What is the difference between hehuan mi and hehuan flowers?

Hehuan mi is the flower bud of the hehuan flower, blue-green or yellow-green, hairy, with the lower 1/3 wrapped by the calyx tube. The hehuan flower is also known as the silk tree and the Persian silk tree. It is a deciduous tree that blooms in summer, with head-shaped inflorescences, a gamopetalous corolla, and numerous stamens, pale red.

1. What do hehuan flowers and hehuan mi look like?

Hehuan flower:

The head-shaped inflorescences are arranged at the branch tips into large paniculate inflorescences; the flowers are pink; the calyx is tubular, 3mm long; the corolla is 8mm long, with triangular lobes 1.5mm long, and both the calyx and corolla are covered with short soft hairs; the stamens are numerous, united at the base, with slender filaments; the ovary is superior, the style is almost as long as the filaments, and the stigma is cylindrical.

Hehuan mi:

It is club-shaped, 2 to 6mm long, with the swollen part about 2mm in diameter, pale yellow to yellow-brown, entirely covered with fine hairs, and with a very short or absent pedicel. The calyx is tubular with 5 small teeth at the tip; the corolla is not yet open; the stamens are numerous, slender and curved, united at the base, and enclosed within the corolla. It has a faint fragrance and a mild taste.

2. What effects and benefits does the hehuan flower have?

1. Relieving depression and calming the mind

As we mentioned earlier, relieving depression and calming the mind is the most prominent effect of the hehuan flower, and pharmacological research also shows that the hehuan flower has sedative and hypnotic effects, so drinking hehuan flower tea in daily life can have a calming effect on the human body.

2. Beautifying and nourishing the skin

Drinking hehuan flower tea also has a certain beautifying and skin-nourishing effect; its blood-activating effect can help improve one's complexion, and at the same time ensuring adequate sleep, so it can play a role in beautifying and nourishing the skin.

3. Anti-tumor effect

Pharmacological research shows that the polysaccharides contained in hehuan bark also have an inhibitory effect on tumors, and thus have an anti-tumor effect.

The hehuan flower has a certain blood-activating effect, so women during pregnancy should avoid taking it.