160ml Skinpro Lotion An Ancient Herbal Formula for Skin Problems and Other troubles

160ml Skinpro Lotion An Ancient Herbal Formula for Skin Problems and Other troubles

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Skinpro Lotion is an ancient Taoist formulation of 14 extracted herbs and their essential oils. This refreshing and soothing herbal wash is used in Chinese Medicine to dry and transform dampness, clear heat and toxin, purge fire, cool blood, and disperse wind. This bottle of Yin-care®’s Herbal Wash contains 100 ml of herbal wash liquid.

Skinpro Lotion can assist with damp heat discharge, as well as heat resulting inflammation and persistent itching resulting from wind. It can be effectively applied as a wash, rub, sits bath or compress. We highly recommend working directly with a health care provider of your choice familiar with the use of this lotion.

 

1. Shechuangzi (Fructus Cnidii)

 Source and Crafts
This drug is the dry and matured fruit of Cnidium monnieri (L.) Cass. It is extracted according to modern scientific technology by clearing and vacuum drying or spray into fine powder. 1.0 g of extract is equivalent to 6.0g of raw herb.

Character
This drug is light brown powder with light scent and taste of pungent and a little bitter.

Property, flavor and channel tropism
Pungent and bitter in flavor, warm property, activating on spleen and kidney channel.

Function and Indication
Warming the kidney to invigorate YANG, drying dampness, eliminating wind, and expelling intestinal parasites. It is used for impotence, sterility, cold-dampness and gynecological disease, waist pain due to damp-arthralgia, external used for vulvae eczema, vulvae pruritis and trichomonas vaginitis.

Modern research
Chemical ingredients:
Fruit of Fructus Cnidii contains 1.3% volatile oil, coumarin compound (such as cnidimine) and other ingredients and some microelements.

Indication
1. Effect on genital system
The study showed that different extractum of Fructus Cnidii has different effect on genital system of animals in vivo or vitro experiment. The exsomatize experiment showed that the extractum solution with physiological saline has clear function on inhibiting sperm. So Fructus Cnidii can be taken as a kind of vaginal contraceptive medicine.

2. Effect on the animal with “deficient YANG”
   Fructus Cnidii is traditionally regarded as medicine of warming the kidney to activate YANG. Modern research proved that it has certain effects on animals with deficient Yang, which may be gained by acting on metabolism of cyclic nucleoside acid and prostaglandin. Coumarin may be the effective ingredient of Fructus Cnidii for warming the kidney to activate YANG.
3. Function of anti-inflammation and bacteiostasis
   (1) Function of inhibit pathogenic microorganism and parasite Fructus Cnidii and its extracts can inhibit many pathogenic microorganisms. The tube test in vitro showed that Fructus Cnidii extracts can inhibit flocculent epidermophtosis, Microsporum gypseum and lanosum. It can prolong the life of chick embryo of Newcastle disease virus for another 6 hours. Fructus Cnidii extractum (1:2) can sterilize the Trichomonas vaginalis in the vitro experiment.

Clinical indication
Used for vaginitis, pruritus of vulva, erosion of cervix, chronic cervicitis, pompholyx, tinea on hands and feet, scabies and impotence.

2. Jinyinhua(Flos Lonicerae)

 Origin and preparation
Jinyinhua is flower bud of Lonicera japonica Thunb, Lonicera hypoglauca Miq., Lonicera confusa DC. or Lonicera dasystyla Rehd., family Caprifoliaceae. It is extracted, removed impurity, vacuum dried, or spray dried to be made into powder by adopting modern scientific technology. Every g powder is equal to crude drug 2.6g.

Description
Slight-brown fine powder, delicate fragrance, mild and slight bitter in taste.

Property, taste and attributive meridian
Sweet in taste, cold in nature, and attributive to lung, heart, and stomach channels.

Function and Indication
Clearing away heat and toxic material, treating boils and swelling, eliminating pathogenic heat from the blood and treating diarrhea. For epidemic febrile disease and fever, noxious heat and dysentery with bloody stool, inflammation of the throat and quite a few kinds of infective diseases.

Modern research
Chemical components
Flos Lonicerae mainly contains chlorogenic acid, isochlorogenic acid, flavonoid, triterpenes, volatile oil and inorganic element.

Pharmacological action
1. Function of anti-pathogenic-micro-organism
(1). Anti-bacterium function: experiment research shows that Flos Lonicerae has inhibiting effect on many kinds of pathogen.(2). Anti-virus function: as to human embryo kidney primary simple epithelium cell tissue culture, Flos Lonicerae decoction (1:20) has inhibiting effect on influenza virus, and herpes virus.

2. Anti-inflammation and antipyretic effect
   Abdominal cavity injection Flos Lonicerae decoction 0.25g/kg can inhibit rat’s foot swelling caused by carrageenin and also has inhibiting effect on foot swelling caused by egg white. Abdominal cavity injection Flos Lonicerae decoction 8g/kg, two times a day, for successive 6 days, has distinct inhibiting effect on inflammatory exudation of croton oil granulation cystis and granulation-tissue-formation.
3. Effect on immune system: in vitro experiment, diluting Flos Lonicerae decoction to 1:1280 still can promote phagocytic function of white cells. And rat’s abdominal cavity injection of Flos Lonicerae also has distinct effect of promoting inflammatory cell’s phagocytic function.
4. Function of blood-lipid-reducing
   Rat administrated Flos Lonicerae 2.5g/kg can decrease the absorption of enteral cholesterol and reduce content of cholesterol in plasma. In vitro experiment Flos lonicerae can be combined with cholesterol.
5. Effect on neutral nerve system
   Chlorogenic acid contained in Flos Lonicerae has effect of central excitation.
6. Other function
   Oral-administrating Flos Lonicerae decoction has slight preventing effect on rat’s experimental gastric ulcer. There are scholars who reported that Flos Lonicerae as tea has function of treating toothache and pharyngitis.

Clinical application
It is used to prevent and treat upper respiratory tract infection, bacterial infection, acute tonsillitis, hyperlipemia and tumor chemotherapy, chemotherapy xerostomia.

 

3. Zhi zi (Fructus Gardeniae )
   
   Origin and Preparations
   It is the dried fruit ofGardenia jasminoides Ellis.(Fam. Rubiaceae). It is prepared by the modern techniques of extracting, purifying and spray-drying. 1 gram of the extract powder is equivalent to 3.5 grams of the crude herb.

Property, taste and attributive meridian
Bitter in taste, cold in property. Enters the heart, lung and triple-jiao meridians.

Function and indication
Purge fire to relieve vexation, clear away heat and promote diuresis, cool the blood and clear away toxicity. Indicated for febrile diseases with irritability，jaundice, yellow urine, painful and difficult in urination due to bloody stranguria, hematemesis and epistaxis due to blood-heat，redness, pain and swelling of the eyes， sores and carbuncles due to noxious fire, and contusions (external use).

Modern researches
Chemical components:
Iridoids, acids and flavanoids are the chief components.

Clinical applications
It is widely applied to treat acute icteric hepatitis, contusions, nameless poisoning swelling, parotitis, and infantile fever.

 

   4. Tu Jin Pi ( Cortex Psudolaricis)

Pseudolarix kaempferi Gord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Golden Larch Bark is the dried root bark or stem bark near the root of Pseudolarix kaempferi Gord. (Fam. Pinaceae).

Action: To kill parasites and relieve itching.

Indications: Scabies and tinea.

Usage: Appropriate quantity soaked with vinegar or wine, or ground into powder and mixed with water to be applied topically.

5. Huangbo (Coretex phellodendri)

 Source
Bark of Phellodendron chinense Schneid. or P.amurese Rupr., family Rutaceae.

Characteristics
Bark yellow, lamellar, unequal in length and width, 2-6 mm thick. Outer surface yellow-brown, flat or longitudinally grooved when cork peeled off. Inner surface densely longitudinally striated. Cross section surface fibrous and lamellar. Prepared as crosscut fine strips. Bitter in atse, cold in nature, and attributive to kidney, urinary bladder and large intestine channels.

Indication
1. Clear away heat and deprive dampness from middle-jiao: for diarrhea, dysentery, jaundice, leocorrhagia, stranguria, edema of lower limbs, prurigo, etc. of dampness-heat type.
2. Purge the sthenic fire and clear away toxic materials: for skin infection, furunclosuis complicated by septicemia, burn, and seasonal febrile disease.
3. Purge the kidney-fire and reduce asthenia-heat: for syndrome of fire-hyperactivity and yin-deficiency manifested as hectic fever, night sweat, emission and red-dry tongue.

Pharmacological action
Berberine is the mian active component with an action similar to Rhizoma Coptidis.

 

6. Huangqi(Mongolian Milkvetch Root)
   
   Origin and preparation
   This drug is the dry root of Astragalus membranaceus Bge. Var. monaholicus (Bge) Hsiaoor Astragalus membranaceus (Fisch) Bge (family Leguminosae) and produced into powder through modern scientific technology. Extractum of every gram is equivalent to 4.5g of raw herb.

Description
It is yellow powder with light scent, slight bitter in flavor and a little sweet by feedback.

Property, taste and attributive meridian
Sweet taste, warm in property, enter the spleen and lung channels

Function and indication
Tonifying QI to restore YANG, consolidating superficies to stop perspiration, inducing diuresis to remove edema, promoting pus discharge and tissue regeneration. For internal injuries and tiredness, diarrhea due to spleen-asthenia, lung-asthenia and cough, proctoptosis, descensus uteri, hematemesis, hematochezia, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis,spontaneous perspiration, night sweating, blood-arthralgia, carbuncle and boil, ulcer being unable to heal and all diseases due to deficient QI and blood.

Modern research
Chemical ingredients
It contains triterpene saporin with strong activity (such as astragalus saponin 1, 2, 3), flavonoid compound, polysaccharide, amino acid and microelement.

pharmacological action
1. Function on immune system
Mongolian Milkvetch Root can enhance the immune of old-aged mice and model mice that have low immunity caused by hydrocortisone, enhance their immunity of cells and the body fluid. It can adjust immunity of old-aged mice and is a good immunomodulator.
Astragalus polysaccharides has obvious effect on the cell immunity of the burn-injured mice.

2. Function on cardiovascular system
   Astragalus saponin and polysaccharides have function of improving the cardiac contractivity, reducing the area of myocardial infarction and lightening the myocardial damage for the dog suffering the acute myocardiac infarction.
   Mongolian Milkvetch Root has function of lowering blood pressure and expanding vessels and coronary artery in the test of intravenous injection to rabbits, cats and dogs.
3. Function on blood and hematopoietic system
   Mongolian Milkvetch Root can protect the hematopoiesis of bone marrow caused by cyclophosphamide, prevent the reduction of the karyocyte in bone marrow. It can increase the amount of white cells, blood platelet, reticulocyte and megalocaryocyte.
4. Function on organism metabolism
   Mongolian Milkvetch Root can enhance the physiological metabolism of cells.
5. Function on antiageing
   Mongolian Milkvetch Root has function of promoting superoxide dismutase and removing free radical, which is the principle to prolong cell life and resist ageing.
   Mongolian Milkvetch Root has the following functions:
   (1) Prolong the life of cell in vitro, inhibit the breeding of virus, reduce the pathopoiesis of virus to cells. (2) Astragalus polysaccharides increase the amount of RNA in spleen of mice, astragalus saponin promote formation of DNA and fasten the differentiation and proliferation of liver. (3) Mongolian Milkvetch Root can enhance the activity of antioxidase and antioxidant, reduce the amount of serum lipofuscin. (4) Mongolian Milkvetch Root can supplement qi and generate blood so as to calm the nerves. (5) It can promote the immunity effectively. (6) Enhance stress function of experimental rats. So it shows antiageing.

Clinical application
Used for diseases with deficiency of qi in spleen and lung and visceroptosis with hyposplenic qi such as coronary heart disease, heart failure, ischemic cerebrovascular disease, cold, bronchial asthma of children, chronic B hepatitis, chronic nephritis, viral myocarditis, epidemic hemorrhagic fever and peptic ulcer.

 

7. Ku shen(Radix Sophorae Flavescentis)
   
   Origin
   It is the root of the Sophora flavescens Ait., family Leguminosae.

Property, taste and attributive meridian.
Bitter in taste, cold in property. Enters the heart, lung, kidney and large intestine meridians.

Function and indication
Clear away heat and deprive dampness, expel wind and kill parasites. Indicated for diarrhea and dysentery of dampness-heat, hematochezia due to intestinal wind， jaundice, difficulty in micturition, edema， leukorrhagia, pruritus vulvae, scabies and tinea, leprosy, itch of skin, carbuncles and sores of damp toxicity.

Modern research
Chemical components: It contains alkaloids, such as matrine, oxymatrine,and N-oxysophocarpine.

Clinical application:
It is used to treat bacillary dysentery, trichomonal pyelonephritis, eczema and dermatitis, cervicitis, diseases of lung and heart, functional disorder of temporomandibular joint, sleepless, arrhythmia, leukopenia, and senile acute non-lymphocytic leukemia.

 

8. Di fu zi(Fructus Kochiae)
   
   Origin
   Difuzi is matured fruit of Kochia scoparia, family Chenopodiaceae.

Property, Taste, Attributive Meridian
Bitter in taste, cold in nature, and attributive to kidney, bladder channel.

Function and indications
Clear away heat and promote diuresis, dispel wind ad arrest itching. Indicated for dribbling urine, stranguria with turbid urine, gynecological disease, dysentery with bloody stool, rubella, eczema, sarcoptidosis, cutaneous pruritus, sore.
Chemical components: triterpenes and triterpenoid saponin, oleanolic acid.

Pharmacological actions
1. bacteriostasis.
Difuzi water infusion (1:3) has different inhibition on the skin fungi such as achorion schoenleinii, audouin’s microsporon, microsporon ferrugineum and microsporon fleece.
2. Action on immune function.
Difuzi water extraction  500mg/kg can distinctly decrease granular carbon clearing rate and absorption of granular carbon by liver and spleen for the mice. Its extract 100mg/kg and 500mg/kg can obviously inhibit phagocytosis of abdominal macrophage on chicken RBC (CRBC) and has some inhibition on delayed hypersensitivity induced by PC and sheep RBC, but has no obvious effect on inflammation caused by xylene.

 

9. Yin chen (Herb Artemisiae Scopariae )

 Origin
Yinchen is the young plant or upper part of Artemisia scoparia Waldst. et Kit., family Compositae.

Identification
1g Yinchen powder is put into 20ml ethanol, regurgitated on the water bath for 30 minutes and filtered. The filtrate shows light yellow-green color, detected in the ultraviolet light (365nm), it will show purplish red fluorescence.

Property, taste, attributive meridian
Slightly bitter and slightly acrid in taste, slightly cold in nature, and attributive to liver, gallbladder, spleen, stomach, bladder channel.

Function and indications
Clear away heat and promote diuresis, normalize functioning of the gallbladder and cure jaundice. Indicated for oliguria due to jaundice, ulcer and pruritus.
Chemical components: volatile oil, butyladehyde, furfuraldehyde, cineole.

Pharmacological actions
1. Cholagogic effect.
2. Protecting liver.
3. Action on cardiovascular system.
Yinchen infusum and volatile oil can lower the blood pressure.
4. Clearing away fever, sedation, and anti-inflammation.
5. Anti-pathogenic microbes.
The experiments in vitro indicated that Yinchen decoctum has different inhibition on staphylococcus aureus, diphtheria bacillus, anthrax bacillus, typhoid, bacillus pyocyaneus, escherichia coli, dysentery bacillus, hay bacillus and meningitis diplococcus.
6. Antineoplastic effect.

Clinical application
1. Treating acute icteric infectious hepatitis.
2. Treating hyperlipemia.
3. Treating oral ulcer.

 

10. Herba Menthae (Bo He)

Description

Stems square, with opposite branches, 15-40cm long, 2-4mm in diameter; externally purplish-brown or pale green, the angular regions pubescent, internodes 2-5cm long; texture fragile, fracture white, pith hollowed. Leaves opposite, short petioled, lamina crumpled and rolled, when whole, broadly lanceolate, long-elliptical or ovate, 2-8cm long, 103cm wide; the upper surface dark green and the lower surface greyish-green, sparsely pubescent, bearing concave dotted glandular scales. Verticillaster axillary, calyx campanulate, with five terminal teeth, corolla pale purple. Odour, characteristic and aromatic after rubbing; taste, pungent and cool.

 

Function

To dispel wind-heat from the head and eyes, and to promote eruption.

 

Indication

Headache in influenza, upper respiratory infection and other epidemic febrile diseases at the initial stage; inflammation of the eye, sore throat, ulcers in the mouth; rubella measles; discomfort with feeling of distension in the chest and hypochondriac regions.

 

Pharmacological Action

1. Dispersing evil wind-heat from superficies:

For either exterior syndrome due to wind-heat which is marked by fever with slight chill, headache and anhidrosis, or exterior syndtome of seasonal febrile disease at its beginning stage, Hera Menthae is often combined with Flos Lonicerae, Fructus Forsythiae, etc.; for high fever, with Gypsum; for syndrome of summer-heat in summer which is marked by dizziness, fever, thirsty, scanty and dark urine, with Talcum, Radix Glycyrrhizae, thirst, scanty and dark urine, with Talcum, Radix Glycyrrhizae.

2. Clearing away the evil factors in the head,brightening the eyes and soothing the throat:

For treating cold due to wind-heat or such symptoms as headache with red eyes, sore throat, etc., due to invasion of the head by wind-fire, it is combined with Herba Schizonepetae, Flos Chrysanthemi, Radix Ledebouriellae, Fructus Arctii, Radix Platycodi, Radix Glycyrrhizae, etc.

3. Promoting eruption and arresting itching:

It is often combined with Fructus Forsythiae, Periostracum Cicadae, Fructus Arctii, Herba Schizone-petae, Radix Ledebouriellae, etc. for the treatment of measles with failure of letting out skin eruptions due to invasion of the superficies and muscles by wind-heat, and urticaria, pruritus, etc.

Besides, it is also indicated in depression of liver-Qi, distention and pain of the chest and hypochondriac region; for this purpose, a proper amount may be added to the other ingredients of the prescription for soothing the liver.

 

11. AiYe(Folium Artemisiae Argyi )
    
    Origin and Preparation
    Aiye is dried leave of Artemisia argyi Levl. et Vant., family Compositae.It is prepared by extracting, purifying and spray-drying with the modern techniques. 1 gram of extract powder is equivalent to 6.1 grams of crude herb.

Description
Brown powder with sweet smell and pungent and bitter taste.

Property, Taste and Attributive Meridian
Pungent and bitter in taste, warm in nature; slight toxicity. Enter the liver, spleen and kidney meridian.

Function and Indication
Dispel cold and relieve pain, warm meridian and stop bleeding. Indicated for coldness and pain in the lower abdomen, coldness and disorder in menses , cold womb and barren, hematemesis, bleeding from the eye, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, bleeding after
pregnancy; external use for pruritus.

Modern Research
chemical ingredients: volatile components, polysaccharide, vitamin, flavonoid and trace elements.

Pharmacological Action
1. Effect on immune system
Moxibustion has contributive effect on nonspecific immunity and humoral immunity for different animals.
2. Effect on blood system.
(1) Inhibiting platelet aggregation. (2) Stoping bleeding.
3. Antiseptic effect
4. Effect on digestive system
(1) Protecting gastric mucosa. (2) Cholagogic effect. (3) Effect on smooth muscles of isolated stomach and intestines: Aiye decoctum with low density can excite the isolated intestinal tracts of cavy, but decoctum with higher density (more than 1%) and its saturated solution of volatile oil play inhibition on it. It also has obvious inhidition on the  intestinal tracts of rabbits.
5. Relieving asthma
6. Other effects
Aiye also can expel sputum and relieve cough.
Clinical Application
Aiye is used to treat abdominal pain due to deficiency and cold, dysmenorrhea, functional endometrorrhagia, menorrhagia, allergic dermatitis, eczema, acute bacillary dysentery, intractable singultus and asthmatic bronchitis.

 

12. Du huo (Radix Angelicae Pubescentis )
    
    Origin
    Duhuo is root of Angelica pubescens Maxim. f. biserrata Shan. et Yuan, family Umbelliferae.

Identification
3g Duhuo powder is put into 30ml diethyl ether, heated and regurgitated for 1 hour and filtered. The filtrate evaporates till dry, the residue is dissolved with 3ml petroleum ether (30-60oC) and filtered again. Adding 3ml ethanol into the residues and detected in the intraviolet light (365nm), it will show blue purplish fluorescence. (checking tonka bean camphor)

Property, taste, attributive meridian
Bitter and acrid in taste, slightly warm in nature, and attributive to kidney, bladder channel.

Function and indications
Expel the wind and remove dampness, disperse cold and relieve pain. Indicated for arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, pain in waist and knee, headache and toothache.

Modern research
Chemical components: coumarin compound, dihydrooroselol and acetic ester.

Pharmacological action
1. Action on cardiovascular system.
Duhuo agent can lower blood pressure for the anesthetized dogs and cats by vein injection, but it is not long.
2. Action on blood platelet aggregation.
Duhuo extract has inhibition on platelet aggregation for the rats induced by ADP in vitro.
3. Sedation, relieving pain and anti-inflammation.
4. Photosensitization.
5. Spasmolysis.
6. Anti-tumor.
7. Antisepsis.
The photosensitizing substance in Duhuo (coumarin compound) has no obvious antisepsis generally, but when it is exposed together with staphylococcus aureus and escherichia coli, it has photosensitization and kills these bacteria

 

13. 
    Cang zhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis )
    
    Origin
    Cangzhu is the rhizome of Atractylodes lancea ( Thunb.) DC. or A. chinensis ( DC.) Koidz., family Compositae.

Identification
3g Cangzhu powder is put into 5ml diethyl ether, shaken and soaked for 15 minutes and filtered. Take 2ml filtrate into evaporating utensil, add 1ml sulphuric acid solution (10%) which contains 5% paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde after diethyl ether evaporates, it will show rose red and then turns green after dried under 100oC for 5 minutes.

Property, taste, attributive meridian
Pungent and bitter in taste, mild in nature, and attribute to spleen, stomach, and liver channel.

Function and indications
Eliminate dampness and invigorate the spleen, expel the wind and dampness, improve acuity of vision. Indicated for dampness blocks the spleen and stomach, lassitude and drowsiness, feeling of stuffiness in chest and abdominal distention, poor appetite, vomiting and diarrhea, phlegm-retention, edema due to dampness; exterior syndrome with dampness, heave sensation and pain over the head and body; Bi-syndrome due to excessive dampness, heave and sour of extremities; night blindness.

Modern research
Chemical components: volatile oil 3.25%-6.92%.

Pharmacological actions
1. Action on digestive system.
(1) Resisting experimental gastritis and gastric ulcer. (2) Action on gastrointestinal movement: Cangzhu acetone extract 75mg/kg can promote gastrointestinal movement. (3) Effect on the liver: Cangzhu water decoction 10g (crude herb)/kg can obviously promote synthesis of liver albumen for the mice by oral administration for continuous 7 days.
2. Action on the blood sugar.
Cangzhu decoction and infusion by oral administration or subcutaneous injection 8g/kg can increase blood sugar for the rabbits, the blood sugar reaches the peak within 1 hour and gradually decreases for 6 hours.
3. Anti-hypoxia.
4. Natriuretic action.
5. Blockage up nicotine (N).

Clinical application
1. Preventing cold.
2. Treating conjunctival xerosis.
3. Treating idiopathic lacrimation.
4. Treating rickets.

 

14. 
    Shi chang pu(Rhizoma Acori Tatarinowi )

 

Origin
It is the rhizome of Acorus tatarinowii Schott., family Araceae.

Property, taste and attributive meridian.
Pungent and bitter in taste, slightly warm in property. Enters the heart, liver and spleen meridian.

Function and indication
Eliminate phlegm to wake the patient from unconsciousness, remove dampness and promote qi-energy circulation，expel wind and relieve painful obstruction，relieve swelling and stop pain. Indicated for confusion of mind due to febrile disease, phlegmatic syncope，amnesia, tinnitus, deafness, distention and pain in the epigastrium and abdomen，arorectic dysentery, painful obstruction due to wind-dampness, traumatic injuries, carbuncles, boils, scabies and tinea.

Modern researches
Chemical component: The rhizome contains essential oil.

Clinical application:
It is used to treat seizure of epilepsy and pulmonary encephalopathy.