Dyeing gray hair with black beans boiled in aged vinegar

There are many reasons for gray hair, and it is not only the elderly who have gray hair. Stress and malnutrition can cause premature gray hair. Dyeing your hair is actually not very difficult, but if you have problems with your hair, and use hair dyes with unknown ingredients, you may be worried that it will cause greater impact. Dyeing gray hair with black beans boiled in aged vinegar has a certain effect, and you can try it. Let’s take a look at the specific methods below.

The ingredients of this recipe are very simple, just black soybeans and rice vinegar. Soak the black soybeans in vinegar for 24 to 48 hours, then heat and cook until they are soft. Filter out the residue, then simmer over low heat until it becomes a thick paste. This is a natural hair dye. When using it, wash your hair, apply the ointment after your hair is dry, once a day. According to this book, black soybeans are sweet and mild in nature, can nourish the kidneys and strengthen the spleen, and are a good medicine for black hair; rice vinegar, combined with black soybeans, can dye white hair, and was a popular hair dye and hair care agent during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. However, the hair blackening effect of fried soybeans may be slightly worse than that of chemical hair dyes, but it is definitely healthy and harmless. In addition, soybean decoction is suitable for various non-hereditary gray hair, but it is not suitable for people with skin diseases on the scalp.

In fact, black beans can not only be used for external hair dyeing, but eating black beans regularly can also have a good effect on blackening hair. For example, eating 20 fried black beans and a spoonful of black sesame seeds every night can help blacken your hair. To treat hair loss, you can take boiled black beans, 50 grams each time, twice a day. If there is no improvement after one month of continuous use, you can eat black beans cooked with salt instead (add 5 grams of salt for every 500 grams of black beans). 250 grams of black beans and 30 ginkgo nuts, grind and fry them, add 100 grams of black sesame seeds and 150 grams of Polygonum multiflorum, fry them, mix the four ingredients and put them in a bottle, take 30 grams after breakfast every day to darken your hair.

In addition, regular consumption of black beans also has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on problems such as kidney deficiency, physical weakness, low back pain, weak knees, body and face edema, rheumatism, joint discomfort, carbuncles and sores. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that black color enters the kidneys, black beans are sweet, warm, non-toxic, and enter the kidney, spleen, and heart meridians. They have the effects of tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the body, removing dampness and promoting diuresis, and resisting aging and prolonging life. "The Secret Record of Prolonging Life" states: "Taking black beans can make one's skin grow longer, improve complexion, replenish essence, and increase strength."

"Compendium of Materia Medica" also said: "Eating black beans for a long time can improve your complexion and keep you white and young." It can be seen that black beans can also improve skin quality, improve complexion, strengthen the body and prolong life. Long-term consumption can make the skin delicate and white. Female friends who love beauty can also eat them frequently.