What are the effects and functions of butterfly pea flowers?

Butterfly pea flower has high nutritional value. It can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness at the same time. If the human body has too much dampness, butterfly pea flower can be used to improve it. It can also improve poor appetite and has the effect of enhancing appetite. When you have a cough, you can use butterfly pea flower to relieve cough and prevent and treat respiratory tract infections. Butterfly pea flower can improve night blindness and has the benefits of promoting human development. What are the effects and functions of butterfly pea flower? Let’s take a look below.

1. Effects and functions of butterfly pea flower

The nutritional value includes strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, lowering qi, replenishing the middle and benefiting the chest and diaphragm, calming the stomach and intestines. It is used for indigestion, chronic diarrhea, cough, night blindness, and prevention of respiratory infections, and promoting human growth and development.

2. Production method

1. Butterfly pea flower is rich in vitamins A, C and E, and can enhance immunity, help and promote skin elasticity and collagen.

2. Butterfly pea flower also has natural health benefits such as nourishing the brain, promoting brain vitality, preventing stomach pain, anti-depression, anti-stress, sedation, anticonvulsant, and relieving emotions.

3. Make a pot of butterfly pea tea and be stunned by the beauty of the light blue tea soup. The butterfly pea flower tea alone has a very light taste and a faint fragrance.

4. Take out five or six dried butterfly pea flowers and put them into the glass tea set so that you can see the beautiful color changes at the first time. Glass tea sets are recommended, preferably with filters.

5. Soak in boiling water for about a minute, the brewed tea soup will be light blue, clear and pure. At this time, you can remove the filter so that the butterfly flowers are separated from the water.

6. If you feel that the taste of butterfly pea flowers alone is too light, you can add two slices of fresh lemon and a little honey to the pot, then put the filter back into the pot and continue to brew for two or three minutes. At this time, the natural pigment in the butterfly pea flowers continues to work, the color of the flowers becomes lighter, and the tea soup becomes a noble and elegant purple.

7. Butterfly pea flowers and lemon can be added to make a scented tea, which is an excellent drink for cardiovascular health. This floral tea can be brewed into two such beautiful colors. I’m so surprised and I love it so much.

3. Notes

1. The natural blue pigment in butterfly pea flowers is therapeutic. Adding lemon and mixing it into a scented tea is an excellent drink for cardiovascular health.

2. Butterfly pea flower is a natural food colorant. Some cakes in Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia are blue, dyed with butterfly pea flower pigment.

3. Butterfly pea flower tea has the effect of relieving heat and fever.