There is a folk health saying called "flowers in spring, melons in summer, fruits in autumn and roots in winter". Besides ornamental value, flowers have many health functions. Doctors from Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Jiangsu Province introduced the health care effects of 8 kinds of flowers.
1. Winter jasmine
Winter jasmine is also known as golden belt and plum blossom. Dr. Liao Xiayun introduced that Jasminum nudiflorum has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling. Can be used for treating fever, headache, sore throat, urine heat pain, etc. It can be used externally to treat malignant sores and traumatic injuries. It should be noted that people with cold and cold and menstrual women should use it with caution.
2. Sophora japonica
Sophora japonica is also known as Golden Waist Tree, Fang Lake, Sophora japonica and Sophora japonica. Sophora japonica can be made into Sophora japonica, which can be used to make Sophora japonica steamed buns, Sophora japonica jiaozi, Sophora japonica pancakes, Sophora japonica scrambled eggs, Sophora japonica porridge and other delicacies.
Dr. Wang said that the main function of Sophora japonica is to cool blood and stop bleeding, clear liver and purge fire. Can be used for treating hematochezia, hemorrhoid, bloody dysentery, metrorrhagia, hematemesis, epistaxis, liver fire, conjunctival congestion, headache, and dizziness. For example, it is recorded in "A Brief Edition of Yilin" that it can "spread lung, purge heart fire, clear liver fire and strengthen kidney water". It is called "blood-cooling medicine" in "Seeking the Original in Materia Medica". Patients with mammary gland hyperplasia with strong liver fire can use Sophora japonica for diet therapy under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine. It should be noted that people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should use it with caution.
3. May
According to Ping Li TCM, the plum blossom used as medicine is generally green calyx plum, which has three functions: soothing the liver and relieving depression, stimulating appetite and promoting fluid production, and resolving phlegm. It is mainly used to treat depression and upset, liver and stomach gas pain, plum pit gas, scrofula, sore poison and other diseases.
4. roses
Dr Yang Xiaohui said that roses have the reputation of "the queen of flowers". Chinese medicine believes that roses have the effects of soothing the liver and relieving depression, regulating menstruation and relieving pain, and promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Chinese medicine believes that spring is a good time to nourish the liver, and it is also the golden age for women to regulate qi and blood. Women with liver depression and qi stagnation can take herbal scented tea prepared from green sepals and roses for conditioning under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine. Although roses are good, their fragrance is easy to consume gas and hurt yin, so those with insufficient gas and yin should use them with caution; It has a strong effect of promoting blood circulation, and should also be used with caution in patients with bleeding, pregnant women and menorrhagia.
5. Chrysanthemum
Dr. Amy Emilie said that chrysanthemum has the functions of dispelling wind and clearing heat, calming the liver and improving eyesight. It is often used to treat wind-heat cold, headache, dizziness, red eyes, swelling and pain, blurred vision. Because "only the bitter taste of chrysanthemum can absorb deficiency yang and make it return to the lower level", it has been an important medicine in ophthalmology since ancient times. Chrysanthemums are usually divided into three kinds: Chrysanthemum, Huang Ju and Wild Chrysanthemum. Both Huang Juhua and White Chrysanthemum have the effects of dispelling wind and heat, calming the liver and improving eyesight, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. White chrysanthemum is sweet, slightly weak in clearing heat, and better at calming the liver and improving eyesight; Huang Juhua tastes bitter and has strong heat dissipation, and is often used to evacuate wind and heat; Chrysanthemum indicum is bitter in taste and has strong heat-clearing and detoxicating power. It should be noted that "Yan Hui of Materia Medica" has suggested that the symptoms of qi deficiency, stomach cold and diarrhea due to eating less should be used less.
6.jasmine flower
Huang Zihui, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, said that jasmine is sweet, warm and has the effect of calming the nerves. Although jasmine is warm, it can clear the virtual fire. For example, it is recorded in the monograph "Enthusiasm of Materia Medica" in the Qing Dynasty that it can "clear away deficiency fire, eliminate cold accumulation, treat sore poison and eliminate gangrene and tumor". Patients with liver depression and qi stagnation and pain are also suitable to take jasmine, which has the efficacy of "calming the liver, relieving depression, regulating qi and relieving pain" mentioned in "New Ginseng Pieces" written by modern physician Wang Yiren.
Jasmine also has edible value, and the more common one is scrambled eggs with jasmine. It should be noted that before the jasmine is fried, it should be blanched, otherwise it will have a heavy bitterness. After blanching, it should be boiled with cold water immediately, and then the bitter water should be squeezed out gently to keep the flower body intact. Adding some white wine to the egg liquid will taste more fragrant, and the eggs fried with cold water will be more tender.
7.honeysuckle
Honeysuckle is also called Yin Hua, Hua Shuang, Erhua and Erbaohua. Dr. Huang Zihui said that this flower has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and cooling the wind and heat. Can be used for treating carbuncle, furuncle, laryngitis, erysipelas, toxic dysentery, wind-heat common cold, and fever. Honeysuckle has been known as a good surgical medicine for clearing away heat and toxic materials since ancient times. Jingyue Quanshu records that it is "sweet in taste, flat in gas and slightly cold in nature". Good at detoxification, it is an important drug for treating carbuncle, swelling, sores, tinea, bayberry rheumatism. Those who are not poisoned can disperse, and those who are poisoned can collapse. "It should be noted that people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, lack of cold, sores and pus should avoid taking honeysuckle.
8.peony flowers
Liao Xiayun said that Paeonia lactiflora has the function of promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, which is mainly used to treat women's irregular menstruation and menstrual abdominal pain. Peony bark, commonly used Chinese medicine, root bark of peony plant. Some places will make peony flowers into various foods, such as peony cake and peony dew. China has a history of eating peony flowers since ancient times. Yang Xiaolu, a document of the Qing Dynasty, records: "Peony petals can be boiled in soup, honey or marinated." There are many ways to eat peony flowers. It should be noted that certain types of menorrhagia and pregnant women should not take peony flowers.