The healthy secrets of sexy lips

Women love beauty, but most of them tend to focus on the obvious aspects, such as whether there are spots or acne on the face, whether the skin is fair, etc. But easily overlooked details are most likely to expose health problems, such as lips. The following content will explain the health secrets contained in the lips.

What are the lips that are both healthy and beautiful?

The beautiful mouth shape recognized by humans has two major characteristics: one is a small mouth fissure, and the other is plump lips. "Cherry small mouth" is the key to beauty.

The lips are actually a continuation and eversion of the oral mucosa. Orangutans also have lips, but they are very thin. Their function is to help with intake of food and water. Lips have no sexual suggestion effect for relatively low-level animals such as orangutans, so there is no need for them to evolve into lip plumping that is pleasing to the eye or even attractive to humans.

Humans are different. Surrounding the biological instinct of reproduction, lips are given richer meanings. They are a mirror that reflects the condition of the genitals. Because the two lips are of similar thickness, they will swell and turn red when sexually excited. This is the best signal for humans to convey sexual information to the opposite sex after they are erect. Therefore, one of the key points of women's makeup is lips. Plump and rosy lips are more sexy. Among some postures that tease the opposite sex, the posture of women inadvertently licking their lips is considered to be the most provocative. It is nothing more than an emphasis on the lips.

Since human lips serve as sexual signals, they are of course subject to deterioration. If you observe carefully, you will find that even if you have attractive full lips when you are young, they will gradually become thinner when you are old. This is a sign of the end of the reproductive stage and the beginning of aging. At this point, lips as sexual signals are naturally useless.

Hollywood's Angelina Jolie and Asia's Shu Qi were recognized by an authoritative American fashion magazine as having the sexiest lips. The common feature of their lips is that they are plump and fleshy. The difference between this sexy mouth shape and the "cherry small mouth" that Chinese tradition likes is that their lips are more active and even aggressive because of their plumpness, so it is a kind of ostentatious sexiness, while the "cherry small mouth" is relatively passive, just showing its advantages in the evolutionary process, and does not emphasize plump lips. This is related to the traditional Chinese cognition and restrictions on women, but in terms of evolutionary selection criteria, they are the same.

Sexy red lips are mostly caused by kidney yin deficiency

It seems that recently, the fashion styling industry has suddenly become popular with heavy red lip makeup. For example, in the movie "Search" directed by Chen Kaige, the character played by Gao Yuanyuan wore red lips. These eye-catching and even stunning red lips are only beautiful in appearance. From a health perspective, this abnormally bright and intense red color is pathological, because traditional Chinese medicine has provided guiding standards for skin color, lip color, etc.

"The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine·Suwen·The Essentials of Pulse" proposes that "the five colors of essence are the brilliance of Qi. Red should be like white wrapped in vermilion, not like ochre; white should be like goose feathers, not like salt; green should be like the color of a dark wall, not like indigo; yellow should be like realgar wrapped in gauze, not like loess; black should be like heavy lacquer, not like green earth." The red mentioned here should be the subtle feeling of white silk wrapped in cinnabar, rather than the bright and dazzling red. The other four colors also advocate a matte feeling. Too bright and explicit colors are the result of the leakage of essence. Therefore, whether it is the lip color, tongue color or even the complexion, overly bright red will only appear in a state of yin deficiency.

People with Yin deficiency are suitable for taking "Tianwang Buxin Dan"

If Qi deficiency cannot be controlled and develops further, it will turn into "Yin deficiency". At this time, in addition to weak functions, there is also the problem of increased consumption. Many problems caused by consumption can be seen from the appearance. The first is the bright red lips. Not only the lips, but also the tongue will be red. Because the energy metabolism is too strong, the water is burned less or even dried up. When a person has "empty fire", the color of the mucous membrane will turn red. Therefore, overly bright red lips are not a healthy color, but a sign of yin deficiency.

I met a very handsome male patient who was very conspicuous sitting in the waiting room because his lips were very red and his eyes were particularly bright. At that time, I was still an intern and didn't know that the exposed eyes and red lips were both signs of yin deficiency after excessive energy consumption. His yin was damaged due to excessive consumption.

Yin to the mind is like the latter's house. When a person falls asleep, the mind will return to the Yin blood. If the consumption is too great, the Yin will be exhausted, and the mind will have no place to stay and will wander around. At this time, the person will suffer from insomnia, and this "red-lipped handsome man" comes to see a doctor for insomniacs. The teacher who was in charge of me at that time prescribed him some yin-nourishing medicine, which contained berberine, scutellaria, peony, donkey-hide gelatin, and two egg yolks. Among them, the first three herbs are all for clearing away internal heat, while donkey-hide gelatin and egg yolk are both for nourishing yin. This medicine is specifically used to treat insomnia caused by yin deficiency, and the yin-tonifying herbs play an indispensable role.

There is another Chinese patent medicine that people who suffer from insomnia and restlessness due to yin deficiency can take, which is "Tianwang Buxin Dan". There are three commonly used Chinese patent medicines for the treatment of insomnia, namely "Tianwang Buxin Dan", "Zhusha Anshen Wan" and "Baizi Yangxin Wan". "Tianwang Buxin Dan" is mainly used to treat the problems of virtual fire caused by yin deficiency, such as palpitations, insomnia, restlessness and fatigue, hot hands and feet, and even mouth ulcers. "Cinnabar Anshen Pills" are mainly suitable not only for insomnia, but also for people who are easily startled and have difficulty staying calm during the day. This medicine has a stronger sedative effect. "Baizi Yangxin Pills" focuses on treating insomnia caused by deficiency of heart qi. Such people not only suffer from insomnia, but are also particularly timid. They will be frightened by the slightest noise around them, and the state of palpitations and panic will last for a long time.