Melasma is a common** problem, especially in women. They usually appear on the face, neck, and backs of the hands with dark brown or light brown spots.
Changes in estrogen levels may be associated with the formation of melasma.
Estrogen is one of the main sex hormones in a woman's body, and it plays an important regulatory role in a woman's menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and menopause. However, excessive or unbalanced estrogen levels may lead to an increase in pigmentation, which promotes the formation of melasma.
During pregnancy, estrogen levels in a woman's body rise substantially. This is one of the reasons why many pregnant women experience melasma during pregnancy. This condition is often referred to:"Pregnancy spots", which is commonly found on the cheeks, bridge of the nose, and forehead. Pregnancy spots usually fade gradually within a few months of delivery, but some people may take longer to fully recover.
In addition to pregnancy, other factors can cause fluctuations in estrogen levels, such as the use of birth control pills, the onset of menopause, and hormones**. All of these factors can trigger or exacerbate the appearance of melasma. Melasma and estrogen.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the causes of melasma are mainly due to the following aspects: insufficient sperm and blood, unable to be honored on the face;or the accumulation of qi, blood, phlegm and stasis under the skin, caused by pigmentation;Or the liver is stagnant and stagnant, and the depression turns into heat for a long time, burning the yin and blood, resulting in the disharmony of the qi and blood of the faceor spleen deficiency and dampness, dampness and heat accumulation, and steaming on the surface;Some people also think that it is related to Chong Ren, Chong Ren starts the uterus, and eventually goes up to the face, liver stagnation and blood stagnation Chong Ren, and the qi and blood can not be honored on the face, so it causes this disease.
Whatever the situation, it is nothing more than the result of deficiency, stasis, dampness, and heat.
In addition, some chronic diseases, mental stimulation, ultraviolet radiation, and the use of bad cosmetics can lead to the occurrence of this disease.
Chinese medicine**. 1. Adjustment of work and rest: Melasma is mainly caused by endocrine disorders, and abnormal life and rest are important factors of endocrine disorders. Therefore, you must first adjust your life and rest and sleep at the beginning of body detoxification, so as to avoid burdening the body and affecting body detoxification, and good sleep can effectively lighten the melasma on the face. Of course, don't think that the quality of sleep alone will remove melasma on your face.
2. Maintain a happy mood: When you have melasma on your face, you must maintain a happy mood and don't put pressure on yourself because of what is happening around you. This is because when a person feels stressed, the body secretes adrenaline, a physiological preparation to fight stress. If you feel stress for a long time, it will affect the body's metabolic balance, **nutrients** will tend to slow down, the pigment mother cells will become very active, and the melasma on the face will become more severe.
3. A glass of water in the morning: To adjust melasma, you need to drink a large glass of water when you get up in the morning, and the function of this glass of water is to remove garbage toxins from the body. If this glass of water is replaced with lemonade, the effect will be even better. Because lemonade has a whitening effect. However, since lemon peel has a certain photosensitivity to it, the lemon peel must be removed from the lemon water you drink in the morning.
4. Eat more kiwifruit: Kiwifruit is rich in vitamin C, more than 10 kinds of amino acids and rich minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc., which has a good effect on removing melasma for women with melasma on the face.
The ingredients in kiwifruit can effectively inhibit the oxidation of dopaquinone in **, so that the **medium and dark oxidized pigment is converted into reduced light pigment so that melanin is formed on ** and prevents melanin precipitation on the face**.
However, kiwifruit is a cold fruit, so people with a weak spleen and stomach should not eat more, especially pregnant women. Eating two kiwis a day is fine, but eating more can cause diarrhea.
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