Everyone has a love of beauty. Compared with men, women pay more attention to their faces. I have to admit that although women live longer than men, they age faster than men after 40, which makes many women puzzled.
However, with the improvement of material life, beauty means emerge one after another. Women began to pursue all kinds of cosmetics, skin care products, cosmetic surgery and so on to delay their aging. However, no matter how good the cosmetics are, the ingredients contained in them will still cause certain harm to the skin, and will only bring external beauty, thus ignoring the inner part of the human body. True beauty is from the inside out, healthy and natural, not just the beauty piled up by cosmetics.
So why do women get so old after forty? Then, we might as well look at why women are prone to aging after 40 years old from the perspective of Chinese medicine.
? In fact, there is a record about this in the book Neijing. Su Wen's First Theory of Ancient Innocence said: "The woman is seven years old, full of kidney qi and has longer teeth. On the 27 th, the pulse passed, the pulse was too strong, the moon was in the present, and there was a son. Sanqi, kidney qi is general, so real teeth are born and grow. 47. Strong bones and muscles, extremely long hair and strong physique. On May 7th, Yangming's pulse failed, his face began to burn and his hair began to fall off. Sixty-seven, the upper part of Sanyang pulse declines, the face is burnt, and the hair begins to turn white. On July 7, the pulse was weak, the pulse was too weak, the sky was exhausted, and the tunnel was impassable, so the shape was bad and there was no child. "
The above paragraph discusses the growth process of women. We noticed two sentences: "On May 7th, Yangming's pulse failed, his face began to burn and his hair began to fall. Sixty-seven, the upper part of Sanyang pulse declines, the face is full of focus, and the hair begins to be white. " This is why women tend to get old after forty. In Neijing, the face changes from good to haggard, which is called "facial focus". "Jiao" is synonymous with haggard, which means haggard. The above two sentences show that since the age of 35, women's faces began to languish and their hair began to fall off due to the attenuation of Yangming meridian qi; At the age of 42, the qi of the meridians of Sanyang Meridian began to decline, his face was gaunt and his hair began to turn white.
As we mentioned earlier, women age faster than men at the age of 40. What's the difference? We might as well look at the situation of men: "On May 8, kidney qi failed and teeth were decayed. Sixty-eight, the yang is exhausted, the face is burnt and white. " Compared with women, men are 40 years old and their faces have not changed; After 48, my face began to haggard.
As mentioned above, a 35-year-old woman has a weak Yangming pulse, and then her face begins to haggard; After the age of 42, all faces became haggard because of the attenuation of Sanyang pulse. The poor pulse of Sanyang is the reason for women's haggard face. Sanyang pulse refers to Yangming, Taiyang and Shaoyang meridians. The head and face are the intersection of all yang meridians, and all yang meridians go up in the head and face, so the face is mainly nourished by the qi and blood of the three yang meridians. If there is less qi decline in the three yang meridians and the face is not nourished by enough qi and blood, then the complexion will become haggard.
Of the three yang veins, the stomach meridian of the foot Yangming is the most important. Because the stomach meridian of Foot Yangming is full of qi and blood, it runs on the whole face. "Lingshu" said: "The stomach is full of Yangming pulse. It begins at the turn of the nose, next to the pulse of the sun, goes down outside the nose, enters the upper teeth, and also comes out with the mouth and lips, which makes the marrow, but after meals, it goes down, goes out to meet, follows the cheek car, goes to the upper ear, passes through the night, and reaches the forehead and skull; Its branches greet people before the meeting, follow the throat, enter the basin, and the lower diaphragm belongs to the stomach and spleen. "
Therefore, in order to delay facial aging, we should start with Sanyang Meridian, especially Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian.
Traditional Chinese medicine calls the stomach "the sea of qi and blood in Shui Gu" because its main physiological function is to receive and decompose Shui Gu. "Lingshu Renping Juegu" said: "The stomach is affected by Shui Gu." "Thirty-one Difficult Classics" said: "Those with moderate coke will have a swollen belly, and they will not be able to get up, which will rot Shui Gu." As a sea of water valleys, the stomach receives and decays Shui Gu, and absorbs subtle substances in it to nourish qi and blood, so the stomach becomes the source of qi and blood biochemistry. Therefore, the Jade Edition of Lingshu said: "It is Gu Ye who suffers from it. What was injected in the valley is also in the stomach. Stomach, the blood sea of Shui Gu. " Su Wen Wu Zang Lun said: "The stomach is the sea of water and the source of six fu organs. The five flavors are hidden in the stomach and nourish the five internal organs ... It is the smell of the five internal organs, all from the stomach. " Therefore, the stomach has a strong function of receiving and decomposing, and the source of qi and blood in the body is sufficient; On the contrary, sources are scarce. Therefore, "Five flavors of Lingshu" said: "If you don't go into the valley, you will be out of breath for a long time, and you will be out of breath after eating." We have seen many patients with stomach diseases, most of whom are sallow and very haggard.
So how can we delay facial aging? Here are some suggestions for your reference.
First, moxibustion
The aging of women's face comes from the decrease of qi in the meridians of Sanyang pulse. We can supplement the meridian qi of Sanyang Meridian by moxibustion at acupoints, thus delaying our aging.
I have to mention an acupoint "Zusanli" here. Acupuncture Dacheng mentioned that moxibustion at Zusanli can prevent stroke. There is a folk saying that "if you want to be healthy, Li Sanchang will not do it" and "Li Sanjiu cures all diseases". Because moxibustion can warm yang and tonify deficiency, moxibustion at Zusanli can make the stomach full of qi. The stomach is a sea of Shui Gu, and all the five internal organs are affected by it. The stomach is full of qi, so the blood is full. Moxibustion at Zusanli can make people feel full of stomach qi, Yang Qi and essence and blood.
Therefore, moxibustion at Zusanli has a good regulating effect on facial skin color by supplementing Yangming meridian qi.
? However, moxibustion is not suitable for everyone, so we should pay attention to its contraindications before use, as follows
? 1. All exposed parts, such as the face, should not be directly moxibustion, so as not to form scars and affect the appearance.
? 2. Do not apply moxibustion to areas with thin skin and few muscles, waist and sacrum of pregnant women, lower abdomen, nipples, genitals and testicles of men and women. In addition, do not directly moxibustion joints. In addition, don't moxibustion big blood vessels and heart. The eyeball belongs to the face, so don't moxibustion.
? 3. Extreme fatigue, hunger, satiety, drunkenness, excessive sweating, emotional instability, or female menstrual taboo moxibustion.
? 4. Some infectious diseases, high fever, coma, convulsions, or extreme physical exhaustion and emaciated bones are all prohibited from moxibustion.
? 5. People who have no self-control ability such as mental patients should avoid moxibustion.
? 6. People with hot constitution are not suitable for moxibustion. Then how can you tell? You can see the color of tongue coating here. If the color of the tongue coating is yellow, it means that there is heat in the body and moxibustion is not allowed, otherwise it will aggravate the heat image in the body.
Second, diet therapy.
As the saying goes, stomach disease "cures three points and raises seven points." Eating more stomach-nourishing ingredients at ordinary times can effectively delay the aging of women's faces.
Chinese yam
? Yam is sweet and non-toxic, which can tonify lung, kidney and spleen and stomach, and contains a lot of protein, so it is suitable for regular consumption. Zhang Xichun called yam "the supreme product of sincerity as a tonic" in the Record of Enthusiastic Participation in Western Medicine.
? You can take a small amount of raw yam, slice it and make tea. Don't fry it, because it is rich in protein, which will destroy the ingredients of protein. You can also take raw yam powder to cook porridge.
millet
Millet tastes sweet, salty and cool; Entering the kidney, spleen and stomach meridians; Has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating stomach, tonifying deficiency, regulating middle energizer and tonifying kidney, and clearing away heat and toxic materials; Indications are deficiency-heat of spleen and stomach, nausea and vomiting, thirst quenching and diarrhea. Compendium of Materia Medica says that Xiaomi "cures nausea and dysentery, cooks porridge, benefits dantian, supplements deficiency and stimulates appetite."
Millet can be cooked separately, or jujube, red beans, sweet potatoes, lotus seeds, lilies and so on. Can be added into various porridge.
Third, regular life and rest.
? There is a content in acupuncture and moxibustion of traditional Chinese medicine called meridian stream injection, so what is meridian stream injection for?
? Meridian flow is a law discovered by traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that the the twelve meridians of human body corresponds to twelve hours of a day. Because the time is changing, the qi and blood of different meridians also rise and fall at different times. In fact, it is to study the time running law of human qi and blood, or mainly to study the time running law of human qi and blood.
? In the meridian flow, the time to flow into the stomach meridian of Foot Yangming is 7-9 am, and breakfast should be eaten at this time. Nowadays, many people choose not to eat breakfast in order to sleep longer. Some people only eat a little even if they have breakfast, which is not correct.
Therefore, it is recommended that you have breakfast at 7~9 o'clock and eat a lot. Because this time is the stomach meridian at that time, and the sun is the strongest in the world. At this time, the effect of food digestion and absorption is stronger than at other times, and it is not easy to gain weight.
After doing so, a woman after 40 years old is no longer a "bean curd residue", but a "flower" with infinite brilliance from the inside out.