Using traditional Chinese medicine for beauty has a long history in our country. Every spring and summer, ancient people liked to use flowers or wild plants to make natural beauty products. Legend has it that Wu Zetian, because of using beauty products made from motherwort, had skin as fresh and tender as a 15-year-old girl when she was 50 years old, and her appearance remained youthful even at the age of 80.
Below are a few recipes for motherwort beauty products, divided into internal and external applications. These methods are simple and easy to learn, have no side effects, and have significant effects. It is worth a try when you have time. In fact, returning to nature and adding some herbal essence from the East to cosmetics aligns with the global trend in cosmetics development in recent years.
External Application:
1. Moisturizing Facial Mask:
Method: Wash a whole motherwort plant with water, drain the water, cut it into small pieces, dry it in the sun, grind it into powder. Add an appropriate amount of water and flour, mix and knead it into a ball the size of a dumpling. Then cook it over a fire for a day and night, let it cool, then grind it into powder. Mix 300 grams of the powder with 30 grams of talcum powder and 3 grams of rouge powder, mix well, and put it in a porcelain bottle. Close the bottle for a period of time before use.
Usage: Wash your face every night, mix the powder into a paste, apply it to your face for 20 minutes, then remove it and wash it off.
2. Acne-fighting Face Mask:
Method: Grind motherwort into powder and extract cucumber juice. Add an appropriate amount of motherwort powder and honey to the cucumber juice and mix well.
Usage: Apply the mask to your face after washing it at night, and wash it off when it is dry.
Internal Application:
1. Acne-removing Ointment:
Method: Cut 500 grams of motherwort into small pieces, dry it in the sun, and burn it into ashes. Then use vinegar to make pills, burn them until they turn red, repeat this process seven times, then grind them finely and sift them. Mix with honey and store in a porcelain container.
Usage: Take one pill after meals every day. This prescription has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing stasis, and can treat freckles, dark spots, and melasma.
2. Acne-treating Porridge:
Method: First, chop 50 grams of motherwort, 9 grams of sumu, and 9 grams of peach kernel, and add an appropriate amount of water. Boil for 30 minutes, remove the residue and take the juice. Then cook 100 grams of black beans with the medicinal juice and water. Add glutinous rice and water to cook the porridge. When the porridge is cooked, add a little brown sugar and take it orally.
Usage: Take one small bowl of the porridge in the morning, noon, and evening, and take one dose every other day.
3. Blood-activating and Beautifying Soup:
Method: Boil 4 cooked and peeled eggs, wash 30 grams of motherwort and 30 grams of mulberry mistletoe, put them into the pot with the cooked eggs, bring to a boil over low heat. After half an hour, add rock sugar and simmer until the rock sugar melts.
Usage: Remove the motherwort and mulberry mistletoe from the soup, eat the eggs and drink the soup. This prescription nourishes the liver and blood. It is suitable for women to drink before and after menstruation for better results. Quail eggs can also be used instead of chicken eggs with the same effect.
