Introduction: Some say a beautiful woman is made by makeup, others say she is made by her clothes, but in truth, a truly beautiful woman is made by what she eats. Below, we'll tell you how women with six different body types should eat to nourish the blood, enhance beauty, and achieve youthful, anti-aging skin.
1. Blood Stasis Type: For those who "easily get dark spots," eat hawthorn.
Characteristics: Bruising before the age of 50, painful periods for women, rough skin, many red lines in the eyes, and bleeding gums.
Wellness Recommendation: Hawthorn and brown sugar water. Hawthorn invigorates blood and dispels stasis, while brown sugar invigorates blood and replenishes it. The combination is effective for regulating blood stasis. Additionally, those with a blood stasis constitution should eat more black beans.
2. Depression Type: For "Lin Daiyu types," drink rose tea.
Characteristics: Thin build, melancholic, unsociable, often feels down, sighs for no reason, and has trouble sleeping.
Wellness Recommendation: Rose tea, lemon tea, and kumquat tea. Drinking water infused with dried roses can soothe the liver, alleviate depression, and regulate qi and blood. Kumquats can be steeped in tea or eaten, and also help regulate qi. Lemon tea can improve a person's depressive mood; it's said that Soong Mei-ling drank lemon tea morning and night as a personal wellness secret. Additionally, in terms of food, choose more foods that move qi and alleviate depression, such as daylilies, kelp, and hawthorn, and participate more in group activities.
Kumquat Tea
3. Yin Deficiency Type: For the "dry mouth clan," eat wood ear mushrooms and mulberries.
Characteristics: Easily experiences a dry mouth, dry skin, dry eyes, and dry stools, always feeling dehydrated. The body type is often thin and long, and they are prone to insomnia.
Wellness Recommendation: Wood ear mushrooms and mulberries. Both black fungus and silver ear mushrooms are foods that nourish yin, and mulberries are also very effective.
4. Phlegm-Dampness Type: For "pot-bellied ladies," drink winter melon soup.
Characteristics: A large protruding belly, a bulky waist and abdomen, an oily face, and excessive sweating. Women of this type are prone to chronic diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure.
Wellness Recommendation: Winter melon soup. Winter melon has diuretic and phlegm-dispelling effects, and regular consumption can also clear heat and detoxify. Those with a phlegm-dampness constitution must control their intake of sweets and greasy foods.
Winter Melon and Coix Seed Soup
5. Damp-Heat Type: For the "bitter mouth clan," eat wild vegetables.
Characteristics: Often has bad breath or a bitter taste in the mouth, is prone to hemorrhoids and pimples, and the face and nose are typically shiny with oil. They tend to have an irritable personality.
Wellness Recommendation: Water chestnut and celery juice, and cold-dressed purslane. Juicing water chestnuts, lotus root, and celery together has a great effect of clearing heat and draining dampness. Also, blanching purslane in boiling water and then dressing it cold is also very good. Eating large amounts of spicy food or barbecue can easily lead to a buildup of internal damp-heat, and when the body's heat-toxins cannot be expelled, they will find another way out, triggering eczema, small pimples, etc. Therefore, those with a damp-heat constitution should eat more foods that clear heat and drain dampness, such as mung beans and cucumbers.
6. Qi Deficiency Type: For "frequently ill children," drink Chinese yam juice.
Characteristics: Repeatedly catching colds, always sweating, a low voice, and a dislike for exercise. Many children who frequently catch colds are called "frequently ill children," which is related to a qi-deficient constitution.
Wellness Recommendation: Chinese yam juice. Chinese yam and Astragalus root are both Chinese herbs that tonify qi. You can juice the Chinese yam or decoct it in water. Additionally, you can eat more foods that benefit qi and strengthen the spleen, such as soybeans and hyacinth beans.
Jade Tai Chi Chinese Yam
kumquat tea
Silver eardrum
Strawberry Dafu