It is true that Cixi drank human breast milk. It is said that the Western Empress Dowager started drinking human milk when she was very young. According to historical records, she began to drink human milk around the age of 26 and has been drinking it for nearly 50 years. All the women in the palace know that the 70-year-old Empress Dowager has always been beautiful. They think the main reason is that she insists on drinking human milk every day. At that time, the number of fixed milk ports in the uterus was 3 per day, and the maximum number reached 1 1 person!
Cixi likes to drink fresh and delicious human milk. In the Qing dynasty, human milk was a beauty product for nobles, so there were many ways to drink it. Yong Zhengdi's favorite health secret recipe in his life is Guilingji recipe, 33 herbs. Among them, human milk is the most important medicine. It is said that human milk and selected vinegar, well water, river water and shochu are refined through dozens of processes. In the late Qing Dynasty, Emperor Guangxu, who was devastated by the Western Empress Dowager, was critically ill. The life-saving prescription prescribed by the imperial doctor is to stew human milk, which is to stew an aquatic plant that can be used as medicine with human milk. The ancients in China have long known that human breast milk is good for beauty. It is said that on one occasion, Emperor Wu of Jin visited Wang Jijia, the minister. At that time, exquisite glassware was served, and Emperor Wu of Jin took a sip and found that he had never eaten it. That's really the best food in the world! Emperor Wu asked in surprise: What is this smell? Ji Wang respectfully said: It's human milk soup. Emperor Wu was even more surprised: human milk soup? Can human milk be so delicious? Ji Wang said calmly: Take the milk of a healthy and beautiful primipara and steam it slowly. Since then, human milk food has entered the court of China and become a necessary item for court women.
The second measure: pearl powder
It is said that Delinggege, the first female official around Cixi, once saw Cixi taking a bath. She found that Cixi, who was in her sixties at that time, had "virgin-like" skin. At that time, she was very surprised. It turns out that Cixi takes pearl powder every ten days. Usually, she mixes pearl powder with skin care products and applies it to her skin. . . .
The third measure: jade wipes the face.
Jade is the most abundant substance of qi. Jade is the purity of yin and yang, which has a magical effect on human health. Cixi has such a hobby, rubbing her face with jade every day, that is, rubbing, rubbing and rolling her face with a white jade ruler every day. Jade ruler is a short cylindrical jade roller made of precious special Bai Yushi.
The fourth measure: homemade masks and cosmetics.
Cixi likes to make a mask, put egg white on her face, and then wash the eggs with hot air in the morning. She has also studied many beauty masks. Cixi used powder, rouge and other skin care products herself. She only uses her own products and only adapts to her own cosmetics. Other tributes, even good things, are only used occasionally, and what she uses is basically natural.
The fifth measure: TCM conditioning
Cixi likes to use Chinese medicine. In the morning beauty work, she used jade powder to maintain her skin. It is made up of more than ten kinds of drugs, such as angelica dahurica, Petunia, Saposhnikovia divaricata, clove and lotus flower, which are ground into fine powder, thickened with water, rubbed on her face and finally washed with hot water. Fix your teeth before brushing your teeth. The secret recipe is complicated. You should grind more than ten kinds of medicines, such as one or two raw rhubarb, one or two cooked rhubarb, one or two raw gypsum, one or two cooked gypsum, one or two silver Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. and one or two drynaria rhizome, into fine powder, apply it to the roots first, and then rinse your mouth with cold water after washing your face. Brush your teeth after fixing them. Brushing teeth with tooth-fixing powder requires more than a dozen drugs to prepare.
Cixi also wants to wash her hair and care for her hair, and needs secret recipes such as chrysanthemum powder and fragrant scent. Chrysanthemum powder alone is made up of more than ten kinds of medicinal materials, such as chrysanthemum morifolium, dried cypress leaves, mulberry root and white bark. In addition to smearing nearly 100 kinds of herbs on her "dragon body", Cixi also takes several oral beauty drugs such as Xianfang Dihuang Powder and Changshou Yishou Dan every day. In order to prepare these drugs, hundreds of drugs are needed. Cixi uses hundreds of medicines all over her body every day, both orally and externally, to "stay young forever".