As the saying goes, a year's plan lies in spring, which is the season when ice and snow melt, spring returns to the earth and everything recovers, and it is also a good season for health preservation.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, according to natural attributes, spring belongs to wood, corresponding to liver, and health care focuses on nourishing liver. Because spring is very comfortable, people generally feel sleepy and weak (spring sleepy). Drinking scented tea at this time can relieve spring sleep, promote the growth of yang in the body, and refresh the mind.
Chrysanthemum tea is the first choice for health preservation in spring. Why? How to buy quality chrysanthemums? Chrysanthemum, what are the "good partners"?
Let's take a look at the records of chrysanthemum in the ancient Pharmacopoeia of China:
According to Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, chrysanthemum "mainly treats dizziness, swelling and pain, eyes wanting to take off, tears wanting to come out, dead skin, aversion to rheumatism, long-term qi and blood, long-term light labor".
"Notes on Materia Medica" said: "Chrysanthemum, the main wind dazzles, can make the head not white."
"Herbal Yan Hui" said: "Chrysanthemum can dispel wind and clear heat, nourish liver and improve eyesight".
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To sum up, chrysanthemum has these three functions:
1 mingmu
Chrysanthemum is rich in vitamin A, which is an important substance to maintain eye health. People who often use computers, mobile phones, etc. Their eyes are tired. Drinking chrysanthemum tea often will relieve eye fatigue.
2 prevent colds
In spring, the human body is vulnerable to external wind-heat pathogens, and the common one is wind-heat cold.
Chrysanthemum has excellent heat dissipation effect, so it is often used for early symptoms of colds such as exogenous wind-heat, chills and slight sweating.
3 Clearing liver and purging fire
Chrysanthemum has the function of clearing away heat and nourishing yin without hurting Yang Qi, and has a good effect on liver and stomach fire in spring.
It should be noted that chrysanthemum is slightly cold, and people with deficiency of spleen and stomach should not drink more, so as not to damage stomach qi. Women are not advised to drink alcohol during menstruation.
Look at this color.
Fresh chrysanthemums are not dull, gray, moldy, with intact petals and no excessive impurities and insects.
Touch the flowers
A good chrysanthemum feels soft and smooth, not too hard or too damp.
smell
Chrysanthemums with better quality will smell faint fragrance. If it smells pungent and sour, don't buy it!
Chrysanthemum is homologous to medicine and food. If it can be combined with other ingredients, the health care effect will be doubled. What are the "good partners" of Chrysanthemum?
Lycium barbarum chrysanthemum tea
Ingredients: Chrysanthemum and Lycium barbarum
Efficacy: Dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing liver and improving eyesight. The combination of the two can tonify liver and kidney and improve eyesight, and has a good effect on blurred vision caused by liver and kidney deficiency.
Sanhua qinggan tea
Ingredients: chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and jasmine.
Efficacy: nourishing and protecting the liver. Moderate drinking can improve the symptoms of bitter mouth and dry throat. Suitable for people who often stay up late, work overtime, have tired eyes, blurred vision and are in a bad mood.
Chrysanthemum Ophiopogon tea
Ingredients: Chrysanthemum, Ophiopogon japonicus and honeysuckle.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and quenching thirst, moistening lung and nourishing yin can improve sore throat and relieve inflammatory symptoms.
Finally, I would like to remind you that although chrysanthemum tea is good, it is not recommended for people with cold nature, spleen and stomach deficiency and diarrhea to drink it often.
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Medical audit, Nan Li.
Editor/Producer | Health Career Development Department