White or Red Christmas

Drink for a healthier and prettier you during Christmas and New year's holiday. Wines have been used in Chinese medicine for thousands of years, make good use of white wine or red grape wine not only for health benefits, but to make you prettier.

Red wine

I do not suggest you over drink during the holidays, but drinking a little red grape wine will not only help your circulation, but also make your skin prettier.  It is studied in Chinese medicine, that a bit of red grape wine, may help you:

·         grape wine can reduce total cholesterol levels, and has anti-clotting effect, can inhibit thrombosis, thus preventing the formation of the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular thrombosis

·         Drinking red wine can prevent breast cancer.  Cancer Research magazine, Los Angeles cancer (cancer of food) Research Centre scientists extracted from red wine called procyanidins B dimer chemical ingredients found this ingredient can make mice breast tumor becomes small.

·         can improve blood circulation and help reduce period pain

·         can prevent the risk of Alzheimer, drink two small cups of red wine a day can protect the heart and reduce the risk of suffering from coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis. There are new studies have shown that red wine can protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease.

Dr. Sava Scannell (EgemenSavaskan), University of Basel, Switzerland, the research team led experiment found that red wine contains a lot of one kind of substance, called resveratrol (resveratrol) experiment, this substance has significant anti-oxidation effects, can reduce to Β amyloid (beta-amyloid) anomalous concentration in brain cells, play a role in protecting the brain cells.
In Tai Chi theory, everything should be balanced with yin and yang.   drink in balanced amount of red wine may protect brain cells, (1 or 2 cup) , but too much will damage to brain cells, drink in Tai Chi way, only drink excessive amount.

·         may help you sleep better

White wine

Tips if you are working too hard through the year, or you may simply be too busy to look after your skin due to little time, heavy make-up, or poor cleansing. Look at mirror in the morning before you apply make- up, if you find:               

·         your face skin downy

·         not healthy looking,

·         bigger pores, especially around the nose area,

·         red nose with orange skin look

In the case of heavy makeup, oily skin or germs, this tip may help you:

Use half spoon of white wine (must be made of grains) above 55% alcohol

Cleanse your face first, till it is clean and dry,

Tap the white wine on your finger tips and massage, and tap again, gentle massage the affected area, particularly the nose area, gently slide and  circle your finger tips around the area, please be gentle on  your skin as you do this.

Leave it for a while, do not need to wash out, you will find that your skin will be shining, soft and pretty looking.  

This method cleans the pores and gets rid of oily residue and will kill the germs in the pores.   Suggest you try it once, if you are not allergic, keep on trying, depends on your individual situation, the pores will become healthy and beautiful.