The article is taken from the introduction of the book Royal Medicine: everyone will pay attention to birth, old age, illness and death, especially the pampered royal family. With the opening of archives in the Qing Dynasty, these medical wisdom from the people can now be known to the public ... [Serial Content] Empress Dowager Cixi, the de facto queen of the late Qing Dynasty, paid great attention to health preservation and beauty preservation, and achieved considerable results, so that at the age of 60, her beauty was as good as that of that year. Everyone has a love of beauty. Cixi once lamented: "Why do people want to be old? How nice it would be to stay young forever! " Objectively speaking, Empress Dowager Cixi not only loves lead China and pursues the beauty of appearance, but also knows the miraculous effect of Chinese medicine beauty and anti-aging, and knows that health preservation is the way of health preservation, and pursues health preservation at all costs. Cixi is very extravagant in makeup and beauty. The first thing she has to do after getting up every morning is to spend a long time putting on makeup, and put some things like flower juice and egg white on her face before going to rest at night to maintain her skin. She has been using human milk and pearl powder for decades, even if she goes out in a sedan chair, she has to wear makeup. Judging from the medical records of the Qing court, although Empress Dowager Cixi was pampered, her hobby of "never getting tired of eating and taking care of everything" affected her health. When she was young, she had irregular menstruation, and later suffered from hemorrhoids, mild facial nerve spasm, frequent mental anxiety, insomnia, forgetfulness, dreaminess at night and indigestion in the stomach. In order to preserve health and beauty, Cixi instructed Taiji Hospital to draw up various health prescriptions for her. From 1880 to 1882, she was ordered to be recommended by the governors, and all the governors in the country participated in the activities of recommending doctors and offering medicines. There are as many as 30 kinds of prescriptions used by Lafayette. These prescriptions focus on tonifying kidney and strengthening spleen. This is because the kidney is the foundation of nature and the root of life. The kidney is weak, not solid at all, and it is old before it is old. Spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow, and spleen deficiency is biochemical passive, so all diseases are numerous and the face is withered. Among many anti-aging drugs that Cixi likes to use all her life, "Qing Gong Yu Rongbaochun Wine" named after herself is the first one. Cixi not only took it continuously for a long time, but also often gave it as a good gift to some royalty. As the name implies, "Qing Palace Yurongbao Spring Wine" can make people look like jade and stay young forever. This "spring wine" consists of nourishing drugs and low-alcohol royal wine. This is a sweet and mild tonic wine. Drinking it by women can treat qi and blood deficiency, mental fatigue, insomnia, irregular menstruation, dry skin, joint pain and premature aging. Male drinking can nourish liver and kidney, benefit eyesight, soothe the nerves and relieve depression, nourish yin and moisten dryness. After painstaking research and textual research by experts in medical records of Qing Palace in Xiyuan Hospital of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, this wine does have clinical efficacy. Now, according to the traditional formula of Qing Palace, Qing Palace Yurongbao Spring Wine has been produced by He Lin Distillery, Henan Province, and sold to domestic and foreign markets, which is favored by people. It is said that an 80-year-old man in Beijing took Yurongbao Spring Wine for half a year, and his face became ruddy and his hair color deepened. Merging ginseng and nourishing vitality is another skill of Empress Dowager Cixi in resisting old age and preserving beauty. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the life activities of the body depend on the complementarity of qi and blood, and the harmony of qi and blood leads to vigorous spirit, strong body, delicate face and moaning without illness. Regulating qi and blood is particularly important for women. According to the introduction of medical case experts in Qing Dynasty, the experience of applying ginseng in Qing Dynasty is quite rich. People who take ginseng for a long time are generally about one yuan a day. As a tonic, ginseng can be used not only as a tonic, but also as medicine, or as tea when people participate in the mixing of other drugs. At that time, the imperial court used not only northeast ginseng, but also Shandong ginseng, Korean ginseng and western ginseng. For example, Emperor Guangxu's elements are deficiency of both qi and yin, so doctors often mix American ginseng with other drugs to make "tea for protecting yuan", "tea for nourishing stomach and strengthening spleen" and "tea for invigorating qi and strengthening spleen". The "Eight Immortal Cakes" and "Eight Precious Cakes" that Emperor Qianlong and Empress Dowager Cixi often like to eat are all based on ginseng. According to the General Archives of Ginseng in Jiaqing Royal Pharmacy, Empress Hua Fei, Princess Dong Fei, Princess Xiao Gulun, and Second Brother at that time often combined their symptoms with various ginseng in traditional Chinese medicine or decoction to enhance the tonic effect. According to the "Ginseng Book" of Empress Dowager Cixi during the Guangxu period, Empress Dowager Cixi "took two kilograms of ginseng for 121 yuan for 331 days from November 23rd, 26th year of Guangxu to September 18th, 27th year of Guangxu", that is, one yuan per day for a month. After the Western Empress Dowager, there is also information on whether there is enough ginseng when Emperor Guangxu paid a visit to the Western Empress Dowager. Empress Dowager Cixi often gives her ginseng to her confidants for enjoyment. Cixi died at the age of 73 or benefited from it. Because the empresses of the emperor all like beauty, they never tire of it. Therefore, in addition to preventing and treating diseases and daily health care for the emperor's empresses, the imperial doctors in Taiji Hospital also have profound attainments in beauty to meet the needs of the emperor's empresses. In the medical prescriptions of external treatment in Qing dynasty, cosmetic prescriptions accounted for a certain proportion. For example, there are 32 prescriptions for external treatment in the Medical Prescriptions for External Treatment in Qing Dynasty. In addition, some medical prescriptions with cosmetic function are scattered in other prescriptions. These external cosmetic prescriptions involve skin beauty, tooth beauty, hair beauty and many other aspects, which can be used for reference for modern Chinese medicine beauty.