It is suggested not to use drugs indiscriminately, avoid spicy food, alcohol and tobacco, keep a happy mood, and eat more fruits and vegetables is good for the skin.
1, Rhizoma Typhonii: whitening "the 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 Classics" records that Rhizoma Typhonii "rises due to dryness, and the yang grass of wind medicine is also ... windy, pungent and wet, which can cure all diseases and take medicine."
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: give skin the same moisture as 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 terrestris: 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 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: Beauty and black hair are correct
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 scabra: 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 for oral use or external use, 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. Motherwort: 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.
10, safflower: a famous flower for promoting blood circulation and beautifying.
Safflower is a medicinal and edible plant, pungent and warm, enters the heart and liver meridians, and has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, dredging collaterals and relieving pain. Modern research has found that this product has the functions of improving myocardial ischemia, lowering blood pressure, inhibiting platelet aggregation, reducing blood viscosity, analgesia, sedation and anticonvulsant. At the same time, it has the function of preventing senile diseases, such as cerebral infarction and senile dementia, and can be used to make foods for preventing senile diseases.
Beauty efficacy: By promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, it can accelerate blood circulation, promote the search for thanks, increase the elimination of melanin produced by melanocytes, promote the decomposition of melanin trapped in the body, so that it can not precipitate to form spots, or decompose the deposited pigment and discharge it from the body, thus achieving the effects of removing spots, moistening skin, treating sores and removing blood stasis. In India, safflower has been used for beauty and delaying aging since ancient times.
1 1, coix seed: the "queen of the common people" 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.
12, Ganoderma lucidum: the savior of aging skin
Ganoderma lucidum is a fungal plant, which is recognized by Chinese medicine experts as a precious medicinal material for nourishing, strengthening and prolonging life. Ganoderma lucidum not only has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough, protecting liver and detoxifying, but also has the functions of anti-aging and beautifying face. Compendium of Materia Medica holds that Ganoderma lucidum "has a good color, and it will prolong life if taken for a long time." Modern research shows that Ganoderma lucidum contains many trace elements, among which magnesium and zinc have the function of delaying aging. The polysaccharide contained in Ganoderma lucidum can scavenge free radicals in the body, protect cells and cell membranes, and delay aging. Ganoderma lucidum also has a calming effect.
Beauty efficacy: Ganoderma lucidum has obvious curative effect on sallow complexion, mental fatigue and haggard face caused by neurasthenia; Ganoderma lucidum is also a scavenger of blood, which can remove melanin and brown pigment from blood and control the formation of freckles and senile plaques.
13, Ginkgo biloba: Make skin more beautiful.
Ginkgo biloba is a dry and mature seed of Ginkgo biloba, which is sweet, bitter and astringent, and has the effects of astringing lung, relieving asthma, stopping turbidity and reducing stool. It is often used to treat diseases such as excessive phlegm, asthma and cough, leukorrhagia, enuresis and frequent urination. Its rich ginkgolic acid can inhibit some skin fungi in vitro. Therefore, external use can treat a variety of obstructive dermatoses of head, face, hands and feet, and can delay skin aging and prevent skin roughness.
Beauty effect: Pour the ginkgo nuts into the liquid slurry and apply it to the face, which can make the skin soft, smooth, white and beautiful. It must be noted that ginkgo is poisonous when eaten raw. If you are poisoned, you can use the white fruit shell to decoct with water to detoxify.
14, pyracantha: a new element for whitening skin.
Pyracantha fortunei is a Rosaceae plant, also known as Pyracantha fortunei and Populus davidiana. Its taste is sweet, sour and flat, and it is used as medicine together with fruit, root and leaf. The fruit has the effects of resolving food stagnation, stopping dysentery, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding, and is mainly used for treating dyspepsia, infantile malnutrition, metrorrhagia and postpartum abdominal pain. Roots have the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, and are mainly used to treat bone deficiency, hot flashes and irregular menstruation. Leaves have the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and can be used externally to treat sores, ulcers and swelling.
Beauty Efficacy: It is said that the ancient beauty Yang Guifei tried to explore the efficacy of various medicinal materials in order to have soft skin. It is said that she keeps her skin fair and beautiful by pyracantha. Modern research has proved that pyracantha fortuneana has whitening effect, can inhibit "histamine" from stimulating pigment mother cells to produce excessive melanin, and has magical effects of diluting melanin pigment and moisturizing.
15, essence: a beautiful and charming messenger
Perilla frutescens, belonging to Panicum in Labiatae, is a commonly used medicine in clinic and can be eaten. The drug forms are called purple stems in stems, perilla leaves in leaves and perilla seeds for relieving exterior symptoms, which are important components of perilla Jiang Qi decoction. Dispelling cold and relieving exterior syndrome, regulating qi and relieving middle energizer. Indications: common cold, fever, aversion to cold, anhidrosis, chest tightness, cough, abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting caused by crab poisoning.
Beauty effect: the beauty effect of essence has aroused repercussions among beauty lovers, which is enough to show the charm of essence. Rubbing fresh perilla leaves under your armpits can remove tumors, and even more wonderfully, it has a special fragrance that can sweep away the embarrassing body odor. 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.
16, Siraitia grosvenorii: beauty fairy fruit
Siraitia grosvenorii is a commonly used Chinese medicine, which is sweet and cool, and belongs to lung and intestine meridians. Known as "immortal fruit", it has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It is suitable for dry cough, whooping cough, thirst and other symptoms caused by lung heat or summer heat, and also has the effect of moistening intestines and relaxing bowels. Modern research has confirmed that the sugar content of Siraitia grosvenorii is 25. 17% ~ 38.3 1%, and every100g of fresh fruit contains 340 mg of vitamin, which is equivalent to kiwi fruit and sea buckthorn fruit. In addition, it also contains alkaloids and triterpenoid glycosides.
Beauty efficacy: Siraitia grosvenorii is generally made into decoction for oral administration, which can make it light brown and slightly sweet; For external use, its concentrated solution can be taken. It can also be used for bathing, purifying lipid peroxide in blood and improving skin metabolism. It has been reported that Siraitia grosvenorii can also be used to treat acne, obesity and rash alopecia, which shows that Siraitia grosvenorii is also a beauty and fitness product.
17, Aloe Vera: Booster for Detoxification and Beauty.
Aloe vera is bitter in taste and cold in nature, and belongs to liver meridian and large intestine meridian. Aloe contains a large number of nutrients beneficial to human body, and also contains special efficacy components such as aloin, aloe mucopolysaccharide, aloin and active water to whiten skin. Among them, fatty acids and vitamin E are the highest content components in aloe, which are the nutrients needed by epidermal cells. It has hydrophilic effect, so it can moisturize; It has the function of absorbing ultraviolet rays, so it can protect against the sun; Can antagonize free radicals, thus preventing wrinkles and delaying skin aging; Has antibacterial and antiinflammatory effects, thereby preventing and treating skin allergy and promoting wound healing, and can be used for treating various skin injuries and repairing after sun exposure.
Beauty efficacy: treatment and prevention of acne and eczema, inhibition of melanin growth; It can whiten and remove spots. It can improve endocrine and make dry oily skin tend to be neutral gradually.
18, Pearl: Makes the skin whiter.
Pearls can be used as exquisite decorations and medicinal materials. Pearl powder is sweet, salty, cold in nature, enters the heart and liver meridians, and has the effects of strengthening yang and calming nerves, calming the heart and calming the wind, clearing away heat and diseases, detoxifying and promoting granulation. At the same time, it can also be used as a beauty product, which contains a variety of trace elements needed by the human body. Whether it is taken orally or externally, it has the effects of nourishing and protecting human skin and delaying the generation of wrinkles. As early as in Compendium of Materia Medica, it was recorded: "Pearl powder coating makes people moist and looks good."
Beauty efficacy: The whitening effect is remarkable, which has good nutrition and moisturizing effect on the skin, especially for improving the aging state of the skin. Long-term external use can greatly reduce chloasma and pigmentation. Practice: take 3 spoonfuls of pearl powder and a crushed vitamin E, and then mix it with purified water to make a paste. Apply the face and wash it with pure water after 20 minutes.
19, Angelica sinensis: Give the skin a healthy look.
Angelica sinensis is sweet and pungent, warm in nature, and enters the liver, heart and spleen meridians. As an important medicine in gynecology since ancient times, it has the functions of enriching blood and promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and promoting tissue regeneration, and has a good effect on sallow complexion caused by blood deficiency. Modern research has found that Angelica sinensis is rich in a variety of essential trace elements, which can regulate human metabolism, stop bleeding and relieve pain, calm the heart and soothe the nerves. It is also called "building material" for skin, hair and facial features, which can make people look radiant and delicate.
Beauty effect: Long-term use of Angelica sinensis can make facial skin ruddy again. Angelica sinensis is rich in trace elements, which can nourish the skin and prevent rough skin. In addition, when returned, it can dilate scalp capillaries and promote blood circulation. Therefore, it can prevent alopecia and gray hair and promote the black luster of hair.