Blemish-Removing Elixirs: Natural Recipes for Radiant Skin

March 7, 2024

1. Golden Dragon Soup

Ingredients: 500g snake meat, a suitable amount of MSG, salt, ginger, spring onion, and sweet wine. Method: Cut the snake meat into small pieces and put it in a soup pot. Add an appropriate amount of water, ginger, spring onion, sweet wine, and salt. Cook until the snake meat is tender. Add MSG for seasoning. Drink the soup and eat the meat.

Benefits: Promotes blood circulation, removes blemishes and acne. Suitable for rheumatism, dry and itchy skin, and brown spots.

2. White Nut Milk Beverage

Ingredients: 300g white nuts, 4 white chrysanthemum flowers, 4 snow pears, 200ml milk, and a suitable amount of honey. Method: Peel the white nuts and remove the core by scalding them with boiling water. Wash the white chrysanthemum flowers and separate the petals. Peel the snow pears and cut them into small pieces. Put the white nuts and snow pears into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and boil with high heat. Then simmer until the white nuts are tender. Add the chrysanthemum petals and milk and bring to a boil. Stir in honey. Drink regularly.

Benefits: Removes blemishes, nourishes the skin, and whitens the complexion.

3. Betel Nut Wine

Ingredients: 20g betel nuts, 20g dried tangerine peel, 10g green tangerine peel, 5g cardamom, 12g rose petals, 1500ml yellow wine, and a suitable amount of rock sugar. Method: Grind the betel nuts, dried tangerine peel, green tangerine peel, cardamom, and rose petals into coarse powder. Put the powder in a cheesecloth bag and place it in a pot. Add yellow wine and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes. Remove the medicine bag and add rock sugar. Store in a wine jar. Take 20ml twice a day for 20 days.

Benefits: Soothes the liver, relieves depression, and removes blemishes. Suitable for those with facial brown patches caused by liver qi stagnation.

4. Peach Almond Honey Pills

Ingredients: 50g peach blossoms, 50g almonds, 20g zizyphus, 15g safflower, 30g winter melon seeds, and a suitable amount of honey. Method: Soak the almonds in water, peel them, and fry them until dry. Grind them into powder. Grind the peach blossoms, almonds, zizyphus, and winter melon seeds into powder. Mix all the powders together and add honey. Stir well and make into small pills the size of lychees. Take with warm glutinous rice wine. Take 5 pills twice a day for 20 days.

Benefits: Promotes blood circulation, removes blood stasis, and removes blemishes. Suitable for those with darker complexion, yellow spots, and brown spots.

5. Saffron Blemish-removing Porridge

Ingredients: 100g glutinous rice, 1000ml chicken broth, 3g saffron, 3g Chinese angelica, 12g astragalus, a suitable amount of salt, MSG, and sesame oil. Method: Put saffron, Chinese angelica, astragalus, and Huangqi in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and boil to extract the juice. Repeat the process with water. Pour both batches of herbal juice into the pot with cleaned glutinous rice and chicken broth. Cook over low heat until the rice is cooked. Add salt, sesame oil, and MSG for seasoning. Take one dose a day, divided into two meals, for 10 days.

Benefits: Tonifies qi, invigorates blood, nourishes the skin, and removes blemishes. Suitable for those with pale complexion, black eye circles caused by qi and blood deficiency.

6. Mulberry and Danpi Porridge

Ingredients: 20g mulberry, 10g Danpi, 10g red peony, 10g aloe vera, 12g Chinese angelica, 100g glutinous rice, and a suitable amount of honey. Method: Put mulberry, Danpi, red peony, aloe vera, and Chinese angelica in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and boil to extract the juice. Repeat the process with water. Pour both batches of herbal juice and cleaned glutinous rice into the pot. Add an appropriate amount of water and cook until the rice is cooked. Add honey. Take one dose a day, divided into two meals, for 20 days.

Benefits: Nourishes blood, cools blood, clears heat, and removes stasis. Suitable for various types of melasma, acne, and butterfly spots.

7. Kunlun Wind-chasing Porridge

Ingredients: 250g white eggplant, 10g polygonum multiflorum, 25g mung bean powder, and 25g black bean powder. Method: Wash white eggplant and polygonum multiflorum, put them in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and cook until the eggplant is tender. Add black bean powder and mung bean powder. Stir well to make a paste. Take one dose a day, consume it once, for 100 days.

Benefits: Nourishes the kidneys, nourishes the skin, and removes blemishes. Suitable for the treatment of vitiligo.

8. Eight Treasure Acne-removing Porridge

Ingredients: 10g lotus seeds, 10g Chinese yam, 10g coix seed, 10g fox nut, 10g lily, 10g white lentil, 30g corn, and 10 red dates. Method: Wash the lotus seeds, Chinese yam, coix seed, fox nut, lily, white lentil, corn, and red dates. Put them in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and cook into a porridge. Consume it as breakfast. Take one dose a day, consume it once, for 25 days.

Benefits: Strengthens the spleen, nourishes yin, clears heat, and removes dampness. Suitable for the treatment of acne.

9. Gypsum Red and Green Porridge

Ingredients: 50g gypsum, 200g red adzuki beans, 200g mung beans, 100g glutinous rice, and a suitable amount of honey. Method: Crush the gypsum, put it in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and boil for 1 hour. Remove the gypsum residue. Add washed red adzuki beans, mung beans, and cleaned glutinous rice. Add an appropriate amount of water and cook for 3 hours. Add honey and stir. Consume it several times throughout the day. Take three doses a week, for 10 doses.

Benefits: Promotes blood circulation and removes blemishes. Suitable for facial pigmentation.

10. Peach Blemish-removing Porridge

Ingredients: Peach

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