Peach blossom is not only beautiful, but also has the magical effect of getting rid of diseases and beautifying. Chinese medicine believes that peach blossoms are sweet and pungent, slightly warm in nature, enter the heart, lungs and intestines, and have the effects of promoting blood circulation, rejuvenating skin, diuresis, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. Modern medical research shows that peach contains kaempferol, carotene, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, vitamin E, high-quality protein, volatile oil, fat, cellulose, potassium, iron, phosphorus and zinc. Kaempferol is a good skin care product.
Peach blossom has excellent beauty function. Here are some simple, practical and easy-to-operate peach blossom beauty recipes for you to choose from.
Peach blossom porridge
Formula: 2g peach blossom (dried), 0/00g japonica rice/kloc-0, 30g brown sugar.
Method: Put the peach blossom into a casserole, soak it in water for 30 minutes, add the washed japonica rice, simmer it into porridge with slow fire, add brown sugar when the porridge is finished, and mix well.
Administration method: daily 1 dose, 1 time while breakfast is hot, every 5 doses is a course of treatment, and the next course of treatment can be taken after 5 days.
Indications: For people with blood stasis such as dark complexion, blood clots during menstruation, purple spots on the tongue, and long-term dry stool, this porridge not only has cosmetic effect, but also can treat blood stasis.
Note: this porridge should not be taken for a long time, and it should be suspended during menstruation. People with menorrhagia should avoid taking it. If you use fresh peach petals, the effect is better, just use 4 grams of fresh products every day.
peach blossom wine
Formula: appropriate amount of peach blossom (collected on the third day of the third lunar month) and appropriate amount of fine liquor.
Methods: Take a jar, pour the peach blossom into the jar, add white wine, cover and seal it, soak it for 30 days, then unseal it and take the medicinal liquor to drink. When taking medicinal liquor, put the peach petals back into the jar. After drinking the medicinal liquor, you can take the peach blossom soaked for 1 time, add appropriate amount of Chinese liquor and soak it for 45 days as the second medicinal liquor.
Administration method: Take 5- 10g medicinal liquor for the first time and 10-20g medicinal liquor for the second time, and take 1 time every morning and evening.
Suitable for: healthy young men and women, can prevent all diseases, beauty beauty.
Note: People with large menstrual flow should not take it.
Taohuacha
Formula: 4 grams of peach blossom (dried product), 5 grams of wax gourd kernel and 3 grams of poplar bark.
Methods: peach blossoms on the southeast branch were collected on the third day of the third lunar month every year, dried and preserved. Take dried peach blossom, wax gourd kernel and poplar bark and put them into a teacup every day, brew them with boiling water, cover them, and drink them after 10 minutes. It can be brewed repeatedly for 3 ~ 4 times.
How to take it: Take one dose a day when drinking tea.
Suitable targets: those with facial dark spots, pregnancy spots and senile spots, and those who live in areas with strong sunshine such as the south, the seaside and the mountains and cause dark skin.
Note: pregnant women and women with excessive menstruation should not take it.
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Excerpted from China Health Network.
The beauty effect of peach blossom is mainly due to its containing kaempferol, coumarin, trilobite and vitamins A, B and C, etc. These substances can dilate blood vessels, dredge veins, moisten skin, accelerate the excretion of lipofuscin which promotes human aging, and prevent and eliminate freckles, chloasma and senile plaques. A large amount of vitamins A, B and C contained in it can prevent skin dryness through skin absorption and enhance the disease resistance of skin, thus preventing and treating dermatoses, seborrheic dermatitis, suppurative dermatitis, scurvy, etc., which is of great benefit to the skin. Mash the peach blossom and apply it to your face. Over time, the facial skin will be moist, smooth and elastic.
(Lunar New Year) March 3rd: Take peach slices and put them in a clay pot and bury them under the peach tree. Take it out on July 7th and add black-bone chicken blood to your face to make it look like a peach blossom.
Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Semen Persicae, Radix Aristolochiae. Taking a bath in soup can reduce pain, be safe and auspicious, and it is important that the body does not stink for a year.
This is a Taoist beauty method, which is well-founded, but there is also a saying that "picking peaches and soaking in peach blossom wine on March 3rd will cure all diseases and make you look good". For this method, Tao Hongjing, a medical scientist in the Liang Dynasty, has long concluded: "If you take three trees with peach blossoms, your face will be rosy and cheerful, like peach blossoms." The effect of peach blossom beauty is recorded in A Brief History written by Yu Shinan, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty: a native of the Northern Qi Dynasty, whose wife rubbed her son's face with peach blossom every spring, also wrote a song: "Take red flowers, take snowflakes, and wash her face with her children for fun; Take snow, take red flowers, and wash your face with your children to look good; Take Snow White, get the bonus, wash your face with the children and make a beautiful face. "
There is a record in "Ancient and Modern Secret Garden": "Peach blossoms are collected on March 3, and chicken blood is collected on July 7, and two flavors are painted. When they are taken off on the third day, the colors will become very bright. " It is also written in Fang Lu, the Holy Emperor: Peach blossoms "make you radiant". Peach blossoms were harvested on March 3, and chicken blood was harvested and colored on July 7. After three or two days, it is Guanghua color. "