Spring is warm and sunny, gently flicking clothes, yang spring in March to enjoy the flowers busy. Flowers not only have ornamental significance, but also have certain medicinal value. The "National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine" lists more than 2200 kinds of medicinal plants, of which flowers account for about 1/3.
So, what are some common flowers that can be used in spring? And how to "eat flowers" health?
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The first flower of spring - peach blossoms
Peach blossom is the first flower in spring, its taste is bitter, the sex is flat, it can be eaten and medicated, and it has the effect of qi, blood and dryness. It can lead the operation of qi and blood throughout the body, which is very suitable for people with stagnation and blood stasis.
People with stagnant blood stasis usually have pigmentation of the skin, such as dark spots, yellow spots, etc.; there are various pains on the body, but the parts are fixed; there are symptoms such as arteriosclerosis, plaques, three highs and lesions of various organs. You can make mountain peach blossom sauce with mountain peach blossoms to help rejuvenate the blood and beautify the face.
【Peach blossom sauce】
【Directions】:
1, freshly picked peach blossoms, try not to rinse and dry, to avoid aroma volatilization, into the disinfection and sun-dried sealed jar;
2, add an appropriate amount of honey, stir with disinfected chopsticks, squeeze out the water in the petals;
3. Finally, put it in the refrigerator and refrigerate for three or four days. If you want to eat it on the same day, you can quickly and stir for a while to let the moisture seep out quickly.
【Reminder】
You have to pick peach blossoms with gloves, because there will be a lot of sweat on your hands, and bacteria are easy to run into peach blossoms. Peach blossoms are made with only petals and flower buds. Peach blossoms are moist, and peach petals are bloody.
【Contraindicated people】
Do not eat in people with thrombocytopenia; do not consume if you are taking anticoagulants.
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Natural heat-clearing flower - locust flower
Locust flower taste bitter, slightly cold, return to the liver, large intestine meridian, there is a liver diarrhea fire, hemostasis and cool blood, heat and detoxification, auxiliary blood pressure lowering effect, very suitable for liver fire, spring easy to fire people.
In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is recorded that the locust flower is "Yang Ming, and the yin blood is also divided into medicines." Therefore, most of the diseases of the Lord belong to the Second Classic. Stir-fry incense frequently chews, cures aphasia and laryngeal paralysis, and treats vomiting blood, and leaks in the collapse. Therefore, intestinal blood fever, such as bleeding from hemorrhoids, bleeding from fissures, bleeding from colitis and proctitis, etc. will also be used to use locust flowers, and minor intestinal blood fevers can be used to soak water in locust flowers.
We can see three kinds of locust flowers, its Chinese locust is slightly sweet, specially used in medicine; acacia is suitable for honey, lungs and cough, beauty and beauty; red locust flowers can only be ornamental, can not be eaten.
Raw locust flowers have a better effect on cool blood, and cooked locust flowers have a better hemostasis effect, and after frying the locust flowers, they can be made into locust flower charcoal, and their hemostatic effect is even better.
Locust rice is a dried locust flower bone, and locust horn is a dried locust fruit, both of which are Chinese medicinal herbs. However, locust rice is cooler than locust flowers, and its effect of clearing heat and cooling blood is stronger.
【Locust Rice Poria Tea】
1. Prepare 5 to 10 grams of locust rice and 15 grams of poria into small pieces;
2. Boil water together and drink.
【Efficacy】
Locust rice is cold, not suitable for long-term large-scale consumption, poria can neutralize the cold of locust rice, with food can not only clear the heat and dampness, but also do not hurt the spleen and stomach.
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Stomach nourishing flower - cloves
Clove flavor spicy, warm, return to the stomach, spleen, kidney meridian, has the role of lowering the reverse in temperature, supplementing the kidney and helping the yang, can alleviate the spleen and stomach deficiency caused by stomach pain and swelling, hiccups, vomiting, bad breath and so on.
Cloves is also recognized as "stomach sterilization experts", its unique clove oil and eugenol, can effectively inhibit the activity of Helicobacter pylori, as a prevention and follow-up consolidation therapy have certain benefits.
Cloves are also divided into male and female, male lilacs are dried buds, and female cloves are dried fruits. Male cloves have a stronger effect of appetizing and warming the qi than female cloves, but female cloves are more helpful in removing bad breath.
It should be noted that medicinal cloves and garden ornamental lilacs are two very different plants, and ornamental cloves do not have any medicinal value.
(Male cloves on the left, female cloves on the right)
In daily life, for spleen and stomach symptoms such as indigestion, we can properly eat some clove nutmeg duck, which has the effect of warming the spleen and warming the stomach and dispersing the cold.
【Clove nutmeg duck】
1, male cloves, cinnamon, grass cardamom and add water to boil, boil the water for 20 minutes, repeat twice after filtering out the medicinal juice;
2: Put the duck, green onion, ginger, etc. into the medicinal sauce and simmer.
These flowers are good, but don't pick them at will
Source: BTV I am a big doctor official micro