Fresh flowers can also be used to maintain your health. This flower is the one that promotes blood circulation and regulates menstruation!

With the improvement of living standards, many friends will put a few flowers at home. Do you know that flowers also have health benefits? Now let me show you which flowers can maintain your health.

Peach Blossom - Activating blood circulation and regulating menstruation

The whole peach tree is a treasure. Fresh peaches, peach kernels, peach blossoms, peach leaves, peach roots, peach branches and peach gum can all be used as medicine. Among them, peach kernels are the essential medicine for promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, moistening coal and lubricating the intestines. Peach blossom has the effects of promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, promoting diuresis and relieving constipation. As early as in "Shennong's Herbal Classic", there was a record of it "beautifying the human face". Tao Hongjing's "Zuohoufang" also states that "if you take the medicine made from three peach trees, your face will be as rosy and lustrous as peach blossoms." If women eat it regularly, it can invigorate blood circulation, regulate menstruation, facilitate bowel movements and detoxify, thereby achieving the purpose of beautifying and maintaining youth.

Peach blossom diet therapy recipe: 20 fresh peach blossoms, 150 grams of longan pulp, sealed and soaked in 500 grams of high-quality liquor, it can be consumed after 3 days, once a day, about 15 ml each time, it has the effects of harmonizing blood and regulating menstruation, facilitating bowel movements and detoxification, and making the face rosy, making people's face as rosy as peach blossoms.

Honeysuckle - clearing away heat and detoxifying

Honeysuckle is slightly cold in nature and sweet in taste. It belongs to the lung meridian, heart meridian, stomach meridian, and large intestine meridian. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving sore throat, and relieving heat and restlessness. It can treat heatstroke, diarrhea, influenza, sores, boils, acute and chronic tonsillitis, periodontitis and other diseases.

Honeysuckle diet therapy recipe: Use 10 grams of honeysuckle and soak it in water for drinking. If you want to improve the taste, you can also add 10 grams of raw licorice.

Kapok flower - clearing away heat and dampness

Kapok is the city flower of Guangzhou, and its flower language means cherishing the people around you and happiness. Kapok flowers not only have beautiful flowers, but also have the effects of clearing away heat, promoting dampness and detoxifying. They also have significant therapeutic effects on chronic gastritis, gastric ulcers, diarrhea and dysentery.

Kapok dietary therapy: Kapok tangerine peel porridge

Ingredients: 30 grams of fresh kapok flowers, 10 grams of tangerine peel, 100 grams of polished rice, and appropriate amount of honey.

Preparation: Wash the kapok flowers and tangerine peel, add water to boil the juice, remove the residue and set aside. Wash the japonica rice, add water and kapok and tangerine peel juice to cook porridge. When the porridge is almost done, add appropriate amount of honey and cook for a while.

Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and removes dampness, cools blood and stops bleeding, moistens the lungs and relieves cough. Kapok flowers have the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, detoxifying and stopping bleeding. Tangerine peel and honey can moisten the lungs and relieve cough. Japonica rice can strengthen the spleen and stomach. The combination of the three can enhance the functions of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, and is especially suitable for the elderly with qi deficiency.

Chrysanthemum - Anti-premature aging

As early as in "Shennong Bencao Jing", there was a record that "chrysanthemum makes the body light and resists aging". According to modern research and analysis, chrysanthemum mainly contains adenosine, amino acids, choline, flavonoids and trace elements. The main effects of chrysanthemum in cooking are nourishing the liver and kidneys, benefiting the head, resisting premature aging, and improving complexion. It also has a sweet taste and a fragrant smell.

Chrysanthemum diet recipe: 30 grams of red dates, 10 grams of polished rice, 15 grams of chrysanthemum, put them in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, and cook porridge together. When the porridge becomes thick, add appropriate amount of brown sugar and eat. It is beneficial to the spleen and blood, clears the head, and maintains youthful appearance and beautification.

Jasmine tastes spicy and sweet, and is warm in nature. It can help the stomach digest and absorb, relieve stomach pain, and has a good effect on diarrhea and abdominal pain. Therefore, jasmine tea is known as stomach-protecting tea. In addition, jasmine has a calming effect on the mind, which can calm people, relieve tension, and make them feel refreshed and comfortable.

Jasmine diet therapy: If you feel that your digestion is not good, you can soak the flowers in hot milk to make jasmine milk tea, which has a subtle fragrance and has good auxiliary therapeutic effects.

Rose - activating blood circulation and regulating menstruation

Rose has the effect of promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation. It is mainly used to treat menstrual disorders, chest and abdominal distension and pain, depression and vomiting caused by liver depression and blood stasis. Fresh flowers can be used directly, or half-opened flowers can be picked in summer and autumn and dried in the sun, shade or oven for later use.

Rose diet recipe: take 100 grams of fresh rose petals, 400 grams of flour, 3 eggs, 200 grams of milk, 100 grams of sugar, a pinch of fine salt, 50 grams of salad oil, and an appropriate amount of baking powder. Add sugar and milk to the eggs, stir well, then add flour, oil, salt and baking powder, stir into batter, soak the petals in sugar for half an hour, add in the flour sauce, and fry in 50% hot oil until crispy. Long-term consumption can relieve liver and depression, promote blood circulation and regulate menstruation. It is suitable for prolonged menstruation caused by blood stasis.

Lavender - Improve insomnia

Lavender is known as the "king of herbs" with a fresh and elegant fragrance and a mild nature. It is recognized as the most calming, soothing and hypnotic plant. Relieve tension, calm the mind, soothe the spirit, heal wounds and remove scars.

Lavender diet therapy: In addition to being brewed into tea, Europeans have long known that lavender has stomach-strengthening functions, so lavender is often added as a seasoning when cooking, or mixed with vinegar, wine, and jelly to add fragrance.