i have only been on this chinese medicine for 3 days now so i will let you know. i have before this been seeing another chinese medicine lady who has been jabbing my lips twice a week with needles which was very painful she would jab each lip about 50 times in about a 2 minute process until the pain became unberable then she would put pressure to draw blood for a bout a minute. she also gave me this herbal cream which was great and i actually had great success while i was using it but unfortunately if i didnt apply the cream for several days it would come back so after 1 month i thought i would go try another chinese medicine which im trying now. im also on week 8 of a strict diet.