How to eat hibiscus flowers

Hibiscus flowers are generally pink, with relatively large petals, and can be seen in our daily lives. In addition to its ornamental value, hibiscus also has certain medicinal effects. Especially for people who often suffer from diarrhea, eating some hibiscus flowers can still help relieve the symptoms. And from the perspective of healthy eating, the nutritional value of hibiscus is quite high. So, what are the ways to eat hibiscus flowers?

Benefits of Hibiscus Flowers

Clears heat and relieves cough, cools blood and stops bleeding, clears heat and dries dampness.

Functions and indications of hibiscus flower

It is used to treat cough and asthma caused by wind-heat restraining the lungs, vomiting blood, epistaxis, hematuria, bloody diarrhea due to blood heat, dysentery, and leucorrhea.

How to make hibiscus flower

Hibiscus Flower Porridge

Ingredients: 10 hibiscus flowers, 100g japonica rice, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

practice:

1.Pick the hibiscus flowers and rinse them with clean water. Wash the japonica rice clean.

2. Put water and glutinous rice in a pot and cook until the porridge is done. Then add hibiscus flowers and sugar and boil it for a while.

Features: It is refreshing and delicious, and has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood and stopping diarrhea. Suitable for people with bloody stools and women with abnormal leucorrhea.

Hibiscus Stew

Ingredients: 100 grams of fresh hibiscus flowers, 150 grams of pork, and appropriate amounts of chrysanthemum and minced ginger.

practice:

1. Remove impurities from hibiscus flowers and clean them; wash the pork and cut into pieces.

2. Add pork and appropriate amount of water into the pot, bring to a boil, then add cooking wine, salt, soy sauce, onion and ginger, then simmer over low heat until the pork is cooked.

3. Add hibiscus flowers and stew until flavor is absorbed, then serve.

Features: This dish is fresh, smooth, sweet and delicious. It has the effects of clearing away dampness and heat, replenishing the middle and benefiting Qi, nourishing yin and stopping bleeding. It is suitable for symptoms such as yin deficiency cough, physical weakness, fatigue, intestinal wind and bloody stool, dysentery, constipation, and leucorrhea.

Stewed Hibiscus with Rock Sugar

Ingredients: 50 grams of hibiscus flowers, appropriate amount of rock sugar.

practice:

Remove impurities from the hibiscus flowers, wash them, put them in a bowl, add appropriate amount of rock sugar and water, steam them in a steamer for 20 minutes, and take them out.

Features: This food is sweet and fragrant, and the soup is refreshing. It has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, benefiting the stomach and promoting body fluid, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is suitable for diseases such as vomiting blood, bleeding, red and white dysentery, etc.