6 flowers and plants with many health benefits, too wasteful to use only for ornamental purposes

Many women like to grow flowers and arrange flowers. Some office workers also use flowers as decorations to embellish the office environment; some cosmeceutical factories use flowers as formulas, extract essence, and make flower mud masks, which can beautify and nourish the skin and give the skin luster.

However, besides these uses, what other medicinal values do flowers have? Which flowers can be used as tea drinks, and which flowers can be used as both medicine and food?

Jasmine

Jasmine is pungent and sweet in flavor and warm in nature. It can promote the stomach's digestion and absorption function, relieve stomach pain, and has a very good effect on diarrhea and abdominal pain.

Jasmine tea contains a large amount of compounds beneficial to human health, such as catechins, vitamin C, vitamin A, caffeine, flavanols, tea polyphenols, etc. Scented tea combines tea flavor with floral fragrance, maintaining both a rich and refreshing tea taste and a fresh, fragrant floral scent.

Honeysuckle

Whenever flu season comes around, honeysuckle tea becomes very popular. It can clear heat and detoxify, dispel wind and dissipate heat, and has antiviral effects.

Its medicinal nature is cold and cool, so it is more suitable for drinking in summer, and generally it can be taken only when there is internal heat, a cold, or similar conditions. People with a deficiency-cold constitution or those with prolonged illness that does not heal should use it cautiously. Drinking it long term regardless of season or constitution can burden the spleen and stomach.

Rose

Rose is sweet and slightly bitter in flavor and warm in nature. It has the effects of regulating qi and relieving depression, soothing the liver and invigorating blood, and regulating menstruation and relieving pain. On the one hand, it can harmonize qi and blood and soothe stagnant qi; on the other hand, the unique appearance and fragrance of roses can make people feel refreshed and relaxed, making them suitable for women with a fast pace of life and high work pressure.

For irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis, drinking rose tea can also help relieve them.

Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum has the effects of dispelling wind-heat, calming liver yang, and clearing the liver and improving eyesight. However, its medicinal nature is slightly cold, so it is not suitable to drink continuously for a long time, otherwise gastrointestinal reactions such as stomach discomfort, poor digestion, and borborygmus are likely to occur. Patients with a cold constitution can drink it together with goji berries.

Goji berries

Goji berries are rich in carotene, vitamin A, B1, B2, C, and eye-protecting nutrients such as calcium and iron, so they are commonly known as "bright-eye seeds."

Physicians of past dynasties often used goji berries to treat blurred vision and night blindness caused by insufficient liver blood and kidney yin deficiency. The famous prescription "Qiju Dihuang Pill" uses goji berries as a guiding ingredient. People also commonly use goji berries to treat chronic eye diseases, and steamed egg with goji berries is also a simple and effective dietary therapy recipe.

Although goji berries are mild in medicinal nature, long-term use or large-dose use can cause internal heat. Patients with exogenous excess heat and diarrhea due to spleen deficiency should not take them. In addition, goji berries have a relatively high sugar content, and diabetic patients can only brew them as tea when blood sugar is well controlled.

Roselle

Roselle is also called Luoshen sunflower or Luoshen flower, and it is an herbaceous plant. Roselle contains rich protein and organic acids, as well as various minerals and a large amount of natural pigments.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that roselle is sour in flavor and cold in nature. It is beneficial for regulating and balancing blood lipids and enhancing calcium absorption. It also has effects such as clearing heat and relieving summer heat, beautifying the face and fading spots, detoxifying, and relieving alcohol.

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