Source: “Treatise on Typhoid Fever”.
Efficacy: Moisturizing the skin, nourishing the skin and anti-wrinkle, it is used for rough skin, withered hair, thin and dry wrinkles.
Ingredients: 100 grams of fresh pork skin, 100 grams of rice flour, 10 grams of white honey. Appropriate amount of salt, chicken essence, and a little chopped chives.
Method: 1. Shave the fresh pig skin, blanch it, remove it, wash it, and cut it into pieces
2. Put the pork skin pieces in the casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, change to low heat and cook for 30 minutes, add rice noodles, continue to cook for 5 minutes, add white honey, salt and chicken essence to taste.
3. Put it in a soup bowl and sprinkle with chopped chives.
Expert mottos
Pork skin nourishes yin and moistens dryness, rice flour strengthens the spleen and stomach, and white honey nourishes dryness, and the combined effect is stronger.
Drinking this soup regularly can nourish the skin, delay skin aging, roughness, shriveling and sagging, lighten wrinkles and scars, and make the skin radiant, soft and plump.
Patients with obesity, hyperlipidemia and diabetes should not eat more.
Pig skin is pig skin, which has the effect of clearing heat and nourishing yin, nourishing skin and anti-wrinkle, relieving pharynx and reducing swelling, and clearing the heart and removing troubles.
China’s traditional diet therapy has the saying of “nourishing the shape with the form”, and animal skin has a good effect on the skin, and it is suitable for internal and external use. Modern research has also proved that pig skin has the effect of promoting bone marrow hematopoietic function, and its rich collagen can also promote the healing of skin and mucosal damage, repair skin cracks, wrinkles, scars, etc., especially for middle-aged and elderly people with dry skin and winter.
Pig skin has high fat content, and people with obesity and phlegm dampness should not eat more.
Extended usage
Pig skin mask
Ingredients: 100 grams of pork rind.
Method: 1. Cook the pork skin into a thick soup, pour the juice into the fresh-keeping box, seal the mouth, and put it in the refrigerator for storage to make pork skin jelly.
2. Take out a small piece of pork skin jelly each time and heat it over low heat to melt it into liquid.
3. Wash your face before going to bed, apply the pork skin juice to your face, apply it repeatedly on dry and wrinkled areas, pat it dry gently, and wash it off the next morning.
(Excerpted from “Beauty Home Cooking in Ancient Recipes”, published by China Traditional Chinese Medicine Press)