chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum is not only considerable, audible, medicinal and edible. Keeping in good health with chrysanthemums is a major feature of autumn. Chrysanthemum is slightly cold, sweet and bitter, belonging to lung and liver meridians, and has the effects of dispelling wind and clearing away heat, calming the liver and improving eyesight, and clearing away heat and toxic materials.
Making tea with chrysanthemum is one of people's favorite health preserving methods. Drinking chrysanthemum tea often can refresh your mind, refresh your spirits, and open your appetite. Long-term drinking can also improve your eyesight and beauty, and prolong your life. Chrysanthemum can also be made into dishes and delicacies for health preservation. Whether it is stuffing, soup, shabu-shabu or cold salad, it tastes good and has the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying. It is suitable for headache, dizziness, red eyes, chest tightness, furuncle and toxin. , especially suitable for autumn wind-heat type cold, upset throat, red eyes and swelling and pain.
Mulberry tea: mulberry leaves 3g, chrysanthemum 6g, oolong tea 3g. The above materials can be drunk by adding appropriate amount of boiled water in the cup, which can replace tea for regular drinking.
2. Osmanthus fragrans
In autumn, dryness and evil are in season, which is easy to hurt the lungs. Regular use of osmanthus fragrans can eliminate phlegm and benefit the lungs.
Sweet-scented osmanthus porridge: sweet-scented osmanthus 10g, japonica rice 10g. Add water to the pot, cook the rice until it is cooked, then add osmanthus, and cook it with slow fire for 10 minutes.
3.camellia chrysantha
Camellia japonica not only has high ornamental value, but also its flowers and leaves are rich in various natural active substances, which have extremely high health care efficacy. Camellia has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, and can be used for treating nephritis, edema, urinary tract infection, pharyngolaryngitis, hypertension and other diseases, and has the functions of lowering blood sugar, lowering cholesterol, resisting tumor, resisting aging and enhancing immunity.
Traditional boiling water brewing method has low utilization rate of active substances in camellia chrysantha, which requires special processing technology. At present, a series of health foods, such as camellia tea bag, camellia beverage, concentrated solution, oral liquid and enzyme, have been developed in the market.
4. hibiscus mutabilis
Hibiscus, mild in taste, slightly pungent and non-toxic, belongs to lung and liver meridian, and has the effects of clearing away lung heat and cooling blood, clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling and expelling pus, and relieving pain. It can be used to treat carbuncle, furuncle, scald, red eyes, swelling and pain, traumatic injury, cough due to lung heat, vomiting blood, etc.
Hibiscus flowers are edible. The ancients used hibiscus flowers to cook tofu, which was red and white, fragrant, and like a snowy sunset. It was called "the soup of snow". "Shanjia Qinggong" records its preparation method: picking hibiscus flowers, removing flower hearts and cooking with tofu.
5.hibiscus
Traditionally, hibiscus has been used as medicine, which has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis and cooling blood, and has good curative effects on diarrhea due to intestinal wind, red and white dysentery, adverse qi, leukorrhagia, furuncle and furuncle. Hibiscus cauliflower is simple to make, and can be cold, fried and made into soup. Tender, smooth and delicious, with a fragrant taste. It can moisten dryness, promote diuresis and remove damp heat. Pure white, light pink and double petals are more suitable for vegetable cultivation.
Stir-fried eggs with hibiscus flowers: first, break the eggs, add some salt and stir, put them in an oil pan, stir and remove them for later use; Then blanch the washed hibiscus flowers with boiling water and take them out of the pot for later use; Put scrambled eggs and hibiscus flowers in a hot oil pan, add cooking wine and salt to taste, and serve.
Stir-fried pork slices with hibiscus flowers: first, put the shredded lean meat, ginger and garlic into a hot oil pan and stir-fry them together to give a fragrance; Then add the drained hibiscus flowers brewed with boiling water, pour in a proper amount of cooking wine, salt and other seasonings, stew for a while, and then eat from the pot.