Say goodbye to dry skin in cold weather thanks to Polygonum multiflorum

Cold weather brings you uncomfortable feelings because the dry winds make your skin lose its moisture balance, leading to dryness, chapping, lack of vitality, even acne, making you miserable and unsightly.

Below are common but highly effective recipes and foods to help you nourish your skin most effectively in winter.

Lesson 1: 16g of sand root, 12g of rehmannia glutinosa, 20g of mulberry leaves, 16g of black sesame, 20g of eclipta prostrata, 16g of polygonum multiflorum, 12g of white peony, 12g of jujube, 16g of ophiopogon japonicus, 10g of licorice, 10g of chrysanthemum. Boil and drink 1 dose per day, divided into 3 times. Uses: softens the skin, increases body fluids, and moisturizes.

Polygonum multiflorum.

Lesson 2:20g dandelion, 20g betel grass, 20g mulberry leaves, 16g asparagus, 14g ophiopogon, 12g angelica, 12g platycodon, 16g Chinese ginseng, 12g wolfberry, 12g Chinese yam, 12g rehmannia, 10g honeysuckle, 18g passionflower, 16g cassia seeds (roasted black), 10g licorice. Boil and drink 1 dose per day, divided into 3 times. Uses: moisturizes the skin, clears heat, moistens the lungs (the lungs open to the skin, if the lungs are nourished, the skin will benefit).

Lesson 3:12g rehmannia glutinosa, 16g angelica, 16g Chinese clematis root, 12g platycodon grandiflorum, 12g astragalus root, 10g honeysuckle, 10g forsythia root, 18g mulberry leaves, 16g ophiopogon japonicus, 16g rehmannia root, 10g rehmannia root bark, 10g angelica root bark, 10g longan root bark, 10g jujube, 12g white peony root bark, 16g polygonum multiflorum root bark, 10g licorice root bark, 10g tangerine peel. Boil and drink 1 dose per day, divided into 3 times. Uses: moistens skin, moistens lungs, cools blood, and produces new body fluids.

In addition to taking medicine, you can combine eating braised pig's feet with green banana to increase skin moisture, making the skin soft: 1 pig's foot, 4-5 green bananas, shrimp paste, betel leaves, turmeric powder, MSG, coconut milk... enough. Clean the pig's feet, burn them until the outside is golden brown, cut into medium pieces. Peel the green bananas, cut them into pieces, split them lengthwise, soak them in water (add a little salt to the water and squeeze in half a lemon) to make the banana pieces white and beautiful.

Put the pork leg, banana, yeast, shrimp paste, turmeric powder, chopped betel leaves, coconut milk, MSG and some other spices into the pot, mix well, add enough cold water. Put the pot on the stove and simmer the pork leg until cooked. This dish is eaten with rice during the meal. Uses: pork leg nourishes yin, moistens the skin and produces body fluids. There is a lot of collagen in the pork leg, which is an essential ingredient to maintain skin elasticity and make the skin soft. Green bananas nourish the spleen and stomach, moisten the five internal organs, the sourness of yeast nourishes the liver and gallbladder, improves digestion. The combined effects of these ingredients nourish yin and nourish the skin, are good for digestion, produce body fluids, and help the skin to be elastic and soft.

According to SK&DS