Chinese medicine is derived from “medicine and food from the same source”, and it is often said that “three parts of medicine and seven parts of nutrition”, “medicine is better than food”. With the increasing standard of living, living conditions continue to improve, people’s dietary requirements are not only to meet the satisfaction of filling the stomach, but also to eat healthy, eat beautiful. In addition to supplying the body with the nutrients it needs, many foods in daily life also have many roles in nourishing the face, skin care, beauty and strengthening the body. Some foods are supplemented with Chinese herbal medicines with beauty and skin care effects, taking the nature of Chinese medicine, with the taste of food, can be made both drug therapeutic effects, but also with delicious special medicine food — medicine food. If consumed for a long time, it can make the complexion bright and youthful. The ancestral medicine has a long history of skin-care meals, in the Mawangdui unearthed silk book has a formula for the treatment of scar warts. In the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi used to take ginseng, ginseng milk, lotus seeds, Chinese wolfberry, pine nuts, etc., in order to achieve the effect of skin beauty, skin care. The love of beauty is the nature of every woman, some people do not hesitate to throw a lot of money to buy expensive skin care products, but unfortunately the effect is not good. We would like to introduce several beauty remedies and their home preparation method, hope you will like it after trying. A, lotus beauty soup Ingredients: lotus seeds 30 grams, gravy 30 grams, barley 50 grams, cinnamon meat 10 grams, honey appropriate amount. Practice: first lotus seeds, gravy, barley soaked in water for 30 minutes, then the cinnamon meat into the pot, cooked with a low fire (low fire) until cooked plus honey seasoning to eat. Effect: Benefit the qi and calm the mind, nourish the spleen and stomach. According to modern pharmacological research gorgonians contain vitamins A, C, B necessary for beauty, honey contains collagen and enzymes and other substances, can stimulate the growth of skin cells and promote metabolism. Regular consumption of this soup has the effect of eliminating wrinkles and whitening the skin. Second, dates and yams chicken pot Ingredients: 8 dates, 30 grams of yams, 1 chicken, 15 grams of onion, 10 grams of ginger, 25 grams of wine, 5 grams of salt, 3 grams of MSG, pepper, and 3000 grams of soup. Practice: wash the dates, remove the core; yam soak overnight, sliced; chicken slaughtered, remove the hair, viscera and claws; ginger shoot loose, onion cut sections. Jujube, yam, chicken, ginger, scallions, wine together in a pot, add the soup set on the fire boil, and then boil for 45 minutes, add salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper that is. Effect: Benefit the qi and blood, beauty and skin. Three, blood beauty soup Ingredients: Chuanxiong 3 grams, Angelica 6 grams, safflower 2 grams, Astragalus 4 grams, 100 grams of round-grained rice, chicken soup appropriate amount. How to do it: Wash the rice, soak it in water; cut Angelica, Chuanxiong and Astragalus into thin slices and put them in a clean small cloth bag, put them in a tile pot with chicken soup and boil the juice together, then put the round-grained rice into the juice and cook the porridge. When the porridge is thickened, add green onion, salt and ginger to taste. Effects: Invigorates blood circulation and nourishes qi and blood. Women often eat can regulate menstruation and blood, beauty. Four, lily red dates ginkgo soup Ingredients: lily 50 grams, 10 red dates, 50 grams of white fruit, 300 grams of beef, two slices of ginger, a little salt. Practice: the fresh beef washed with boiling water and cut thin slices, white fruit shelled and soaked in water to remove the outer layer of film, red dates to remove the core, ginger peeled and sliced. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, first boil with a fierce fire until the water rolls, add lily, red dates, white fruit and ginger slices, and then change to medium heat, lily will be cooked when adding beef, continue to boil until the beef is cooked, add a pinch of salt, serve that food. Efficacy: nourish blood and yin, moisten the lungs and benefit the qi, nourish the face. Five, astragalus brown sugar porridge Ingredients: 30 grams of astragalus, 100 grams of round-grained rice, 30 grams of brown sugar, 6 grams of peel. How to do: Wash and slice the astragalus, put it in a pot, add water, decoct and remove the dregs to get the juice. Wash the round-grained rice, put it into a pot with peel and brown sugar, then pour in the astragalus juice, add water and cook until the rice is cooked. Efficacy: Benefit the qi and nourish the face, suitable for the pale face due to weakness of qi and blood. There are many prescriptions for medicinal food, and the allopathic meals also require a certain amount of general knowledge of nutrition and Chinese medicine. Professor Chen here to remind all the culinary experts: medicinal food, first of all, is the medicine, followed by the composition of the meal. In the application must also be careful, must be dialectical diet.