During the period of Yin Zhou Wang, a cosmetic called "Yan Zhi" was developed, which can receive the beauty effect of "Peach Blossom Makeup". Among the 46 drugs in Shan Hai Jing/KLOC-0 in the Warring States Period, 12 were related to beauty.
1973 The medical prescription book unearthed in Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan Province, which was formed from the Warring States Period to the Qin Dynasty, contains rich contents, including six prescriptions for preventing and treating scars. There are three long-lived prescriptions in Health-preserving Prescriptions, and there are also special prescriptions for "beautifying face", "removing hair" and "black hair". The embryonic period of traditional Chinese medicine cosmetology. Huangdi Neijing is a masterpiece of TCM theory and provides theoretical basis for TCM theory, but there are also some methods to treat beauty. For example, "Lingshu Jingjin" records the horse cream therapy, which uses the fat under the horse's neck to rub the affected area repeatedly, that is, a cosmetic treatment method that combines medicine with massage.
Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, written in the Eastern Han Dynasty, records 100 kinds of beauty drugs (54 in the upper meridian, 27 in the lower meridian, and 19 in the lower meridian) which are about "pleasing to the eye", "beauty", "light weight" and make people's head not white, and mentions the unique dosage forms of beauty drugs.
In addition, two famous physicians in Han Dynasty-Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo. Danggui Shaoyao Powder, founded by Zhang Zhongjing, is used to treat liver spots caused by stagnation of liver blood, Maziren Pill is used to treat rough skin caused by dryness and heat, and Zhufu Decoction is still used by future generations. The Secret Biography of Huatuo Shenyi contains 10, and Huatuo Shenfang contains 56 oral and external prescriptions for beauty care and treatment. In the Western Jin Dynasty, Ge Hong's two books, Bao Puzi and Elbow's Emergency Prescription, the former is a philosophical masterpiece, and the latter is a medical masterpiece. His aesthetic thoughts are mainly reflected in the 50 volumes of Bao Puzi Waipian, and Elbow Backup Emergency Prescription is the first book of traditional Chinese medicine for its early, numerous and specialized beauty prescriptions and obvious aesthetic thoughts, in which 66 beauty prescriptions are recorded and 95 drugs are applied to beauty.
In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Tao Hongjing's Notes on the Classic of Materia Medica contained 730 kinds of drugs, including more than 70 kinds of Chinese medicines for health care and beauty, and made some contributions to the Classic of Materia Medica, such as Ligusticum, which supplemented the Classic of Materia Medica and facial fat, which were widely used by later generations. The "Liu Juanzi's Ghost Legacy Prescription" compiled by Gong Qingxuan in Southern Qi Dynasty also contains some beauty prescriptions, with about 50 songs. Sun Simiao, a medical scientist in the early Tang Dynasty, wrote the Prescription of Preparing for a Urgent Thousand-Daughters and the Prescription of Preparing for a Thousand-Daughters, which are collectively referred to as the Thousand-Daughters Prescription, with 30 volumes each. Among them, the chapters that focus on the beauty content of traditional Chinese medicine are the Prescription of Preparing for an Urgent Thousand-Daughters, with 8 1 head; "Be prepared for a thousand dollars", Volume XIII, Heart, with 56 lists; "Qianjin Yifang" Volume V, Woman I, Women's Powder V, column 1 on, 39 prescriptions; Volume 1 of "Qianjin Yifang": A Record of Drugs and a Pleasant Face Sixty-third, with 9 flavors of drugs listed, and the rest of the contents are scattered in various volumes. His disciple Meng Chang wrote Herbal Medicine for Dietotherapy, which contains 260 kinds of edible drugs, including many beauty foods, such as "litchi, mild temperature, healthy qi and color" and "radish, cold in nature ... which makes people white and delicate", which enriches the content of food beauty.
Tang Wangtao's "Secret Recipes for Outer Taiwan" includes 32 volumes devoted to beauty, including 97 facial beauty recipes, 87 girls' hair recipes, 9 bean bath recipes, 3 oral fat recipes, 3 American hand recipes, and 10 recipes for scented clothes, and other beauty preparation methods10. There are 34 prescriptions whose indications and usage are related to beauty, and which have the functions of beauty treatment and health care. Among them, there are 9 hairdressers, 4 perfumers, 7 beauticians, 1 face spot remover 1 1 and 3 health care providers. All the original texts indicate that it has cosmetic therapeutic effect on diseases related to head and face impairment, such as vitiligo treatment prescription 14, fragrant mouth prescription 9, fragrant body deodorization prescription 43, wart removal prescription 19 and scar removal prescription 17. According to this idea, * * * got 356 prescriptions and 294 kinds of drugs. In a word, from the Jin Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, TCM cosmetology developed in an all-round way, which not only formed a preliminary system, but also laid a solid foundation for further improvement in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. The expanding period of traditional Chinese medicine cosmetology prescription. There are a large number of books on traditional Chinese medicine, most of which involve beauty issues, and the court beauty in Qing Dynasty has reached a quite high level.
During the Song Dynasty, several large-scale prescriptions were published in the Song Dynasty, such as Taiping Shenghui Fang, Shengji Zonglu and Taiping Huimin Hejiju Fang, all of which contained many beauty prescriptions. The 40th volume of Taiping Shenghuifang focuses on beauty side, with * * * listed side 187; Volume 41 is a special prescription for beard and hair, with * * columns of "black prescription for treating the law" and "prescription for treating eyebrows and hair without giving birth" 120; In addition, in other volumes, there are more than 440 prescriptions for treating diseases that damage the beauty, such as thinness, vitiligo, needle eye, unclear eyes, yellow and black teeth, tooth loss, whitening teeth, bad breath, lip sores, hot sores, (various) ringworm, lacquer sores, chapped hands and feet, and more than 240 prescriptions for nourishing the face. There are more than 980 beauty prescriptions in the book. In the General Record of Shengji, there are prescriptions 100 only for noodles and beards. Taiping Huimin Hejiju Prescription also contains a lot of cosmetic prescriptions with the functions of whitening, keeping face, blackening hair and strengthening teeth, and prolonging life and moistening skin in various virtual doors and other doors.
In addition, the recipe of "Buddha makeup" applied to the face with Chinese medicine "Fructus Trichosanthis" is also recorded in the Record of Making Liao, which is similar to the so-called "inverted mold" cosmetology in modern times. Besides, Su Shen Liang Fang, Hong Shi Ji Jian Fang, Ji Sheng Fang, Lei Zheng Pu Ji Fang, Ji Feng Pu Ji Fang, Shi Zhai Bai Yi Fang, Wei Shi Jia Cang Fang, etc. all contain beauty prescriptions or methods.
At the beginning of Yuan Dynasty, Xu Guozhen wrote Imperial Medicine Hospital, which collected a large number of court beauty prescriptions before Jin and Yuan Dynasties, such as imperial facial cleanser and empress facial cleanser, etc. The book also listed a variety of dental medicines, such as white tooth pearl powder, musk powder, etc., * * * meter 180, which enriched the beauty category.
From the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica appeared, which can be said to be a great summary of beauty Chinese medicines. There are nearly 300 kinds of beauty Chinese medicines recorded in it, and their effects involve whitening, skin care, wrinkle removal, speckle removal, freckle removal, blackening hair, body fragrance, tooth cleaning, beauty pleasing and so on. Its method emphasizes the combination of internal treatment and external treatment, and develops TCM cosmetology to a new stage.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu et al. compiled Puji Fang, with an unprecedented scale of beauty collection, which was divided into 2 1 categories according to the first 2 doors, and listed 747 pieces, which was the masterpiece of the previous generation. The Shouyang Series published by Hu Wenhuan's school magazine in Ming Dynasty contains a volume of "Fragrance and Touching", which is a prescription book specially written for women's beauty decoration, and contains a large number of beauty cosmetics, including hairdressing, white flour, jade capacity, beauty care, white teeth, lip lubrication, beautiful hands, body fragrance and so on. Many cosmetic diagnosis and treatment methods are also recorded in the famous surgical monograph "Authentic Surgery" in Ming Dynasty, such as taking Xiarongsan orally for freckles, applying Yujisan externally, and treating facial spots (moles) with "grey rice cream". Cosmetic prescriptions in Qing Dynasty were mainly collected in the archives of Qing Palace.
Chinese cosmetology sprouted in Qin and Han Dynasties, formed in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and developed abundantly in Song and Ming Dynasties. Traditional Chinese medicine beauty has a long history and tradition, and its beauty prescription is also rich in content. Today, with the development of social politics, economy and culture, and the improvement of people's living standards, not only the diseases that affect health need effective treatment, but also the factors that affect the external beauty of the human body need more medical protection. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to deeply study and explore the treasures of beauty in the medical treasure house of the motherland.