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Beauty from Within

Perpetually maintaining one’s youthful beauty is the desire and target of many men and women. Women in particular consider beauty to be a vital part of their lives and many work very hard at maintaining beautiful skin. But most people only pay attention to external skin care and overlook the importance of the constitution of the skin. Beautiful skin is maintained and enhanced by nutrients that flow to it through the blood stream. A healthy internal condition is essential for maintaining one’s beauty and to prevent rapid aging. When the organs are working harmoniously and efficiently with one another, the body flourishes and this is reflected in beautiful, radiant skin, lustrous hair and bright, clear eyes.  More information...

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Beauty Formulations

A number of formulations have been designed to promote beauty from within and to slow down aging. These formulations are:

· Magu’s Secret
· Magu’s Treasure
· Schizandra-Lycium Drops
· Meishan Miraculous Beauty Tea
· Pearl Capsules
· Women’s Jing
· Hair and Nails Formulation

These are all superb tonic formulations. Any one of them will contribute to the refinement of the skin, promotion of cell growth and regeneration and clearing of the complexion. Magu’s Secret is a simplified, and less expensive version of Magu’s Treasure. Magu’s Treasure contains all of the premier beauty herbs of the Orient in one formulation, including Pearl, Placenta, Dang Gui (Tang Kuei) and Deer Antler.

Lycium and Schizandra are widely considered to be two of the premier beauty tonics in the world. Schizandra purifies the blood and nourishes the skin. It has a virtually miraculous effect on the skin over time. Lycium is widely believed in China to be the best herb a woman can take to promote beautiful skin. Women who consume Lycium regularly have skin like a porcelain doll.

Pearl powder is the other super herb for the skin. It has been used for centuries by royal women to keep their skin looking and feeling young. It is now available to everybody.

Women’s Jing is actually designed to regulate female hormones and to enhance female libido. It does this partially by improving blood circulation. This improved blood circulation also promotes beautiful skin. So if you want to be beautiful and sexy at the same time, this formula might be the ticket.

Meishan Miraculous Beauty Tea is an herbal tea that has a special effect on the skin. It contains a very rare and special herb that prevents wrinkling and helps remove blemishes. It is said that the most beautiful women in China come from the area where this herb grows.

Hair and Nails Formulation helps promote beautiful hair and nails.


Oriental Secrets of Beauty from Within

Stress, unbalanced diet, inadequate sleep, exhaustion, or anemia may lead to improper nutrition and metabolism by the skin. These factors will promote rapid aging of the skin. All of these negative influences have been shown to negatively influence the formation of collagen in the skin, which deprives the skin of vitality and radiance – and even accelerates flabbiness and aging of the skin, the formation of wrinkles, cracked lines, roughness, brown aging spots and black spots. Blood deficiency in particular will lead to rapid aging of the skin, and, unfortunately, many women in America are slightly anemic, or do not maintain optimum hemoglobin levels. This results in premature aging.

The Chinese tonic herbs may be used to promote healthy, beautiful skin provide natural nutrition to the skin. They are effective in enriching the blood with many special nutrients and elements that the skin requires to remain youthful and beautiful. The herbs are superb at moisturizing and nourishing the skin, as well as rejuvenating the degenerated elastic and collagen structures of the skin. They can also facilitate blood circulation and metabolism of the skin, functions absolutely essential to maintaining beautiful, youthful skin. And the herbs used in tonic beauty care have powerful antioxidant, free radical scavenging action that helps remove toxic peroxides from the body and keep the cells youthful. These qualities are essential elements for rejuvenating and maintaining healthy skin, for repairing damaged skin and for smoothing away wrinkles.

The natural plants and pearls used in Chinese tonic herbalism to promote beauty possess tonic properties. These tonic herbs naturally and safely promote the health of the skin and hair. They have been used in the Orient since ancient times to maintain the youthful beauty of the imperial women. When properly combined and taken over a period of time, they can prevent premature aging and wrinkling of the skin. They can help maintain the moisture in the skin and the skin’s youthful smoothness and soft texture. Some of the herbs are blood-regenerating, while others are naturally skin-moisturizing. Still others have detoxifying activity and others have antioxidant and wrinkle-smoothing actions. Centuries of use, as well as recent extensive scientific analysis, has proven that these natural essences have no side effects, which makes them suitable for women and men at all ages. Taking these herbs over an extended period of time can keep the complexion healthy and the skin smooth and firm.

Some of the most precious herbs used in the Orient to promote and maintain beautiful skin

Pearl powder purifies the skin and makes it radiant. It protects the skin and prevents aging. The components in pearl powder help heal blemishes and maintain the health of the skin by participating in the metabolic activities of the skin. Pearl promotes the regeneration of new cells and makes the skin smooth, fine, elastic and naturally beautiful. High quality pearl powder can promote the activities of SOD, the important natural antioxidant enzyme, and can help prevent the development of melanin, which causes freckles and dark patches on the skin. Various components in pearl participate in DNA and RNA metabolic activities, and can promote and accelerate cell renewal, a very important facet of regeneration and beauty maintenance.

It can help prevent the skin from becoming old looking, wrinkled and sagging. This is partly due to its stimulation of SOD activity and partly due to other capacities and nutrients. Consistent use of pearl powder can eliminate blemishes such as colored spots and even pimples and boils. Constant use can help assure that the skin will age much more slowly and that it will not be easily harmed by either time or the elements. Pearl is one of the great secrets of the most beautiful women of the Orient.

Pearl is also a powerful anti-stress supplement. This is an incredibly important effect, since stress can age skin very quickly. It can relieve uneasiness, nervousness, anxiety and tension. Pearl promotes sound sleep, prevents nervous disorders and nerve weakness, and is commonly used to prevent or overcome fatigue. Consistent use helps a person maintain their energy and vitality. Pearl is extremely safe. Safety studies on hydrolyzed pearl have shown it to be absolutely harmless. It can be taken by anybody for the course of a lifetime without side effects.

Pearl has been always been a very rare and expensive commodity. Therefore, until recently only the very wealthy could even consider using pearls as a food supplement to promote their health and beauty. However, over the last decade a new technology has been developed in China whereby pearls are "hydrolyzed." Through modern advanced biochemical technology, pearl can now be made totally water-soluble. The result is pure "instant" pearl powder. The solubility rate of this hydrolyzed pearl is 98%, and of this, studies have shown that 95% is absorbed into the blood stream through the digestive tract. This incredible technological breakthrough has made one of nature’s most precious and rare beauty aids available to anyone who wants it. This nearly perfect bio-availability and the enormous reduction in cost makes the hydrolyzed pearl an extraordinary value.

Not only is pearl useful for promoting the beauty of the skin, but it is extremely useful for women require calcium. Pearl is rich in calcium and magnesium.

Schizandra is among the most revered beauty tonics. It is said that after consuming Schizandra for 100 days that your skin completely changes. It becomes soft, smooth and elastic. Schizandra causes the skin to become naturally moist and produces substances that protect the skin from the harmful effects of the sun. It was the favorite beauty tonic of the women of the Forbidden City in ancient Beijing and is one of China’s premier antiaging herbs.

Dang Gui is almost always included in beauty formulas because it is the primary herb for enriching the blood and improving blood circulation. It also helps to regulate hormones and slows down aging. All of these factors make it an ideal internal tonic for beautifying the skin. Many skin problems are due to blood deficiency, poor circulation or hormonal imbalance. This one herb helps with all of these factors. It is especially important if you are under a lot of stress and your skin seems to suffer. Dang Gui is an important herb for women whose skin is sallow, dry and lifeless – all signs of blood deficiency and hormonal imbalance.

White Peony root is one of the premier beauty herbs of the Orient. It is famous for giving women pure, silky smooth skin. It is said in China that "the woman who takes White Peony every day becomes as beautiful as the Peony flower itself." White Peony root is both a powerful blood tonic, rivaling Dang Gui, and a potent blood cleansing agent. It removes toxins from the blood by stimulating the Liver to thoroughly detoxify the blood. By purifying the blood, White Peony root purifies the skin.

Longan fruit is another blood tonic that is famous for beauty. Chinese women consume Longan fruit to maintain the skin a young girl---moist, firm, radiant, soft and smooth.

Astragalus root, when combined with Dang Gui, improves the circulation of Qi (vitality) and blood in the flesh. It therefor magnifies the benefits of Dang Gui and all the other herbs in the blood stream, since it assures that the skin cells will be bathed in purified blood and that all toxins will be removed. Astragalus improves the immune system and helps prevent blemishes from developing.

Lycium fruit is famous for making the skin radiant. Lycium is considered to be an anti-aging herb in the Orient. It makes all parts of the body youthful. The skin becomes radiant and firm when you have consumed Lycium fruit for some time.

Codonopsis has the ability to balance the primary metabolic functions, to lubricate the lungs, to stimulate blood production and to make the skin elastic, smooth and radiant. It is therefore commonly used as a primary herb in beauty tonics.

Ophiopogon and Asparagus roots are superb moistening tonics. These two closely related herbs moisten and nourish the skin, making it soft and radiant. This herb is essential in dry climates and for those with dry skin.

Dendrobium too is a superb moistening agent. It is the stem of a rare orchid. It moisturizes the skin and replenishes fluids throughout the body. It is a famous anti-aging herb. Taken regularly, the skin becomes radiant.

Coix is a very nourishing herb which has special effects on the skin. It is famous for its ability to remove blemishes, including aging spots. Recent studies in Japan have shown that Coix may help prevent skin cancer. Constant consumption of this herb makes the skin very healthy.