"Jade Rongfen" is a special cosmetic for Empress Dowager Cixi. It was made by Li Deli and Zhuang Shouhe, the imperial doctors of the Qing court in the sixth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty. According to the Ming Dynasty classic of Chinese medicine "Jing Yao Encyclopedia", the main prescriptions of "Eight Hundred Powder" are clove, tribulus terrestris, stiff silkworm, bletilla striata, white domain, angelica dahurica, rhizoma Typhonii and Poria.
Because the first word of the eight medicines is "white", it is called "eight white powders". However, not all of the eight medicines used by Cixi were used. Only six herbs were selected from the eight hundred powders, namely: Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Petunia, Flos Caryophylli, Bombyx Batryticatus, Asari and Rhizoma Typhonii. In addition, white lotus, white eagle, white dove, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Gan Song, Sannai, An Baili, sandalwood, etc. are ground into fine powder and taken with water. Two or three times a day.
Anyone who knows a little about Chinese medicine knows that the formula of Yurong Powder is basically Chinese medicine. Among them, An Baili and Angelica dahurica are important drugs for beauty, and Shennong's herbal medicine is contained in: "Touching up can make your face fat"; White Petunia, Gan Song, Sandalwood and Sannai specialize in treating diseases caused by poor circulation of qi and blood; Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata and Bombyx Batryticatus have the functions of expelling wind, eliminating pathogenic factors and removing exterior syndrome. Lilac, eagle white and pigeon white are sparrow dung and eagle pigeon dung respectively.
That is to say, the cosmetics used by Cixi contain bird droppings! Moreover, Cixi also issued a special decree to make "Yu Rong San" a cosmetic for her life. It is said that these animal droppings actually have magical effects of eliminating accumulation, eliminating darkness and preventing wrinkles and scars.
Beauty with animal droppings? This sounds staggering, even a little unacceptable. However, nowadays, a bird droppings beauty method is also very popular. This beauty method of bird droppings is to use nightingale droppings, disinfect them and make a mask to apply to the face. And this bird droppings mask now has many fans in the world, and the Beckhams are two of them.