Green tea holds promise as new treatment for inflammatory skin diseases
...mportant because some treatments for psoriasis and dandruff can have dangerous side effects, he says. The traditional treatment of ultraviolet light and medication, while it can control the lesions and be used long term, may cause squamous cell carcinoma the second most common form of skin cancer, Dr. Hsu ......s have discovered that the same ingredient used in dandruff shampoos to fight the burning, itching and flaking...c pyrithione (ZnPy), the active ingredient in many dandruff shampoos. Li explains that ZnPy has a shape that allows it to fit into the gate region of the channe...