Can Fresh Flowers Also Nourish Health? A Look at the Nutritional Benefits of 10 Fresh Flowers
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Fresh flowers not only have a beautiful appearance but also possess remarkable medicinal effects in human health care, beauty regulation and other aspects. Which flowers' health benefits have you learned about? Below is a rundown of the nutritional benefits of ten fresh flowers, teaching you to use flowers for health.
NO.1 Kapok Flower: Clearing Heat and Draining Dampness
Kapok is the city flower of Guangzhou, and its flower meaning is cherishing the people and happiness around you. Kapok not only has beautiful blossoms but also has the effects of clearing heat, draining dampness and detoxifying, as well as significant therapeutic effects on chronic gastritis, gastric ulcers, diarrhea, dysentery and other conditions.
Kapok dietary remedy: Kapok and Dried Tangerine Peel Porridge
Ingredients: 30 g fresh kapok, 10 g dried tangerine peel, 100 g japonica rice, an appropriate amount of honey.
Preparation: Wash the kapok and dried tangerine peel, add water and decoct to make a juice, remove the residue and set aside. Wash the japonica rice, add water and the kapok and dried tangerine peel juice and cook into porridge. When the porridge is nearly done, add an appropriate amount of honey and cook briefly, and it is ready.
Effects: Strengthening the spleen and removing dampness, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. Kapok has the effects of clearing heat, draining dampness, detoxifying and stopping bleeding; dried tangerine peel and honey can moisten the lungs and relieve cough; japonica rice can strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach. Used together, the three further increase the functions of strengthening the spleen, draining dampness, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, and are especially suitable for the elderly with qi deficiency.
NO.2 Peach Blossom: Promoting Urination and Relieving Constipation
The entire peach tree is a treasure: fresh peaches, peach kernels, peach blossoms, peach leaves, peach roots, peach twigs and peach gum can all be used as medicine, among which peach kernel is an important clinical medicine for promoting blood circulation and resolving stasis, and for moistening dryness and relaxing the bowels. Peach blossom has the effects of promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, and promoting urination and relieving constipation. As early as the Shennong Bencao Jing, there is a record of it "making the face radiant." Tao Hongjing's Zhouhou Fang also records, "After taking three peach blossoms, the complexion becomes rosy and radiant like a peach blossom." If women consume it regularly, it can promote blood circulation, regulate menstruation, relieve constipation and expel toxins, thereby achieving the purpose of beautifying and preserving youth.
Peach blossom dietary remedy: Take 20 fresh peach blossoms and 150 g longan flesh, seal and soak them in 500 g top-grade baijiu; after 3 days it can be drunk, once a day, about 15 ml each time. It has the effects of harmonizing blood and regulating menstruation, relieving constipation and expelling toxins, and making the complexion rosy, giving a face like a peach blossom.
NO.3 Honeysuckle: Clearing Heat and Detoxifying
Honeysuckle is slightly cold in nature and sweet in taste, entering the lung, heart, stomach and large intestine meridians, and has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, soothing the throat, and relieving summer heat and irritability. It can treat summer heat syndrome, diarrhea and dysentery, influenza, sores and boils with swelling and toxicity, acute and chronic tonsillitis, periodontitis and other diseases.
Honeysuckle dietary remedy: Use 10 g honeysuckle and steep in water to drink. If you want to improve the taste, you can also add 10 g raw licorice root.
NO.4 Lily Flower: Calming the Spirit and Nourishing the Heart
Lily flower is slightly bitter. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, bitter substances enter the heart meridian and have the effect of draining and lowering heart fire; when heart fire is removed, the spirit naturally becomes calm. Therefore, lily flower has very good effects on emotional irritability, mental restlessness and improving sleep. Because lily flower enters the lung meridian, and the lungs govern qi and the skin and hair, lily flower can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, and can also tonify the middle and benefit qi, and is also very good for the spleen and stomach.
Lily flower dietary remedy: Steep 10 g in water and drink every day.
For women under great pressure, who are busy with both work and caring for the family, and who are prone to fatigue, mental strain and sleep problems, lily flower is the first choice for them. It can produce a very good heart-nourishing effect, maintain calmness, improve sleep quality, and can also increase skin nutrition, promote skin metabolism, and give the complexion luster.
NO.5 Chrysanthemum: Anti-Premature Aging
As early as the Shennong Bencao Jing, there is a record that "chrysanthemum lightens the body and resists aging." According to modern research analysis, chrysanthemum mainly contains components such as adenosine, amino acids, choline, flavonoids and trace elements. Chrysanthemum used in cooking mainly has the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys, benefiting the head and eyes, resisting premature aging, and improving complexion, and its taste is fresh and sweet with a delicate fragrance.
Chrysanthemum dietary remedy: Put 30 g red dates, 100 g japonica rice and 15 g Hangbaiju chrysanthemum into a pot, add an appropriate amount of clear water, and cook together into porridge. When the porridge is cooked until thick, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar and eat. It has the effects of benefiting the spleen and nourishing blood, clearing the head and eyes, and preserving youth and beauty.
NO.6 Jasmine: Relieving Stomach Pain
Jasmine is pungent and sweet in taste and warm in nature. It can help the stomach with digestion and absorption and relieve stomach pain, and has a very good therapeutic effect on diarrhea and abdominal pain. Therefore, jasmine tea has long been known as a stomach-protecting tea. In addition, jasmine also has a calming effect, which can make people emotionally steady, relieve tension, and feel fresh and relaxed.
Jasmine dietary remedy: If you feel your digestive function is poor, you can soak the flowers in hot milk to make jasmine milk tea. It has a subtle fragrance and also has a fairly good auxiliary therapeutic effect.
NO.7 Chinese Rose: Promoting Blood Circulation and Regulating Menstruation
Chinese rose has the effect of promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, and mainly treats discomforts such as irregular menstruation, chest and abdominal distension and pain, and irritability and vomiting caused by liver qi stagnation and blood stasis. Fresh flowers can be used directly, or half-open flowers can be picked in summer and autumn, sun-dried, shade-dried or oven-dried for later use.
Chinese rose dietary remedy: Take 100 g fresh Chinese rose petals, 400 g flour, 3 eggs, 200 g milk, 100 g white sugar, a pinch of refined salt, 50 g salad oil and an appropriate amount of baking powder. Add sugar and milk to the eggs, stir well, then add flour, oil, salt and baking powder, and stir into a batter. Soak the petals in sugar for half an hour, mix into the batter, and deep-fry until crisp in oil at 50 percent heat. Long-term consumption can soothe the liver and relieve depression, and promote blood circulation and regulate menstruation, and is suitable for prolonged menstruation caused by blood stasis and other conditions.
NO.8 Osmanthus: Toothache and Bad Breath
Fresh osmanthus not only has a rich, sweet fragrance but also has certain medicinal value. Osmanthus is used as medicine mainly because it has the effects of dispelling cold and breaking stagnation, and resolving phlegm and promoting fluid production, so it is used for discomforts such as cough, phlegm nodules, toothache and bad breath.
Osmanthus dietary remedy: 1. Use 3 g osmanthus seeds, decoct in water and rinse the mouth, 3 times a day, which helps remove bad breath. 2. Take 50 g osmanthus bark, add 20 g eucommia bark, and decoct in water to take. After 10 minutes, toothache can be stopped.
NO.9 Rose: Harmonizing Blood and Nourishing Blood
Rose has more than two thousand years of medicinal history in our country. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that rose is warm in nature, sweet in taste and slightly bitter, and enters the liver and spleen meridians. It has the effects of regulating qi and relieving depression, calming and soothing the spirit, harmonizing blood and nourishing blood, harmonizing blood and dispersing stasis, astringing and stopping diarrhea, and softening the liver and regulating menstruation. It mainly treats conditions such as palpitations and shortness of breath, yin deficiency and weak constitution, disharmony of the spleen and stomach, constipation, diarrhea, liver-stomach qi pain, vomiting blood and coughing blood, poor appetite and nausea, traumatic injuries, and irregular menstruation.
Rose dietary remedy: Take 10 g shade-dried rose petals. First cook porridge with 80 g japonica rice, 15 g goji berries, 10 large red dates and 15 g sesame; after it boils several times, add the rose petals and continue cooking until the porridge is soft and done, then add an appropriate amount of white sugar and eat the porridge. This porridge can tonify the kidneys and strengthen the spleen, nourish blood and regulate menstruation, and regular consumption has the effects of preventing aging and resisting old age, and preserving youth and beauty.
NO.10 Lavender: Improving Insomnia
Lavender is called the "king of a hundred herbs," with a fresh and elegant aroma and a mild nature. It is recognized as the plant with the most calming, soothing and hypnotic effects. It soothes tension, calms the mind, quiets the spirit, heals wounds and removes scars.
Lavender dietary remedy: In addition to being brewed as a tea, Europeans have long known that lavender has a stomach-strengthening function, so it is often added during cooking as a seasoning, or mixed into vinegar, wine or jelly to add fragrance.
[Precautions for Using Flowers for Health and Wellness]
1. Be sure to buy flowers from a pharmacy or drugstore. Because most flowers can be viewed and eaten, while the flowers sold in pharmacies are for consumption, and a distinction must be made.
2. These health and wellness flowers mostly refer to flower buds, because flower buds are most nutritious when they are about to bloom.
3. When using flowers for health care, be sure to remember that no matter how good a flower is, it varies from person to person. It must be used according to one's own condition and for the right symptoms. One must know not only that it works, but also why it works, in order to use it well.
4. For ordinary people without professional knowledge, it is best not to mix various different flowers for use, as mixing is difficult to master.
5. No matter how good anything is, it cannot be used for a long time. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the yin and yang of the human body are always in a dynamic process of imbalance. If a certain health product is used for a long time, it may cause a major deviation in the dynamic imbalance of yin and yang, and instead damage the body. Therefore, if you want to drink flower tea for a long time, in large amounts or at will, it is best to consult a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner before drinking, to see what type of constitution you belong to, so that you can choose suitable flowers according to your constitution.
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