The white gardenia blooms among the green leaves, and the refreshing floral fragrance is intoxicating.

But many people don't understand that gardenia is not only beautiful and fragrant, but also has high medicinal and edible value-

A handful of gardenias,

Nourishing the liver, clearing heat and stopping bleeding will do!

1 Protecting liver and clearing heat

After entering June, the weather will get hotter and hotter, and many people always feel that they will get angry inexplicably, followed by symptoms such as dry mouth, upset and irritable, yellow cough and short urine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that these symptoms are damp and hot, especially in the south. Gardenia, which blooms in season, is cold and bitter, and belongs to lung and liver meridians. It is the best health food for nourishing liver and relieving summer heat in summer.

Proper consumption of Gardenia at this time will help to clear the liver, remove lung heat, dredge the accumulated heat lurking in the body due to dry weather, and make the mood less irritable.

2 Stop cough and stop bleeding

When the temperature is high in summer, it is easy for people to feel dry, dry throat, cough and other discomforts without paying attention. At this time, you can have a handful of gardenia, because gardenia can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, but also relieve phlegm and cough. The Ming Dynasty's Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan also discussed Gardenia for a long time: "Purging lung fire, stopping cough caused by lung heat, stopping epistaxis and resolving phlegm." If the weather is dry and nosebleeds, the gardenia can be dried, ground into fine powder and blown into the nasal cavity; Or drink a bowl of gardenia double scented tea (gardenia, Sophora japonica), which also helps to stop bleeding. Need to be reminded that gardenia tastes bitter and cold, and those with spleen deficiency and diarrhea and kidney yang deficiency should eat carefully.

I have said so much about the benefits of gardenia, but how can I eat it to maximize its effectiveness? The following health gentleman will share with you several ways to eat gardenia-

Three healthy ways to eat gardenia,

The healthier the whole family eats!

1 make tea

Health recommendation: Gardenia green tea raw materials: 2 gardenia flowers and 3 grams of green tea. Practice: Wash Gardenia, put it in a teacup filled with green tea and brew it with boiling water, once a day 1 time. Nutrition comments: scented tea is fragrant, which can clear away heat and calm the liver. It is suitable for liver fire, dizziness, summer heat and short urine. If green tea is changed to black tea, the coldness will be alleviated, and it is suitable for the general population as a cool drink in summer.

Make a salad.

Health recommendation: Gardenia cold ingredients: Gardenia 500g, chopped green onion, shredded ginger. Practice: Wash Gardenia, break off the petals, blanch with boiling water, remove and drain, put on a plate, sprinkle with chopped green onion and shredded ginger, pour in sesame oil and mature vinegar, add appropriate amount of salt and stir well. Nutrition Comments: This cold salad has the effects of clearing away heat and cooling blood, detoxicating and stopping dysentery, and is suitable for cough due to lung heat, carbuncle, toxic sore and hematochezia.

3 dishes to eat

Health recommendation: stir-fried small bamboo shoots with gardenia. Ingredients: Gardenia 200g, shelled bamboo shoots 150g, bacon 100g, chopped green onion and shredded ginger. Practice: Wash the gardenia and pour it out with boiling water. Small bamboo shoots are sliced obliquely; Dice the bacon; After the oil in the pot is heated, pour the above ingredients into the pot and stir-fry until cooked, and season with salt. Nutrition Comments: This gardenia diet prescription can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, clear away heat and relieve constipation, and is suitable for anorexia, diet reduction, abdominal distension and constipation. Gardenia and bacon are delicious. In addition, after the gardenia leaves the fruit, it is steamed or scalded with hot water, and then dried in the sun, which becomes the traditional Chinese medicine-Gardenia.

There is a saying in the Classic of Materia Medica: "This medicine tastes bitter and cold, purging all deficiency fire". Gardenia has the effects of purging fire and relieving annoyance, clearing away heat and diuresis, and cooling blood and detoxifying. And gardenia can be called a "fire extinguisher" for daily "getting angry". Soaking in water can relieve symptoms such as eye redness and pain, heat sore and toothache.

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