Yuji Powder

Ingredients: 6g each of Angelica dahurica, talc, and white monkshood, 120g mung bean powder

Preparation method: grind to very fine powder, each Wash your face with a small amount every time, or mix it with human milk, the effect will be very fast

Efficacy: This powder is specially used to treat rough, dull, dark, freckles and dirt on the face. Frequent washing can moisturize the skin, make it beautiful, smooth and clean as jade, and make the face as smooth as gelatin.

Explanation: "Taiyuan Hospital's Secret Cream Pills and Powder Recipes" was published. Angelica dahurica has a fragrant smell and can moisturize the skin, making it white, tender and rosy. It can be used as cosmetics, so it is often used as a beauty medicine in the palace. Modern science has confirmed that Angelica dahurica contains aromatic volatile oils. External use can dilate local blood vessels and improve blood circulation, thus promoting the absorption of skin pigments and moisturizing the skin.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "White aconite treats all kinds of facial diseases and treats black and dry skin and scars." Pharmacological research shows that this product has a stimulating effect on the skin and can exfoliate the epidermis, thus Erosion, dryness, blackness, and scarring. In addition, external use of this product can dilate local blood vessels and improve blood circulation, thereby allowing pigments to be absorbed.

Schisandra chinensis paste

Ingredients: 240g schisandra chinensis

Preparation method: wash the schisandra chinensis, soak in water for half a day, boil to remove the residue, and then boil it into a paste, less Mix with honey to collect the ointment. Take orally 1^2 times a day, 1 spoonful each time, with boiled water.

Efficacy: Nourish the kidneys and brain, nourish yin and qi, and nourish the heart.

Description: This recipe is included in "Cixi Guangxu's Selection of Medical Prescriptions" and is used to replenish Cixi's body and nourish her mind. This product is warm in nature, sweet and sour in taste, and enters the liver, kidney, heart, and lung meridians. Medical scientists of the past dynasties believe that it has nourishing and strengthening effects such as "nourishing the five internal organs and strengthening the bones and muscles".

Modern research shows that it contains schisandrin, citric acid, volatile oil and other substances, which can regulate the function of the cerebral cortex, improve people's intelligence and physical strength, and enhance the body's non-specific resistance and adrenal glands. Cortical function; has liver protection, detoxification, reducing alanine aminotransferase, etc. This ointment can be called a good product for strengthening the brain and promoting longevity.

Yangchun White Ice Cream

Ingredients: 60g white Poria (peeled), 60g yam, 90g Gorgon fruit, 150g lotus seed meat (remove the heart and skin), 30g Shenqu (fried), malt ( Stir-fried) 30g, 500g each of rice and glutinous rice, 500g white sugar

Preparation method: Pound the herbs into powder, put them together with rice and glutinous rice in a cloth bag, then steam them in a cage until thoroughly cooked and take them out. Put it in a dustpan (or large wooden plate), mix in white sugar and mix well, knead into small pieces, dry (or bake) in the sun and store for later use. The elderly should take it 2-3 times a day, 1-2 yuan each time.

Efficacy: Strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish the kidneys and vitality, calm the mind and calm the mind, and prolong life.

Explanation: This is the Ming Dynasty palace dietary therapy prescription, from "Lu Mansion Forbidden Prescriptions". The effect of Poria cocos is shown in the previous "Poria cocos cake". "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" lists yam as a top-grade product, saying that it "enhances qi and strength, and grows muscles. Taking it for a long time can make the ears and eyes brighter, lighten the body, prevent hunger and prolong life."

"Zhang Xichun, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, said that yam is nourishing There is no such thing as a perfect medicine. Modern medical research shows that yam contains amylase, amino acids, choline, saponins, etc., which can increase the phagocytic function of white blood cells and lower blood sugar. The amylase contained in yam can decompose protein and sugar, so it has the effect of nourishing and promoting muscle growth.