From May to October every year, it is the month when the frangipani blooms. The center of the flower is bright and yellow, the petals bloom pure white like snow, like a hard-boiled egg, and the outer ring protein is wrapped in the yolk of the open yolk. Cantonese people who have always had experience in "eating" call it "frangipani".
White frangipani
Plumeria is the oleander family plant plumeria flowers, Guangdong often dry the white plumeria as herbal tea drinks, alias Burmese gardenia, egg yolk flowers, beating flowers, etc., native to Mexico and other places, now widely planted in the global tropical region, China's Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Yunnan and other provinces and regions have introduced cultivation. The frangipani is the national flower of Laos and the city flower of Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, China.
The corolla of the frangipani is arranged in a five-lobed swirling arrangement, the corolla is milky white on the outside and yellow on the inside, and the "crown white heart yellow" resembles an egg, so it is called frangipani. The branches of the frangipani are blunt and round-headed, and in winter, after the leaves fall out, they are bare like antlers, so they are also called "antler trees".
Frangipani (tree)
Plumeria can be used in medicine, summer and autumn picking flowers to dry, soaking water to drink, its sweet and cool taste, can prevent heat stroke, enteritis, bacterial dysentery, indigestion, pediatric chancre, infectious hepatitis, bronchitis, etc.; leaf mashing external compresses, can treat bruises or ulcers. The milk contained in the bark and leaves of the tree is poisonous, and external application can cure scabies and redness.
Red frangipani
Red frangipani are native to Mexico, Panama and other places, and are now widely planted in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia. It is cultivated in southern China, commonly found in parks, botanical gardens for ornamental cultivation.
Yunnan Xishuangbanna and Guangxi, Guangdong some places often use plumeria as health tea, such as Guangdong and Hong Kong herbal tea "five flowers tea" is the use of plumeria as the main raw material.
It is worth noting that the plants of the oleander family are generally toxic, especially in the milk and seeds of the most toxic, the milk on the plumeria tree is poisonous, we should try to avoid direct contact, especially the wounded parts, it is recommended that you do not pick the plumeria themselves, and it is most appropriate to buy professionally treated dried flowers.
Frangipani drink tablets (dried flowers)
Commonly used dietary remedies
Plumeria has very good medicinal value, such as the "Lingnan Medicine Record" contains plumeria: "cure damp heat diarrhea, tenesmus after weight." It can also moisten the lungs and detoxify." The "Guangxi Materia Medica Selection" records that this product "clears heat and dampness, dissolves phlegm and relieves cough." Treatment of dysentery, enteritis, acute bronchitis. "This product also has the effect of clearing heat, dampness and relieving heat, and is used for cold fever, lung fever cough, damp heat jaundice, urinary tract stones and so on." At present, it is the season of plumeria blooming, and the following is to introduce several medicinal foods made of plumeria as raw materials.
Frangipani monk fruit drink
Ingredients: 10 fresh frangipani flowers, 1 dried monk fruit.
Method: Wash the frangipani, soak in water for 30 minutes; wash the surface of the dried monk fruit, gently break it in half by hand, put it in the pot, pour in the appropriate amount of water, boil it, adjust it to a low heat and cook for 30 minutes; finally, fish the frangipani from the water, filter the water, put it in the pot, mix with the monk fruit water and cook for 10 minutes.
Efficacy: Frangipani can cure damp and hot diarrhea, can moisturize the lungs and detoxify; luo han guo can clear the heat and moisturize the lungs, the taste is sweet like sugar water, children especially like it. This drink also has a magical cough and asthma relief effect, suitable for adults and children, is the first choice for lung heat and lung dry cough, and is also very suitable for families with smokers at home.
Herbal tea with five flowers
Ingredients: frangipani, chrysanthemum, locust, kapok, kudzu, the above five flowers to an appropriate amount (the amount of one person, about 10 grams each).
Directions: Wash and soak the flowers in water for 5 minutes, put them in a pot and simmer over high heat, then switch to a slow simmer for about 10 minutes, add rock sugar or honey to the flowers and drink.
Efficacy: This tea has a good antipyretic, cool blood diuretic effect.
Purslane frangipani lean broth
Ingredients: Purslane 200 g, frangipani 10 g, lean meat 10 g.
Method: First marinate the lean meat with salt sugar corn starch for later, wash the purslane and frangipani and add boiling water for 10 minutes, add the marinated lean meat and roll for another 5 minutes to taste.
Effect: This soup has a clearing heat and damp anti-diarrhea effect, especially suitable for summer wet diarrhea.
Chicken stew with frangipani
Ingredients: 15 grams of frangipani, 30 grams of ginseng, 1/2 chicken, 150 grams of lean pork, 2 dates, 3 slices of ginger.
Directions: Wash each object separately. Frangipani and ginseng are slightly soaked; chicken is defiled and tailed, cut into pieces; pork lean meat is cut into pieces; dates are pitted. Together with the ginger, add 1250 ml of cold boiled water (about 5 bowls), cover and simmer for two and a half hours. Salt when drinking, for 3 to 4 people.
Efficacy: This soup has the effect of clearing heat, moisturizing and moisturizing the lungs, and is suitable for both men and women of all ages.
Frangipani party ginseng lily stewed pork tail
Ingredients: 25 grams of frangipani, 20 grams of ginseng, 30 grams of lilies, 3 dates, 400 grams of pig tail, 3 slices of ginger.
Directions: Wash each object separately. The frangipani, lilies, and ginseng are slightly soaked, the dates are pitted, and the pig's tail is cut into pieces. Put each thing together with ginger into a clay pot, add 2500 ml of water (about 10 bowls), boil over low heat and change to a simmer for about 1 and a half hours, and add salt. This amount can be used by 3 to 4 people.
Efficacy: This soup is clear and delicious, with the effect of clearing heat and moisturizing the lungs, dispelling heat and detoxification, moisturizing and drying, and improving qi and vitality. It has a good auxiliary treatment effect on dry mouth and throat, spleen loss, hot and constipation, upset qi deficiency, urine oliguria yellow, etc. in the summer and autumn heat.
Pork knuckle stewed with frangipani sand ginseng
Ingredients: 20 grams of frangipani, 30 grams of sand ginseng, 400 grams of pork knuckles, 3 slices of ginger.
Directions: Wash each object separately. Soak the herbs slightly and cut the pork knuckles into pieces. Put each thing together with ginger into a clay pot, add 2500 ml of water (about 10 bowls), boil over low heat and change to a simmer for 1 and a half hours, and add an appropriate amount of salt. This amount can be used by 3 to 4 people.
Efficacy: This soup is fragrant and delicious, with the effect of refreshing the heat and moisturizing the lungs.
Frangipani egg soup
Ingredients: 50 grams of dried frangipani, 3 to 4 eggs, rock sugar or brown sugar to taste.
Method: Rinse the frangipani, put the eggs together with the pot with 1500 ml of water (6 bowls), boil over low heat and change to medium heat for about 10 minutes, fish out the eggs and put them in cold water, shell and then put the pot, roll for 5 minutes, remove the residue and sugar. For 3 to 4 people.
Effect: This soup has the effect of relieving heat and heat, moisturizing the lungs and rejuvenating the lungs.
Frangipani porridge
Ingredients: 10 fresh frangipani flowers, 60 g of japonica rice.
Directions: Add an appropriate amount of water and cook a thin porridge.
Efficacy: This porridge has the effect of clearing heat and dampness, detoxifying and moisturizing. Especially for children, it is more suitable for children, and has a good effect on diseases such as diarrhea and white diarrhea caused by damp heat, thick dysentery and diarrhea. ■
【Source: Content integrated from Zhongshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Food in Guangdong, Diet meter】