If you want your hair to stay green forever, consume mulberries or extract the juice to create a soft syrup, taking 12-20 grams daily. This fruit also nourishes the liver and kidneys, enriches the blood, treats diabetes, improves vision, alleviates tinnitus, relieves joint pain, and enhances sleep quality, sharpening your senses.
Other medicinal herbs that can help maintain health and promote longevity:
Sesame: Sesame seeds have effects such as laxative properties, nourishing the blood, strengthening the five internal organs, enhancing brain function, fortifying bones and muscles, improving eyesight, and promoting longevity. Cooking black sesame porridge with lotus seeds provides nourishment and tranquility. Boiling sesame leaves to drink treats numbness and revitalizes facial skin, boosting longevity. Regularly rinsing hair with sesame leaf water helps prevent hair loss, stimulates hair growth, and maintains dark hair for longer.
Chrysanthemum Flower:
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Chrysanthemum Flower (Image: ionxchange) |
Chrysanthemum flowers are used to treat hypertension, dizziness, headaches, and blurred vision. Long-term consumption enhances blood circulation and has endocrine effects that promote youthfulness. The recommended dosage is 8-16 grams in decoction, either alone or combined with other herbs.
Red Huángjīng: This herb treats weakness of the spleen and stomach, fatigue, dry mouth, and poor appetite. Huángjīng can be cooked and dried together or ground into powder to consume with porridge for addressing weakness. Hải Thượng Lãn Ông recommends combining huángjīng with other herbs like thương truật, dì gò, cypress leaves, and tianmen for enhancing bone strength and darkening hair. The daily dose is 12-20 grams in decoction, pill form, or tincture.
Epimedium: Used as a kidney tonic, this herb strengthens bones and joints, treating erectile dysfunction and anemia. The recommended daily intake is 10-12 grams in decoction or tincture.
Morinda Root: In traditional medicine, Morinda root is a tonic for brain function and vitality, treating premature ejaculation, nocturnal emissions, erectile dysfunction, irregular menstrual cycles, and rheumatism. For men with low sexual activity, it enhances sexual performance. Morinda is also effective in treating male infertility due to low sperm count and physical weakness. In older adults, it boosts energy and relieves joint pain. The daily dosage is 10-15 grams in decoction or liquid extract, either alone or with other herbs.
Rehmannia Root: This herb nourishes the blood, strengthens the kidneys, treats anemia, fatigue, irregular menstruation, improves eyesight, darkens hair, regulates menstruation, enriches blood, and boosts vitality.
Red He Shou Wu:
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This herb enriches the blood, nourishes the liver and kidneys, enhances vitality, and serves as a sedative. It treats physical weakness, neurological disorders, poor sleep, anemia, and lower back pain. Long-term use can darken hair and reduce dryness and hair loss. The recommended daily intake is 10-20 grams in decoction.
Some nourishing recipes for longevity
Hair loss and premature graying, anxiety, dizziness, tinnitus, blurred vision, and joint pain: Prepare a decoction with 20 grams each of He Shou Wu, raw Rehmannia, and Xuan Shen, to be consumed daily.
Vascular sclerosis in the elderly, and delayed conception in men: Use 20 grams of processed Red He Shou Wu, 16 grams each of mulberry leaf, goji berries, and ligustrum fruit. Prepare and consume daily.
Reversing premature graying, strengthening bones, enhancing vitality, and promoting longevity:
– Combine 600 grams each of processed Red and White He Shou Wu, peel, grind into powder, mix with water, filter, and dry the sediment. Soak 820 grams of ligustrum berries in wine for a day, mix with He Shou Wu, and steam with black beans over several days. Prepare 320 grams each of angelica, goji berries, and deer antler, soak in wine, dry, and mix with 100 grams of sesame seeds, roasting until fragrant. Grind everything together, mix in honey to form 0.5-gram pills. Take 30-50 pills three times a day. In the morning, consume with warm wine, at noon with ginger water, and in the evening with saltwater.
– Thinly slice 1,800 grams of Red He Shou Wu, 600 grams of ligustrum, and clean one large bowl of black beans. Alternate layers of herbs and beans in a steamer, cooking until the beans are done, then dry the herbs. Repeat this process three times, then grind into powder. Mix with the flesh of jujube fruit to form 0.5-gram pills. Take 30 pills three times a day, using warm wine to aid ingestion.
A tonic wine for kidney health, enhancing male reproductive function and fertility: Use 400 grams of processed Rehmannia, 1,000 grams of dry male silkworms, 600 grams of Epimedium, 500 grams each of hawthorn and Morinda, 300 grams each of ligustrum and shan zhu yu, and 200 grams each of goji berries and chives. Prepare 20 liters of tonic wine, adding 4 kilograms of sugar. Take 40 ml twice daily.
Treating nocturnal emissions: Use 15 grams each of Morinda and Rehmannia, and 12 grams each of shan zhu yu and hawthorn. Prepare and consume daily.
For weak vital energy, fatigue, lower back pain, knee soreness, and nocturnal emissions: Use 150 grams of Rehmannia; 95 grams each of jujube and Chinese yam; 70 grams each of alisma and coix; 60 grams of rock plant; and 50 grams of tian ma. Soak the Rehmannia until mashed, add concentrated honey, and mix in the other powdered herbs to form pills. Take 16 grams twice a day.
