Recipe for nourishing kidney and darkening hair

Our kidneys are actually closely related to our hair. When our kidneys are not functioning properly, our hair will fall out and turn yellow or white. This is especially true for college students, who often stay up late playing with their phones, which puts excessive burden on their kidneys. This can lead to more serious hair loss. So what are the recipes for nourishing the kidneys and nourishing hair?

Graying of hair is related to the aging of the human body and the depletion of yang energy. Traditional medicine believes that hair is closely related to the kidneys, lungs, spleen (stomach) and other organs in the human body. If the organs function normally, the hair will be black, beautiful and moisturized. On the contrary, if the kidneys, spleen or lungs are deficient, the hair will turn white and dry. Many prescriptions for blackening hair are recorded in medical works of all dynasties. For example, using the fragrant powder from "The Essence of Qing Palace External Treatment Medical Prescriptions" ground into fine powder and combing your hair, and using rhinoceros skin soup to wash your hair, both have a definite effect on blackening hair. The following are five commonly used traditional Chinese medicines, formulas and dietary therapies for black hair:

1. Polygonum multiflorum

Polygonum multiflorum has the effect of blackening hair and brightening skin tone. The lecithin it contains is easily absorbed by human skin and hair and can promote the absorption of nutrients, improve cell metabolism and nutrition, and promote the production of hair melanin; diphenylethylene glycoside promotes the expression of tyrosinase gene, enhances the activity of tyrosinase, thereby promoting the production of melanin and has the effect of blackening hair.

application:

Black beard, longevity and youthful appearance: Polygonum multiflorum porridge, 30-60g Polygonum multiflorum, 100g polished rice, 3-5g jujube. Boil the Polygonum multiflorum, remove the residue, add rice and jujube, and cook it into porridge over low heat. Add appropriate amount of rock sugar when it is almost cooked. Eat it 1 to 2 times a week. For those who suffer from blood deficiency, physical weakness, soreness of waist and knees, and premature graying of hair and beard, Qibao Meiran Dan can also be taken.

2. Eclipta prostrata

Eclipta prostrata has the effects of nourishing the kidney and yin, and blackening hair. The flavonoids of Eclipta prostrata have antioxidant effects and can delay aging; both the water extract and alcohol extract of Eclipta prostrata have obvious tyrosinase activation activity, which has the effect of blackening hair.

application:

(1) Liver and kidney deficiency, premature graying of hair, loose teeth: Wujian paste, 300g each of Eclipta prostrata, black mulberry, Polygonum multiflorum, Rehmannia root, and Poria cocos, decoct in water to extract juice, add honey and boil into paste. Take 2 to 3 spoons each time, 3 times a day.

(2) Blackening and promoting hair growth: Eclipta prostrata paste, 500g Eclipta prostrata, 30g ginger, and appropriate amount of honey. First decoct the first two herbs for 20 to 30 minutes, discard the residue, take the juice, and add honey to make a paste. Take it 3 times a day with boiling water. One course of treatment is 15 to 20 days. It has the effect of moisturizing and darkening hair.

(3) Nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney, blackening the beard and hair: Dry lotus pills, 1000g each of Eclipta prostrata, ginger, and raw Rehmannia root, 250g each of stir-fried Eucommia ulmoides, Acanthopanax acanthopanax, and red Poria cocos, 30g of Asarum, 500g of Psoralea corylifolia, 120g each of Lycium barbarum and Ligusticum chuanxiong, and 60g of Myrrh. Grind it into fine powder, add 250g walnut kernels and jujube soup, and make into pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take 50 pills each time, with rice wine. If your eyebrows are sparse and pale, you can apply the juice of Eclipta prostrata to make them grow faster and more densely.

3. Platycladus orientalis leaves

Platycladus orientalis leaves have the effect of cooling blood, dispelling wind, and promoting hair growth and darkening hair. The total flavonoids in Platycladus orientalis leaves can activate hair matrix cells and promote blood circulation, revive hair follicles with declining hair growth ability, promote blood circulation, and then replenish nutrients to play a role in nourishing and promoting hair growth; the resin in Platycladus orientalis leaves can activate tyrosinase, promote the formation of melanin, and play a role in blackening hair.

application:

If your hair is dry and yellow, you can use arborvitae leaves soaked in water and use it as a shampoo.

4. Mulberry Leaves

Mulberry leaves have the effects of blackening hair, whitening and anti-aging. It mainly contains flavonoids and flavonoid glycosides, polyphenols, bioalkaloids, polysaccharides and other active chemical ingredients. Among them, the total flavonoids of mulberry leaves and the rutin, isoquercetin, astragalus glycosides, morin and kaempferol they contain can inhibit tyrosinase, promote melanin production, scavenge free radicals, anti-oxidation, and have anti-aging effects. The maximum usage of mulberry leaf extract in approved cosmetics is 0.3%.