as a suggested
dietetic lifestyle, if you are serious about curing
your acne and keeping it off, you must make a change in
your diet and eliminate all mucus (acid) forming foods
such as processed (junk) foods, fast foods,
confectioneries, soft-drinks and eat more wholesome and
natural foods like your fresh fruits and leafy
vegetables, nuts, root vegetables, fresh
juices-basically foods that are mucus
(alkaline-forming) binding.
You can type up `mucus forming and binding foods’ in
any search engine like Google and educate yourself more
on this subject. It is not by co-incidence or an error
that Hippocrates `the father of medicine’ once stated
that: "Let your foods be your medicine and your
medicine your foods as nature is the healer of all
diseases!"
Although knowing what to eat is of uttermost
importance, you must learn when and how to eat these
right foods. I will make a statement here that may go
against every thing you may have read or heard on
nutrition but I know what I am saying from close to 6
years on trying this simple method on myself. The worst
meal that we as humans partake of is `breakfast.’
How so the uninformed may ask; well based on
scientifically proven research on thousands of people
for over two centuries on such health principles as
food combination and the realization that the human
body goes through a cleansing process from twelve
midnight until twelve noon, and a building program from
twelve noon to twelve midnight, your meals during these
respective periods should be harmonious with the
natural processes.
As a result here is a suggested daily menu plan
Breakfast: A choice of the following
1. A tall glass of Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice.
2. A tall glass of Fresh squeezed lemonade flavored
with genuine maple
Syrup (the darker the grade the better)
Lunch: A mono-meal of an organic fruit in season for
example
Apples in the fall and winter, Melons in the summer,
Berries in spring.
Dinner: Fresh, home-made salads. A simple dressing
could be
(a) Lemon juice, olive oil and un-iodized sea-salt
(b) Avocadoes or Green coconuts blended with tomatoes
and some sea salt
Or
Raw and/or cooked root vegetables such as Celery,
Carrots, Potatoes, Plantains, raw or slightly heated
fruit veggies (these can be blended into Soups or
dressings for your salads)
Some factors that must also be noted to ensure the
maximum assimilation of nutrients from our meals
include thoroughly masticating or chewing the mouthfuls
of one’s meals for as the Indian proverb goes "chew
your foods well as the stomach has no teeth." In
addition, I have also outlined the menu plan above
keeping proper food combinations in mind.
Moreover, refrain from the habit of drinking liquids
with your meals, as I stated in the free resources
section of my site on controlling asthma, drinking ANY
liquids with your meals tends to dilute the digestive
juices in your stomach which consequently deters
digestion, assimilation and increases the tendency for
constipation. If you must drink water after or before a
meal, wait a solid hour or so before or after eating.
As is known in the drugless healing world, this simple,
yet extremely effective dietetic change has been known
to alleviate most otherwise incurable human ailments
including acne, asthma and obesity. One factor I must
add (from my own personal experience with this device
while undergoing a 10 day juice fast) is to AVOID THE
USE OF MICROWAVES STARTING NOW.
Now that I have briefly covered the internal measures
to reducing acne, let’s go over the external ones.
*Never repeat the use of a pillowcase in 2 days, always
change them nightly so get 7 clean ones. Be conscious
of how they are folded to ensure you sleep on the
unexposed side upon unfolding the pillowcases.
*As much as possible, keep unwashed hands off of your
face, if you must touch it, say for example, to scratch
an itch, ensure to use the back of your hands.
*Try to sleep on your right side. Besides making your
sleep more refreshing, this practice ensures that you
keep your face off of the pillow and freer to breathe
during the night.
As an added benefit, your heart functions much better
as you are not putting pressure on it based on this
position of the body during sleep.
*Wash your hair with a mild shampoo every night
especially if you use greasy hair products, or use a
wrap-around nightcap that covers the hair and ensure
the cap is washed every morning.
*Make frequent visits to the steam room of a gymnasium
or you can steam the face at home as an alternative.
The aim here is to aid the skin in eliminating toxins
through sweating.
*Massage the face regularly as this not only aids in
cleansing the face, but it firms up the skin and
alleviates unwanted signs of aging such as crow’s feet,
bags under the eyes, lines and wrinkles.
*Engage in some form of exercise to aid the body in
detoxification and metabolism.
Being one of the three limbs of drugless healing,
exercise keeps you younger, fit and healthy…like you
didn’t already know that. I must single out Yoga as one
of the best forms of exercise to choose. Some poses
such as the Sun Salutations, the Shoulder-Stand and the
Peacock pose have been known through the ages to help
alleviate many skin disorders and did I mention they
give you the added bonus of making you stronger.
*For my male readers; if you are of African or Hispanic
descent, most barbers recommend you use electric
clippers to shave. For Caucasians & Asians, I have
observed that using razors might not be a problem
although if you prefer, you can use electric clippers
also. Ensure that you shave in the direction of the
hair’s growth (mostly downwards) for an after-shave; it
is advised that you perform the facial massaging as
well afterwards.
In conclusion, acne, as impossible as it at times may
seem, is (like almost every other disease) very easy to
control and with drugless, all natural methods at that.
You just need to be shown how. It is my hope that in a
few weeks after you read AND apply the steps in this
article; you too can go out and get that date, or
flaunt that smooth face to the world as I can guarantee
you that acne will become a thing of your past…and will
stay that way for life.