Masks are essential beauty products for modern urban women, but they are also concerned about the presence of chemical ingredients that may harm the body. Traditional Chinese medicine can help you solve this problem. Traditional Chinese medicine beauty uses traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions to achieve better beauty effects through internal and external use!
【Traditional Chinese Medicine External Beauty Prescription】
External beauty prescriptions can be processed into various types, such as beauty powder, beauty lotion, beauty ointment, and beauty mask:
1. Beauty powder: Processed with aromatic, whitening, and cleansing drugs according to the individual's skin needs. After cleansing, apply it to the face and gently massage for a few minutes.
2. Beauty lotion: Process fresh plant medicines into juice or extract directly. It is convenient to obtain materials, easy to make, wide contact area between drugs and facial skin, fast absorption, and quick effect.
3. Beauty ointment: Add Chinese medicines with color enhancement, moisturizing, whitening, wrinkle removal, freckle treatment, and acne treatment to suitable base materials to make ointments. It has the characteristics of not drying easily, adhering to the surface of the body, strong penetration, moisturizing the skin, and making the cuticle soft and elastic.
4. Beauty mask: Prepare a nutritional skincare product by mixing powdered Chinese medicines with beauty effects into a gel-like film that can be applied to the face and solidified. When applied to the face, it can expand and moisturize the skin's cuticle, enlarge the pores, promote blood circulation, and enhance the skin's absorption of nutrients.
【Traditional Chinese Medicine Internal Beauty Prescription】
Internal medicine uses traditional Chinese medicine to regulate the functions of organs, Qi, blood, and meridians to achieve beauty effects. It can be divided into two categories: one is health and beauty prescriptions, mainly nourishing organs, replenishing Qi and blood, and dredging meridians to achieve moisturizing, whitening, wrinkle removal, and anti-aging effects; the other is disease treatment beauty prescriptions, mainly treating diseases that affect facial beauty through methods such as promoting blood circulation, removing spots, dispelling wind and cold, clearing heat and detoxification, and reducing swelling and dispersing masses. Here are two recommended prescriptions:
1. Empress Yang's Palace Whitening Powder: 3 parts dried orange peel, 3 parts white melon seeds, 4 parts peach blossom. Grind the three ingredients, sieve to obtain the powder, and take 1 gram with wine after a meal. It can promote blood circulation and make the skin moist and white.
2. Nourishing Wine: 30 grams of Chinese angelica, 30 grams of chamomile, 240 grams of longan flesh, 120 grams of Chinese wolfberry, 3500 grams of white wine, and 1500 milliliters of distilled liquor. It is best to wrap the medicine in a silk bag, hang it in a jar, seal it with wine, and leave it for several months. It can be consumed at any time. It can nourish the heart and kidneys, replenish Qi and blood, nourish essence, strengthen muscles and bones, invigorate the five viscera, enhance vitality, moisturize the skin, and maintain a youthful appearance.
3. External medicine uses methods such as fumigation, wet compress, sprinkling, rubbing, soaking, patch application, spraying, ion introduction, and ultrasonic introduction to promote the absorption of drugs by the skin, achieve the goal of dredging meridians, promoting Qi and blood circulation, softening and dispersing masses, gradually eliminating dirt, wrinkle removal, whitening, and moisturizing the skin. It directly reaches the affected area, and has a quick effect due to the properties of the medicine.
4. Acne Treatment Pills: 3 grams of Qingmuxiang, 3 grams of white atractylodes, 3 grams of white aconite, 3 grams of white wax, 3 grams of Linglingxiang, and 3 grams of Xiangfuzi. Grind them into fine powder and mix them with honey to form pills. Apply it several times when washing the face and repeat before going to sleep. It can treat acne.
5. Wrinkle Removal Cream: 60 grams each of Qingmuxiang, white aconite, white wax, white atractylodes, Linglingxiang, and Xiangfuzi, 30 grams each of white poria, and 30 grams of sweet song. Cut the above drugs into small pieces, soak them in 250 milliliters of wine and water each overnight, then boil until the wine and water are dry, filter out the residue, and store it in a porcelain container. Use it to apply to the face to make the skin radiant. It can reduce wrinkles and treat facial freckles.
