During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, women began to know how to use pollen to maintain their skin.
Wu Zetian's unique beauty secret recipe motherwort
As the only female emperor in the history of China, Wu Zetian spared no effort in personal appearance modification, except for her political strategy. After more than 60 years old, her skin is still fair, rosy and elastic. According to Wang Dao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, the secret recipe of Wu Zetian's beauty is called "Tian Hou Lian Yi Cao Wu Ze Fang".
The preparation process of this formula is quite complicated, and it is necessary to collect the whole Leonurus japonicus on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to avoid soil contamination. Dry in the sun, grind and sieve, add proper amount of flour and water, knead into dough, knead into egg size, and then dry. Then use a yellow mud furnace, spread charcoal on the bottom layer, put medicine in the middle layer, and cover the top layer with 1 charcoal and satin. After scrubbing with this medicine, the skin will gradually become smooth and delicate. If it is used for a long time, the skin of a 50-year-old woman will look as young as a girl of 18.
Princess Taiping beauty Miao Fang Tao Hua
Her usual formula is to mix peach blossom with black-bone chicken blood, which can not only promote skin metabolism, make skin fully nourished, become white and moist, but also nourish and prevent wrinkles.
Yang Guifei keeps young with lychees.
As soon as I rode on the smile of smoke and smoke, no one knew that the fresh fruit litchi was sent from the south. "It is a household name in China. From then on, people know that Yang Guifei especially likes to eat litchi, which is a beauty fruit with high vitamin content.
According to legend, Yang Yuhuan, an ancient beauty, ground peeled almonds, talc and calomel into fine powder, steamed them, added a little borneol and musk, and then mixed them with egg white. After breakfast every day, she will apply this cream thinly on her face to keep her skin white and ruddy.
Princess Yonghe's beautiful Tian Fang ran dou fen
Tang Dezong's daughter Princess Yonghe's secret recipe for skin care is mainly made of bean powder, which can nourish the skin, make it white, tender, smooth and elastic, and prevent skin diseases.
Scrubbing the face and hands with this formula can make the skin smooth and moist and keep young forever.
Golden State Whitening Girls Eight Powders
According to legend, among the people in the state of Jin, there was a girl who prayed day and night in order to be chosen as the imperial concubine by the palace. Her sincerity touched the Weaver Girl, and in an instant, a glow flashed across the sky, floating down the ribbon, and wrote: Take eight kinds of medicinal materials, such as ginseng, safflower, bletilla striata, angelica sinensis and Saposhnikovia divaricata, grind them into powder, blend them with night dew and apply them to your face. You can do it if you like.
After a few days, the appearance is really skin-like, skin-like, and muscular. Soon, there was good news from the palace, which realized her beautiful wish to become a imperial concubine. Later, this formula was widely circulated as a good recipe for women's health and beauty in the court of Jin State, and became the famous "Eight White Powders of the Palace of Jin State" at that time.
Ming Dynasty Gong Yan Cream Musk Cream
According to Sui Chuxuan's Essays, there was a wealthy businessman in the late Ming Dynasty. The couple are over 500 years old and have only one daughter. They are smart. At that time, due to the corruption of the imperial court, the people lived in poverty. The rich businessman intended to send his daughter to a safe place to escape, but was hijacked by a group of robbers halfway up the mountain. My daughter misses her parents day and night, and her cheeks gradually become dark and rough. Later, she was saved and returned to her parents. It's no use trying to restore her face. One day, a monk came to beg for alms and presented a box of "Shenwan", and the girl drew a picture on her face with the "Shenwan". In a few days, she was as good as before. According to textual research, this recipe is the secret recipe of musk cream in Ming Dynasty.
Cixi external beauty formula pearl powder
Empress Dowager Cixi, who was controversial in history, used pearl powder for health care for a long time. According to Princess Rongling of the Qing Dynasty, after Empress Dowager Cixi entered old age, her skin was still as white and smooth as a girl. Through research, it is found that Empress Dowager Cixi's abundant energy and appearance of aging later than ordinary people are maintained by taking pearl powder for a long time.
Cixi kept the habit of taking pearl powder. It is said that she drinks a spoonful of pearl powder every night before going to bed, which is a loyal user of pearl powder.
Nine Health Foods in Ancient Palace
The palace where the ancient emperors lived is undoubtedly the place with the most beautiful women in the world. In the luxurious palace, there are people who are responsible for making health food for these beautiful concubines. Gradually formed a secret health food dedicated to the court. Now that these secret foods have spread out, let's take a look!
Qing Gong Fu Gao Ling
Ingredients: Poria cocos, lotus seeds, Euryale ferox, yam, japonica rice and glutinous rice.
Methods: Poria cocos and other medicines were evenly divided into fine powders, and polished japonica rice and glutinous rice respectively. Take 3 parts of medicinal powder, 5 parts of japonica rice flour and 2 parts of glutinous rice flour, add water to make cakes, steam them in cages and make cookies. Eat 1 2 every morning and evening.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and kidney, calming the heart and calming the nerves, and prolonging life.
Description: This is the secret recipe of diet therapy in Qing Dynasty. Poria cocos, which is listed as the top grade in Shennong Materia Medica Classic, is said to be a medicine commonly used by ancient doctors to prolong life. Modern research has proved that Poria cocos mainly contains pachyman, pachymic acid, lecithin, histamine acid, ergosterol and so on, which has the functions of calming and lowering blood sugar. Poria polysaccharide can enhance human immune function, improve the body's disease resistance, and has a strong anti-cancer effect. Lotus seed, listed as the top grade in Shennong Materia Medica Classic, says that it "tonifies the middle energizer, eliminates all diseases, takes it for a long time, strengthens the body, resists aging and prolongs life without hunger". Euryale ferox is listed as the top grade in Shennong's herbal classics. It is said that it is mainly used for "damp arthralgia, lumbago and knee pain, tonifying middle warmer, eliminating violent diseases, benefiting qi, invigorating ambition, making people's eyes and ears agile, keeping fit for a long time, and resisting aging".
Ji Ling ointment
Raw materials: Ginseng 60g, Radix Asparagi, Radix Ophiopogonis, Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Rehmanniae 120g, Achyranthes bidentata 60g and Lycium barbarum 60g.
Methods: Ginseng was ground into fine powder, the rest of the medicines were decocted, filtered to remove residues, and appropriate amount of honey and ginseng powder were added and refined into paste. Or * * * all the medicines are ground into powder, and honey is refined into pills as big as buttonwood. The ointment is half a spoonful twice a day, and is taken with boiling water. Take the pills twice a day, each time 10g, with boiled water on an empty stomach.
Efficacy: nourishing kidney and moistening lung, strengthening spleen and nourishing heart, replenishing essence and marrow, strengthening body and prolonging life.
Description: Ji Ling Ointment is an improved formula of Gu Songyuan, a court physician during the reign of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty. Because the drugs in the prescription tend to nourish yin and replenish blood, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency is best not to be used.
Ear hole ointment
Ingredients: asparagus 500g, Ophiopogon japonicus 500g, Fritillaria cirrhosa noodles120g.
Methods: Add water to make paste, add Fritillaria powder and honey harvest cream. Take it with 4 "5 teaspoons of boiling water every morning.
Efficacy: This ointment has the effects of clearing away heart fire, moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, nourishing yin, reducing fire, quenching thirst and relieving vexation, and eliminating the fire of five internal organs, blood loss and strain, and the loss of Yuan Yin, so it is indispensable to take this medicine for one day. If you drink water for a long time, the fire will rise, and the yin and yang will be harmonious, so there will be no disease.
Description: The prescription of Qingtai Hospital was announced. And Dong are both sweet and cold and nourishing yin. Asparagus is a nourishing and anti-aging drug, and Shennong Herbal Medicine is listed as the top grade. If you take it for a long time, you won't be hungry. Rihuazi's herbal medicine says that it moistens the five internal organs, benefits the skin, and makes up for five strains and seven injuries. This may be related to its rich components such as asparagine, mucus and steroidal saponins. Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica lists Ophiopogon japonicus as the top grade, saying that it is "long-serving, light-fit, not old and not hungry", and "A Record of Famous Doctors" says that it is "nourishing yin and essence, eliminating the valley and harmonizing the middle, keeping the heart and lung qi, calming the five internal organs, making people obese, healthy, beautiful in color and having children". This product contains a variety of steroidal saponins, mucus, B- sitosterol, etc. , has a strong antibacterial effect. Fritillaria cirrhosa is a good medicine for moistening lung and resolving phlegm. Compatibility with Radix Asparagi and Radix Ophiopogonis can enhance the efficacy of nourishing yin and moistening lung.
Taihe pancakes
Raw materials: Chinese yam120g, lotus seed, Atractylodes macrocephala, Euryale euryales, Poria, Massa Medicata Fermentata, Junzi, Rhizoma Arisaematis each120g, and roasted licorice root 60g.
Methods: Grind * * * into fine powder, dry 500g of old rice, and make cookies with honey. Japanese clothes 1 cake.
Efficacy: spleen and stomach, spleen and stomach weakness is most suitable for boys and girls.
Description: The secret recipe of Qingtai Hospital is a prescription for dietotherapy, health care, invigorating spleen and benefiting qi. Yam, lotus seeds, Atractylodes macrocephala, Euryale ferox and Poria cocos are all good products for strengthening the spleen and benefiting qi, among which Euryale ferox has the function of convergence, and Poria is beneficial to dampness, and the compatibility is quite wonderful. Modern research shows that Poria cocos (see above), Atractylodes macrocephala, Rhizoma Dioscoreae and Semen Nelumbinis can improve human immune function, in which Rhizoma Dioscoreae can lower blood sugar and blood fat, while Semen Nelumbinis and Semen Euryales also have anti-cancer effects, which shows that this recipe has extraordinary effects on health preservation, longevity and anti-aging.
Bazhen ointment
Raw materials: 60g of Codonopsis pilosula, 60g of Poria, 30g of Atractylodes macrocephala, 90g of Coix seed, 90g of Gordon Euryale seed, 90g of lentils, 90g of lotus seeds and 90g of yam, and 240g of sugar.
Method: * * Grind into fine powder and steam the cake with white rice flour. No matter how much you eat, eat it two or three times a day and send it with boiling water.
Efficacy: this recipe is neither cold nor hot, warm in the middle and warm in the middle, nourishing the spleen and stomach, and causing various asthenia for boys and girls. It's a miracle to take this cake.
Description: This is a good recipe for dietotherapy and tonic deficiency. Emperor Qianlong has often eaten this kind of cake since he was 40 years old. Since then, concubines of emperors of the Qing Dynasty, including Empress Dowager Cixi, have also competed for food. In the prescription, Codonopsis pilosula greatly tonifies the primordial qi, Coix seed and lentil strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis, and the compatibility of these drugs is mild, which is more suitable for the syndromes of spleen and stomach weakness and heart and kidney deficiency.
Schisandra paste
Raw materials: 240 grams of Schisandra chinensis.
Method: Wash Schisandra chinensis, soak it in water for half a day, boil it to remove residue, then cook it into slurry, add less honey and collect the paste. Oral 1 twice a day, each time 1 spoon, with boiled water.
Efficacy: Bushen Jiannao, Ziyin Yiqi, Yangxin.
Description: This prescription is included in "Selected Prescriptions of Guangxu Medicine of Cixi", which is used for strengthening the body and nourishing the heart of Cixi. This product is warm and sweet, and enters the four meridians of liver, kidney, heart and lung. Physicians of past dynasties believed that it had nourishing and strengthening effects such as "nourishing five internal organs and strengthening bones and muscles". Modern research shows that it contains schisandrin A, citric acid, volatile oil and other substances, which can regulate the function of cerebral cortex, improve people's intelligence and physical strength, and enhance the body's non-specific resistance and adrenal cortex function; Has the effects of protecting liver, removing toxic substances and reducing alanine aminotransferase. This cream is a good product for strengthening the brain and prolonging life.
Mingmu Yanling Pill (Plaster)
Ingredients: 60g of frosted mulberry leaves, 60g of chrysanthemum, and appropriate amount of honey.
Methods: The medicine was coarse powder, and honey was a pill as big as mung bean. Or decoct thoroughly with water, remove residues, decocting into thick juice, and concocting into ointment with honey. Six grams three times a day.
Efficacy: calming the liver and improving eyesight, clearing away heat and expelling wind, and lowering blood pressure.
Description: Modern research shows that chrysanthemum contains volatile essential oil, choline, stevioside and other components, which have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, enhancing the resistance of capillaries, dilating coronary arteries, strengthening the heart and lowering blood pressure. "Shennong Materia Medica Classic" lists chrysanthemum as the top grade, calling it "long-term benefiting qi and blood, and intellectual people are suitable to endure old age and prolong life". This prescription was prescribed by Chong-Un Cheong, a doctor, to Cixi, who was 7 1 year old at this time, indicating that this prescription is very suitable for the elderly.
Yuji powder
Ingredients: Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Talcum, Rhizoma Typhonii each 6g, mung bean powder120g.
Method: * * * * Grind into very fine powder, wash your face a little at a time, or use it on everyone's milk, and the effect is quick.
Efficacy: This product is specially used to treat facial roughness, dullness, freckles and spots. Regular washing can moisturize the skin and make it look like jade and coagulated fat.
Description: Taiyuan's secret collection of Wan Gao San prescription. Angelica dahurica has a fragrant smell, which can moisturize the skin, make the skin white, tender and ruddy, and can be used as cosmetics, so it is often used as a beauty medicine in the palace. Modern science has confirmed that Angelica dahurica contains aromatic volatile oil, which can dilate local blood vessels and improve blood circulation for external use, thus promoting skin pigment absorption and moistening skin. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Rhizoma Typhonii mainly manifests all diseases and treats them as black, dry and black." Pharmacological research shows that this product can irritate the skin and make the epidermis fall off, thus eroding black, dry and black scars. In addition, external use of this product can dilate local blood vessels, improve blood circulation and make pigments absorbed.
Yangchunbai ice cream
Raw materials: Poria cocos (peeled) 60g, Chinese yam 60g, Euryale ferox 90g, lotus seed meat (peeled)150g, Massa Medicata Fermentata (fried) 30g, malt (fried) 30g, rice and glutinous rice 500g, and sugar 500g.
Method: Mash all the medicines, put them in a cloth bag with rice and glutinous rice, then steam them in a cage, take them out, put them in a dustpan (or a big wooden plate), mix them with white sugar, knead them into small pieces, and store them in the sun (or in an oven) for later use. For the elderly, 3 times a day, each time 1~2 yuan.
Efficacy: strengthening spleen and stomach, nourishing kidney vitality, calming the heart and calming the nerves, and prolonging life.
Description: The Ming Dynasty imperial diet prescription came from Rufu Board House. For the function of Poria cocos, see "Poria cocos cake". "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" lists yam as the top grade, saying that it "tonifies qi and strengthens tendons. Long clothes, eyes and ears, light body, no hunger and longevity. " Zhang Xichun, a famous doctor in Qing Dynasty, said that yam is the best tonic. Modern medical research shows that yam contains amylase, amino acids, choline, saponins and so on. It can increase the phagocytosis of white blood cells and lower blood sugar. Amylase can decompose protein and sugar, so it has the function of nourishing and promoting granulation.
Conclusion: The wisdom and health preserving methods of the ancients are very worthy of our admiration and study. Many methods that have been passed down through the ages are still talked about by people even in today's highly developed science!