According to the historical records of the Palace Museum, there are many doctors around Cixi, who are now private beauty experts according to their duties, because Cixi is a person who pays special attention to appearance and loves beauty. The secret recipe of beauty that many imperial doctors have been advocating is-meridian beauty combined with beauty diet therapy.
According to records, the first thing Empress Dowager Cixi did when she got up in the morning was to comb her hair repeatedly for at least half an hour. Chinese medicine believes that combing hair can not only blacken hair and promote hair growth, but also promote blood circulation in the head and relieve migraine, which is directly related to the liver, gallbladder and meridians in the head.
Then, a bowl of sweet-scented osmanthus jujube porridge and tuckahoe cake is necessary for Empress Dowager Cixi's breakfast, because in the morning, when the stomach meridian is active, the above two foods are most easily absorbed by the spleen and stomach and promote intestinal digestion. Empress Dowager Cixi will ask the doctor to give her acupuncture at 5-6 o'clock in the back garden in her spare time in the afternoon. This time is just the active period of kidney meridian, and acupuncture can play a very good role in nourishing liver and kidney.
Before going to bed at night, it is an essential procedure to soak your feet with Chinese medicine, and you should rest for half an hour.
The health care that Cixi must do every day is closely related to the health care of meridians in traditional Chinese medicine, which is also the reason why Cixi is getting older and looks the same!