1, traditional Chinese medicine whitening mask
(1) notoginseng pearl whitening mask
Ingredients: pearl powder, notoginseng,? Ganoderma powder? Usage of dried tangerine peel powder: each powder 1 teaspoon, add half an egg white and mix well.
(2) notoginseng milk moisturizing mask
Material: Sanqi. Usage of milk: Take 5- 10g of Notoginseng Radix, mix with water, egg white or milk, evenly apply to face, and wash off after 20 minutes. ?
(3) Notoginseng honey detoxification mask
Ingredients: Notoginseng Radix, honey Usage: Take proper amount of Notoginseng Radix, slowly add honey, stir until paste, and directly apply to face for 20-30 minutes.
In addition, I tell you that Sanqi can also be eaten directly, and at the same time, 3-5g Sanqi and honey are washed with warm water, which will make the beauty effect more prominent! ?
2, Chinese medicine beauty
(1) Rhizoma Typhonii: Whitening "Son of Chinese Medicine"
Rhizoma Typhonii is pungent, sweet, hot and toxic. It is often used for expelling wind and removing fat, dispelling cold and resolving phlegm, and treating tinea facialis and migraine. In the aspect of beauty and skin care, it can prevent facial dermatosis, guide other Chinese medicines to reach the face, and make them exert their efficacy. "Herbal Classic Shu" records that Rhizoma Typhonii "rises due to dryness, and the yang grass in the wind medicine also rises due to wind. It is better to be wet, so it can be used to treat all diseases."
Beauty effect: grinding Rhizoma Typhonii into powder, washing your face before going to bed, and coating white honey on the paper veneer can gradually make facial melanin spots fade away. Because Rhizoma Typhonii has low toxicity and strong irritation, it must be mixed with other Chinese medicine powders. If it is a friend with sensitive skin, it is best not to use it. In addition, Rhizoma Typhonii and Radix Aconiti Lateralis are two completely different traditional Chinese medicines.
Regarding the beauty of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine has always said "treating skin with skin". Skin medicine can directly reach the affected area and play a role in beauty, such as poplar bark, magnolia bark, pomegranate peel and so on. In addition, there is a saying in Chinese medicine called "complementary color". Petals are delicate and light, making people proud of their blood and pleasing to the eye, such as peach blossoms, roses and Inula flowers. Beauty lovers can choose a variety of Chinese medicine beauty treatments that suit them according to their skin characteristics.
(2) Angelica dahurica: Moisturize the skin like water.
Angelica dahurica is fragrant and white, slightly warm. It was first recorded in Shennong Herbal Classic. Because of its special aromatic smell, it is also called Angelica dahurica. Its external use is an essential medicine for beauty, and it is often used in ancient beauty prescriptions. "Rihuazi Materia Medica" records that it "removes skin defects". Compendium of Materia Medica claims to have the effects of "growing skin, adjusting skin color and making facial fat", and it is a popular mask today.
Beauty effect: soft skin is moist and smooth, and moist face presents the same aura as water. Cosmetics and beauty products made of Radix Angelicae Dahuricae are endless in the market, and the original beauty effect of Radix Angelicae Dahuricae is even more remarkable: Radix Angelicae Dahuricae decoction has certain inhibitory effect on various pathogenic bacteria in vitro, which can improve microcirculation, promote skin metabolism and delay skin aging.
(3) Tribulus: Give you baby-like skin.
Tribulus terrestris, also known as Tribulus terrestris, is a medicine for calming the liver and calming the wind. It tastes bitter and pungent, and enters the liver and lung meridians. It has the effects of calming the liver, relieving depression, expelling wind and improving eyesight. It can be used for treating dizziness, headache, hypochondriac pain due to hyperactivity of liver yang, wind-heat headache, red eyes, swelling and pain, and skin itching. It contains a variety of alkaloids and glycosides, and has the functions of lowering blood pressure and blood lipid. Peroxidase contained in it has obvious anti-aging effect, which can remove facial scars and make skin soft and smooth after long-term use.
Beauty efficacy: This product can remove scars and spots. To treat facial scars, it is often used with Gardenia, ground into vinegar and washed at night; Or add Cortex Magnolia Officinalis and grind it into vinegar, which is the prescription for treating black scar in Qianjin Fang Yi. This product is only used for grinding powder and treating vitiligo. Pregnant women with blood deficiency and qi deficiency should use it with caution.
(4) Ginseng: a precious beauty panacea.
Since ancient times, ginseng is a valuable Chinese herbal medicine, which is sweet, slightly bitter and slightly warm. Enter the lung meridian and spleen meridian. Eating can enhance the body's resistance and delay aging. There are many kinds of ginseng, such as Korean ginseng, red ginseng, wild ginseng and codonopsis pilosula. Their main functions are invigorating the middle energizer, benefiting qi, moistening the lung and promoting fluid production, and promoting blood circulation. In recent years, ginseng has been used for beauty and skin care, and has attracted much attention because of its strong antioxidant capacity. Moreover, ginseng extract has multiple effects such as smoothing wrinkles, promoting blood circulation, accelerating metabolism, etc., and can effectively regulate skin and restore a healthy and young state.
Beauty effect: Ginseng has the effects of invigorating qi, calming nerves and increasing intelligence, and has a good effect on people with pale complexion and dull hair due to qi deficiency. Ginseng has the functions of dilating skin capillaries, accelerating blood circulation, enhancing cell vitality, improving nutrition supply of hair follicles, and increasing anti-shedding strength and elongation of hair. So it has a good beauty and hair growth effect.
(5) Bletilla striata: make the skin smoother.
Bletilla striata is a hemostatic. Traditionally, it has a good curative effect on tuberculosis, anal fissure and other diseases. It is one of the main drugs used by physicians in past dynasties to treat tuberculosis. It has the functions of tonifying lung, relieving cough, eliminating phlegm, stopping bleeding and promoting granulation. Since ancient times, Bletilla striata is also a beauty medicine, known as the "whitening fairy", which can cure skin diseases such as acne, tinea corporis and scars. Bletilla striata is rich in starch, glucose, volatile oil, mucus and other ingredients. External use can eliminate the traces left by acne on the face. The theory of medicinal properties says that "treating superficial sores makes people slippery"
Beauty effect: Moisturize skin and make skin smooth as jade. Especially for people with weather, rough skin or wrinkles. , and the actual age is very different. Inventory all kinds of Chinese herbal medicines with whitening and skin care effects.
(6) Polygonum multiflorum Thunb: It's right to have black hair for beauty.
Polygonum multiflorum Thunb contains rhein and emodin, followed by emodin methyl ether and rhein anthrone. In addition, it also contains lecithin and so on. Liver meridian and kidney meridian. Sweet and astringent, slightly warm in nature, it has the effects of nourishing essence and blood, strengthening tendons and bones, and making hair black and shiny. It can be used for premature graying of beard and hair caused by liver and kidney deficiency. Polygonum multiflorum Thunb can promote the activity of superoxide dismutase, obviously dilate blood vessels, accelerate blood circulation and delay the aging process of cells, so it has the function of inhibiting and delaying the premature aging phenomenon that affects beauty.
Beauty efficacy: Mainly manifested in two aspects: face and black hair. The Tang Dynasty's "Kaibao Materia Medica" thinks that it has the characteristics of "benefiting qi and blood, blackening beard and pleasing color". Long-term service can strengthen bones and muscles, benefit essence and prolong life. " Compendium of Materia Medica holds that Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. It can stop heartache, replenish qi and blood, and has a black mustache and a pleasant color. "Because Polygonum multiflorum Thunb has a good effect of nourishing essence and blood and nourishing liver and kidney. Therefore, it can make people full of blood, rosy and radiant. For patients with blood deficiency with dull or sallow complexion, taking Polygonum Multiflori Radix regularly can keep the face young for a long time.
(7) Poria cocos: make the skin rosy and full of vitality.
The ancients called Poria cocos a "four-season medicine" because Poria cocos has a wide range of effects, regardless of the four seasons. When it is combined with various drugs, it can exert its unique efficacy regardless of cold and heat and rheumatism. Sweet, light and flat in nature. When taking medicine, it has the functions of diuresis, invigorating spleen and stomach, calming the heart and calming the nerves. Modern medical research has found that Poria cocos can enhance the immune function of the body, and Poria cocos polysaccharide has obvious anti-tumor and liver protection effects, but it is not suitable for people with cold essence and slippery deficiency or depression due to qi deficiency.
Beauty efficacy: Poria cocos can not only significantly improve the body's immunity, but also make oxygenated hemoglobin in the blood release more oxygen for tissues and cells. At the same time, it can also enhance the activity and vitality of cells (including skin, mucosa, hair, etc.). ) and in a healthy state, so that the skin and hair are more moist and achieve the effect of beauty.
(8) Gentiana: a whitening aristocrat on the plateau.
Gentiana is bitter, cold and non-toxic. Entering the liver and gallbladder meridian has the effect of purging excess fire in the liver and gallbladder and removing damp heat in the lower energizer. It is mainly used to treat damp-heat jaundice, vaginal swelling and itching, leukorrhagia, strong and moderate, eczema and itching, red eyes and deafness, hypochondriac pain, bitter taste and convulsion.
Beauty Efficacy: It has been recorded in medical books for a long time that Gentiana scabra is the best traditional Chinese medicine beauty medicine, which has the effects of soothing, calming and moisturizing the skin. Whether it is taken orally or externally, it is a precious beauty product. It is said that this precious plant with strange name takes 5 ~ 10 years to mature. Because of its high tolerance, it can resist various harsh environments, and its extract can naturally enhance the skin's resistance, and at the same time has the efficacy of whitening and moisturizing.
(9) Coix seed: the "subaltern queen" in Chinese.
Coix seed is a common Chinese medicine. It is also a food that people often eat. It contains more fat, protein, total amino acids and various trace elements than rice. Because of its rich nutrition and dietotherapy, it was called "the pearl of coix seed" in ancient times and "the food of life and health" in Europe. Its taste is sweet and light, slightly cold, promoting diuresis to reduce swelling, invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, clearing heat and expelling pus. In recent years, a lot of scientific research and clinical practice have proved that coix seed is still an anticancer drug.
Beauty effect: Coix seed has the highest fiber content in grain and low fat and calories, which has a miraculous effect on people with lower body edema and is the best staple food for dieters. Rich in protein, it helps to eliminate spots, has obvious curative effect on facial acne and rough skin, and can also prevent hair loss and even have the effect of face-thinning. Moreover, Coix seed extract can also achieve the effects of sun protection and ultraviolet protection, and has natural whitening effect, improving skin metabolism and moisturizing.
(10) Leonurus japonicus: a famous beauty herb for promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation.
Motherwort is pungent, bitter and slightly cold, and has the effects of promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, diuresis and detumescence. It is a medicinal material used by doctors in past dynasties to treat gynecological diseases. It is often used to treat irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, lochia, edema and oliguria. Because it contains trace elements such as selenium and manganese, it has anti-oxidation, anti-aging, anti-fatigue and inhibition of cancer cell proliferation, so it has the effect of skin care.
Beauty Efficacy: Wang Dao in the Tang Dynasty recorded in detail Wu Zetian's long-term external beauty prescription, in which Leonurus japonicus was the main medicine. "This medicine makes your face smooth and shiny." "After a month, the rest of your life is unusually bright red. If it is used for several years, it will take a whole day, such as a woman in her 40 s and 50 s, such as a woman in her 15 s. " In the newly revised Materia Medica in the Tang Dynasty, there are some specific methods, such as grinding into powder, kneading into dough, simmering with slow fire, adding talcum powder and rouge, and mixing well for later use.