The efficacy and function of wintersweet flowers

Effects of Wintersweet Flowers

Root: dispel wind, detoxify, and stop bleeding. It can treat colds, lumbar muscle strain, and rheumatoid arthritis.

Bark: Used externally to treat bleeding knife wounds.

Wintersweet Tea

Wintersweet has the effects of relieving heat and promoting salivation, stimulating appetite and relieving depression, detoxifying and promoting tissue regeneration, and relieving gas and cough.

Drinking wintersweet flower tea regularly can treat summer heat, thirst, dizziness, chest tightness, vomiting, polio, and whooping cough.

Wintersweet also has a very good effect on women. Drinking it regularly can lower blood sugar and stimulate the uterus and intestines.

In addition, drinking wintersweet flower tea regularly can also improve acne, blackheads, and dark spots.

Wintersweet tea is mild in nature and can be paired with other scented teas, such as: bitter melon tea, kuding tea, snow lotus, rose, honeysuckle, carnation, ginseng flower, snow beauty flower, pentaphyllum tea, bee balm, lemongrass, ganoderma lucidum, osmanthus, osmanthus flower, magnolia, daidai flower, calendula, camellia, lotus, azalea, etc.

How to brew wintersweet flowers: add one teaspoon of dried petals to a cup of boiling water and simmer for about ten minutes; you can add brown sugar or honey as needed.

How to eat wintersweet flowers

Since wintersweet flowers have such powerful effects, they are of course a delicious dish on the dinner table. The editor introduces several methods to you!

Wintersweet fish head soup: 10 wintersweet flowers, 750 grams of fish head, appropriate amounts of various seasonings, 1000 grams of chicken broth. Wash the fish head and put it into the pot to stew, then add seasoning, adjust the taste and then put in the wintersweet petals and it is ready to eat.

Beef strips stewed with wintersweet: 500 grams of beef, 10 wintersweet flowers, 50 grams of lard, 25 grams of onion, 25 grams of celery, 25 grams of carrot, 15 grams of oil sauce, and appropriate amounts of salt, peppercorns, and pepper powder.

Wintersweet stewed with tofu: 5 wintersweet flowers, appropriate amount of tofu, 250 grams of cooked soybean oil, appropriate amounts of chopped green onion, coriander, fine salt and pepper. Add a little oil to the pan, put in the cut tofu strips, fry until yellow, and remove. Add chopped green onion and cook for a while, add water and salt, then pour in the tofu strips, simmer for 5 minutes, add pepper powder, and when serving, add wintersweet flowers and MSG to taste.