Six magical uses of roses: making women more beautiful

Introduction: Roses are not only beautiful, but also have many benefits. How can we use them correctly and effectively? Here we will teach you some wonderful uses of roses, which will come in handy when you receive roses in the future.

1. Anti-depression

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that rose flowers have mild medicinal properties and have calming, soothing and anti-depressant effects. Therefore, friends who are depressed during menstruation may wish to take a transparent glass, put in 15 grams of roses, add boiling water, soak for 5 minutes and then drink it instead of tea. Rose tea, which has the reputation of "the holy medicine for relieving depression", will definitely make your mood "cloudy to sunny". Of course, you can also add rock sugar or honey according to your personal taste when drinking.

2. Treating Plum-pit Qi

Symptoms include a foreign body sensation in the throat, or a blockage like a plum pit, which makes it difficult to swallow or spit out, and in severe cases, the patient feels suffocated and unbearable. You can use 10 grams each of rose, pinellia, red dates, and safflower, one dose per day, decocted in water; or 3 grams each of green tea and rose, 6 grams each of platycodon and cornus, grind them into fine powder, brew with boiling water, and drink as tea.

3. Treat menopausal syndrome

You can use 3-5 grams of rose powder and 30 grams of whole angelica to boil the juice and take it or take it with warm water.

4. Relieve menstrual pain

When dysmenorrhea occurs, you can also use 200 grams of fresh roses, decoct a soup, concentrate it into a thin paste, spread it on four layers of gauze, apply it to the navel while it is still warm, fix it with adhesive tape, and change the dressing once a day. It can have magical effects.

5. Skin care

Roses have a good effect on nourishing women's skin. Here we will introduce two DIY skin care products made from roses. They do not contain preservatives and additives, and are safe and healthy for use.

1. Rose water

Rose water has enhanced the skin's moisturizing and cell repair abilities, has good moisturizing and whitening effects, and also has a certain repairing effect on skin aging, making the skin hydrated, fair, elastic and radiant.

Ingredients: dried rose petals or rose pollen (this pollen refers to the powder ground from rose petals and has nothing to do with bee pollen), coffee filter paper, purified water or distilled water

Method: Choose a clean, grease-free small pot (a glass herbal tea pot would be perfect), boil the water, and then put the dried rose petals (pollen) in. Boil for 5 minutes until the water turns the color of rose petals, then turn off the heat, let it cool, and filter it with filter paper. If you haven't bought filter paper or filter screen. Another method is to wait for it to settle and then take the clear part. Put it in a clean small bottle and use it whenever you want.

Storage: Store in the refrigerator. If the water is made without preservatives, it should be used up within a week. If preservatives are added, it can be kept longer. It is best to refrigerate.

Usage: Use it as daily toner, soak paper mask, or make powder mask instead of pure water. These are all good methods.

2. Rose Beauty Vinegar

Rice vinegar has good permeability and bactericidal effect, and combined with the beauty effect of rose, it makes the skin more tender, white and moisturized. It is suitable for skin care at night and relieves skin tension. Because it is weakly acidic, it can better maintain and regulate the balance of the water film on the surface of the human skin. It is more suitable for the care of dry, aging, gray and acne skin.

Ingredients: 3-4 fresh rose flowers, 250ml rice vinegar (make sure it is brewed, health-care black vinegar is also OK. Do not use white vinegar or aged vinegar.) 150ml purified water.

Method: Soak fresh rose flowers, including the stems (not the branches), in vinegar and leave them for a week. After a week, pour pure water into the brewed rose vinegar and mix well.

Usage: After cleaning your face, dip your fingers or cotton pads in it and pat it on your face, or pour a little into the water for washing your face and use rose vinegar water to wash your face. Similarly, you can also put a little in the bathtub for a bath.

Storage: Because it is vinegar, it is better to store it in a sealed glass container and must be kept in the refrigerator.

Tips for eating

Rose flowers have an astringent effect and should not be consumed by people with constipation. Rose flowers are relatively warm, so it is best to use them as little as possible when you have yin deficiency, hyperactivity of fire, or excess heat.