The efficacy and function of wild chrysanthemum

Wild chrysanthemum is a type of chrysanthemum and is also a food ingredient with certain therapeutic effects. For example, drinking water soaked with wild chrysanthemums can achieve the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, and removing wind and cold. It has certain therapeutic effects on colds, sore throats, high blood pressure and other diseases. Of course, there are certain taboos when eating wild chrysanthemums. Next, I will introduce you to some relevant knowledge about wild chrysanthemum!

1. The efficacy and function of wild chrysanthemum

Wild chrysanthemum has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, soothing wind and cooling the liver. It is mainly used to treat furuncle, carbuncle, scrofula, erysipelas, eczema, scabies, wind-heat cold, sore throat, dizziness and headache, red and painful eyes, and hypertension.

1. Mashed and applied, it has the effect of clearing away heat and toxins. It can also be used in combination with honeysuckle, dandelion, and Viola yedoensis to enhance the effect of clearing heat and toxins.

2. For the initial stage of wind-heat cold, the symptoms include fever, aversion to wind and cold, or sweating, headache, nasal congestion, turbid nasal discharge, yellow and thick sputum, and sore throat. It can be decocted alone; or it can be used in combination with mulberry leaves, forsythia, honeysuckle, etc. to dispel wind, clear heat and detoxify.

2. How to eat wild chrysanthemum

Garlic Wild Chrysanthemum

Ingredients: 250g wild chrysanthemum, 20g garlic (white skin), 1g MSG, 2g salt, 5g sesame oil, 3g white sugar

Preparation method: Peel the garlic, wash it and mash it into minced garlic for later use; remove the impurities from the tender stems and leaves of wild chrysanthemum, wash them, blanch them in boiling water, take them out and soak them in cold water to rinse off the bitterness. After 30 minutes, take them out and drain them, cut them into sections and put them in a plate, pour the minced garlic and sesame oil on them, then sprinkle with salt, MSG and sugar, mix well and serve. What to eat for beauty

Health-preserving and therapeutic effects: This dish contains a variety of nutrients and has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. People with weak spleen and stomach should avoid eating this dish.

3. Taboos to pay attention to when eating wild chrysanthemum

There are also taboos in the use of wild chrysanthemum. People who often suffer from stomach pain, or abdominal pain, are called spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, or middle burner deficiency and cold in traditional Chinese medicine. Wild chrysanthemum should not be used for this type of patients. In short, if there are no signs of heat, especially if there are signs of deficiency and cold, it should not be used. Which symptoms belong to heat signs? Four words: redness, swelling, heat, and pain. If you have these four words, you can use wild chrysanthemum. If there is no redness, swelling, heat, or pain, it belongs to Yin syndrome and you must not use it.

Another very important point is that it should not be taken for a long time. Because wild chrysanthemum is different from chrysanthemum, it is our prescription medicine. Unlike chrysanthemum, everyone can drink chrysanthemum water and chrysanthemum tea. Wild chrysanthemum is bitter and cold, which can damage the stomach and spleen. You should stop using it as soon as you recover from the illness.