Chrysanthemum is one of the top ten famous flowers in the mainland, and the ancients called it "longevity". "Shennong's Materia Medica" records that chrysanthemums "have the main wind, dizziness, swelling and pain, eyes want to fall off, tears, dead skin muscles, and rheumatism." Long-term service, good for blood and qi, light body, resistant to aging and prolonging life".
Chrysanthemums are spicy, sweet, bitter, and slightly cold. This product enters the lung meridian, is good at evacuating wind and heat and clears the head, and enters the liver meridian, good at discharging heat and benefiting yin and calming the liver and eyes.
What are the effects of chrysanthemums
Chrysanthemums have many effects, and they are mainly suitable for the following types of conditions.
Wind-heat cold, the beginning of warm illness "Differentiation of Warm Disease" pointed out that chrysanthemum flavor is pungent and pungent, the body is light to the surface, the qi is clear and floating, the slight cold clears heat, and the function is to evacuate the lungs through wind and heat, but the power of diverging the evil is not strong. This product is often used for the treatment of wind-heat cold or the beginning of warm disease, warm evil lungs, fever, headache, cough and other symptoms, each with similar performance and function of mulberry leaves must be used, and often with forsythia, peppermint, bellflower, etc., such as mulberry chrysanthemum drink.
Liver Yang Dizziness, Liver Wind Empirical Evidence "Popular Typhoid Fever" records that chrysanthemum into the liver meridian, can clear liver heat, calm liver yang, often used in the treatment of liver yang hyperactivity, dizziness, every time with cassia stone, mother-of-pearl, white peony and other liver latent yang medicine. For the treatment of dizziness and headache caused by liver fire, as well as liver meridian heat and extreme heat, chrysanthemum is often used with antelope horn, hook vine, mulberry leaf and other drugs to clear liver heat and quench liver wind, such as antelope horn hook vine soup.
Chrysanthemum chrysanthemum is bitter and bitter, slightly cold and heat, and enters the liver meridian, which can not only evacuate the liver meridian wind heat, but also clear the liver heat to brighten the eyes, so it can be used to treat the eye redness and swelling pain caused by the liver meridian wind heat or liver fire. In the treatment of the former, chrysanthemums are often compatible with cicadas, horsetails, white zombie silkworms and other wind-thinning and eye-catching medicines. In the treatment of the latter, chrysanthemum is often used in combination with cassia stone, cassia seed, prunella vulgaris and other liver-clearing and eye-clearing medicines. For the treatment of liver and kidney essence and blood insufficiency, loss of nourishment, and blurred vision, chrysanthemum is often combined with wolfberry, rehmannia rehmannia, dogwood and other nourishing liver and kidney, yin and eye medicine, such as wolfberry chrysanthemum rehmannia pills.
Sores and carbuncles are bitter and cold, can clear heat and detoxify, can treat sores and carbuncles, and are often used with honeysuckle and raw licorice, such as chamomile soup.
Learn about common usages
In daily life, you can refer to the following methods and take chrysanthemums under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner.
Chrysanthemum tea
Take 9 grams of chrysanthemums and 9 grams of pear peels, put them in a thermos cup, brew them with boiling water and simmer for 10 minutes, and drink them instead of tea.
Efficacy: Evacuate wind and heat, relieve cough and moisturize dryness.
Chrysanthemum porridge
Take 15 grams of chrysanthemum, 60 grams of japonica rice, and 10 grams of wolfberry. Grind the chrysanthemums into a fine powder for later use. Pour the washed japonica rice into the pot and add an appropriate amount of water to cook the porridge. When the porridge is almost cooked, add chrysanthemum pollen and wolfberry, and cook for another 5 minutes.
Efficacy: Disperse wind and clear heat, calm the liver and brighten the eyes.
Hawthorn chrysanthemum seaweed soup
Take 50 grams of seaweed, 20 grams of hawthorn, 20 grams of chrysanthemum, appropriate amount of monosodium glutamate and salt. Wash the hawthorn and chrysanthemum, add water to decoction, remove the slag and take the juice for later use. Wash the seaweed after soaking, put it in a pot, pour in the hawthorn chrysanthemum juice and decoction together, wait for the seaweed to be cooked, add monosodium glutamate and salt to taste.
Efficacy: Clears away heat and dissipates food. Qi deficiency, stomach cold, lack of food and diarrhea should be used with caution.
Text: Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Emergency General Hospital, Li Zuchang, Li Yiwen
Finishing: Mo Peng
Editor: Liang Jing and Li Shiyao
Proofreading: Yang Zhenyu
Review: Guan Zhongyao, Xu Bingnan