For a woman, if she has insufficient blood and qi, she cannot have a good complexion. She will look like she has just recovered from a long illness. Insufficient blood and qi can also cause many diseases. So how can we replenish our blood and qi? Today, let's take a look at 3 traditional Chinese medicine dietary treatments that can help you have a rosy complexion. Let's find out together.
What is good for women to replenish blood and qi
1. Angelica Chicken Soup
Ingredients: 1000g black-bone chicken, 25g ligustrum lucidum, 50g angelica, 15g longan, 5g salt.
Method: Cut the black-bone chicken into pieces and wash them. Put them in boiling water and cook for 3 minutes on high heat. Remove and wash. Put the ligustrum lucidum, angelica (sliced), longan, and black-bone chicken in a container. Add 1000g of boiling water and cook on medium heat for 40 minutes. Add salt before serving.
2. Angelica Codonopsis Chicken Soup
Ingredients: 10g angelica, 10g codonopsis pilosula, 2 catties of chicken, 5g wolfberry, 5g lotus seeds, 10 red dates, 5g salt, 5g ginger.
Method: Wash the chicken and scald it (put it in boiling water for 5 minutes, then pour out the water and rinse the chicken). Wash the angelica, codonopsis pilosula, wolfberry, lotus seeds, and red dates. Remove the pits from the red dates. Cut three slices of ginger. Put all the ingredients into the pot, add enough water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 2 hours. Add salt before serving.
3. Angelica Egg Brown Sugar Water
Ingredients: 5 red dates, 100g eggs, 15g angelica, 30g brown sugar.
Method: Soak the angelica in water for 10 minutes, then gently brush it clean with a toothbrush. Cut it into thin slices. Put the sliced angelica into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and bring to a boil over high heat. Then simmer over medium-low heat for 15 minutes. Put the eggs in the pot, add enough cold water to cover the eggs, and cook over medium heat until they are cooked. Remove the eggs, soak them in cold water for a while, peel off the shells, and use a fork to prick the surface of the egg whites. Put the peeled eggs into the angelica water, turn up the heat, bring to a boil, then simmer over medium-low heat for about 10 minutes. Add brown sugar and cook until the sugar dissolves.
What foods can replenish blood and qi
Longan
Longan has a good effect of replenishing blood and qi. It is also a top-grade supplement for nourishing essence and yang in the human body. If women often feel cold or have symptoms such as delayed or painful menstruation, drinking longan and red date soup a few days before menstruation can improve the above symptoms.
Red Dates
As one of the most traditional blood and qi supplements, the blood and qi replenishing effect of red dates is widely known. Therefore, in daily life, whenever there are various signs of blood and qi deficiency, people often eat red dates to replenish blood and qi. They can be eaten raw or cooked in soups, which is convenient and quick.
Soy Milk
Soy milk is a common beverage in daily life. It is rich in various nutrients, which not only replenishes blood and qi but also delays the menstrual cycle in women. To fully benefit from soy milk, it is best to drink it in the morning.
Black Sesame
Black foods enter the kidneys and help the kidneys retain essence and absorb qi. Black sesame is very effective in replenishing blood and has many other black and red foods that also have the effect of replenishing blood. The root of blood is also in the kidneys. As for the blood replenishing effect of red foods, it is based on the theory of "supplementing form with form and color with color".
How to replenish blood and qi in daily life
Take a relaxing bath
A hot bath quickly envelops the body in warmth and promotes blood circulation throughout the body. If you have an appointment the next day, take a hot bath before going to bed the night before, and you will find that your complexion will be exceptionally good the next day. Enjoying a spa is the most effective lazy and passive exercise to create a good complexion. If plant essential oils and bath salts are involved in this relaxation activity, it will be a enjoyable and effective experience.
Eat more blood-replenishing fruits
Hawthorn has obvious effects of reducing serum cholesterol, lowering blood pressure, diuresis, and sedation. Drinking a cup of hawthorn tea every day can strengthen the heart, increase coronary blood flow, dilate blood vessels, and make the complexion rosy. In addition to hawthorn, red dates, figs, and other classic female foods can also be eaten as daily snacks.
Comb your hair frequently
Smooth blood and qi circulation will result in a good complexion, and frequent hair combing is helpful for smooth blood and qi circulation. The head is an important area where the body's meridians converge and acupoints are abundant. Combing the hair not only helps to dispel pathogenic wind in the head, promote blood and qi circulation in the head, and nourish the hair, but also reduces white hair and prevents hair loss. Combing your hair in the morning after getting up can stimulate many acupoints on the head, make the yang qi in the body rise and circulate smoothly, and make a person refreshed. Combing the hair two or three hundred times when you have free time is very helpful for improving complexion.
