What flowers are suitable for the elderly?
1 honeysuckle
Honeysuckle is white when it first blooms, and it is picked when it is in bud in early summer. It does not need to be dried, washed and soaked, and it smells fragrant and pleasant. It has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer-heat, diminishing inflammation, sterilizing and diuresis, and can be used for treating sore throat, especially for the elderly with chronic pharyngitis and frequent cough.
Honeysuckle can also be dried in the sun and put into a pillow, or made into tea for drinking, which has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, lowering blood pressure, clearing brain, calming the liver and improving eyesight, and preventing and treating colds.
But people with cold honeysuckle and weak spleen and stomach should avoid taking it for a long time.
lily
Lily petals can be eaten or used as medicine, and have the effects of relieving cough, relieving convulsion and moistening lung. Especially people with pulmonary tuberculosis and poor cardiopulmonary function can plant lilies. Note: Lily should not be planted indoors, but in the yard.
3 jasmine flower
Jasmine is a favorite flower for most elderly people because of its green leaves and fragrant flowers. A pot in the room smells all over the room. The roots and leaves of jasmine can relieve pain, flowers can clear away heat and toxic materials, treat colds, fever and abdominal pain, and can also be used to make fragrant tea.
4 chrysanthemum
After chrysanthemums bloom, they can be picked and dried to make tea. Huang Ju can relieve swelling and detoxify. Red chrysanthemum can calm liver and cool blood, white chrysanthemum can clear away heat and improve eyesight, and purple chrysanthemum can benefit lung and relieve asthma.
Chrysanthemum symbolizes health and longevity.
If you don't want to give traditional gifts to the elderly on the Double Ninth Festival, you can choose to send potted flowers, because many flowers have the meaning of health and longevity, which is very suitable for the elderly.
Moreover, flower cultivation requires labor such as moving pots, changing pots, loosening soil, fertilizing, watering, pruning, etc. It is a physical exercise suitable for the elderly and is conducive to strengthening physical fitness.
5 longevity flower
Longevity flower is easy to cultivate, with long flowering period, drought tolerance and auspicious flower name, which is most suitable for the maintenance of the elderly and can also be used as a gift, meaning longevity and corning.
6 golden branches and jade leaves
Golden branches and jade leaves are popular indoor green plants in recent years. Its leaves are thick, colorful and diverse, and it is very easy to survive, which is very suitable for the elderly to watch indoors.
7 orchids
Orchids are green all year round and have implicit inner beauty. They mean nobility, longevity, clear and strong fragrance, mellow and distant. They are very suitable for the elderly with elegant taste.
What should I do to send flowers to the elderly? The above six kinds of flowers are all good choices. It is better to let the elderly grow flowers than to buy pets. Flowers can not only improve the air in the living environment, but also become a great hobby of the elderly. Watering flowers can also exercise the elderly. Compared with buying pets for the elderly, Bian Xiao feels much better, don't you think?