That matches my experience too. I started reducing the acidic foods as the article suggests and the burning at the lip corners reduced within a week. The Pitta-pacifying diet section seems very directly applicable for that pattern.

Same thing happened to me. The correlation with the balm ingredients made me look up my current one and it has fragrance listed which the article specifically calls out. Small thing but it was a bit of a lightbulb moment.

The Rasa dhatu connection was interesting to me. So if the plasma tissue quality is poor, the lips are basically showing that before other skin does. It changes how you read the symptom entirely.

The article actually lists chronic mouth breathing as one of the main internal causes under the Vata category. Nice to see the Ayurvedic framing and the mechanical explanation pointing to the same thing rather than contradicting each other.

Yes and once you see it as a cycle it is hard to unsee. The bit about camphor and menthol reducing the lip’s natural barrier made me check my balm and sure enough both are in the ingredients list.