Are Chinese herbal masks useful? Professionals to answer

Are Chinese herbal masks useful? Professionals to answer

When treating diseases in daily life, many people will first think of using traditional Chinese medicine for treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine can regulate the body. This treatment method has many advantages, such as low cost and good effect, and very few side effects. In addition, there are many traditional Chinese medicine masks on the market. Obviously, the effects of traditional Chinese medicine masks made with different traditional Chinese medicine ingredients are different.

First, lily mask

10g dried lily bulbs 50g coix seeds

1. Wash the dried lilies and soak them until soft. Wash the coix seeds thoroughly.

2. Cook the soaked lily and coix seeds together. After boiling, simmer over low heat until it becomes porridge.

3. Eat one bowl every night, and apply the remaining 50 mg on your face for 30 minutes.

Efficacy: Calming the mind, nourishing the skin, removing freckles.

※※ Lily contains colchicine which is poisonous. It is not suitable to use fresh lily for long-term consumption, but dried lily should be used. After soaking in water, the concentration of colchicine will be greatly reduced and poisoning reactions generally will not occur.

Second, Atractylodes mask

60g Atractylodes macrocephala 100ml rice vinegar

1. Cut the Atractylodes macrocephala into thin slices.

2. Soak the Atractylodes macrocephala slices in white rice vinegar for 7 days.

3. Apply white atractylodes vinegar to freckles or dark spots for more than half a month, once a day.

Efficacy: Atractylodes is rich in vitamin A and other substances, which can enhance the metabolism of skin cells and promote the excretion of melanin. Vinegar can soften and fall off keratin cells, thereby eliminating freckles and black spots. ※Atractylodes macrocephala is available at Chinese medicine stores ※White rice vinegar (white edible vinegar)

Third, Poria mask

15g white Poria cocos 30g white honey

1. Grind white Poria into fine powder.

2. Mix honey and Poria cocos into a paste.

3. Apply on your face before going to bed at night and wash it off with clean water the next morning.

Efficacy: This mask can nourish the skin and eliminate age spots and chloasma. Ancient doctors believed that Poria cocos can dissolve all dark spots and scars, and when used with honey, it can both nourish the skin and lighten pigmentation spots.

Fourth, Li Ren Mask

15g plum kernels 1 egg white

1. Remove the hard shell of the plum core and the plum kernel and grind into fine powder.

2. Add egg white to the chopped plum kernels.

3. Apply on your face before going to bed every night and wash it off with clean water the next morning.

Efficacy: This mask has the effect of removing chloasma and other dark spots.

Plum kernels contain fruit acid and vitamin E, which have the effect of removing spots and beautifying the skin. Fruit acid has a significant freckle removal effect and is widely used in modern cosmetics. Ancient physicians highly praised the beauty effects of prune kernel facial mask. Chen Bangxian, a famous medical scientist in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, conducted research on prune kernel specifically, proving that prune kernel powder mixed with egg white can indeed have the effect of removing freckles.

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