The harmony of the body's organs is crucial for good health and beautiful skin. In order to improve our skin, it is important to not only use skincare products for external care, but also focus on internal adjustments, such as balancing the organs and regulating hormones, to let the skin radiate from within. So how can we internally adjust our skin to make it better?
Five-Element Vegetable Soup
Ingredients: Radish leaves, carrots, burdock, shiitake mushrooms, radishes.
Instructions: Wash the five vegetables and cut them into large pieces with the skin intact. Put them in a pot and pour in three times the amount of water. Bring to a boil over high heat, cover, and simmer over low heat for one hour. Afterward, you can bottle the soup and store it in the refrigerator. Take it out when you want to drink it.
Benefits: The Five-Element Vegetable Soup can nourish the organs and promote overall health, contributing to the beauty of the skin.
Ginger Jujube Tea
Ingredients: 200g of fresh ginger, 200g of jujubes, 30g each of licorice, cloves, and agarwood.
Instructions: Crush the ginger, jujubes, licorice, cloves, and agarwood together. Take 10g of the mixture and steep it in a teacup with boiling water for 10 minutes. Drink it as tea every morning.
Benefits: Long-term consumption of this tea can give your complexion a healthy glow and make your skin smooth.
Bai Zhi Dang Gui Four Spirits Soup
Ingredients: 3g of Bai Zhi, 2 slices of Dang Gui, 30g of Coix seed, 30g of lotus seeds, 15g of Poria, 30g of Euryale seed, 8g of Atractylodes, 8 red dates, 30g of Chinese yam.
Instructions: Soak the Coix seed in water for 2 hours. Put the Coix seed, lotus seeds, Poria, Atractylodes, red dates, Chinese yam, and Euryale seed into a pot along with 5 bowls of water. Simmer for 15 minutes. Finally, add Dang Gui, Bai Zhi, and salt. Turn off the heat and consume.
Benefits: Regular consumption of Bai Zhi Dang Gui Four Spirits Soup can invigorate the spleen, nourish the blood, and enhance beauty. Most importantly, this soup can effectively regulate gastrointestinal function.
Spinach Congee
Ingredients: 250g of spinach, 250g of rice, a pinch of salt, a small amount of monosodium glutamate.
Instructions: Blanch the spinach in boiling water and then cut it into sections. Rinse the rice and put it in a pot with an appropriate amount of water. Cook until the rice is done, then add the spinach and continue cooking. When the congee is ready, turn off the heat and add salt and monosodium glutamate to taste.
Benefits: Long-term consumption of this congee can moisturize the throat, nourish the blood, treat constipation, high blood pressure, and anemia.
Poria Coix Seed Congee
Ingredients: 20g of Poria powder, 100g of Coix seed.
Instructions: Put the Coix seed in a pot, add water, and cook until the seed is done. Then add the Poria powder and cook until it becomes congee.
Benefits: This congee can invigorate the spleen, nourish the skin, and delay aging.
Jujube Snake Bed Congee
Ingredients: 15 jujubes, 110g of rice, 30g of snake bed.
Instructions: Soak the jujubes in water for one hour until they become soft, then cut them into pieces. Rinse the rice and put it in a pot with water, add the jujubes, and put the snake bed in a small cloth bag and place it in the pot. Cook until the congee is done, then remove the cloth bag and consume.
Benefits: Jujubes can nourish and strengthen the body, while snake bed can tonify yang and nourish yin, as well as treat toothache, rheumatism, and back pain. The combination of the two can eliminate fatigue and enhance beauty.
Chrysanthemum Congee
Ingredients: 10-15g of fresh chrysanthemum flowers, 30-60g of glutinous rice, water.
Instructions: Dry the fresh chrysanthemum flowers by roasting, sun-drying, or steaming. Grind them into fine powder. Cook the glutinous rice into congee, then add the chrysanthemum powder and cook for another 5 minutes before consuming.
Benefits: Chrysanthemum can nourish the liver and blood, moisturize the skin, and give a pleasant complexion to those who regularly consume this congee.
Sweet Potato Congee
Ingredients: 100g of sweet potatoes, 150g of polished rice.
Instructions: Wash the sweet potatoes and cut them into small pieces. Put them in a pot with polished rice and an appropriate amount of water. Cook until it becomes congee.
Benefits: Invigorates the spleen, nourishes the stomach, balances qi and blood, nourishes the skin, and promotes beauty.
