These flowers refresh the mind and can even be eaten, one pot is worth two bottles of cooling oil

Summer is here, the weather is hot, and you often feel dizzy from the sun. At this time, we can plant some refreshing herbs and flowers. Not only does it lift your spirits, but your body and mind feel much more relaxed. How could you not keep a few pots of such magical treasures!

1. Spearmint

Spearmint, also known as green mint or garden mint, has a very good cooling and refreshing effect, and is used in many ways as a medicinal herb.

Uses

1. Refreshing

It is an upright perennial herbaceous plant of the Lamiaceae family, with a fragrance. The stems and leaves can be distilled to extract spearmint oil.

It can stimulate the cold receptors at nerve endings to produce a cooling sensation, and reflexively cause changes in the blood vessels of deep tissues, thereby playing an anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving, and itch-relieving role.

2. Fragrance

Spearmint oil is commonly used for flavoring toothpaste, soap, chewing gum, and in medicine. We can air-dry spearmint leaves and make them into sachets to place at home, repelling mosquitoes and refreshing the mind.

3. Food

The tender branches and leaves are often used as a seasoning spice. They can be added to condiments to increase the flavor of dishes, or used alone or mixed with other herbs as a refreshing tea.

Care tips

Loose, fertile, moist sandy loam or oil sandy soil is better. Grow in diffused light and water every two days.

Propagation method: It likes a warm, humid climate and can be sown in any season except winter.

2. Gynura bicolor

Gynura bicolor generally grows in the south and can prolong ascorbic acid and reduce vascular purpleness.

Uses

1. Pain relief

After some insect bites, applying medicine does not help. Just crush Gynura bicolor and apply it in circles on the wound; it cools, relieves itching, and stops pain.

2. Food

Stir-fried Gynura bicolor, garlic Gynura bicolor, Gynura bicolor egg drop soup, and more are all very delicious. They also nourish qi and blood, making them suitable for women to eat.

Gynura bicolor care

A vegetable plot at home is fine. On a balcony or in a small vegetable garden, water every day and remove pests.

Propagation method: It can be sown in any season except winter.

3. Goji shoots

Goji shoots have a slightly light bitter taste and are a highly nutritious and delicious vegetable. At the same time, goji leaves are also a medicinal herb that can clear heat and relieve summer heat.

Uses

1. Clearing heat and reducing internal heat

Goji shoots are bitter and cold in nature and flavor, with effects of tonifying deficiency and benefiting essence, clearing heat and relieving thirst, and dispelling wind and improving eyesight. They also have effects such as resisting the formation of atherosclerosis.

2. Food

Triploid seedless goji, with large leaves and thick stems, has tender stems and leaves that can be eaten. They can be served cold, stir-fried, or used in soup. They are delicious and nutritious. Regular consumption has health benefits similar to goji berries, and they can be eaten regularly without side effects.

Care tips

They can be planted in a vegetable plot at home. Place them in a spot with plenty of light and water every two days.

Propagation method: They can be sown in every season, and spring and summer are most suitable for cuttings.

4. Liangmianzhen

The plant is just like its name

Liangmianzhen, you may have heard of Liangmianzhen toothpaste, but you definitely have not seen the plant itself!

It can be dug up throughout the year, washed clean, sliced or cut into sections, and dried in the sun

Liangmianzhen toothpaste contains this ingredient. As a medicinal herb, it is mainly used for falls and injuries, stomach pain, toothache, and rheumatic arthralgia; externally, it treats burns and scalds.