1, the theory of traditional Chinese medicine beauty
First, the relationship between the five internal organs and beauty
(1) The physiological function of the heart is to control the blood vessels and the spirit, combine the veins in the body and enlighten the tongue. The color of the face is a reflection of the ups and downs of the heart and blood. Full of qi and blood in the heart can make the face ruddy and shiny. If heart-qi deficiency is bound to lead to heart-blood deficiency and pulse loss, the complexion will be vain and pale, withered and lackluster. Blood is not glorious, blood circulation is not smooth, and in severe cases, the face is blue.
(2) The physiological function of the lung is to control the qi to breathe, to promote the hair to descend, to integrate the skin in the body and to enlighten the nose. The lung transports qi, blood and body fluid to the skin capillaries through the propaganda function, which plays a role in nourishing and regulating the opening and closing of sweat pores, regulating the normal body temperature and resisting exogenous pathogens. "The kidney is the soil of the lung, and its flowers are blooming". If the lung is full of qi, the fur will be warm and moist, the sweat pores will open and close normally, and the body temperature will be moderate and will not be invaded by external evils, which will not easily lead to skin health problems.
(3) The physiological function of the spleen is to govern transportation and blood circulation, to integrate the body with the skin, to enlighten the mouth, and to show its brilliance in the lips. The nutrition of muscles and skin of the whole body depends on the transportation and distribution of spleen, and it is supported by metaplastic nutrients. If you have a healthy temper, you will have a strong body, rosy lips and elastic skin. If the temper is out of balance, the skin will be slack, the limbs will be exhausted, the qi and blood will be insufficient, and the lip color will be pale and dull.
(4) The physiological function of the liver is to store blood, strengthen tendons in the body and enlighten the eyes. The liver also governs the discharge of toxins, which can eliminate toxins in the body. If the liver is full of blood, the eyes will be bright and the skin color will be ruddy. If the liver is liver blood deficiency, the eyes will be dry, the vision will be unclear, the skin color will be blue and the face will be stained.
(5) The physiological function of kidney is to store essence, control water, combine bones in the body, and enlighten ears and two yin. Bone is the scaffold of human body, and the growth, development and repair of human bones depend on the nourishment of kidney essence. With sufficient kidney essence, the bones are strong, the limbs are light and strong, and the actions are agile. If the kidney essence is insufficient, the bones are underdeveloped or fragile, flaccid and weak, and the hands and feet are weak. Human hair is the outward appearance of kidney, which is because kidney essence can transform blood, hair is nourished by essence blood, and if kidney essence is sufficient, hair will be lush and black. Deficiency of kidney essence leads to withered, sparse, white and shedding hair. "Essence is the material basis of God, and God is the performance of essence." People with sufficient kidney essence are full of spirits.
Second, the relationship between meridians and beauty
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that meridians are channels that run the whole body's qi and blood, connect the viscera and limbs, and communicate with the upper, lower and inner parts. The meridians lie between muscles, which are deep but insufficient, and the collaterals float on the muscle surface and network the whole body, connecting all the organs, organs, orifices, flesh, bones and other tissues of the human body into a unified body. Meridian theory is not only the theoretical basis of acupuncture and moxibustion beauty, qigong beauty, scraping, cupping, massage, massage and other beauty projects, but also of great significance to guiding beauty practice. Meridian has two functions in beauty.
(1) Meridian has the functions of activating qi and blood, regulating yin and yang, and nourishing the whole body and skin. Because meridian can transport and distribute nutrients to the muscle surface of the whole body, it ensures the normal functional activities of muscles, skin, hair and other tissues.
(2) Meridian can communicate viscera and body surface, connect up and down, and connect organs and tissues of various parts of the human body into an organic whole, so as to resist exogenous pathogens and protect the body surface.
Third, the relationship between qi and blood and beauty
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the qi of human body is generated by the comprehensive function of organs such as lung, spleen and stomach, kidney, etc., combined with the innate essence from parents, the nutrient Shui Gu essence in food and drink, and the clear qi existing in nature. Qi is the most basic substance to maintain human life activities. For beauty, the functions of qi are mainly as follows:
(1) It promotes and stimulates the physiological activities of various organizations. In particular, qi pushes blood to run in blood vessels, which plays a major role in nourishing face, eyes and hair. Without the promotion of qi, the blood can't run, the hair will be scorched, the eyes can't see things, the face will be stained, and the whole body will be tired and weak.
(2) Qi is the source of human body's heat, especially liquid substances such as blood and body fluid, and it depends on the warmth of Qi for normal circulation. The movement of qi can produce various changes, such as the new aging of qi, essence, blood and body fluid and their mutual transformation.
(3) Blood is one of the main substances to maintain human life activities. The food and drink ingested by the human body are digested and absorbed by the spleen and stomach, which generates nutrient gas and body fluid. The nutrient gas turns into blood through the function of dirty organs, and blood can nourish and moisten the whole body. Blood circulates in blood vessels, from the inside to the viscera and from the outside to the epidermis, which constantly supplements nutrition and moistens the viscera and tissues to maintain normal physiological functions. Full of qi and blood, manifested as rosy complexion, plump and strong muscles, moist skin and hair, etc. The relationship between qi and blood is very close, and the transformation, operation, nutrition and moistening of blood can only be completed by the promotion, warmth and gasification of tie qi. In many theories, the practical methods of beauty are described, which are often called qi and blood, and also treated by qi and blood in the treatment of beauty diseases.
(4) Qi can protect the muscle surface and prevent the invasion of foreign pathogens.
Fourth, the factors affecting appearance
There are many factors that affect appearance, but they can be summarized into two categories: internal factors and external factors. The internal factors mainly include viscera deficiency, qi and blood loss, food injury, seven emotions disorder, phlegm and blood stasis, etc. The external causes mainly include the invasion of six evils, accidental injuries, etc. These factors can harm the human face alone or in combination.
1, internal cause
(1), kidney deficiency: Kidney qi plays a very important role in the process of human growth, growth, strength and old age. The reason of aging lies in kidney qi deficiency, which can lead to skin wrinkles, loose teeth, deafness, blurred eyes and senile spots on the skin. However, there are two cases of kidney deficiency and appearance decline. One is that kidney deficiency is high in years and naturally declines; One is premature aging, and the former can only slow down the aging process in many ways. The latter can be treated with drugs and beauty care, and youth can be restored as long as it is nursed properly.
(2) Deficiency of the spleen and stomach: Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are the acquired foundation, the source of qi and blood biochemistry, and have the functions of transporting and transforming Shui Gu, distributing subtle irrigation channels and collaterals, nourishing internal organs and muscles and fur. It is the supply bank of substances needed for human growth and development to maintain life. Spleen and stomach weakness can lead to sallow complexion, emaciation and even premature aging.
(3) Deficiency of qi and blood: both qi and blood are the material basis for maintaining human life activities, and people with full qi and blood will live a long and healthy life. According to Chinese medicine, vigorous blood makes the skin rosy, while vigorous gas makes the skin shiny. Deficiency of qi and blood leads to malnutrition of the skin, sallow or pale skin. In addition, poor circulation of qi and blood, qi stagnation and blood stasis can also lead to physical aging. Stasis of blood for a long time can cause rough skin, dark complexion, petechiae, spots and so on.
(4) Body fluid imbalance: Body fluid refers to the normal body fluid, which has the physiological function of moistening and nourishing. If the metabolism of body fluid is disordered, resulting in skin body fluid deficiency, it can cause fur to lose its moisture and nourishment, resulting in dry skin, wrinkles, withered hair and alopecia, which seriously affects the appearance of human body.
(5) Injury caused by diet: Diet provides people with the necessary source, which is the basis for maintaining and promoting beautiful appearance and appearance. If you are hungry abnormally or eat unclean food, it will cause diseases that hinder beauty. Overeating fatty, sweet, greasy, spicy and roasted products is easy to generate internal heat, causing skin diseases such as seborrheic dermatitis. Eating too much can also lead to fat body, insufficient food intake or partial eclipse, which can lead to qi and blood deficiency, malnutrition, emaciated body and dull skin color. If you eat rotten fish or allergic food or toxic drugs by mistake, it will often lead to skin and limb allergies, which will be life-threatening. In addition, eating unclean raw salted food will lead to parasitic diseases, and skin spots and yellowish skin may appear.
(6) Moderate labor exercise and reasonable rest, regular diet and daily life, and harmonious sexual life between husband and wife play an important role in keeping skin soft and preventing premature aging, but work and rest disorder will affect health and lead to premature aging. Overwork can lead to physical fatigue and emaciation; Excessive comfort can make qi and blood run poorly, leading to stiff body and soft limbs. In addition, excessive consumption of essence and kidney deficiency will accelerate human aging.
(7) The changes of the seven emotions are mostly manifested through facial expressions. Strong emotional stimulation can cause the dysfunction of human viscera and the imbalance of yin and yang, resulting in diseases, which will affect the beauty of face and body for a long time. Disorders of joy, anger, sadness and joy can lead to emaciation and premature senility. Modern medical research has also confirmed that wrinkles can be caused by long-term muscle spasm, and excessive mental stress will destroy the function of the central nervous system and lead to premature senility.
2. External factors
People living in the natural environment are inevitably attacked by many external factors, some of which damage the body, cause patients, and some hinder the appearance and appearance. Among the external factors affecting beauty, wind, fire, dampness, dryness, cold and summer heat are the most common.
(1), "Wind is the length of all evils", traditional Chinese medicine believes that wind is active and frivolous, and easily invades the head, face and muscle surface, so common cold enters the collaterals, which has a great influence on appearance. Wind-heat can cause acne and wart blisters on the muscle surface. Rheumatic fever is toxic to the skin, causing various tinea corporis, or stagnation of liver-qi, and common cold on the face and skin can lead to pigmentation.
(2) Fire is yang evil, and its nature is inflammatory, so the pathogenic part is mostly in the head and face. Fire pathogens are often divided into two types: excess fire and deficiency fire. Excess fire can cause acne, pigmentation, toothache and facial swelling. Deficiency fire can cause facial flushing, or dark spots on the face, premature gray hair, alopecia and other cosmetic diseases.
(3) Dampness is yin evil, which is heavy, turbid and sticky, and it is difficult to drive away the injury to the muscle abscess, and it is easy to accumulate and turn into heat, resulting in damp heat and leading to various skin diseases. Eczema, dermatitis and prickly heat are all related to dampness.
(4) Dry and astringent, which is easy to hurt body fluids, and dryness in autumn is mostly caused by external dryness; Disorder of viscera, deficiency of body fluid and blood, rough and moist skin, mostly internal dryness.
(5) Cold is yin evil, which easily hurts yang qi, and its nature is stagnant. Therefore, cold evil can cause cold pain in the skin, pale or blue skin, contracture and rigidity of tendons and veins, and joint pain.
(6) It is hot in summer, which hurts yin and consumes gas. It belongs to seasonal venereal diseases, and it is easy to get sunburn when it is injured by summer heat. In addition, accidental injuries such as burns, burns, chemical injuries, knife and axe injuries, weapons injuries, insect and animal bites, etc., may cause facial or body damage. Most of these injuries may cause scars, pigmentation, deformities, etc., which seriously affect beauty. Some injuries cannot be cured by traditional Chinese medicine beauty means and require surgical cosmetic surgery.
Five, the role of traditional Chinese medicine beauty
Beauty in traditional Chinese medicine, whether it is dietotherapy beauty in traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and massage, qigong beauty, achieves the purpose of beautifying appearance by nourishing five zang-organs, nourishing qi and blood, dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, strengthening body resistance and eliminating pathogenic factors, clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling and resolving stagnation, drying dampness and relieving itching, moistening skin and whitening, reducing wrinkles and removing spots, etc. This is the principle of beauty in traditional Chinese medicine.
(1) Moisturizes the five internal organs and nourishes the five internal organs of qi and blood, namely the heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney. The viscera and organs, nine orifices, limbs, bones and muscles, and fur of the human body all form an organic whole centered on the five internal organs. The ups and downs of qi and blood in the five zang-organs are directly related to the prosperity and decline of the face. The five zang-organs reach the epidermis through the transport of meridians, yang qi, yin blood and body fluid, so as to nourish and nourish the skin and resist the invasion of foreign evils, thus keeping the face moist and the appearance not withered. Qi and blood are one of the most basic substances to maintain life activities. Qi and blood play a role in warming, defending, nourishing and moistening human tissues, so as to maintain the normal physiological functions of various organs. It can be said that the five zang-organs are strong, which is the guarantee of overall beauty, full of qi and blood, and the material basis of overall beauty. Therefore, TCM cosmetology attaches great importance to the role of qi and blood in beauty. By nourishing the five zang-organs and replenishing qi and blood, the body is strong, the face is red and lively, the muscles are full, the skin and hair are moist, and the youth is long-lasting.
(2) dredge meridians, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. All kinds of nutrients needed by the human body run from the meridian system to every part of the whole body. The meridians are widely distributed in the human body, which are the channels to run the whole body's qi and blood, connect the viscera and limbs, and communicate with the upper, lower and inner parts. If the channels and collaterals are blocked, the blood circulation is not smooth, and the skin fur is not nourished, skin diseases may occur, which will affect beauty, such as acne, freckles, chloasma and scars, which are all related to disharmony of blood and blood, blood stasis and yin stagnation. Therefore, in the beauty methods of traditional Chinese medicine, the principles of dredging channels and collaterals, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis should be followed, so as to obtain better beauty effects.
(3) Strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil, clearing away heat and toxic materials. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that fur and face have the closest contact with the outside world, and exogenous pathogens invade the human body first, and exogenous pathogens first promote "six evils". Among the six evils, common cold and heat evil are the most harmful to beauty, and they are easy to poison people's blood, making blood hot, which leads to many diseases of disfiguring capacity. Therefore, strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil, clearing heat and detoxifying are another important principle of beauty in traditional Chinese medicine.
(4) Eliminating swelling and stagnation, eliminating dampness and relieving itching. Some cosmetic diseases, such as acne and rosacea, are mostly caused by wind, heat and dampness, often swollen and itchy locally, sometimes heavy and sometimes light, and lingering. Therefore, while strengthening the body resistance and eliminating pathogenic factors, clearing away heat and detoxicating, drugs such as Fructus Cnidii, Prunellae Spica, Fritillaria, Kochia scoparia, etc. should be properly added, and roses, honeysuckle, etc. are commonly used for external washing.
(5) beauty wrinkle reduction, whitening and freckle removal. Fair-skinned, ruddy and lustrous, and elastic are not only the characteristics of bodybuilding and loveliness, but also the charm of a person. In addition to replenishing qi and blood, regulating yin and yang, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, traditional Chinese medicine cosmetology often adds drugs that directly nourish skin, whiten, remove spots and wrinkle, such as aloe, poria cocos, Atractylodes macrocephala, Bletilla striata and so on.
The above is the basic theory of Chinese medicine beauty, a guide to green beauty, and the relevant beauty knowledge that beauticians and beauty practitioners must master. Green beauty follows the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and borrows the functions of pure natural plants to clear away heat and detoxify and the essential nutrition of skin. This paper puts forward a new theory of healthy beauty, which is detoxification, nourishing and keeping in good health, nourishing and beautifying, and explores the methods of expelling and nourishing on the basis of practice. Pai: it is to open the skin detoxification pipeline, clear away heat and toxic materials, and eliminate toxins accumulated in the skin. Tonifying: The skin needs nutrients and moisture by soaking with water. Its core is to supplement water and nutrition on the basis of detoxification, and to detoxify on the basis of supplementing water and nutrition, which are an organic whole. Green beauty uses natural plants for skin care and hair care, and many of them are beauty formulas selected from ancient dynasties. Most of the drugs screened in the Chinese medical code directly nourish the skin, whiten the face, resist skin aging and remove wrinkles. There are also folk prescriptions for dredging meridians, relieving swelling and stagnation, eliminating dampness and relieving itching, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. Using the unique natural means of "water extract of flowers and plants, direct skin care and hair care" to provide consumers with harmless green beauty care, so that customers' skin is white and moist, their faces are bright and clean, and their hair is elegant, reaching a new state of health and beauty.
2, skin moisturizing tips
Tip 1. Replenish water at any time to drink a good muscle bottom.
70% of the human body is water, so girls must know how important it is to drink water! Our Qiao Mei once said that the reason why she can keep her skin so tender is that no matter how busy she is, she will drink more than two liters of water all day, especially in dry weather or the transition period of changing seasons. In addition to directly replenishing the water needed by the skin, the skin condition after drinking enough water will be more stable! So girls who love beauty, is it time to pick up the cup and pour a glass of water?
Tip2. It is very convenient to spray water.
Meng Zhi-Song Ji Hyo, who often appears without makeup in Runningman, seems to be the moisturizing spray on her hand! (Laughter) What can't be ignored is that Song Ji Hyo's skin is still moist, tender and shiny, even though it's plain. Therefore, if girls can't carry out moisturizing procedures at night, it's better to prepare a can of moisturizing spray with them in their daily lives and spray it twice when they think of it, which will help them moisturize!
Tip3. Toner is still necessary.
Moisturizing Lotion cleans the skin again and moisturizes it immediately. Now there are many lotions with thick and essence texture, which contain more beauty ingredients, which can directly and quickly moisturize the skin and help improve the follow-up maintenance and absorption. It is recommended to quench your thirst for your skin immediately, or don't forget to use the lotion!
Tip4. Oily skin still needs moisturizing.
Oily skin often thinks that it can be lost by rubbing lotion, but it often makes oil more serious, which is compensatory oil loss caused by dry skin. It is recommended to choose skin care products containing hyaluronic acid to help the skin catch a lot of water, which can also prolong the moisturizing time and make the skin more tender.
Tip5. Not only replenish water, but also lock water with moisturizing cream.
Finally, the most important little step! That is to choose a super-saturated moisturizing cream! Like lotion, as long as you pat your face at will and take a skin testing instrument to test it, you can find the difference in moisture retention before and after using lotion. However, after 30 minutes, you will find that the skin's wetness disappears after testing with a skin testing instrument. At this time, remember to use creamy and frosty products and lock them up to keep moisture in the skin.