Motherwort, also known as Kun Cao, motherwort flowers, etc., sex slightly cold, bitter and pungent flavor. Efficacy has blood circulation and menstruation, remove blood stasis and pain, diuretic swelling, clearing heat and detoxification; clinical treatment of menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, fetal leakage and difficult to deliver, not in the uterus, postpartum hematemesis, blood stasis and abdominal pain, bruises, edema, kidney disease, dysuria, urinary blood, carbuncle sores and ulcers. It has been described as "promoting blood without hurting new blood, nourishing blood without stagnating blood" in the Compendium of Materia Medica, and is a commonly used gynecological herb. It has been used by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners to treat gynecological diseases and to nourish the body and the face, and the whole plant is rich in selenium, manganese and other trace elements, with antioxidant, anti-aging and anti-fatigue effects. Dried motherwort calcined into ash, its color white and delicate, able to adsorb epidermal toxins and various irritating substances, so it can treat acne, and whitening and nourishing the role of the skin.
2, edible methods:
(1) in addition to the "acne" cream.
Specific method: 500 grams of motherwort, cut into thin sections, dried, burned to ash. Then use vinegar to adjust into pills, fire was red, so repeat 7 times, and then research fine sieve, with honey to mix, stored in porcelain.
How to take: Take one pill every day after meals. This formula has the effect of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and can treat freckles, dark spots, chloasma and so on.
(2) Porridge for acne.
Specific method: first, 50 grams of motherwort, sumac, peach kernel 9 grams each chopped, add the right amount of water, fry for 30 minutes, remove the slag to get the juice, and then 100 grams of medicinal juice and 100 grams of black beans with the right amount of water to cook, and then put into the round-grained rice and water to cook congee, porridge is rotten, add a little brown sugar to serve.
How to take: 1 small bowl in the morning, noon and night, and 1 dose every other day.
(3) Blood and face soup.
Specific method: 4 boiled eggs shelled, 30 grams of motherwort, 30 grams of parasol washed, and then put the cooked eggs, motherwort and parasol into the pot, boiled over a gentle fire, half an hour later, put the rock sugar, boiled until the rock sugar dissolved.
How to take: Remove the motherwort and mulberry parasol from the soup, eat the egg and drink the soup. This formula tonifies the liver and nourishes blood, and women are advised to drink it before and after menstruation for better results, and quail eggs can also be used instead of eggs, with the same effect.