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 moisture balance, leading to dryness, chapping, lack of vitality, even acne, making you miserable and unsightly.

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

Lesson 1: 16g of rehmannia root, 12g of rehmannia root, 20g of mulberry leaves, 16g of black sesame, 20g of eclipta, 16g of polygonum multiflorum, 12g of white peony root, 12g of jujube, 16g of ophiopogon root, 10g of licorice root, 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 clematis, 12g Chinese wolfberry, 12g Chinese yam, 12g rehmannia, 10g honeysuckle, 18g passionflower, 16g cassia seed (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 root, 16g angelica root, 16g Chinese clematis root, 12g platycodon root, 12g astragalus root, 10g honeysuckle, 10g forsythia root, 18g mulberry leaf, 16g ophiopogon root, 16g rehmannia root, 10g rehmannia root bark, 10g angelica root, 10g longan, 10g jujube, 12g white peony root, 16g polygonum multiflorum root, 10g licorice root, 10g tangerine peel. Boil and drink 1 dose per day, divided into 3 times. Uses: moistens skin, moistens lungs, cools blood, 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, roast until golden brown on the outside, cut into bite-sized pieces. Peel the green bananas, cut into pieces, split lengthwise, soak in water (add a little salt to the water and squeeze in half a lemon) to make the banana pieces white and beautiful.

Put pork leg, banana, fermented rice, shrimp paste, turmeric powder, chopped betel leaves, coconut milk, MSG and some other spices in the pot, mix well, add enough cold water. Put the pot on the stove and simmer the pork leg until cooked. Eat this dish with rice during meals. Uses: Pork leg nourishes yin, moistens the skin and produces body fluids. Pork leg contains a lot of collagen, which is an essential ingredient to maintain skin elasticity and make the skin soft. Green banana nourishes the spleen and stomach, moistens the five internal organs, the sourness of fermented rice nourishes the liver and gallbladder, improves digestion. The combined effects of nourishing yin and nourishing the skin, good for digestion, producing body fluids, helping the skin to be elastic and soft.

According to SK&DS