Traditional Chinese medicine beauty has always adopted the internal adjustment method, using traditional Chinese medicine and food to regulate the internal organs of the body, so as to achieve the goal of beauty. The cosmetic effect of traditional Chinese medicine is stable and the side effects are small. Chinese medicine beauty and health care has always been a topic of interest to beauty loving girls. Let’s learn more about these golden beauty foods in Chinese medicine beauty.
1. Red dates
Red dates have the effect of nourishing the face and blood. If we often cook porridge or soup with red dates, it can promote the blood production of the human body, effectively prevent anemia, and make our skin more and more red. Red dates are rich in vitamin C and cyclic adenosine phosphate, which can promote the metabolism of our skin cells, prevent melanin deposition, make our skin whiter and smoother, and achieve the beauty and skin care effects of whitening and freckling.
2. Honey
As we all know, eating too much sugary food is not good, but honey is an exception. Honey is a natural moisturizer, which can absorb and lock in moisture, which is exactly what dry skin needs most. So, if your skin itches and peels
3. Chinese wolfberry
Many of the beautifying effects of Lycium barbarum stem from its nourishing effect on the kidney. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that strong kidneys mean strong bones, good hearing, and a head of black hair. The kidney mainly contains “essence”. The kidney essence is sufficient. The heat and energy of the kidney can nourish and warm the spleen and liver continuously, so that all the organs can have a good living environment. Only in this way can you be more beautiful.
TCM beauty recipes
1. Barley and lotus seed porridge – whitening and freckling removing
Raw materials: 150g job’s tears, 50g lotus seeds, five red dates, 15g rock sugar, 1000ml cold water.
Method: wash the job’s tears, soak them in cold water for three hours, and drain the water. Remove the lotus seeds from the lotus seeds and wash them with cold water; Wash the red dates and remove the stones. Add 1000 ml of cold water to the pot, add Job’s tears, and bring to a boil over a high fire. Then add lotus seeds and red dates, and stew them until they are cooked. Finally, add rock sugar, and cook them until they are congee. You can eat them.
Efficacy: whitening and moisturizing, can eliminate freckles, age spots, butterfly spots, etc.
2. Tremella pigeon egg soup – nourishing and hydrating, removing dry skin
Ingredients: 10 pigeon eggs, 20g tremella, 20g rock sugar, 30ml lard
How to do it: soak Tremella in warm water, and then clean it to remove impurities for future use. Take 10 small wine cups, evenly smear lard on the wall of the wine cup, knock pigeon eggs into the wine cup, and put them into the steamer to steam the pigeon eggs; Put Tremella in the pot, add a proper amount of water, and simmer for about 1 hour. Finally, put the steamed pigeon eggs in the pot, add rock sugar, and serve.
Efficacy: clearing heat and moistening lungs, nourishing and hydrating, suitable for dry skin and cough.
3. Hoof tendon peanut soup – nourishes blood and brightens skin
Raw materials: 100g beef tendon, 80g peanuts, 1g salt and 2G monosodium glutamate
Method: first soak the peanuts in water for half an hour, and then wash them for standby; Remove the dye from the tendon, clean it and cut it into thin slices. Put the beef tendon and peanuts together in an casserole, add a proper amount of water, boil them over medium heat, and then stew them over a slow fire for one hour until the beef tendon is cooked thoroughly. Add salt and monosodium glutamate to taste them evenly, and then eat them out of the pot.
Efficacy: beauty and skin care, strengthening muscles and bones.
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