Wu Zetian is a person who pays great attention to maintenance. The doctor also prescribed many beauty secrets for her. Two famous beauty tips commonly used by Wu Zetian. One is the formula of motherwort noodles, which is recorded in the newly revised Materia Medica edited by the editor-in-chief, and later recorded by Wang Dao in the Secret of Foreign Taiwan Province. Later medical books also recorded that it was renamed as "Xianyu Girl Powder". Li Shizhen in Ming Dynasty was recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica. Motherwort is a good medicine for gynecology, which can be taken orally or used externally. External application to the face has the effect of treating dull complexion and eliminating facial spots and wrinkles. Regular use can make the skin moist and shiny. The formula of motherwort noodles is to collect motherwort with complete root seedlings on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. The collected motherwort cannot be covered with soil, otherwise it will have no effect. The collected motherwort is dried in the sun, crushed, ground, mixed with proper amount of flour and water, blended into egg-sized pills, dried in the sun, and then made into a stove with a small hole on each side. Put charcoal fire on the upper and lower floors of the stove, and put pills between the two floors to ignite and burn.
Cook a big meal and simmer for 24 hours. You can't give up halfway. Finally, the best pills should be white and delicate. Generally, pills should be thoroughly cooled after being taken out, put into a porcelain bowl, ground with a jade hammer, carefully ground, and then ground. Therefore, the finer the powder, the better. Then add jade powder or cornu Cervi powder into the medicine, then put the medicine in a porcelain bottle and seal it, and then take it out when using it. The preparation of this pill is very particular, including the time of collection, the color of the medicine, the temperature during the pharmaceutical process and so on. If it is not done well, the pills will turn black and yellow and lose their efficacy; The main drugs and children who make these pills must strictly follow the requirements in order to make them successfully. Wang Dao said in his notes: At first, washing your face with this medicine will make your hands smooth and your face shiny. Later, you will gradually become rosy. If used for many years, women in their forties and fifties look as young as women in their fifties. Wu Zetian can still maintain a beautiful face at the age of 80, which seems to be related to her frequent use of this beauty secret recipe.
Another beauty prescription was given to Wu Zetian by physician Zhang Wenzhong. It's called tissue paper, and it's included in Wang Dao's secret book. As a beauty product, facial cream was very popular in the Tang Dynasty, which is equivalent to today's facial mask. Unlike today's facial masks, facial masks at that time were all made of natural medicinal materials. The main ingredients of the formula are asarum, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, Radix Astragali, Rhizoma Typhonii, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Flos Magnoliae, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Trichosanthes kirilowii, Indigoferae Cortex and lard. The preparation method is also very complicated. The medicine should be chopped, then soaked in wine overnight, then fried, and then slowly solidified into facial fat. Li Zhe, Trichosanthes kirilowii and lard have the effects of nourishing yin and moistening skin; Asari, Rhizoma Typhonii and Flos Magnoliae can dispel wind and enlighten people; Astragalus membranaceus can replenish qi and kidney; Chuanxiong and Magnolia officinalis can promote blood circulation and keep moisture. Therefore, this mask can make the skin smooth, wrinkle-free and moisturize after use, and the curative effect is still remarkable.
Wu Zetian's care for her appearance is mixed, but from the perspective of ancient atrioventricular health, if there is harmony and moderation, it can also achieve the effect of health and longevity, so it can also reveal the reasons for Wu Zetian's longevity from another angle. One of Wu Zetian's favorite young people is her physician named Shen Nan, who is handsome and young, so she is also favored in front of Wu Zetian. He also said that Wu Zetian's blood gas is very weak and difficult.