Beauty and Health Sutra of Female Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chapter 12 Timely recuperation, beautiful seasons are always there (3)
Natural food detoxifies quickly: Pomegranate, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, carrots, apples, fungus and other fruits and vegetables have certain detoxification effects. It is recommended that you eat more at ordinary times.

It should be noted that when supplementing detoxification foods, avoid fried, grilled, canned and other foods that are easy to accumulate toxins. "Compendium of Materia Medica" believes that sweet potatoes can "replenish deficiency, strengthen energy, and strengthen the spleen and stomach", and it is recommended that female friends eat more.

hydrating and anti-drying in autumn

"Huangdi Neijing" believes that autumn belongs to the metal lung, and the dry weather is easy to hurt the lung.Therefore, in autumn, you can eat more seasonal fruits, which can not only refresh the heart and nourish the lungs, but also replenish water and beautify the skin. Even in the dry season, you can also have moist skin.For example, pears can clear away heat and detoxify, moisten the lungs and produce body fluid; citrus can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, moisten the lungs and reduce phlegm;You can also wash the pears, remove the pits and slice them, put them in water and boil them for 30 minutes, then add an appropriate amount of rock sugar to make pear soup, which is a holy product for moisturizing and preventing dryness in autumn.

In addition, mash or squeeze the fruit and apply it on the face, which can moisturize the skin from the outside to the inside. For example, peel an apple and mash it, add a teaspoon of honey, mix well and apply it on the clean face. Rinse off with lukewarm water, rinse with cold water at the end, and apply a face cream that suits you.

Finally, rinse with cold water to shrink the pores of the skin to lock in the moisture and nutrients absorbed by the fruit dressing.

Small details of beauty and health in autumn

Whether it is from the perspective of beauty or health, autumn is a critical moment.Generally speaking, the skin in autumn tends to appear in three states: early autumn, this time is in the end of summer, but the temperature is still hot, so it is also called "autumn tiger". In mid-autumn, women with dry skin will feel dry skin; in late autumn, as the severe winter is about to enter, subcutaneous fat begins to thicken, so many people feel tight and dry facial skin.

Autumn skin care in stages
The maintenance of skin in autumn should be carried out in stages, and different stages have different emphases.In early autumn, the focus is on whitening and maintenance. Women can choose skin care products with whitening effect to quickly restore a fair face. The premise is that whitening creams containing mercury cannot be used, otherwise it will poison our skin in disguise.In addition, you can also choose skin care products that contain placenta, vitamin E, vitamin C and moisturizing agents.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather gradually turns cooler.As the temperature continues to drop, the skin tends to become dry and rough. At this time, skin care products with more oil should be used to condition the skin, so as to make the skin soft and shiny.

In late autumn, in addition to using cream to nourish the skin on the face, you should also pay attention to facial massage to promote local blood circulation, so as to relieve dryness and tightness of the skin.

Beauty action, step by step

The following will teach the small details of how to do a good job in autumn beauty from the aspects of cleaning, texture adjustment, toning and balanced nutrition.

Cleaning: Use facial cleanser once in the morning and evening to clean the facial skin, which can gently and completely remove the makeup on the face and the oil and grease on the surface of the facial skin; or wash the face with warm water first, and then wash it with cold water, which can be effective Removes dirt from the face and tightens the skin.When washing the face, it is best to use the ring finger and middle finger to draw circles from the middle of the face outward to reduce the fine lines on the face.

Regulate skin texture: Exfoliate the skin surface, and then apply a cucumber mask to moisturize the skin and make the skin supple.In addition, you can also apply a pearl mask, which is a mask made of pearl powder and honey, which can not only "fill" wrinkles, but also has a whitening effect.

Toner: Choose a toner that suits you, which can adjust the pH value of the skin and enhance the skin's disease resistance.It can be applied with a cotton pad or patted with fingertips.

Balanced nourishment: The ultimate goal of skin care is to keep the skin in the best state of water-oil balance. Don't dislike using lotion just because the skin is oily. This is a wrong approach.Oily skin requires nourishment from lotion. If it can be used together with toner, the two will work together to regulate the water-oil balance of the skin. After a month, you will find that the oily skin will gradually decrease.

Protection: Many female friends think that foundation is irritating to the skin, so they don't like to use it much.In fact, the titanium dioxide particles contained in the foundation can effectively prevent external germs from harming the skin, and the skin will also absorb the nutrients in the foundation.In addition, it is easier to apply makeup after applying foundation, provided that you apply toner and lotion before applying foundation.

Tips on health preservation in autumn

Autumn is the season when dryness and evils are rampant, and the lungs are most likely to be injured. Therefore, when autumn comes, you can make some lung-moistening porridge to maintain your body.If the lungs are well maintained, the Wei Qi controlled by the lungs can regulate the skin texture and the opening and closing of pores, thus ensuring the health of the human body and skin.

Sesame porridge: 60 grams of sesame, 100 grams of rice.Stir-fry the sesame seeds first, and grind them into fine powder; after the rice porridge is cooked, add the sesame powder and eat together.Sesame is lubricating, good at moistening and nourishing. It has the effects of nourishing the lungs, nourishing the liver, moistening the intestines and laxative. When eaten in porridge, it is not only delicious, but also can treat dryness of the lungs, cough and habitual constipation.

Chrysanthemum porridge: 40 grams of chrysanthemum, 80 grams of rice.First decoct the chrysanthemum, then filter out the clear soup and put it into rice to cook porridge.Early autumn is prone to hot and dry diseases. At this time, cooking porridge with chrysanthemums has the effects of clearing heat, clearing liver fire, improving eyesight, and dispersing wind heat.In addition, chrysanthemum porridge also has a certain effect on autumn wind-heat cold, upset and dry throat.

Tremella soup: 6 grams of tremella, 45 grams of rock sugar.First put the white fungus into the pot, soak it in warm water for 30 minutes, remove the impurities, and tear it into flakes for later use; add some water, put the white fungus into the pot, boil it over high heat, then boil it over low heat for 1 hour, add rock sugar until the Tremella stew until rotten.Nourishes the lungs, nourishes the stomach, promotes fluid production, replenishes qi and strengthens the heart.

Prevent skin colds and refuse winter red

Warm protection against cold, eliminate evil spirits

The main qi in winter is cold, and cold is yin evil, which can easily damage the yang qi of the human body.

If the warming measures are not in place, yin evils will damage the yang, and the yang energy of the human body will be weak, and the physiological functions will be inhibited, and a series of cold symptoms will appear, such as aversion to cold, cold pain in the abdomen and so on. "Huangdi Neijing" said:

"Water and ice ground, no disturbance to the sun. Lying in the morning and getting up late, you must wait for the sun, so that the aspirations will be concealed, if you have selfish intentions, if you have already gained, you will be warm when you get rid of the cold, and you will not let the skin out, so that the qi will be seized. , this response to winter qi, and the way to nourish storage.”

Among them, "get warm when you get rid of the cold" is to tell us to pay attention to preventing cold and keeping warm in winter.

"Preventing the cold and nourishing the kidney" is the focus
Winter is the season when all things in nature are closed. In fact, this is because winter is too exhausting to injure yang energy and it is not suitable to go out for activities.In the same way, the yang energy of the human body will also be hidden inside in winter.Due to the closed storage of yang qi, the metabolism level of the human body is correspondingly reduced.However, even in the cold winter, people will continue to live and work, and at this time, the fundamental kidneys of people are needed to play a role.

The kidneys provide heat and energy to the human body like a small stove in the body, protecting the body from excessive damage from yin and evil.The function of the kidneys usually represents a person's vitality. When the firepower of the kidneys is strong, the vitality is strong.On the contrary, the vitality is weak.Therefore, "preventing the cold and nourishing the kidneys" should be regarded as the focus of health preservation in winter.

Nourishing Kidney and Eliminating Yin, Selected Diet Therapy

"Huangdi Neijing" said: "Winter and March, this is called closed storage."

Only by hiding can the hair growth in spring be guaranteed.At the same time, winter corresponds to the kidneys. Chinese medicine believes that the kidneys store essence, which is the foundation of human life.Cold evil injures the kidneys, and sexual intercourse will cause a loss of kidney qi, leading to symptoms of premature aging such as mental fatigue, haggard face, deafness of eyes and ears, and dry skin.Since ancient times, our country has paid attention to winter tonic, because people's appetite increases greatly in winter, and the spleen and stomach are transformed. At this time, tonic can be described as less investment and quick effect, but the ideal effect can be achieved only if the tonic is done properly.

Invigorate yang and protect kidney during cold winter: The warming function of kidney yang is an important guarantee for life activities to adapt to changes in nature. It is cold in winter and easily damages kidney yang. Therefore, the diet regimen in winter should focus on nourishing the kidney to protect against the cold.

The diet should be based on nourishing the kidney and warming the yang, nourishing the essence and strengthening the body, and strengthening the body. Venison, mutton, leeks, chestnuts, shrimps, walnuts, etc. are all foods that have the effect of warming and nourishing the kidney and yang.In terms of cooking methods, stewing, braising, steaming, and boiling should be the main methods, which can not only protect the nutrition of food from damage, but also facilitate digestion and absorption.Yang and Yin are irreconcilable. When the Yang Qi in the body is strong, it will naturally drive away the Yin evil in the body.Therefore, nourishing the kidney is definitely the first choice for winter health preservation.

Different people eat different things: people's physiques are different, and their yin and yang rise and fall, cold and heat deficiency and excess deviations are quite large. Therefore, it is the most scientific that winter diet and tonic should vary from person to person.

People with yin deficiency should eat more foods that nourish yin, such as sesame, dairy products, vegetables, fruits, glutinous rice, honey, fish, etc.; people with yang deficiency should eat more foods that nourish yang, such as leeks, pig kidneys, etc.; Eat more foods that nourish qi, such as ginseng, lotus meat, yam, red dates, etc.; people with blood deficiency should eat more foods that nourish blood, such as lychees, soft-shelled turtles, sheep liver, black fungus, etc.; Vegetables, bitter gourd, avoid beef, sheep, dog, meat and wine and other spicy and hot food; people with blood stasis should eat more foods that have the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, such as peach kernels, rapeseed, black soybeans, etc.; people with phlegm dampness should eat more Eat foods that eliminate phlegm and dampness, such as white radish, jellyfish, onions, lentils, seaweed, ginkgo, etc. People with qi depression should eat more foods that have the effect of soothing the liver and relieving depression, such as bergamot, orange peel, buckwheat, oranges, and fennel Wait.

Seize the perfect opportunity for nourishment: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that winter nourishment is best carried out around the winter solstice. The "Book of Changes" believes that "winter solstice yang is born", and the solar terms run to the winter solstice, and the cathode yang is born. At this time, the yang energy in the body is vigorous. It is easiest to absorb external nutrients and can give full play to the effect of nourishing food, so it is most suitable to choose around this day.In special circumstances, supplementation should be done flexibly. For example, people with chronic diseases and yang-deficiency constitutions need to supplement for a long time, and they can supplement at the beginning of winter.

Moisturizing and preventing dryness: Although the air in winter is refreshing, it is too dry and cold, which can easily irritate the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract and cause cough, asthma and other diseases, and coughs are mostly dry coughs, so nourishing the lungs and promoting body fluids should be taken into account in winter.You can add tangerine peel and rock sugar to water and boil for two hours, then drink it when it is warm.

There is a lot of knowledge about medicine and tonic

Some friends prefer to choose the way of medicine tonic in winter, which is not a bad idea, but some things should be paid attention to, so as not to spend money and get no effect.When taking ginseng and other qi-tonifying medicines, avoid eating radishes, especially raw radishes.Do not drink strong tea and coffee while taking the medicine, as they will decompose the active ingredients in the supplement and reduce the efficacy of the medicine.In addition, do not eat cold and greasy foods, such as fatty meat, glutinous rice snacks, cold milk, etc., so as not to hurt the stomach and affect the digestion and absorption of supplements.

People who want to lose weight will have some concerns, worrying that there will be less activity in winter, and if they supplement at this time, the weight will soar again.In fact, if there is too much coldness in the body, too much fat is needed to keep warm. If there is too much fat, it will become fat, and proper tonic will re-ignite the "small stove" in the body without increasing the fat. Fat.

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