No one wants to have spots on their face, but unfortunately, spots keep appearing. So, what can we do to get rid of them? What are the methods to remove spots? How does traditional Chinese medicine treat spots? What are some dietary remedies for spots? Join me in reading this article to find the answers to these questions.
Spots on the face can definitely affect your beauty, which is why spot removal has become so popular. Many people are looking for ways to remove spots.
However, conventional spot removal methods mainly involve using external spot removal products. After the spots fade or disappear, a large number of people experience a recurrence. This is because many spots are a result of internal issues in the body. Only focusing on external treatment is just addressing the symptoms and not the root cause. To completely remove spots, internal adjustment along with external treatment is necessary.
1. Soup with Adenophora, Polygonatum, and Pig Tendon
Ingredients: 150g pig tendon, 2 figs, 12g each of Adenophora, Polygonatum, and Yu Zhu, and a slice of dried tangerine peel. Salt to taste. Cut the figs in half and set them aside. Blanch the pig tendon in boiling water and then rinse it with cold water. In a pot, add an appropriate amount of water and bring it to a boil. Add all the ingredients and cook for 1.5 hours. Season with salt.
Effects: Figs can nourish Yin, invigorate the spleen, benefit the stomach, and clear heat and toxins. Adenophora can nourish Yin, clear the lungs, benefit the stomach, and generate body fluids. Polygonatum can nourish Yin, moisturize dryness, relieve restlessness, and quench thirst. This recipe can nourish Yin, regulate the body's condition, and nourish the body. It is especially suitable for nourishing the skin in winter.
2. Three-Bean Spot-Removing Drink
Ingredients: 100g soybeans, mung beans, adzuki beans, and an appropriate amount of sugar. Soak the soybeans, mung beans, and adzuki beans in water until they are fully swollen, then pour them into a pot. Add an appropriate amount of water and cook until they are fully cooked. Add some sugar for seasoning.
Effects: Soybeans can nourish the blood and Qi, invigorate the spleen, promote bowel movements, and moisturize dryness. Mung beans contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, lecithin, carotene, and vitamins B and C, which can clear heat, detoxify, relieve heat, and produce body fluids. Adzuki beans can promote diuresis, remove dampness, detoxify, and promote pus discharge. This recipe is suitable for preventing and treating freckles, melasma, and also has therapeutic effects on edema, abscesses, and parotitis.
3. Coix Seed Tea
For those who have recurring spots, drinking Coix Seed Tea can help remove spots. Coix Seed Tea contains coix seed, adzuki beans, Job's tears, green tea, Portulaca oleracea, bamboo leaves, and sophora flower. It can eliminate dampness and toxins, and whiten and remove spots. Drink one bag in the morning and one at night.
Effects: Coix Seed Tea mainly targets spots caused by excessive dampness in the body. Excessive dampness can affect the body's normal metabolism, hinder waste elimination, and lead to the accumulation of melanin, resulting in the formation of spots. If you have symptoms such as spots, acne, dizziness, heaviness in the body, nausea when brushing teeth, a small belly, oily hair and face, and difficulty with bowel movements, then you have excessive dampness. To remove spots, you must first eliminate dampness.
There are many methods to remove spots, but only by identifying the cause of your spots can you effectively remove them. For example, some people have excessive internal heat, which leads to spots and acne. In terms of diet, they need to eat light food and avoid using hot vegetable oil for cooking. Instead, cold-pressed hemp oil is recommended. You can also add a few drops of hemp oil to your face cream or lotion to moisturize without overheating.
For anyone with spots, it is important to drink plenty of water and consume foods rich in vitamins C and E and protein.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Remedies for Removing Melasma
Melasma, also known as liver spots, is a condition characterized by pigmentation on the face. It is more common in women, and high levels of estrogen in the blood are the main cause. It is related to pregnancy, long-term use of oral contraceptives, and menstrual disorders. Traditional Chinese medicine refers to this condition as "black spots," believing that it is mainly caused by insufficient nourishment of the skin due to liver and kidney deficiency, or stagnation of liver Qi, which leads to the accumulation of heat and damage to Yin and blood, resulting in imbalance and the onset of the condition. Treatment should focus on soothing the liver, nourishing blood, invigorating the spleen, nourishing the liver and kidneys, and removing pigmentation. Below are some traditional Chinese medicine remedies for removing melasma for reference.
Internal Remedies
1. Ingredients: 15g chrysanthemum flowers, white silk moth, silkworm pupa, 30g Yu Zhu, and 12g peppermint. Take one dose daily. If the condition is mild, brew it as tea. If it is severe, boil it and drink.
2. Ingredients: 12g Rehmannia, processed Rehmannia, and Angelica sinensis, 9g each of Bupleurum, Cyperus rotundus, Poria cocos, Ligusticum chuanxiong, white silk moth, Atractylodes macrocephala, Angelica dahurica, and 15g mossy thallus, 6g each of Aconitum carmichaelii and licorice. Boil in water and drink one dose daily. If made into pills, take 6g each time, three times a day.
3. Ingredients: 12g moutan bark, Ligusticum chuanxiong, peach kernel, safflower, white silk moth, Angelica dahurica, turmeric, 15g red peony root, 15g white tribulus, 6g Bupleurum. Boil in water and drink one dose daily.
