Rhubarb in China
Rhubarb is the dried root and rhizome of Polygonaceae plants, such as Rhubarb, Rhubarb or Medicinal Rhubarb.
Performance and efficacy are bitter and cold. It belongs to the meridians of large intestine, spleen, stomach, heart and liver. Diarrhea and dysentery attack accumulation (constipation stagnation), purging fire and detoxicating (red eyes and sore throat and swollen gums caused by heat toxic sore, burn and scald, fire pathogenic inflammation), cooling blood to stop bleeding (blood-heat bleeding syndrome), promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis (blood stasis syndrome), and clearing damp-heat (damp-heat diarrhea, jaundice and stranguria syndrome).
Beauty efficacy and pharmacology: purgation and detoxification are used for obesity and constipation. Rhubarb can increase intestinal peristalsis, clean intestines and stomach, inhibit intestinal water absorption, promote defecation, and has a strong purgative effect. Using a proper amount of rhubarb can clear gastrointestinal stagnation, reduce absorption and lose weight. In addition, rhubarb also has the effect of clearing heat and removing spots, which is used for acne and facial spots. The anthraquinone derivatives contained in rhubarb have obvious heat-clearing and anti-inflammatory effects, and have inhibitory effects on many bacteria, dermatophytes and influenza viruses. Rhubarb can purge heat, relax bowels, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and inhibit tyrosinase activity, thus playing a role in diluting pigmentation.
Usage and dosage: take orally 3~ 15g, take it after diarrhea, or take it with boiled water. Appropriate amount for external use, ground and applied to the affected area.
Use with caution during pregnancy, menstrual period and lactation.
hawthorn
Crataegus pinnatifida is the dried and mature fruit of Crataegus pinnatifida or Crataegus pinnatifida.
Performance and efficacy: sour, sweet and warm. Enter spleen, stomach and liver meridians. Digestion and stagnation, qi and blood stasis (qi stagnation and blood stasis).
Beauty utility and pharmacology of obesity to reduce fat and lose weight. Hawthorn has the functions of reducing blood fat, removing fat, benefiting liver sugar metabolism, enhancing the activity of protease in stomach and promoting digestion; Lipase can promote the digestion of fatty food accumulation, and dietary fiber can promote intestinal peristalsis and secretion of digestive glands, which is beneficial to food digestion and waste excretion and reduce fat absorption. Moisturize skin and eliminate wrinkles, used for skin aging, facial fine lines, rough skin and facial spots. Contains a variety of organic acids, carotene and flavonoids, which can deeply nourish skin, astringe pores, promote microcirculation and prevent aging. Anti-aging, used for premature aging. Contains vitamins C, E and carotene, which is an antioxidant and improves the body's immunity. Total flavonoids can dilate blood vessels and lower blood pressure.
Administration and dosage: take 9~ 12g orally, or make tea for drinking.
Pay attention to those with excessive gastric acid secretion with caution.
oriental water plantain
Alisma orientalis is the dried tuber of Alisma orientalis.
Performance and efficacy are sweet, light and cold. Meridian of kidney and bladder. Diuresis and diuresis (edema, dysuria, diarrhea, phlegm), clearing away heat and stranguria (heat stranguria, astringent pain, nocturnal emission).
Cosmetic effect and pharmacological weight loss, used for obesity with water-dampness stagnation. Alisma orientalis has the functions of lowering cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar, and can promote water-liquid metabolism and diuresis.
Administration and dosage: 6 ~ 10g orally.
Do not use it if there is no damp-heat, kidney deficiency and fine slippery.
White mulberry root bark
Mulberry bark is the dried root bark of Mulberry, a Moraceae plant.
Performance and efficacy are sweet and cold. Return to lung meridian. Purging lung to relieve asthma (cough and asthma due to lung heat), inducing diuresis to reduce swelling (edema, dysuria).
Cosmetic effect and pharmacological weight loss, used for obesity. Mulberry bark helps to excrete chloride, regulate metabolism and treat obesity. In addition, it can moisturize hair and can be used for hair dryness and dandruff. Mulberry bark can promote scalp blood circulation, has the effect of hair fixation, can treat dandruff and itching, and regenerate hair.
Administration and dosage 6~ 12g orally. Appropriate amount for external use, decocted and washed.
cassia seed
Cassia seed is a dried and mature seed of cassia obtusifolia or cassia obtusifolia.
Performance and efficacy are sweet, bitter, salty and slightly cold. Liver and large intestine meridians entered. Clearing away heat and improving eyesight (eye swelling caused by wind-heat of liver meridian or hepatitis, headache and dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver yang); Yin deficiency of liver and kidney, dark eyes), laxative (constipation caused by irritable bowel caused by internal heat).
Beauty utility and pharmacology of obesity to reduce fat and lose weight. Cassia seed can reduce cholesterol and triglyceride; It can also relieve constipation, promote toxin excretion and lose weight.
Usage and dosage: 9~ 15g for oral administration, raw or fried. You can also make tea to drink.
Pay attention to loose stool caused by qi deficiency.
lotus leaf
Lotus leaf is the leaf of Nelumbo nucifera in Nymphaeaceae.
Performance and efficacy are bitter, astringent and flat. Heart tropism and liver meridian. Clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat (summer-heat syndrome), ascending yang (diarrhea due to spleen deficiency), removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding (multiple bleeding syndrome).
Beauty utility and pharmacology of obesity to reduce fat and lose weight. Lotus leaf water extract has obvious lipid-lowering effect, which not only inhibits the absorption of fat, but also promotes the decomposition of fat. Its active site is mainly lotus leaf flavonoids, followed by lotus leaf alkaloids.
Usage and dosage: take orally 15~30g, and add it to decoction or tea.
Nursing care of obesity
1, people who are not overweight should not lose weight blindly.
2. Advocate low fat and high complex carbohydrates such as grains, vegetables and beans. Strictly control diet, in order to reduce hunger, you can eat less and eat more meals; Eat less for dinner and don't eat for three hours before going to bed; Eat less snacks.
3. strengthen exercise. Dieting combined with exercise can effectively lose weight. You can choose moderate-intensity aerobic exercise, such as walking for about half an hour after dinner.