Many years ago when no professional doctor or medical practitioner could be found, people relied on shamans, priests, lay healers or sometimes even sorcerers to cure their illness. These ancient healers relied on herbal plants found in the surrounding places where they were located. There was a lot of preparation or special rituals done because healing in earlier times was a part of religion, and people believed in the healing powers of the healer without any doubt. The mode of healing during this time was through trial and error process and instinct was what they mainly relied on. It was a lot later in the medieval times when modern medicine begun.
Home remedies for acne were being used way back centuries ago. During this time people of different races and civilizations were affected with the acne disease. However every civilization was unique in the herbs and preparation that they were doing to stop or control the spread of the disease.
First in our list of ancient home acne remedies is no other than the Aloe Vera acne mask; it was popularized by the Egyptians to both cure and prevent acne. They did it by rubbing the Aloe Vera extract onto the face where acne is present and they did it on a daily basis until the acne was gone.
Second is orange and lemon fruit, these fruits both possess some degree of acidity which is good for bacterial acne related problems. Their acidic content contains some strains of bacteria that can help because acne is killed by the citric acid of those fruits.
The third in our list are the herbal plant leaves of strawberries, raspberries, or blackberries. These leaves inhibit the formation of acne in the face and some claim that they also help in reducing the size of the acne. To prepare you need a handful of leaves and a teapot with hot/warm water. You first clean the leaves and then mix the leaves together with the hot or warm water in the pot, wait for a couple of minutes until the leaf extract is out in the leaves then afterwards you drink it, treat it like tea.
These herbal plants are just some of the examples that can treat your acne just follow the steps and do this religiously. Natural herbal remedies usually take a long time for the consumers to see the result they desire.
