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Health | a kind of flower, a kind of disease!

April is coming, and so are the flowers. However, in addition to ornamental flowers, you can also eat yo, and the medicinal value is also very high. The Chinese custom of "eating flowers in spring" has a long history. Since ancient times, beauty comes from eating flowers, and each kind of flower has different effects~

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Cherry blossom: relieving cough and asthma

Cherry blossom is one of the important raw materials of skin care products because it has the functions of shrinking pores and balancing oil, as well as rejuvenating and brightening skin.

How to eat

Cherry blossoms can be made into tea or cherry sauce. Cherry can also be salted into salted cherry food. Cherry can also be made into cherry honey or cherry sauce with bread slices. Pear blossom produces fluid and moistens dryness

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Pear blossom: nourishing body fluid and moistening dryness

Lihua is mainly used to treat fever, thirst, thirst, hot cough, phlegm heat, dysphoria, choking diaphragm, constipation and other diseases. It is also a kind of beauty feature, it has a good removal effect on human facial black spots.

How to eat

Pear flower is rich in vitamins, amino acids and more than ten minerals needed by human body. It can be fried, cold mixed and made into soup. People often boil the pear oil to remove the bitter taste and put sugar to eat; Add refined salt and sesame oil, and the food will be fragrant and pleasant

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Peony: regulating menstruation and promoting blood circulation

peony petals are rich in protein, fat, starch, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals, as well as vitamins A, B, C, e, especially a variety of free amino acids, which are more easily absorbed by the human body.

How to eat

[peony flower porridge]: first cook the rice porridge, take 10 grams of fresh peony petals, put them into the rice porridge, and then cook them. After the porridge is cooked, add appropriate amount of sugar according to personal taste. Often drink peony porridge, irregular menstruation of women, dysmenorrhea has a certain improvement.

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Jasmine: refreshing fragrance

Jasmine is cold in nature and light in taste. It has the effect of "Regulating Qi, opening depression, dispelling filth and harmonizing the middle". It also has a good anti-inflammatory and detoxifying effect on dysentery, abdominal pain, conjunctivitis and sore poison. Flowers and leaves are used medicinally to treat swelling and pain of red eyes, and have the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm.

How to eat

Jasmine fried eggs, jasmine wax gourd soup, jasmine honey bean sprouts, wolfberry and jasmine chicken, jasmine porridge, jasmine bean curd, jasmine tremella soup, etc. are all the best fresh food. Jasmine tea has the characteristics of "removing cold evil and relieving depression", which is the best tea in spring.

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Rose: regulating qi and relieving depression

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the most obvious effects of rose are regulating qi and relieving depression, promoting blood circulation and dispersing stasis, regulating menstruation and relieving pain.

How to eat

Take 10 grams of dried rose petals. First, 80 grams of Japonica rice, 15 grams of wolfberry, 10 jujubes and 15 grams of sesame are used to cook porridge. After boiling several times, add roses and cook until the porridge is soft, then add appropriate amount of sugar. This porridge can nourish the kidney, strengthen the spleen, nourish the blood and regulate menstruation.

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Peach blossom: nourishing skin and promoting blood circulation

Peach blossom is sweet and pungent. It is good for water, blood circulation and defecation. Peach blossom is rich in iron and has the function of enriching blood and improving complexion. Making tea with petals will make the human body emit fragrance.

How to eat

[peach blossom porridge] peach blossom 30g, glutinous rice 200g, honey 20g, persimmon frost 30g. Soak and wash the glutinous rice, add water and boil it; Wash peach blossom and set aside; When the glutinous rice is well cooked, add peach blossom, honey and persimmon frost cake together, mix well and cook slightly.

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Rose: regulating menstruation and detoxification

Rose flower is a good gynecological medicine, which has the effect of promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, detumescence and detoxification.

How to eat

Cold mix - wash and mix with salt, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, sesame oil, etc; Make soup - sprinkle on the prepared soup. Steamed to eat - petals and flour, corn flour, etc. mix well, steamed on the cage, and then with salt, vinegar, garlic juice, sesame oil can be mixed.

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Plum blossom: Soothing Liver and relieving depression

Plum blossom has the effect of soothing the liver, relieving depression, appetizing and promoting body fluid, resolving phlegm. Mainly used for depression and upset; Pain of liver and stomach qi; Mei He Qi; It's toxic.

How to eat

First, take 5 grams of green plum and 80 grams of Japonica rice. First, cook the japonica rice into porridge, then add green plum and boil it for two or three minutes. Eat a bowl of each meal for three or five days. Green plum is flat in nature. It can soothe the liver, regulate qi and stimulate appetite. The effect of anorexia is quite good, and the energy of healthy people is doubled.

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Begonia flower: produce saliva and quench thirst

Begonia is sweet, sour and flat in nature. It has the functions of invigorating the spleen, relieving diarrhea, diuresis, thirst and strengthening the stomach. Begonia contains sugars, vitamins and organic acids, which can help replenish the body's intracellular fluid, so it has the effect of producing fluid and relieving thirst.

How to eat

The fruit of Malus robusta can be cut and dried into Malus robusta with 30% moisture. The storage period can be as long as 3 years for further processing as leisure food. It has a sweet and sour taste. It has a strong aroma of fresh Begonia. Besides, it is cool, purging fire, invigorating the spleen and appetizing. It has a good effect of food therapy and health care.

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Kapok: clearing away heat and dampness

Kapok has the functions of clearing away heat and dampness, relieving summer heat. Bark has the function of dispelling wind and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and detumescence. The root has the function of relieving pain.

How to eat

[kapok tangerine peel porridge] use 30 grams of fresh kapok, 10 grams of tangerine peel, 100 grams of Japonica rice, and an appropriate amount of honey. Wash the kapok and tangerine peel, add water to fry the juice, and remove the residue for use; Wash the japonica rice, add water and kapok orange peel juice to make porridge; When the porridge is ready, add appropriate amount of honey and cook it slightly.

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Lilac: warm kidney

The main effects of clove are warming the middle, warming the kidney and reducing adverse reactions. In addition, clove can reduce the symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection and purify the air.

How to eat

Cloves can be dried in the sun and brewed in hot water before drinking. Cloves can also be made into clove nectar for food, or add a little flavor when stewing chicken wings.

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Sophora flower: cooling blood and moistening lung

Sophora flower has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing liver and purging heat, treating hypertension and relieving alcohol. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, sophora flower tastes bitter and slightly cold, and belongs to liver and large intestine meridians; The body was slightly scattered; It has the effect of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, clearing liver and purging fire.

How to eat

Mix the washed Flos Sophorae with flour, then add salt, monosodium glutamate and other seasonings, mix well and steam in the drawer. This kind of eating method is soft and crisp, with endless aftertaste of sweet silk. Fried eggs with sophora flower is also a home dish. In addition, sophora flower can be added to porridge and soup.

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Chimonanthus praecox: clearing heat and detoxifying

The flower of Chimonanthus praecox is slightly sweet and pungent, with cool nature. It has the effect of relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production, appetizing and dispersing depression, detoxifying and promoting muscle production, and relieving cough. Indications: dizziness, vomiting, fever and thirst, qi stagnation and stomach depression, cough and other diseases. Wintersweet flower decoction is commonly used for infants to drink and take, which has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification.

How to eat

In the compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen said: "wintersweet flowers taste sweet and slightly bitter. They are picked and deep fried, soaked in water and mixed with oil and salt". They are not only delicious food, but also "antipyretic and fluid generating". Chimonanthus praecox is also edible. It can be used to stew fish head soup, stew tofu, stir fry beef strips, or boil plum porridge.

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Magnolia: dispelling wind and dispelling cold

Yulanhua is pungent and warm in nature. It has the functions of dispelling wind, dispersing cold, dredging orifices, and dispersing lung and nose. It can be used for headache, dysmenorrhea of blood stasis type, nasal obstruction, acute and chronic sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, etc. After the petals of Magnolia are collected and dried, they can be made into dried flower bags. Smelling them can also help relieve headache.

How to eat

Flower proverb said: "Magnolia petals and sugar, fried color is more fragrant.". Magnolia petals thick and large, if wrapped in wet flour and bean paste fried in oil pan, sweet and crisp, very delicious, it is said to have detoxification analgesic function.

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Dendrobium flower: promoting body fluid and stomach

Dendrobium has the functions of invigorating spleen, tonifying kidney and regulating yin and Yang; According to modern pharmacological research, Dendrobium has not only the function of clearing heat and nourishing Yin, but also the function of Warming Yang and dispersing cold, regulating immune function, and anti-aging.

How to eat

Tea, fried meat, fried eggs, can also be cold. The common way to eat the dried Dendrobium officinale flowers is to soak or boil them. You can brew them with boiling water alone. Do not add any other tea. You can add a little rock sugar according to your taste. You can take out the flowers and chew them after soaking them until they are tasteless.

/Fresh flowers on the table/

1. Fresh flowers should be used as food. The cooking should be light, not fried, not too much seasoning. Try to keep the color and fragrance of flowers.

People allergic to pollen had better not eat fresh flowers. In addition, some flowers not only can not be eaten, but also contain certain toxicity, such as oleander, Datura stramonium, five color plum, Manjusri, poinsettia, Calla Lily, tiger thorn, etc. all contain glycosides and alkaloids harmful to human body.

3. The constitution of the human body has individual differences, which can be divided into deficiency, excess, cold and heat. Therefore, the choice of flowers to drink and how much to use should be based on the constitution of the human body.

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