The efficacy and function of honey coltsfoot flower

In the field of Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are many kinds of Chinese medicinal materials that are not well known to everyone, because these Chinese medicinal materials are either very rare, or their names are a bit strange and difficult to remember. Coltsfoot is a kind of traditional Chinese medicinal material. It blooms in winter. Many Chinese medicine practitioners like to make coltsfoot into honey coltsfoot flowers. Honey coltsfoot flowers are mainly taken from the dried flower buds of coltsfoot. So what are the effects and functions of honey coltsfoot flower?

1. The efficacy and function of honey-roasted coltsfoot flowers

Efficacy: This product is the dried flower buds of coltsfoot, a plant of the Asteraceae family. It is used for new and long-term cough, wheezing and cough with excessive sputum, and cough with blood due to exertion.

Meridian: Lung Meridian

Indications: Moistens the lungs and relieves qi, relieves cough and resolves phlegm. It is used for new and long-term cough, wheezing and cough with excessive sputum, and cough with blood due to exertion.

① "Ben Jing": It is used to treat cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, throat congestion, epilepsy, cold and heat evil spirits.

② "Bielu": It is used to treat thirst and shortness of breath.

⑧ "Materia Medica": It is mainly used to treat shortness of breath in the lungs, acute fever, fatigue, incessant coughing, thick and sticky saliva, and treat pulmonary tuberculosis, lung abscess and vomiting of pus.

④ "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): It nourishes the heart and lungs, benefits the five internal organs, eliminates restlessness, replenishes fatigue, eliminates phlegm and stops cough, treats pulmonary tuberculosis and vomiting blood, treats heart deficiency and palpitations, cleanses the liver and improves eyesight, and treats stroke.

⑤ "The Origin of Medicine": Warming the lungs and stopping cough.

⑥ "Bencao Shu": It is used to treat phlegm and fluid, and also for aphonia.

⑦ "Changsha Yaojie": It can reduce adverse effects, break up the spleen and stomach, calm cough and stop wheezing, dredge the throat, cleanse the heart and lungs, and moisturize the throat.

2. Pay attention to taboos

1. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: Apricot kernel is the messenger. It is good to get Aster. It is incompatible with Gleditsia sinensis, Scrophularia ningpoensis and Scrophularia ningpoensis. It is afraid of Fritillaria, Magnolia, Ephedra, Scutellaria, Coptis, Astragalus, and Atractylodes.

2. "Bencao Chongyuan" says: It should not be used for those with burning lung fire or scorched lung qi.

3. "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" says: It is forbidden to use in case of Yin deficiency and cough due to fatigue.

3. How to eat coltsfoot flowers

(I) Processing

Cleaner: Pick out the remaining stems, sand, and dirt.

Honey-coated coltsfoot: Pick clean coltsfoot flowers, add refined honey and appropriate amount of boiling water, mix well, simmer for a while, put into a pot and stir-fry over low heat until it turns slightly yellow and no longer sticky, take out and let cool (for every 100 kilograms of coltsfoot flowers, use 25 kilograms of refined honey).

(2) Coltsfoot Flower Health Tea

Coltsfoot tea

Ingredients: 6 grams of green tea, 3 grams of coltsfoot, and 3 grams of aster. Preparation: Brew the above materials with boiling water. Cover and let stand for a while before drinking. Take 1 dose per day as a substitute for tea. Tea therapy effects: expectorant and cough relieving.

Coltsfoot tea

Ingredients: 9 grams of coltsfoot flowers and 15 grams of rock sugar. Preparation: Put coltsfoot flowers and rock sugar in a thermos, brew half a bottle with boiling water, let it sit for more than 10 minutes, and then drink it instead of tea. Tea therapy effects: moisturizes the lungs, relieves gas, relieves cough and reduces phlegm. Mainly used to treat acute and chronic bronchitis, colds and coughs.