As the saying goes, “a good night’s sleep is better than taking medication”, and a good night’s sleep without dreams is undoubtedly the most effective way to recover from a hard day’s work. High-quality sleep can not only replenish energy, skin is also a kind of maintenance, however, many urban white-collar workers to the evening although the body is already tired, but the brain is still active in thinking about a variety of plans, the next day up and sleepy and tired, skin is yellow, it seems to sleep a “beauty sleep” is really not easy ah! Is there any medicine that can simulate the effect of “beauty sleep”? In fact, in our daily life, there is a flavor of the herb, not only beauty, but also can help you sleep, and even help laxative, the effect is comparable to the “beauty sleep”, it is a common protagonist in the sugar store – lily of the valley. The efficacy of the herb Why can the lily of the valley help you sleep? Many people can not sleep, mainly because of the heart of the matter, although a little sleep, but the heart is always quiet, so to clear the heart to get rid of trouble. The role of the lily, is the upper part of the human heart and lungs of the water to make up for the upstream water supply is sufficient, the downstream discharge of water is also more, so the urine will increase, stools will be smooth, but also can be “heart heat” discharged, like the coolant of the air-conditioning to take away the heat. So eat the right lily, not only can help you sleep well, but also moisturize your skin, not relative to “beauty + sleep”? But because the lily itself has a laxative effect, so usually spleen deficiency, easy to diarrhea people should not eat a lot. The Shennong Materia Medica said that lily of the valley is “sweet in flavor and flat in nature”. When it comes to lilies, people generally think of garlic cloves like lily bulbs, in fact, the real body of the lily is also a bit like garlic, by dozens of leaf cloves wrapped into a white bulb. In Chinese medicine theory of the five elements, white is the “lung gold” on behalf of the white color and nature of the lily has moisturized the lungs to lower the role of the lungs. Chinese medicine often says that “the lungs and the large intestine are mutually exclusive”, meaning that the lungs and the large intestine are a pair of good partners that work together. The weather is particularly dry, people are also prone to dry stools, this is because the five viscera in the large intestine needs to be its good partner – the lungs to give it supplemental fluids; when the outside world of dryness in the lungs consumed “water”, the large intestine will also be affected. In this upper “dry heat” situation, not only the stool will be dry, the amount of urine will also be reduced, like the river upstream dried up. Fresh lily tastes crispy and sweet, rich in juice, rich in water, it can moisturize the dryness and promote the generation of fluids, so on the one hand, it can moisturize the skin and have a cosmetic effect, on the other hand, its properties make it have a “collection of the lowering” effect, through the lowering of qi to achieve the effect of passing stools and facilitating urination. The herb can be used in soups, syrups, and even stir-fried. Here are some suggestions for its matching: if it is to whiten and moisturize the main, you can add the silver fungus together with the sugar water; if you want to play the effect of laxative, you can directly use the lily boiled in water or steamed, and then add a little honey to drink; if the main purpose of sleep to calm the spirit, we recommend to try the lily of the egg yolk soup. Lily egg yolk soup Ingredients: dry lily 20-30g, fresh egg, rock sugar. Practice: dry lily first soaked, washed to foam into the casserole, add about 300ml of water to cook, the egg to the egg white, the yolk into the pot, after boiling, add rock sugar seasoning, can be eaten; if it is a fresh lily, it is best to first burn once the water or the first steam to remove the acidic flavor. If you have a heavy heart fire, you can add lotus seeds without going to the core to cook together.