Spring health care: Look at your complexion to know your health status

Spring is here, and many beauty-loving girls will have skin problems, such as flushing, bluish-red, dark red, orange-yellow, etc. These "complexions" contain hidden information about your body's health. Now the health observers of the Popular Health Network are here to explain to you one by one the health conditions implied by different complexions in spring. If you find similar parts, please take a good look and read carefully!

The idea of ​​maintaining health and wellness based on complexion is well-founded. As we all know, we Chinese belong to the yellow race. Our normal complexion should be slightly reddish and yellowish, bright and moist. However, due to different physical conditions, people tend to have the following five different complexions.

1. Red face

The redness may be due to poor blood circulation, especially poor blood flow in the extremities, which causes protein to be absorbed without being fully digested. In order to fully digest and absorb protein, you should eat more foods containing B vitamins and vitamin C, and get more sun exposure. Regular bathing and massage can speed up blood circulation and reduce skin redness.

2. Flushed face

Facial flushing is often caused by drinking alcohol. In addition to the face, it can also extend to the neck, trunk and limbs, sometimes accompanied by wheals and itching, affecting work and rest. This is an irritation and allergy caused by alcohol. People who have this reaction should drink less or stop drinking. You can use vinegar, water chestnut soup or monk fruit powder to sober up. If necessary, you can take B vitamins, vitamin C or chlorpheniramine and other drugs.

3. Red and blue face

The bluish redness may be triggered by histamine in the food. After animals such as shrimp, crab, and eel die, the protein in their bodies decomposes rapidly and produces a large amount of histamine. Eating these aquatic products will increase the histamine content in the human blood. If consumed improperly or if you are allergic, your face or even your entire body will turn bluish-red, and you will feel uncomfortable all over, sometimes accompanied by headaches and itching. If symptoms are severe, antihistamines can be used for treatment.

4. Orange complexion

Orange-yellow skin color caused by diet often occurs on the palms and soles of the feet and is caused by hematoxylin. Foods rich in chlorophyll include citrus fruits, carrots, tomatoes, day lilies, etc. Egg yolks and butter also contain small amounts of chlorophyll. If you consume too much high-chlorophyll food in a short period of time, the chlorophyll content in your blood will increase sharply and accumulate in the skin in large quantities, causing orange-yellow color to appear on your palms, soles and face. Stop eating foods containing chlorophyll and drink more water to promote the excretion of chlorophyll. After a period of time, the orange-yellow color will disappear.

5. Red complexion

However, with the change of seasons, spring becomes a medical activity that uses various methods to nourish life, strengthen physical fitness, and prevent diseases, thereby achieving longevity. Women with weak bodies can use dietary supplements to improve their sallow face and thin skin, and cultivate a rosy and healthy complexion.

1. Sweet potato porridge

Method: Take 100 grams of sweet potato, wash and cut into small pieces, cook it with 150 grams of polished rice and appropriate amount of water into porridge, and eat it for breakfast and dinner.

Sweet potato is a delicious vegetable that people often eat. According to "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica", sweet potatoes can "replenish the middle, harmonize the blood, and nourish the five internal organs." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen is the source of Qi and blood production, and can transform water and grain into Qi and blood, nourishing the facial skin and making people radiant.

Dietary therapeutic effect: This porridge can achieve the effect of moisturizing the skin and brightening the complexion by strengthening the spleen and stomach, and harmonizing qi and blood.

2. Crispy Honey Porridge

Preparation method: Cook 50 grams of polished rice with water into porridge. When it is almost cooked, add 20 grams of ghee and 5 grams of honey and cook for a while. Breakfast and dinner.

Ghee is an excellent tonic, and white ghee is the best. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records; "It benefits the weak and tired, moisturizes the skin, nourishes the internal organs, and harmonizes the blood vessels." Weight loss and dry skin caused by dysfunction of the internal organs are symptoms of damage to the body fluid and blood deficiency. Yin deficiency will inevitably cause fatigue and fever, and fever will further consume body fluid. When the body fluid is lost, the hair will break and the skin will dry.

Dietary therapeutic effects: Ghee and honey can moisturize and plump the skin, and are also suitable for symptoms such as thirst, yin deficiency and fever.

3. Mung Bean Porridge

Preparation method: Take 100 grams of mung beans and 100 grams of glutinous rice, add water and cook into porridge, and eat as needed.

Mung beans are sweet and cold in nature, and run through the twelve meridians. They have the functions of clearing away heat and detoxifying, quenching thirst and relieving heat, and promoting diuresis and moisturizing the skin. Japonica rice is cool in nature, nourishes the spleen and stomach, and when used together with mung beans, it has the effect of detoxifying, promoting diuresis and moisturizing the skin.

Dietary therapeutic effects: Mung beans can also lower blood lipids. Regular consumption is very beneficial for middle-aged and elderly people with high blood lipids.

4. Walnut porridge

Method: Take 5 walnuts, take out the kernels and mash them slightly, cook them into porridge with 100 grams of polished rice, add a little brown sugar and mix well, eat on an empty stomach in the morning and evening.

It is recorded in the "Famous Prescriptions on the Sea" of the Song Dynasty: This porridge replenishes Qi and blood, moisturizes dryness and produces body fluid, moisturizes the skin, makes the body fit and healthy, and makes the beard and hair black by nourishing the bones, benefiting the lungs and strengthening the spleen.

Dietary therapeutic effects: In spring health care, eating this porridge regularly not only has the effect of moisturizing the skin, but also has the ability to expel stones, but it is not suitable for people with loose stools.

5. Sweet porridge

Preparation method: Wash 50 grams of rice and cook it with 500 grams of fresh soy milk. Add a little sugar and it can be eaten warm for breakfast or dinner.

Soybeans have the effects of relaxing the stomach, replenishing qi, benefiting the large intestine, and moisturizing the skin. Soy milk has richer nutritional value and is easy to digest and absorb.

Dietary therapeutic effects: In addition to moisturizing the skin, this porridge is also effective for symptoms such as chronic cough and constipation.

6. Tenderloin porridge

Method: Take 50 grams of tenderloin, wash and cut into small pieces, stir-fry with a little oil, and cook it into porridge with 50 grams of glutinous rice and appropriate amount of water. Add a little salt for seasoning and eat on an empty stomach in the morning and evening.

According to Sui Xi Cheng Diet, pork replenishes kidney fluid, replenishes stomach juice, nourishes liver yin, moisturizes the skin, facilitates urination and defecation, stops thirst, and cures emaciation.

Pork tenderloin is white in color and tender in texture. It is rich in vitamins C, B1, B2 and other nutrients that have beauty-enhancing effects.

Dietary therapeutic effects: In addition to being eaten by people with weak constitution and unhappy complexion, this porridge can also be consumed by healthy people who often drink it, as it has the effect of preventing and removing wrinkles.