A pot of flowers on the balcony can treat minor illnesses and disasters, and the whole family can spend less on medicine!

Keep a pot of mint at home to clear away heat and prevent colds!

The first thing Huahua wants to introduce is naturally mint, which can clear away heat and reduce internal heat. Ever since mint helped reduce her swollen and painful gums, Huahua has been worshipping mint!

Directions:

1. Mint soaked in water

Efficacy: Clears away heat and relieves summer heat, relieves symptoms such as indigestion

1. Pick the mint leaves, wash them in a basin, and then soak them in boiling water for about 10 minutes. You can drink it directly. If you feel that the mint flavor alone is not enough, you can add some lemon slices, which tastes great too!

2. The taste of mint water brewed from different mint varieties is also different. For example, the flavors of mint and spearmint are not very strong, while peppermint has a light flavor of Sichuan peppercorns and fresh chili stems, and its cooling effect is relatively strong.

2. Celery Mint Juice

Effect: moisturizes the intestines and promotes bowel movements, protects the liver and helps with sleep

1. Wash the mint leaves and celery stalks, put them into the juicer together and stir them slightly.

2. Turn on the juicer. It only takes about 90 seconds to crush the celery stalks and mint leaves.

3. Pour the prepared fruit and vegetable juice directly into a cup and drink it. Celery has the effect of moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements, while mint can enhance immunity. Drinking a cup every day will make you feel refreshed!

Reproduction method:

Mint is mainly propagated by cuttings.

1. If you want the mint to grow out of the pot, you have to keep pinching and topping the plants. Remove the two bottom leaves of the mint leaves and keep the nodes.

2. In order to avoid unnecessary nutrient consumption, you can choose to cut off half of the mint leaves, but do not cut them all off, otherwise photosynthesis will not be able to carry out.

3. Prepare loose and breathable soil, then insert the mint branches with dried wounds directly into the soil, water them thoroughly once, and then place them in a cool and ventilated place to wait for rooting.

4. It only takes about 10-20 days for the mint cuttings to take root.

Grow a pot of gardenia at home to reduce swelling, relieve pain and reduce internal heat!

Have the gardenias in many flower lovers’ homes bloomed recently? In addition to appreciating the beautiful gardenias, you can also pick them and eat them, which is very good for your health!

Directions:

1. Gardenia tea

Effect: Clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and removing fire

1. Pick the unopened buds of gardenia or the newly opened flowers, remove all the pedicels and calyx, wrap the rest directly with newspaper and put them in the microwave to dry.

2. After drying, put it in the refrigerator. When you drink water, pour the gardenia into a cup, then add rock sugar or honey to increase the sweet taste, and then you can drink it directly!

2. Cold Gardenia

Effect: Clear away heat and fire, prevent oral ulcers

1. Add some salt to the picked gardenia petals, rub them slightly, and put them in a clean plastic bottle for later use.

2. Every time you want to eat it, take it out of the bottle, wash off the salt on the gardenia with clean water, then blanch it with hot water, add sesame oil and other seasonings, and eat it directly!

Reproduction method:

Gardenia is also mainly propagated by cuttings.

1. Select strong branches from the mother plant of Gardenia, remove the lower leaves to avoid nutrient consumption, and then place the branches in a cool and ventilated place to dry the wounds.

2. Prepare a disposable paper cup, punch a hole in the bottom of the paper cup, fill the paper cup with sand, water it thoroughly, and then insert the gardenia with the wound dried directly into the sand.

3. Place the cuttings of gardenia in a cool and ventilated place. If you are worried about the temperature and humidity being insufficient, you can also find a plastic bag to cover the cuttings of gardenia branches.

4. It only takes about 1 month for you to see the gardenia cuttings taking root!

Keep a pot of honeysuckle at home to clear away heat, detoxify and improve your throat!

There is a big honeysuckle tree downstairs in Huahua’s community. Every time it blooms, Huahua can’t help but pick some and take them home to make tea, especially when her throat is sore. The effect is immediate!

Directions:

1. Rock sugar honeysuckle tea

Effect: Clear away heat and detoxify, prevent throat inflammation

1. Rinse the picked honeysuckle in clean water several times, and then drain the water.

2. Put the washed honeysuckle into the pot, add water, bring to a boil over high heat and then simmer over low heat for about 10 minutes.

3. Open the lid of the pot, put rock sugar in the pot, and cook for another 2-3 minutes. When the rock sugar is completely melted, turn off the heat.

4. Pour the cooked rock sugar honeysuckle into a bowl and drink it directly. Be careful not to put too much honeysuckle at one time, otherwise it will be too bitter to drink.

2. Mint Honeysuckle Porridge

Effect: Nourish the stomach and spleen, enhance body resistance

1. Prepare the ingredients: Wash the honeysuckle and mint leaves, then wash the white rice and glutinous rice and soak them for at least 1 hour.

2. Pour clean water into the pot, put all the white rice and glutinous rice in, bring to a boil over high heat and then simmer for 40 minutes over low heat. Pour the honeysuckle and mint leaves into the pot and cook for 5 minutes.

3. Finally, add rock sugar into the pot, cook for 1 minute, then turn off the heat. Wait until it cools down and you can eat it!

4. Cooking honeysuckle and mint together into porridge can not only kill bacteria and disinfect, but also enhance immunity. Especially for flower lovers with weak constitution, they should drink more.

Reproduction method:

Honeysuckle is mainly propagated by cuttings.

1. Select semi-lignified branches from the honeysuckle mother plant, cut off branches of about 20 cm with a sterilized knife, and then place them in a cool place to dry the wound. If conditions permit, you can also apply some rooting powder.

2. Prepare loose and breathable soil. You can mix garden soil, perlite and vermiculite in a ratio of 2:1:1. Then insert the honeysuckle branches directly into the soil and water it thoroughly once.

3. Place the cuttings of honeysuckle in a cool and ventilated place. It only takes about 1 month for the cuttings of honeysuckle to take root!

Keeping a pot of aloe vera at home is great for moisturizing the intestines, promoting bowel movements and relieving inflammation!

Huahua was allergic a while ago and had a lot of pimples on her face, so her mother picked some aloe vera and let Huahua use it on her face. Unexpectedly, the effect was so great!

Directions:

1. Aloe vera external application

Effect: Anti-inflammatory, moisturizing, remove acne and scars

1. Break off a small piece of aloe leaf from the aloe plant, or cut it directly with a sterilized knife.

2. Cut off all the small teeth on the edge of the aloe vera, then peel off the skin of the aloe vera, leaving only the flesh inside, then stick it directly on the wound and wrap it with gauze.

2. Aloe Vera and Barley Porridge

Effect: Clearing away heat and removing fire, whitening and anti-aging

1. Peel off all the outer leaves of the picked aloe vera and collect all the pulp.

2. Soak the coix seeds for about 4 hours, then pour them into the soy milk maker, add aloe vera pulp and water, turn on the switch and stir for about 1 minute.

3. Pour the squeezed aloe vera and coix seed juice into the pot, add rock sugar and cook over high heat for about 10 minutes, and it will be basically cooked.

4. Aloe vera has the effect of detoxifying, removing acne and helping whitening, while coix seed can remove moisture. The combination of these two doubles the effect. You may as well give it a try!

Reproduction method:

Aloe vera is mainly propagated by division.

1. As long as the aloe vera at home is given enough light and water, and occasionally some compound fertilizer, it will soon burst out of the pot and sprout many small buds.

2. When the flowerpot is almost full, we have to remove the aloe vera from the pot and divide it.

3. Clean the soil on the roots of the aloe vera, then use a sterilized knife to cut off all the side buds of the aloe vera, and place them in a cool and ventilated place to dry the wounds.

4. Prepare loose and breathable nutrient soil, then insert the aloe vera bud directly into the soil, and it will become a new aloe vera plant!

In addition to the ones Huahua introduced,

Like jasmine, wolfberry, chrysanthemum,

They can all be used as medicinal materials!

Dear flower lovers, why not grow one at home as soon as possible!