ACNE AND IT'S TREATMENT

Acne is inflammation of the skin, due to blockage of skin pores. Blockage occurs due to an excessive secretion from the sebaceous glands and accumulated, dead skin cells. This combination encourages the skin bacterium Propioni bacterium which multiplies and causes increased skin inflammation. Acne comes from the Greek word, acme, meaning skin eruption.

Common acne is Acne vulgaris, for the treatment of acne various system of medicines are available like Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Homeopathy, etc. Siddha system of medicine is practiced mostly in the southern part of this country for treating various diseases including even chronic conditions by the herbals andherbo-mineral drugs. In Siddha medicine, many medicinal plants are used to manage and to treat skin diseases like acne. 

In unani system of medicine, Acne vulgaris is termed as Basoore Labniy, Mohasa or keel.T he mainstay for the treatment of acne is use of topical or systemic antibiotic and retinoids but the long term use of these drugs produced significant side effects like erythema, peeling, burning, and drying of the skin. Moreover, the development of antibiotic resistance to Propioni bacterium acne may limit the use of topical antibiotics.Therefore, there is a need to develop herbal therapeutic modalities for the treatment of acne. 

Homeopathy treats the person as a Whole. It means that homeopathic treatment focuses on the patient as a person, as well as his pathological condition. The homeopathic medicines are selected after a full individualizing examination and case history~analysis, which includes the medical history of the patient, physical and mental constitution etc. The objective of this paper to list out the beneficial effects of certain medicinal plants, extracts and there herbo~mineral formulation of various alternative system of medicines for treatment of acne.