Chinese Remedies for Better Skin Using Ginger, Garlic and Green Onion

 

The book Ginger, Garlic & Green Onion as medicine compiled by Wang Fuchin and Duan Yuhua, offers natural cures for dermatological problems using Chinese food therapy. Here are a few of them:

Dandruff

Pound garlic to squeeze garlic juice out and apply to the scalp and sleep with it in your hair overnight. Wash it out the next morning with scented water. It is supposed to promote circulation and cure dryness in the scalp. Another remedy they give is to chop chives and green onions in oil and eat it.

Skin scars

Mix ginger juice with calomel (mercury chloride?) and apply the paste to the scar

Underarm Odor

Rub fresh ginger to the underarm area until the skin is flushed and then apply tincture od iodine.

Grey Hair

Rub a paste made from ground garlic and ginger onto the scalp.

Very interesting remedies, I wonder if they work?