The efficacy of rose, tangerine peel and hawthorn

Many people like to drink scented tea. In a sense, scented tea can basically be used as medicine. Therefore, scented tea also has health-preserving effects. For example, roses can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, tangerine peel can regulate qi and strengthen the middle, hawthorn can eliminate bones and resolve accumulation. If you soak roses, hawthorns and tangerine peel together in water and drink it, it has the effect of beautifying the skin and losing weight. Next, let’s take a closer look at the effects of rose, tangerine peel and hawthorn.

1. Tangerine peel

effect

Regulate Qi and strengthen the spleen, dry dampness and resolve phlegm.

Indications

It is used for abdominal distension, poor appetite, vomiting and diarrhea, cough with excessive sputum.

Related Combinations

1. Used together with Atractylodes lancea and Magnolia officinalis, it is used for patients with cold and dampness in the middle jiao, spleen and stomach qi stagnation, abdominal distension and pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.

2. Used together with hawthorn, Shenqu, etc., it is used for food stagnation, qi stagnation, and abdominal distension and pain.

3. Used together with Zhishi, ginger, etc., it is used for chest obstruction and shortness of breath.

2. Hawthorn

The value of Chinese medicine

Hawthorn has important medicinal value. Since ancient times, it has been a good medicine for strengthening the spleen and appetite, digesting food and relieving stagnation, and promoting blood circulation and resolving phlegm. Common appetite-stimulating and spleen-strengthening medicines include "Hawthorn Pills" and "Jiao Sanxian". Ancient Chinese medical scientists have long attached importance to hawthorn's ability to soften and eliminate lumps. When cooking the hard meat of an old chicken, adding a few hawthorns will make it easier to cook, which shows that it has the effect of digesting meat. The Chinese medicines Jiao Lanxian, Baohe Pills, and Shanzha Pills all use hawthorn as their main ingredient; hawthorn also has the effects of dispersing blood stasis, stopping bleeding, preventing heatstroke, and refreshing the mind.

The value of Western medicine

Because hawthorn contains hawthorn acid and other organic acids, it tastes sour and sweet, and contains lipase. After entering the stomach, it can enhance the action of enzymes, promote meat digestion, and help cholesterol conversion. Therefore, for people who feel full after eating meat or greasy food, eating some hawthorn, hawthorn slices, hawthorn water or hawthorn pills can help digestion. It is a key food for the elderly. Hawthorn can also promote bile secretion and promote gastric juice secretion. Because hawthorn is rich in various organic acids, it can preserve the vitamin C in hawthorn and it will not be destroyed even when heated. Therefore, vitamin C can still be preserved after making hawthorn cakes and other products. Hawthorn is also rich in beneficial ingredients such as carotene, calcium, oleanolic acid, guanylic acid, hawthorne, and other triterpenoid acids and flavonoids (flavonoid polyflavonoids, trimerized flavonoids, tannins and other chemical components), which can dilate blood vessels, strengthen and regulate the myocardium, increase ventricular and cardiac movement amplitude and coronary blood flow, lower serum cholesterol and blood pressure; in addition, hawthorn has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on cardiac dysfunction, vascular neurosis, fibrillation arrhythmia and other diseases; hawthorn also contains quercetin, which has the function of dilating blood vessels, promoting tracheal cilia movement, expectorating and relieving asthma, so hawthorn is an ideal health food and a food with good therapeutic effect for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

Effect on bacteria

According to pharmacological experiments, the decoction of scorched hawthorn has obvious inhibitory effects on various Shigella dysenteriae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus anthracis, etc. in vitro, so it can be used to treat bacillary dysentery.

Hawthorn can also treat red worms. Take 1 kg of fresh hawthorn, wash it, and chew it from 15:00 to 22:00 in the afternoon. Do not eat dinner. The next morning, take 100 grams of betel nut decoction in water and rest in bed. When you feel like having a bowel movement, wait for a while before going to the toilet. This will help expel the entire red worm. In winter, it is advisable to sit on a warm water toilet to prevent the red worms from shrinking due to the cold. The efficiency can reach 100%.

The pectin content in hawthorn ranks first among all fruits, reaching 6.4%. According to the latest research, pectin acts as an anti-radiation substance, removing half of the radioactive elements (strontium, cobalt, palladium, etc.) from the body. Pectin also has adsorption and antibacterial properties, which can remove bacteria and toxins from the intestines and bind water, thus treating diarrhea.

3. Rose

[Appearance of dried product]: This product is the dried flower buds of rose, a plant of the Rosaceae family. Harvest the flowers in batches when they are about to bloom in late spring and early summer, and dry them in time at low temperature. Rose is a deciduous shrub of the Rosaceae family with purple-red flowers and a fragrant smell. Roses are cold-resistant and heat-resistant, and their buds are fragrant, tender and moist. It is said that as early as the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was favored by court nobles. It is said that the secret to Yang Guifei's skin being so soft and radiant was that she bathed in the Huaqing Pool, soaked in fresh rose buds all year round, and slept on a bed of roses.

[Dry product properties]: This product is slightly hemispherical or irregular in shape, with a diameter of 1 to 2.5 cm. The receptacle is hemispherical and fused to the base of the calyx; there are 5 sepals, lanceolate, yellow-green or brown-green, covered with fine soft hairs; the petals are mostly wrinkled, broadly ovate when flattened, arranged in an imbricate manner, purple-red, and some are yellow-brown; there are many stamens, yellow-brown. Lightweight and brittle. It has a strong aroma and a slightly bitter taste.

Nutritional analysis

Rose has a rich and sweet aroma and is a major additive in some foods and cosmetics.

Related groups

Suitable for people with rough skin, anemia and weak constitution.

Do not take if you have yin deficiency and fire.

Production Guidance

Making desserts, cooking porridge, making beverages, in 2012 there were also a large number of dishes that used roses as raw materials or auxiliary ingredients.

Treats qi stagnation, chest and flank distension and pain. 6 grams of rose and 6 grams of Cyperus rotundus, decocted in water and taken orally.

Treat liver and stomach pain; dry the rose flowers in the shade and drink with decoction instead of tea; treat stomach pain, take 9 grams of rose flowers, 12 grams of Cyperus rotundus, 9 grams each of Chuanlianzi and White Peony Root, decocted in water.

Dietary effects

Rose flower tastes sweet and slightly bitter, is slightly warm in nature, and enters the liver, spleen, and stomach meridians; it has a fragrant and dispersing aroma; it has the effects of soothing the liver, relieving depression, and regulating blood and menstruation;

It is mainly used to treat chest fullness and stuffiness, stomach pain, rib pain, breast pain, irregular menstruation, leucorrhea, diarrhea, dysentery, trauma, rheumatism, and carbuncle.