1, pay attention to eating traditional Chinese medicine health care products
In Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, drugs are divided into three categories: upper, middle and lower, and it is said that "upper medicine nourishes life, traditional Chinese medicine nourishes nature, and medicine cures diseases." This highlights the efficacy of Chinese medicine in caring for the human body, thus ensuring the normal function of the body and various organs and tissues, which is one of the reasons why many people believe in Chinese medicine. Therefore, in recent years, with people's attention to health care, many foods have begun to be related to traditional Chinese medicine with health care function, and foods containing traditional Chinese medicine ingredients have become popular. Ejiao jujube, Guiling Plaster, Herbal Tea Beverage, Royal Jelly, Poria Cake, etc. It has a great selling point in taste and packaging.
However, drugs are toxic in three ways. Experts pointed out that foods containing traditional Chinese medicine are not the same as "traditional Chinese medicine" or "health care products". It's just a special food, and it can't be applied to all people. In this regard, quality supervision experts remind consumers not to regard it as a daily nutritious food. If you misunderstand food nutrition for a long time and eat it blindly, it will have adverse effects on your body, so you should pay attention to it when eating.
Joule jujube
Function: Nourishing yin and nourishing blood, beauty beauty.
Reminder: People with indigestion due to stomach heat should eat less.
Ejiao, named after it was produced in Gudong 'e area, is made from donkey skin. It is rich in collagen and can be used as an important supplementary source of essential amino acids and trace elements, nourishing yin and blood, and delaying skin aging. Therefore, donkey-hide gelatin, ginseng and velvet antler are also called "nourishing three treasures".
Therefore, ejiao jujube, a food related to Ejiao, is very popular in recent years, because jujube itself has the effect of nourishing blood and enriching blood. Ejiao and jujube can be described as "a combination of two swords". Therefore, female friends especially like to put a bag of ejiao jujube in their bags or offices, which can be used as a snack and nourish and beautify.
In the market, there are many kinds of ejiao jujube, including Ejiao candied dates, Ejiao crystal dates and Ejiao tribute dates. Many brands in supermarkets only need about 10 yuan for 200g ejiao jujube. The reporter made an unannounced visit to a "Miss You Jujube" shop, and a big bag of ejiao jujube only sold in 20 yuan. The ingredients list indicates that it contains donkey-hide gelatin. When asked how much donkey-hide gelatin the clerk contained, the clerk replied that 70% jujube and 30% donkey-hide gelatin were added.
However, experts pointed out that for people with qi deficiency or blood deficiency, it is beneficial to eat some ejiao jujube regularly, which helps to improve symptoms such as fatigue and limb weakness. But ejiao jujube eats too much, which is not conducive to digestion and absorption. If you are a patient with stomach heat or indigestion, eating too much will hinder your stomach and affect your appetite. It is easy to get angry after a long time, so ejiao jujube should take less than 10 capsules a day.
Guiling ointment
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials
Reminder: Stomach cold, pregnant women and menstrual people eat less.
Guiling ointment is made of precious turtle and Smilax glabra as raw materials, supplemented by drugs such as radix rehmanniae, dandelion, honeysuckle and chrysanthemum. Among them, tortoise plastron clears heat and detoxifies, and Smilax glabra removes dampness. It is also a traditional health food with a long history.
According to the supermarket sales staff, in recent years, the sales volume of Guiling Ointment is quite good, which is very popular with young people, and it is also one of the traditional Chinese medicine health foods that some elderly friends like to eat. During the visit, the reporter found that many hotels and tea shops use honey or milk to make tortoise shell paste as dessert, and some snack bars also use tortoise shell paste to make jelly for sale. However, at present, the content of traditional Chinese medicine in tortoise plast is less.
White-collar workers and shift workers are busy with work all day and lack of exercise, which is prone to symptoms such as dry mouth, upset, constipation, excessive internal heat and ugly "acne" on their faces. Therefore, this kind of people are more suitable for eating Guiling Ointment, which can help clear away heat and detoxify to some extent. It is advisable to eat 50g-100g every day.
However, experts say that Guiling ointment is cold, and people with cold stomach and weak spleen and stomach are prone to abdominal pain and diarrhea after eating it. Moreover, the tortoise plastron in Guiling Ointment can excite uterus and promote blood circulation, so menstrual women and pregnant women should not eat it. In addition, Smilax glabra in Guiling Ointment has the function of moistening intestine, which is not suitable for people with frequent urination.
kudzuvine root powder
Efficacy: Improve female climacteric symptoms.
Reminder: people with cold stomach should not eat raw food, and patients with low blood pressure should use it with caution.
Pueraria lobata, a wild plant that grows in the mountains, has leaves that can be fed to pigs and vines that can rub ropes. Pueraria lobata is rich in starch and can be used as Ge Fen. Wild kudzuvine root powder is known as "Asian ginseng", which is rich in isoflavones and more than ten kinds of trace elements necessary for human body. Pueraria lobata powder has the function of removing the garbage in the body, and eating Ge Fen regularly can play the role of beauty, fitness and longevity.
Most 40-year-old women are worried about symptoms such as dull skin and endocrine disorders after menopause. It is good to eat wild pueraria powder at this time because it has a very good endocrine regulation effect. According to medical experts, isoflavones contained in Pueraria lobata are called phytoestrogens, which can supplement the deficiency of women's own estrogen, maintain women's ovaries, make skin bright and breasts full, and delay the arrival of menopause.
Ever since, like lotus root powder and walnut powder, kudzu root powder has also entered the counters of major supermarkets in the city in recent years. In supermarkets such as warehouses in Zhong Bai and merchants in Wu Shang, the reporter found that the Pueraria lobata powder on sale is mostly produced in Suizhou, and the price of a box is around 30 yuan. In fact, wild kudzu vine grows slowly, and it takes more than five years for old kudzu vine to produce powder. The flour yield is only 1/3 of that of planted pueraria lobata, and its beneficial components are more than 10 times of that of planted pueraria lobata.
However, experts say that people with hypoglycemia, low blood pressure and cold body should not eat Pueraria lobata powder, especially those with cold stomach, because Pueraria lobata powder itself is a cold food, which has the functions of lowering blood sugar, blood fat and blood pressure.
herbal tea
Efficacy: dehumidification and fire removal
Reminder: People with cold constitution and yang deficiency should eat less.
There is a folk saying in Lingnan that "Guangdong's Three Treasures: Roasted Goose, Litchi and Herbal Tea Shop". Since ancient times, the herbal tea shops in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have formed a unique Lingnan cultural landscape. Herbal tea generally contains chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, licorice, selfheal and so on. It has always been considered as the most direct and effective way to get rid of heat and fire.
In recent years, the sales of herbal tea are booming in the market, and various brands of herbal tea are constantly emerging, such as Wang Laoji, Honeysuckle Dew, Wang Ba, Hezhizheng, Pan Gaoshou and Baiyun Mountain.
At dinners and karaoke, many people always like to eat spicy food, but they are afraid of getting angry, so herbal tea with the function of reducing fire naturally becomes their "guests", and some "night owls" will get angry if they sit for a long time. At this time, herbal tea has also become an emergency drink. As a result, herbal tea used to be a good summer product, but now it has almost become a Chinese medicine health drink all year round.
However, herbal tea is still a kind of tea beverage with strong properties of traditional Chinese medicine, so it can't be drunk as water. Experts say that people with cold hands and feet, cold stomach and yang deficiency should drink herbal tea as little as possible. It is also difficult for women to drink more during menstruation and postpartum. In addition, children with pure yang are prone to get angry, and drinking herbal tea has the effect of reducing fire. However, children's spleen and stomach are weak, and drinking more medicinal drinks will reduce immunity. Elderly people with weak yang should not drink too much to avoid stimulating the digestive system.
Fuling cake
Efficacy: nourishing liver and kidney, benefiting qi and moistening intestines, and stimulating appetite.
Reminder: Diabetic patients should eat as little as possible.
Poria cocos, a fungal plant parasitic on the roots of pine trees. Poria cocos cake is made of Poria cocos, walnuts, sesame seeds, honey, etc. It is said that in order to preserve health and prolong life, Cixi adopted the advice of doctor Tai and ordered the royal chef to make "Fuling cake" with refined white flour and poria powder, because Fuling cake not only tastes fragrant, but also has the effects of calming the nerves, benefiting the spleen, promoting diuresis and eliminating diseases and prolonging life.
Fuling cake has always been a nourishing traditional name in Beijing. The most famous tuckahoe cake in Daoxiang Village, about 25 yuan per catty, can be used as health food and snacks. Recently, reporters also found this kind of Fuling cake in Wal-Mart and other places in Wuhan, and many women snapped it up.
It is understood that Fuling cake is a good food for strengthening the spleen. Eating poria cocos cakes often helps to increase appetite, help digestion and improve human immunity. Fuling cake also has certain therapeutic value for edema of limbs and unfavorable urination caused by kidney deficiency.
However, raw materials such as honey and white sugar are added to poria cocos cakes on the market now, and the sugar content is often high. Therefore, people with high blood sugar should try to eat less or not, and people with indigestion should not eat more.
2. Chinese herbal medicine that can whiten skin
White nut
Ginkgo biloba, pounded into liquid slurry and applied to the face, can make the skin soft, smooth, white and beautiful. Ginkgo kernels are sweet, bitter, astringent and dry. Ginkgolic acid can inhibit some skin fungi in vitro, so it can be used externally to treat various skin diseases such as head, face, hands and feet, delay skin aging and prevent rough skin.
common perilla
Dry, wrinkled and grayish yellow skin, especially suitable for beauty with perilla. Elastic and fair skin is the gospel that perilla brings to people who are eager to whiten. The response of essence beauty in Beauty Lover is enough to show the charm of essence. Rubbing fresh perilla leaves under your armpit can remove the tumor, and even more wonderfully, it can also sweep away the embarrassing body odor.
Angelica dahurica root
Angelica dahurica is fragrant and white, and it is one of the ancient traditional Chinese medicines for beauty. Cosmetics and beauty products based on Angelica dahurica have emerged one after another in the market, and the original medicinal material of Angelica dahurica has a more significant beauty effect: Angelica dahurica decoction has a certain inhibitory effect on various pathogenic bacteria in vitro, which can improve microcirculation, promote skin metabolism and delay skin aging.
puncture vine
Tribulus terrestris, also known as Tribulus terrestris, contains a variety of alkaloids and glycosides, which have the functions of lowering blood pressure and blood lipid, and the peroxidase contained in it has obvious anti-aging effect.
Bletilla tuber
Bletilla striata is rich in starch, glucose, volatile oil and mucus. For external use, it can eliminate facial acne marks and make skin smooth and seamless.
These Chinese herbal medicines can make skin white and tender. Experts suggest that the use of these traditional Chinese medicines is all about ways and means. Therefore, if you want to use these Chinese herbal medicines to protect your skin, it is a key issue to understand and master the correct use of Chinese herbal medicines.