How much does the Chinese herb Magnolia Flower cost per gram, its effects and benefits, using it in water to treat rhinitis, and its flower meaning
Magnolia Flower generally refers to Magnolia, also called white magnolia, magnolia, magnolia flower, Wangchun, Yingchun flower, Yutangchun, magnolia, and is an important ornamental flowering tree in early spring in the south.So how much does Magnolia Flower cost per gram? What are its effects and benefits? Can soaking it in water treat rhinitis? What is its flower meaning? According to the Bozhou Chinese medicinal materials market, Magnolia Flower costs 5-7 yuan/gram.
What are the effects and benefits of Magnolia Flower?
1. Eating Magnolia Flower has an anti-allergic effect
The volatile oil of Magnolia Flower can clearly counteract xylene-induced ear swelling in mice and egg white-induced paw swelling in rats, and has obvious anti-slow-reacting-substance, anti-histamine and anti-allergic effects.
2. Eating Magnolia Flower has an anti-inflammatory effect
When Magnolia Flower oil was used to treat increased peritoneal capillary permeability, ear swelling and cotton-ball granuloma in mice, as well as pleurisy in rats, it was found that Magnolia Flower oil has a strong anti-inflammatory effect. It was concluded that Magnolia Flower oil lowers capillary permeability in inflamed tissue and can clearly reduce inflammatory reactions such as congestion, edema, necrosis and inflammatory cell infiltration. The anti-inflammatory mechanism of Magnolia Flower is the inhibition of inflammatory mediators.
3. Eating Magnolia Flower has local astringent, stimulating and anesthetic effects
When treating nasal inflammation, Magnolia Flower can produce an astringent effect and protect the mucosal surface, and because of microvascular dilation, local blood circulation improves, promoting the absorption of secretions, reducing inflammation, so that the nasal cavity becomes clear and symptoms are relieved or eliminated. Made into drops, it can clearly constrict the blood vessels of isolated rabbit ears. Magnolia Flower can constrict mucosal blood vessels, and on this basis drops can be made to improve the ventilation function of patients with chronic rhinitis, while stimulating the nasal cavity can increase blood flow speed, improve microcirculation and reduce inflammation.
4. The pharmacological effects of Magnolia Flower
Magnolia Flower has many medicinal benefits. "Ben Cao Qiu Zhen" says: Magnolia Flower is pungent and warm, its qi floats, and its action specifically enters the lung, dispersing wind-heat. It treats wind-heat shifting to the brain, heavy turbid nasal discharge, nasal congestion and headache from wind-cold invading the brain, as well as dizziness, toothache, and impairment of the nine orifices. "Ben Cao Gang Mu" points out that Magnolia Flower is good at treating sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, nasal sores and post-smallpox nasal sores. Modern Chinese medicine uses it to treat acute and chronic rhinitis, allergic rhinitis, hypertrophic rhinitis, sinusitis, paranasal sinusitis, etc., with Magnolia Flower as the main drug, supplemented according to syndrome differentiation with Angelica dahurica, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Ligusticum, Bupleurum and Xanthium sibiricum, all with relatively good results.
5. Magnolia Flower clears the nasal orifices
Magnolia Flower is pungent and warm, dispersing and aromatic, clearing the orifices; its nature rises upward, externally it can dispel wind-cold pathogenic qi, internally it can raise the clear qi of the lung and stomach, and it is good at clearing the nasal orifices, making it a key drug for treating sinusitis and nasal congestion with runny nose. For those with a wind-cold tendency, it is often used with Angelica dahurica, Asarum and Xanthium sibiricum; for those with a wind-heat tendency, it is mostly used with Mentha, Forsythia and Scutellaria baicalensis to disperse wind-heat and clear lung-heat.
6. Magnolia Flower can protect the nasal mucosa
Magnolia Flower has the effect of constricting the blood vessels of the nasal mucosa, can protect the nasal mucosa, and promotes the absorption of mucosal secretions, reducing inflammation and even clearing the nasal cavity.
7. Magnolia Flower has an antibacterial effect
The water decoction of Magnolia Flower has an inhibitory effect on many kinds of pathogenic bacteria. The volatile oil has sedative, analgesic, anti-allergic and blood-pressure-lowering effects.
8. The nature of Magnolia Flower is warm, and it carries a pungent flavor; Magnolia Flower enters the stomach meridian and the lung meridian; Magnolia Flower is suitable for dispersing wind-cold and clearing the nasal orifices.
Can soaking Magnolia Flower in water treat rhinitis?
1. Magnolia Flower has a certain effect in treating rhinitis, though it also varies with individual constitution. In spring, if rhinitis or a stuffy nose occurs, Magnolia Flower tea can be used to fumigate the nose.
2. The method is to buy Magnolia Flower, that is, the unopened magnolia buds, from a pharmacy; take 12 grams of Magnolia Flower, 15 grams of scallion white with roots, and 3 grams of white pepper, put them into a container, add 600 milliliters of water, boil over high heat for 10 minutes, then pour hot into a teacup, wrap gauze around the rim of the teacup, and use the hot steam of the medicinal liquid to fumigate the nose and mouth for about 30 minutes. After the medicinal liquid cools, drink it.
3. For people with allergic rhinitis caused by catching a chill, 5 grams of Magnolia Flower and 10 grams of Agastache rugosa can be brewed with boiling water, left to steep for 5 minutes, then drunk as tea, 1-2 times a day.
Appendix: Magnolia Flower meaning
Flower meaning: love, love for nature
Because when Magnolia Flower blooms, it is gorgeous yet not seductive, and even more so does not lose its plain and elegant bearing, possessing a unique charm; the mystery of nature seems tightly fastened, and it seems that the more natural a thing is, the more it can make people feel its beauty. This is also the origin of its flower meaning.