Check out the health benefits of the top ten flowers

NO1 Kapok clears heat and removes dampness

Kapok flowers not only have beautiful flowers, but also have the effects of clearing away heat, promoting dampness and detoxifying. It also has significant therapeutic effects on chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, diarrhea and dysentery.

Kapok food therapy

Kapok and Tangerine Peel Porridge

raw material

30 grams of fresh kapok flowers, 10 grams of tangerine peel, 100 grams of polished rice, and appropriate amount of honey.

Production

Wash the kapok flowers and tangerine peel, add water to boil the juice, remove the residue and set aside. Wash the japonica rice, add water and kapok and tangerine peel juice to cook porridge. When the porridge is almost done, add appropriate amount of honey and cook for a while.

effect

Strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, cool blood and stop bleeding, moisten the lungs and relieve cough. Kapok flowers have the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, detoxifying and stopping bleeding. Tangerine peel and honey can moisten the lungs and relieve cough. Japonica rice can strengthen the spleen and stomach. The combination of the three can enhance the functions of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, and is especially suitable for the elderly with qi deficiency.

NO2 Peach Blossom to Activate Blood and Regulate Menstruation

The whole body of the peach tree is a treasure and can be used as medicine. Among them, peach kernel is an important medicine for promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, moistening coal and lubricating intestines. Peach blossom has the effects of promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, promoting diuresis and relieving constipation. If women eat it regularly, it can promote blood circulation, regulate menstruation, facilitate bowel movements and detoxify, thereby achieving the purpose of beautifying and maintaining youth.

Peach Blossom Diet

20 fresh peach blossoms, 150 grams of longan pulp, sealed and soaked in 500 grams of high-quality liquor, it can be consumed after 3 days, once a day, about 15 ml each time. It has the effects of harmonizing blood and regulating menstruation, facilitating bowel movements and detoxifying, and making the face rosy, making people's face as rosy as peach blossoms.

NO3 Honeysuckle clears heat and detoxifies

Honeysuckle is slightly cold in nature and sweet in taste. It belongs to the lung meridian, heart meridian, stomach meridian, and large intestine meridian. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving sore throat, and relieving heat and restlessness. It can treat heatstroke, diarrhea, influenza, sores, boils, acute and chronic tonsillitis, periodontitis and other diseases.

Honeysuckle Diet Therapy

Use 10 grams of honeysuckle and soak it in water for drinking. If you want to improve the taste, you can also add 10 grams of raw licorice.

NO4 Lily calms the mind and nourishes the heart

Lily flowers are slightly bitter. According to traditional Chinese medicine, bitter things enter the heart meridian and have the effect of relieving and reducing heart fire. When heart fire is reduced, the mind will be at peace. Therefore, lily flowers have a good effect on irritability, restlessness, and improving sleep. Lily can also moisten the lungs and relieve coughs, replenish the middle and benefit the qi, and is also good for the spleen and stomach.

Lily diet recipe

Drink 10 grams of water every day. For women who are under a lot of pressure, they are busy with work and taking care of the family. They are easily tired and have sleep problems. Lily is the first choice for them. It can nourish the heart, keep calm, improve sleep quality, increase skin nutrition, promote skin metabolism, and make the face shiny.

NO5 Chrysanthemum anti-premature aging

As early as in "Shennong Bencao Jing", there was a record that "chrysanthemum makes the body light and resists aging". According to modern research and analysis, chrysanthemum mainly contains adenosine, amino acids, choline, flavonoids and trace elements. The main effects of chrysanthemum in cooking are nourishing the liver and kidneys, benefiting the head, resisting premature aging, and improving complexion. It also has a sweet taste and a fragrant smell.

Chrysanthemum diet recipe

Put 30 grams of red dates, 10 grams of polished rice, and 15 grams of chrysanthemum into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, and cook porridge together. When the porridge becomes thick, add appropriate amount of brown sugar and eat. It is beneficial to the spleen and blood, clears the head, and maintains youthful appearance and beautification.

NO6 Jasmine relieves stomach pain

Jasmine tastes spicy and sweet, and is warm in nature. It can help the stomach digest and absorb, relieve stomach pain, and has a good effect on diarrhea and abdominal pain. Therefore, jasmine tea is known as stomach-protecting tea. In addition, jasmine has a calming effect on the mind, which can calm people, relieve tension, and make them feel refreshed and comfortable.

Jasmine diet recipe

If you feel your digestion is not good, you can soak the flowers in hot milk to make jasmine milk tea, which has a subtle fragrance and has good auxiliary therapeutic effects.

NO7 Rose promotes blood circulation and regulates menstruation

Rose has the effect of promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation. It is mainly used to treat menstrual disorders, chest and abdominal distension and pain, depression and vomiting caused by liver depression and blood stasis. Fresh flowers can be used directly, or half-opened flowers can be picked in summer and autumn and dried in the sun, shade or oven for later use.

Chinese Rose Diet Therapy

Take 100 grams of fresh rose petals, 400 grams of flour, 3 eggs, 200 grams of milk, 100 grams of sugar, a pinch of fine salt, 50 grams of salad oil, and an appropriate amount of baking powder. Add sugar and milk to the eggs, stir well, then add flour, oil, salt and baking powder, stir into batter, soak the petals in sugar for half an hour, add in the flour sauce, and fry in 50% hot oil until crispy. Long-term consumption can relieve liver and depression, promote blood circulation and regulate menstruation. It is suitable for prolonged menstruation caused by blood stasis.

NO8 Osmanthus toothache bad breath

Fresh osmanthus not only has a strong and sweet smell, but also has certain medicinal value. Osmanthus is used as medicine mainly because it has the effects of dispelling cold, breaking up stagnation, resolving phlegm and promoting salivation, so it is used to treat cough, phlegm, toothache, bad breath and other discomforts.

Osmanthus food therapy

1. Use 3 grams of osmanthus seeds, boil them in water and gargle with it 3 times a day, which helps to eliminate bad breath.

2. Add 20 grams of Eucommia ulmoides to 50 grams of osmanthus bark and decoct in water. The toothache can be relieved in 10 minutes.

NO9 Rose and blood nourish blood

Rose flowers are warm in nature, sweet and slightly bitter in taste, and enter the liver and spleen meridians. It has the effects of regulating qi and relieving depression, calming the mind, harmonizing blood and nourishing blood, harmonizing blood and dispersing blood stasis, astringing and stopping diarrhea, softening the liver and regulating menstruation. It is mainly used to treat palpitations and shortness of breath, yin deficiency and physical weakness, heatstroke, spleen and stomach disharmony, constipation, diarrhea, liver and stomach qi pain, rheumatism, vomiting blood and hemoptysis, anorexia and nausea, bruises and pains, irregular menstruation, red and white vaginal discharge, dysentery, mastitis, swelling and toxicity and other symptoms.

Rose food therapy

Take 10 grams of dried rose petals. First, cook porridge with 80 grams of polished rice, 15 grams of wolfberry, 10 dates and 15 grams of sesame seeds. After boiling for several times, add rose flowers and cook until the porridge is soft. Then add appropriate amount of white sugar and eat the porridge. This porridge can nourish the kidneys and spleen, nourish blood and regulate menstruation. Regular consumption has the effect of preventing aging and maintaining youthful appearance.

NO10 Lavender improves insomnia

Lavender is known as the "king of herbs" with a fresh and elegant fragrance and a mild nature. It is recognized as the most calming, soothing and hypnotic plant. Relieve tension, calm the mind, soothe the spirit, heal wounds and remove scars.

Lavender diet

Lavender diet therapy: In addition to being brewed into tea, Europeans have long known that lavender has stomach-strengthening functions, so lavender is often added as a seasoning when cooking, or mixed with vinegar, wine, and jelly to add fragrance.

Precautions for using flowers for health care

★Be sure to buy flowers at a pharmacy or drugstore. Because most flowers are beautiful and edible, and the flowers sold in pharmacies are edible.

★No matter how good the flowers are, they should be used differently by different people. They must be used according to your own situation. You have to understand why so that you can use them well.

★For people without professional knowledge, it is best not to mix different kinds of flowers, as it is difficult to master.

★If you want to drink scented tea for a long time, in large quantities or casually, it is recommended that you consult a Chinese medicine practitioner to find out what kind of physical constitution you have and choose the right flowers.