Pearl has been used as medicine in China for more than 2000 years. Ancient medical books 19 kinds, such as Medical Books of the Three Kingdoms, Herbal Classics of Liang, Herbal Medicine of Tang, Herbal Medicine of Song Kaibao, Compendium of Herbal Medicine of Ming Dynasty, Pharmacological Fu of Leigong in Qing Dynasty, etc., all recorded the curative effect of pearls clearly.
Tao Hongjing of Liang Dynasty said in Compendium of Materia Medica that pearls "have the function of healing skin and stopping bleeding". Tang Dynasty's "Haiyao Herbal Medicine" holds that pearls can improve eyesight, eliminate dizziness and stop diarrhea. In the Yuan Dynasty, merchants often added honey and pearl powder to water for drinking.
People think it can nourish and prevent heatstroke. Yuan Haowen recorded in "Continued Jane Yizhi": "There is little ice in Taoshui in winter ... round and clean like pearls ... in summer, honey water is used and pearl powder is added."
In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen paid more attention to the pharmacological effects of pearls, and believed that the efficacy of pearls was to beautify the skin. Therefore, he wrote in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Pearls are salty, sweet, cold, non-toxic and calming; Pearlescent coating makes people moist and look good. Apply hands and feet, skin peeling; Eliminating phlegm, removing spots and stopping diarrhea; In addition to children's fever, soothe the soul; Stop nocturnal emission, remove acne and cure poison. ..... make the luster white ",etc. At the same time, many methods of pearl medicine are also recorded.
In the Ming Dynasty, Chen Jiru quoted Du Yizhi as saying that when Li Yan was in power in Tang Wuzong, Prime Minister Li Deyu made soup with jewel powder, realgar and cinnabar, each cup cost about 30,000 yuan, but after three times of decoction, the dregs were discarded. At that time, alchemy was popular, and it was believed that pearl powder, realgar and other things, after refining, could be taken permanently, and the crane hair was beautiful.
Both People's Republic of China (PRC) Pharmacopoeia and Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine point out that pearl has the functions of calming the nerves, improving eyesight, removing toxic substances and promoting granulation, while modern research also shows that pearl powder has a unique role in improving human immunity, delaying aging, removing spots and whitening, and supplementing calcium.
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Pearl is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effects of calming the nerves, clearing away phlegm, detoxifying and promoting granulation. It is often used to treat fright, insomnia, convulsion, epilepsy, cloudy eyes, ulcers and other symptoms. In modern pharmacological research, pearls also have the function of delaying aging.
The results show that there are 22 kinds of trace elements in pearls, among which zinc can remove lipid peroxide which is easy to cause human aging. There are glycine and methionine in pearls, which can promote the regeneration of skin collagen, thus achieving the effect of beauty.
But pearl powder is a cool traditional Chinese medicine, which is not suitable for everyone. Pearl powder is more suitable for people with hot and dry constitution, so when choosing to use it, we should pay attention to judging our own constitution and using it correctly. If women with cold constitution take pearl powder for a long time, but they can't achieve the effect of keeping fit and beauty beauty, it will easily cause symptoms such as indigestion, persistent diarrhea, chills in limbs and sallow complexion.
Therefore, it should be noted that patients with cold constitution, stomach cold and stones are not suitable for taking pearl powder.
Pearl powder can be used for external use in addition to oral administration, which is safer. However, it is best to do a skin test behind the ear before the first use to prevent allergic reactions.
In addition, pearl powder should not be eaten with oxalic acid foods (such as spinach) to avoid causing stones. Pearl powder is cold, so it should be stopped in women's menstrual period. Pregnant women and those with deficiency of spleen and stomach should use it with caution. People with allergies, especially those who have been found to be allergic to pearls, should use them with caution or even ban them.
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