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Chapter 17 Keep clean, fight fatigue, give yourself special care during menstruation (1)
For most women, there will be some discomfort during menstruation, such as lower abdominal pain, soreness of waist and knees, etc., and it will also be accompanied by some cosmetic problems.Usually good face, during the menstrual period, due to hormone changes and blood loss in the body, the complexion will become dull, the eye circles will be dark, and some acne will appear, which looks "fading", which is distressing.In fact, as long as we pay attention to the health care during menstruation, we can still be beautiful women.

1. Do a good job of skin cleaning
In the week before menstruation, many women will have more or less skin changes, prone to acne, spots and the like, it is very important to do a good job of cleaning the skin at this time.One of the best maintenance methods is to wash your face more, 1 or 2 times a day, which can well prevent pores from clogging.

2. It is not advisable to eat too much during menstruation
During the menstrual period, you can't eat according to your temper, you must control your diet properly.Of course, you have to eat what you should eat, otherwise the emotional instability will also affect the physiology and psychology of menstruation.

3. Eliminate eye fatigue
Women will feel very tired during the menstrual period. In order to eliminate the tiredness of the eyes and reduce the dark halo around the eyes, some special care can be done.For example, use a cold cream as an eye massage around the eye area every night.Gently draw circles around the eyes with your fingers, then tap the eye sockets, press the acupuncture points on the eye sockets, and wash off the cold cream after massaging.If the eyelids are swollen, you can soak two pieces of cotton pads in tea, then take them out and apply them on the eye sockets, and take them off after 10 minutes, which can eliminate eye fatigue, puffiness and dark circles during menstruation.

Women who have been tired for a few days should pay attention to nutritional supplements after menstruation. Women over the age of 30 are best to boil silky chicken and Bazhen soup together. Women under the age of 30 use 30 grams of yam, two tablespoons of wolfberry, 10 red dates (remove the seeds), two slices of ginger, plus one Just boil soup with black-bone chicken and drink it for three days after the end of menstruation to achieve the nourishing effect.

In addition, in order to avoid dark complexion and rough skin, women should ensure adequate sleep during menstruation, which is the key to beauty during menstruation.

Women's Beauty Sutra in "Compendium of Materia Medica"
Eating lily regularly can make the beautiful face age more slowly

Summer is the harvest season of lilies. Fresh lilies picked can be washed and peeled off, dried in the sun to make dried lilies, which is not only convenient for preservation, but also convenient for people to eat them all year round.In dry autumn, lily is a good medicine and food suitable for all ages. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that lily has the effects of nourishing the lungs and relieving cough, calming the mind and calming the nerves, and nourishing the middle and Qi.

Here we focus on the beauty effects of lily.

1.Moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough

Fresh lily products are rich in mucus and have the effect of moistening dryness and clearing away heat. Traditional Chinese medicine uses it to treat diseases such as dryness of the lungs or cough due to lung heat.

2.peace of mind

Lily enters the Heart Meridian and is slightly cold in nature. It can clear the heart and relieve troubles, calm the mind and calm the nerves. It is used for residual heat after fever, trance, insomnia, dreaminess, depression and other diseases.

3.beauty

Lily is white and delicate. Fresh products are rich in mucus and vitamins, which are beneficial to the metabolism of skin cells. Regular consumption of lily can beautify the skin.

4.Anti-aging

Lily contains protein, B vitamins, vitamin C, crude fiber, various minerals, sucrose, pectin, carotene, alkaloids and other substances, which are very effective in preventing skin aging and treating various skin diseases. As a result, it can stretch the skin, gradually eliminate facial wrinkles, and cure some skin diseases such as rashes and prickly heat.

It is the most common way to use lilies to make soup.Lily can be boiled together with mung beans, lotus seeds, meat, eggs and other different foods to make soup, each with its own flavor, which can achieve the effect of beautifying and beautifying while satisfying the taste.The lily soup made with a single lily and boiled with sugar is also quite refreshing, and it is a delicacy for beauty.

The method of using lily beauty is as follows:
1.Rinse the fresh lily scales, add sugar and simmer to make lily soup.

2.Lily lean meat soup is made of lily meat and eggs, which can not only beautify the skin, but also nourish food.

3.Cooking lilies and mung beans together can prevent prickly heat and treat prickly heat.

4.Wash 100 grams of fresh lily, add water to boil, add 2 raw eggs, and add a little sugar after the eggs are cooked.

It should be noted that: Lily is cold and sticky in nature, and those with spleen and stomach deficiency and internal resistance should not eat more.

【Intimate Medicinal Diet】

Lily Red Date Ginkgo Soup

Efficacy: Nourishing blood and nourishing yin, nourishing and beautifying, moistening lung and replenishing qi.

Ingredients: 50 grams of lily, 10 red dates, 50 grams of ginkgo, 300 grams of beef, two slices of ginger, and a little salt.

Method: Wash the fresh beef with boiling water, cut into thin slices; shell the ginkgo, and soak the outer film with water.

Wash the lily, red dates and ginger, remove the pits of red dates and peel the ginger.

Add an appropriate amount of water into the clay pot, bring to a boil, add lily, red dates, ginkgo and ginger slices, cook over medium heat until the lily is almost cooked, add beef, continue to cook until the beef is cooked, add a little salt and eat immediately.

Walnuts can delay aging, rejuvenate skin and nourish hair

Chinese medicine believes that walnuts have the effect of "moisturizing the skin and blackening the beard and hair".Because "the hair is full of blood", the blood will turn black, and walnuts are rich in multivitamins, which can improve the physiological activity of human skin, so it is a good beauty product for women.

It is said that Mei Lanfang, a famous Peking Opera performer, ate walnut porridge every day during his lifetime, so his skin stretched and tender, and his complexion was smooth.Modern nutrition believes that the multivitamins contained in walnuts can improve the physiological activity of the skin. Drinking walnut porridge that is easy to digest and absorb can make the skin more delicate and the complexion more moist.

The medicinal value of walnut kernel is very high, and it is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine.Traditional Chinese medicine believes that walnut kernels are warm in nature, sweet in taste, non-toxic, and have the effects of strengthening the stomach, nourishing blood, moistening the lungs, and nourishing the mind. It is recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that walnut kernels have "tonifying qi and nourishing blood, moistening dryness and resolving phlegm, benefiting the gate of life, treating the triple burner, warming the lungs and intestines, treating deficiency and cold, asthma and cough, severe pain in the waist and feet, colic in trusted subordinates, bloody dysentery and intestines." Wind" and other effects.

Zhang Hude, a professor at the Health Care Center of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that walnuts are most suitable for mental workers, especially white-collar women, because these people often use their brains excessively and consume heartache. Eating walnuts often can nourish the brain, improve brain circulation, and enhance brain power.

It can be seen that walnut kernel is a good food therapy product. No matter it is used as medicine, or eaten raw alone, boiled, dipped in sugar, or cooked, it has good effects of nourishing blood and Qi, tonifying kidney and essence, relieving cough and asthma, moistening dryness and defecating. effect.

There are many ways to eat walnut kernels. Boiling walnut kernels with appropriate amount of salt water, drinking water and eating kernels can cure kidney deficiency, low back pain, spermatorrhea, impotence, forgetfulness, tinnitus, frequent urination and other diseases; Frequent urination, nocturnal emission, loose stools, early morning diarrhea and other diseases; walnut kernels, sesame seeds, and lotus seeds can be dipped in sugar, which can nourish the heart and brain, and can also cure night sweats; raw walnuts, longan meat, and hawthorn can improve heart function; Walnuts are also widely used in the treatment of neurasthenia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, emphysema, stomach pain and other diseases.

At the same time, walnut kernel is also a good beauty product for black hair and beauty, moisturizing and anti-aging. "Hair is more than blood", "kidney governs hair", walnut kernel has the function of strengthening kidney and nourishing blood, so long-term consumption of walnut can make hair black and shiny, and has a good effect on premature graying of hair and dull hair.Grind walnut kernels and mix them with black sesame paste. Long-term adherence can make the beard and hair not white, black and shiny.Treat walnut kernels as a snack, chew slowly and eat two a day, and you will also receive unexpected beauty effects in a few months.

【Intimate Medicinal Diet】

1.Walnut lotus seed porridge
Efficacy: Tonify the kidney and strengthen the essence, moisturize the lungs and relieve cough, nourish the heart and calm the nerves.

Ingredients: 50 grams of japonica rice, 50 grams of lotus seeds, and 50 grams of walnut kernels.

Method: Wash the lotus seeds, remove the heart, put them into the pot together with the japonica rice, add some water, and cook the porridge.

Chop the walnut kernels finely. When the porridge is about to be cooked, add the walnut kernels and continue to cook with a slow fire.

2.Walnut and date round cake
Efficacy: nourishing qi and blood, calming the nerves and nourishing the brain, beautifying the skin, anti-aging and anti-aging, prolonging life.

Ingredients: 250 grams of walnut kernels, 100 grams of red dates, 50 grams of longan meat, 100 grams of glutinous rice, 100 grams of white sugar, and 400 ml of water.

Method: Soak the walnut kernels in boiling water for a while, peel and chop them; remove the pits of red dates and chop them; soak and wash the longan meat; wash the glutinous rice.

Crush the above four raw materials, add white sugar and water, knead into a thin cake, put it in a steamer, simmer for 40 minutes, and eat it in 2 to 3 times after steaming.

"Beauty King" Xu Xiyuan's beauty is inseparable from barley
"Beauty King" Xu Xiyuan has many beauty bibles, and one of her secrets is to drink barley water.According to her, barley water is not effective immediately after drinking it. Usually, if you drink barley water in the morning, you will feel profuse urination in the afternoon, or if you drink a lot of barley water today, you will urinate a lot the next day.Barley water will help you drain excess water from your body, and your skin will be fine.

Barley has a long history of cultivation in my country, and it is one of the ancient grains that are good for both medicine and food in my country.Because of its high nutritional value, barley is known as "the king of grasses in the world", and in Europe, it is called "the grain of life and health".There is a folk song in Guilin that says: "Coix is ​​better than Ganoderma lucidum. It has high medicinal and nutritional value. Regular consumption can prolong life, and make contributions to rejuvenation."

Barley has the characteristics of easy digestion and absorption, whether it is used for nourishing or medical treatment, the effect is very mild.In "Compendium of Materia Medica", the discussion about barley is "invigorating the spleen and stomach, nourishing the lungs and clearing away heat, expelling wind and dampness, beautifying the appearance, lightening the body and prolonging life". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that barley is sweet, light and slightly cold in nature, beneficial for water, swelling, and healthy. It has the effects of removing dampness in the spleen, relaxing tendons and removing numbness, clearing away heat and expelling pus, and is a commonly used medicine for promoting diuresis and expelling dampness.

However, in daily life, people don't know much about the medicinal uses of barley, and generally they are only eaten as food, which has the same use as rice.In recent years, people have gradually paid attention to the health care and beauty effects of barley.The main components of barley are protein, vitamin B1, and vitamin B2. Regular consumption can keep human skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne, freckles, age spots, pregnancy spots, butterfly spots, and have good curative effects on desquamation, acne, chapped, rough skin, etc.

Specifically, there are the following points:

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