People in China have a custom of enjoying flowers since ancient times, which is treated together with health preservation. Someone once summed up the four functions of flowers:
A flower can bloom. These flowers are beautiful. When you are tired and bored, or strolling among the flowers in the park, or glancing at several bonsai, you will often see birds, butterflies, clocks, cups and other flowers in different shapes, and feel refreshed and upset.
Second, flowers can explain language. The fragrance of flowers is rich, and the flowers are like people. Seeing and smelling them seems to solve people's suffering and happiness. The faint fragrance seems to be whispering, the thick fragrance seems to be singing happily, the faint fragrance seems to evoke good memories, and the faint fragrance seems to soothe the troubled thoughts. In various ways, they are communicating with people emotionally.
Third, flowers can cure diseases. Many flowers are used as medicine, such as apricot blossom beauty, lotus flower to relieve summer heat, chrysanthemum to dispel wind, osmanthus to relieve cough, lilac flower to regulate qi, cardamom to neutralize, jasmine to refresh, daffodil to clear heat, honeysuckle to detoxify, peony flower to promote blood circulation, azalea to relieve asthma, magnolia flower to enlighten, Chimonanthus praecox to promote fluid production, Sophora japonica flower to relieve depression and so on.
Fourth, flowers can strengthen the body. Flowers can also be eaten or used for other purposes, such as traditional jasmine tea, rose flower dew, chrysanthemum crystal, osmanthus wine and so on. As well as dietotherapy and medicated diet made with flowers as seasoning, and pigments developed with flowers and pigments as food additives. All kinds of medicine bags, pillows, sachets and medicine clothes used for prevention and health care are inextricably linked with flowers.
According to modern medical research, in a quiet garden. People's nervous tension and visual fatigue are easy to eliminate, which is also beneficial to the regulation of the central nervous system and the improvement of various functions of the body. For example. It can reduce the skin temperature by 1-2℃, reduce the average pulse by 4-8 times per minute, breathe slowly and evenly, slow down the blood flow, reduce the burden on the heart, and enhance the sensitivity of olfactory, auditory and thinking activities.
In addition, the fragrance of many flowers can inhibit germs, prevent colds and reduce respiratory diseases. In recent years, a kind of natural food called "pollen" has been widely concerned and welcomed by people at home and abroad because of its function of strengthening the body. Because pollen is rich in nutrients, including protein, plant fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, amino acids and so on. Clinical experiments show that pollen has certain curative effect on diabetes, liver disease, anemia, insomnia, hyperacidity, gastritis, constipation and other diseases. It can also be used for treating skin allergy, freckle and chloasma. It is also very simple to eat. As long as a small amount of pollen is mixed in fresh milk, fruit juice, tea and other drinks, it can be drunk.