Function of chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum is cool, people with qi deficiency and stomach cold, people who eat less, and people with diarrhea should use it with caution.

Sexual taste orientation

Bitter, sweet and bitter; Slightly cold. Enter lung meridian and liver meridian.

★ Note: This flower head is toxic to a certain extent, and it is also true for human beings. But the good news is that although touching chrysanthemums can make people feel a little pain and swelling, doctors will only treat it as a general allergy or inflammation. Chrysanthemum and wild chrysanthemum are different, and their medicinal properties are very different. Chrysanthemum indicum is slightly toxic, which can cause loss of appetite, vomiting and diarrhea. This is chrysanthemum, not wild chrysanthemum.

Function: Dispelling wind and clearing heat, calming liver and improving eyesight. Used for wind-heat cold, headache, dizziness, red eyes, swelling and pain, blurred vision.

efficacy

1 chrysanthemum hawthorn tea: Take 10g chrysanthemum, and add 10g hawthorn and honeysuckle for tea drinking. It can remove blood stasis and reduce fat, reduce temperature and blood pressure, and lose weight. It is suitable for patients with obesity, hyperlipidemia and hypertension.

There are three kinds of scented tea: chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and jasmine. Soaking tea in water can clear away heat and detoxify, and is suitable for preventing and treating wind-heat cold, sore throat and carbuncle. And even if you take it often, it can reduce the fire, and it has the effect of calming your mind and thinking quietly.

3 chrysanthemum honey drink: 50 grams of chrysanthemum, 20 ml of water, simmer for 30 minutes, filter, add appropriate amount of honey, mix well and drink. Has the effects of nourishing liver, improving eyesight, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, clearing away heart fire, strengthening brain, and moistening intestine. Chrysanthemum tea made from chrysanthemum tea and fine oolong tea is a necessary tea for office workers who are exposed to electronic pollution every day. Because this kind of tea has the function of detoxification, it has the function of resisting and eliminating harmful chemicals and radioactive substances accumulated in the body.

4 Take chrysanthemum 10g and tea 3g and brew them together to prevent and treat early hypertension.

5 Take chrysanthemum 10g, mulberry leaf 5g and loquat leaf 5g, grind them into coarse powder, and brew them with boiling water instead of tea, which can prevent autumn bath and is suitable for eating after symptoms such as fever, dry throat, dry mouth and cough caused by autumn dryness invading the lungs. It also has the effects of preventing influenza, meningitis, Japanese encephalitis, mumps and chickenpox.

6 chamomile, its taste is sweet, especially the big white chrysanthemum or small white chrysanthemum produced in Suzhou and Hangzhou, drink with about 3 grams of tea every time. You can also use chrysanthemum and honeysuckle to decoct tea, which has the effects of calming the liver and improving eyesight, clearing away heat and detoxifying.

After a meal, five or six chrysanthemums can quench thirst and produce saliva.

Eight-treasure chrysanthemum tea: honeysuckle 10g, dried tangerine peel 5g, boat-fruited Sterculia (not necessarily, because it will cause loss of appetite, vomiting and diarrhea), a little crystal sugar, a little hawthorn, 5g organic green tea and two red dates, which can be eaten after soaking in boiling water for 5 minutes, calming the liver and improving eyesight, and clearing away heat and toxic materials (available in supermarkets).

9. Dense chrysanthemum bath "Encyclopedia of Chinese and foreign women's beauty and bodybuilding": dried chrysanthemum 15g. Boil chrysanthemum water, add a few drops of honey for 20 minutes, and take a bath. It can moisturize and wrinkle.

Therapeutic value

The flower head of Chrysanthemum morifolium in Compositae. Also known as chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum, chamomile, chrysanthemum, stevia, medicinal chrysanthemum. Widely cultivated in central, eastern and southwestern China. Huai Ju produced in Henan, Chu Ju or Bo Ju produced in Anhui, Hang Ju produced in Zhejiang and Chuan Ju produced in Sichuan. Harvest in autumn when flowers bloom, dry in the sun or evaporate; Fresh products are also acceptable.

【 Description 】 It tastes slightly pungent, bitter and slightly cold. It can disperse wind and heat, clear liver, improve eyesight, calm liver yang and detoxify.

[Reference] Contains inulin, adenine, amino acids, stachydrine, choline, flavonoids, vitamin A-like substances and vitamin B1; Contains volatile oil, mainly pyrethrone, borneol, bornyl acetate, etc.

Has sedative and antipyretic effects. It has inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus B, Shigella, Typhoid Bacillus, Paratyphoid Bacillus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, human tuberculosis and influenza virus. It can obviously dilate coronary artery and increase blood flow. Can enhance the resistance of capillaries. Chrysanthemum glycoside has antihypertensive effect.

[Usage] Used for treating common cold, wind-heat, fever and dizziness; There is heat in the liver meridian; Red eyes and tears, or liver and kidney yin deficiency, blurred vision; Hyperactivity of liver yang, dizziness and headache; Pain and swelling. Modern is also used for coronary heart disease and hypertension.

[Usage] Make tea, decoct soup, soak in wine, or take pills or powder.

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1, mulberry chrysanthemum mint tea: chrysanthemum 6g, mint 9g, honeysuckle 10g, mulberry leaf 10g, soaked in boiling water instead of tea. This prescription uses chrysanthemum, mulberry leaves and mint to dispel wind and clear heat, clear heat and benefit brain, and honeysuckle clears heat and detoxifies. Used for colds, fever, dizziness, red eyes and sore throat.

2. Chrysanthemum cassia seed tea: Chrysanthemum 10g, fried cassia seed 12g. Soak in boiling water. The compatibility of chrysanthemum and cassia seed has good effects of clearing liver, improving eyesight, calming liver and suppressing yang. For liver heat, red eyes, shame, tears, dizziness; Or hyperactivity of liver yang, dizziness.

3. Ju Jing Pill: Chrysanthemum120g, Lycium barbarum 90g, Cistanche deserticola 60g and Morinda officinalis 30g. Grinding into fine powder, refining honey into pills, 6g each time, and taking with warm water.

4. Mulberry hawthorn tea: chrysanthemum 5g, honeysuckle 5g, hawthorn 5g, mulberry leaf 10g. 3~4 times, each time soaked in boiling water, without tea.

This prescription uses mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum and honeysuckle to clear away heat and calm the liver, and hawthorn to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis; Mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum and hawthorn can lower blood pressure, chrysanthemum and hawthorn can dilate coronary artery and increase blood flow, and hawthorn and honeysuckle can lower serum cholesterol. Can be used for treating coronary heart disease, hypertension, arteriosclerosis with liver fever.

5. Chrysanthemum and licorice soup: chrysanthemum 120g, licorice 12g. Decoct in water for 3-4 time.

Originated from ten techniques. This recipe uses chrysanthemum and licorice to clear heat and detoxify, so it is used in a large amount for fear that the efficacy is not enough. Used for furuncle swelling and pain.

Health care efficacy

Chrysanthemum not only has ornamental value, but also has excellent dual-purpose of medicine and food, and has good health care function.

● Chrysanthemum wine: It is brewed with chrysanthemum as raw material and glutinous rice and distiller's yeast. It was called "longevity wine" in ancient times. Its taste is cool and sweet, and it has the effects of nourishing liver and improving eyesight, strengthening brain and delaying aging.

● Chrysanthemum porridge: Boil chrysanthemum and japonica rice together to make porridge, which is fresh and refreshing, can clear the heart, remove annoyance, be pleasing to the eye, and eliminate dryness.

● Chrysanthemum tea: Tea made of chrysanthemum, with a fragrant smell, can relieve summer heat, promote fluid production, dispel wind, moisten throat, nourish eyes and relieve hangover.

● Chrysanthemum cake: Mix chrysanthemums into rice pulp and steam them to make cakes, or make cakes with mung bean powder and chrysanthemums, which has the therapeutic effect of cooling and removing fire.

● Chrysanthemum: "Chrysanthemum Sliced Meat" is fried with chrysanthemum with pork and snake meat or cooked with fish and chicken, with balanced nutrition, nourishing but not greasy, refreshing, and can be used to treat dizziness and wind-heat imbalance.

● Chrysanthemum soup: Boil or steam chrysanthemum with tremella or lotus seeds into soup, and add a little rock sugar to clear away heat, benefit the five internal organs and treat dizziness.

● Chrysanthemum paste: Boil fresh chrysanthemum with water, filter and concentrate, and add refined honey to make paste, which has the effects of expelling wind, clearing away heat and improving eyesight.

● Chrysanthemum pillow: Put chrysanthemum petals into the pillow after drying in the shade, which has a good effect on hypertension, dizziness, insomnia and red eyes.

● Chrysanthemum kneepads: Kneepads are made by mashing Chrysanthemum and Folium Artemisiae Argyi into coarse powder and putting them into gauze bags, which can dispel wind and remove dampness, reduce swelling and relieve pain, and treat arthritis such as crane knee wind.

● Chrysanthemum fragrance: It has the function of dispersing wind and calming the liver, and can be used for the adjuvant treatment of colds and headaches.

Chrysanthemum is one of the important flowers in garden application, which is widely used in flower beds, ground covers, potted flowers and cut flowers. Some of them are used as medicine or as cool drinks for relieving summer heat, such as Chuju and Chrysanthemum morifolium, which have the effect of cooling and calming the nerves and treating headache, dizziness, hypertension, nervous headache and conjunctivitis.

Modern science has been able to extract the effective components from chrysanthemum and make it into drinks such as chrysanthemum crystal and chrysanthemum cola, which is more convenient and saves time for people who like to drink quickly. Chrysanthemum tea is a kind of tea drink suitable for all ages. Healthy people can generally drink it as boiled water.

In China, many places have the custom of eating chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemum is soft and refreshing, and it is a good dish. There are many ways to eat, including fresh food, dry food, raw food, cooked food, braised, steamed, boiled, fried, roasted, shredded and stuffed. Chrysanthemum cake and chrysanthemum jiaozi have their own merits. Chrysanthemum is often eaten with Huang Juhua and white chrysanthemum, especially white chrysanthemum. Chrysanthemum morifolium, chrysanthemum morifolium in Florists Chrysanthemum and chrysanthemum morifolium in Fushan are all top grades.

★ Note: Chrysanthemum is different from Chrysanthemum indicum, and its medicinal properties are quite different. Chrysanthemum indicum is slightly toxic, which can cause loss of appetite, vomiting and diarrhea. This is chrysanthemum, not wild chrysanthemum.

★ Warning that patients with hypertension can have multiple syndrome types according to TCM syndrome differentiation, and chrysanthemum is the best for those with yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity. Those who belong to deficiency of both yin and yang should not use cold chrysanthemum, but only drugs that tonify yang and kidney yin. Patients who treat this syndrome often use warm codonopsis pilosula, astragalus membranaceus and Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. Rehmannia glutinosa, etc. Then their blood pressure will return to normal. If chrysanthemum, Uncaria and Concha Haliotidis are used, the antihypertensive effect is not good. In addition, patients with phlegm-dampness and blood stasis hypertension should not use chrysanthemum.

Chrysanthemum tea has the function of protecting eyes.

Chrysanthemum has a good effect on treating eye fatigue and blurred vision. China has known since ancient times that chrysanthemums can protect eye health. In addition to smearing eyes can eliminate edema, you can also drink a cup of chrysanthemum tea to eliminate eye fatigue. If you drink three or four cups of chrysanthemum tea every day, it will also help to restore your vision.

There are many kinds of chrysanthemums, and ordinary people will choose chrysanthemums with white flowers and big flowers. In fact, small, ugly and yellow chrysanthemums are the best choice. In fact, chrysanthemum tea does not add tea, just soak dried chrysanthemums in water or boil them. Hot drinks in winter and iced drinks in summer are all good drinks.

Pharmacological effects of chrysanthemum morifolium

Chrysanthemum is a commonly used Chinese medicine, which has the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, calming the liver and improving eyesight. Its main components are volatile oil, flavonoids, amino acids and trace elements. According to the origin, origin and processing method, it can be divided into eight mainstream commodities: Chrysanthemum morifolium, Chrysanthemum morifolium, Chrysanthemum morifolium, Chrysanthemum morifolium, Chrysanthemum morifolium and Huang Ju. There are many studies on the classification, identification, chemistry, pharmacology and clinic of chrysanthemum at home and abroad. This paper introduces the pharmacological research of chrysanthemum at home and abroad.

Effect of 1 on coronary artery

The chrysanthemum preparation studied by Zhejiang Medical University can obviously increase the coronary flow of isolated rabbit heart and in vivo dog heart, improve the ST segment depression of ischemic electrocardiogram caused by stimulating brain center, and improve the tolerance of mice to decompression and hypoxia. Yang Xueyuan and others found that the phenolic part of Chrysanthemum morifolium preparation can increase the coronary flow of isolated guinea pig heart, and has no obvious toxic effect on rabbit heart, liver and renal function. In experimental animals with experimental myocardial infarction, experimental coronary atherosclerosis or insufficient blood supply, Chrysanthemum morifolium can increase blood flow and nutritional blood flow, enhance myocardial contraction and increase oxygen consumption.

Effect of 2 on cholesterol metabolism

Chrysanthemum water decoction can inhibit the activity of HMGR in rat liver microsomes and activate cholesterol 7-2- hydroxylase, thus accelerating cholesterol metabolism. Chun Hu and other studies show that chrysanthemum extract can obviously improve the increase of serum cholesterol in rats. For rats in the normal basic diet group, chrysanthemum extract can keep the total serum cholesterol basically unchanged, but increase the protective HDL concentration and reduce the harmful LDL concentration, which can inhibit the increase of blood cholesterol and triglyceride in the case of high-fat diet. This is undoubtedly beneficial to the prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia.

3 antibacterial effect

Chrysanthemum morifolium has a complete inhibitory effect on seven gram-negative intestinal pathogens in vitro, such as Escherichia coli, Shigella sonnei, Proteus, Typhoid Bacillus, Paratyphoid Bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio cholerae. It also has antibacterial effect on Jinbu and β -hemolytic streptococcus. It has a certain inhibitory effect on human tuberculosis. Chrysanthemum water immersion agent (1∶4) has inhibitory effects on dermatophytes such as Trichophyton purpurea, Trichophyton concentric, favus Schulendorferi, Mortierella, Microsporum ferrugineum, Microsporum wool, Epidermophyton groin, Epidermophyton rubrum, Carina stellata and so on.

4 antiviral effect

The pharmacological laboratory of Shandong Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine conducted anti-influenza A virus tests on 8 mainstream chrysanthemum products. The results show that all kinds of chrysanthemums have certain antiviral effects, among which Boju and Huaiju have the best effects. Foreign studies have found that chrysanthemum has inhibitory effects on herpes simplex virus (HSV- 1), poliovirus and measles virus in different degrees. Compared with the blank group, the plaque formation rate decreased by 50%. In addition, chrysanthemum also has anti-AIDS effect, which can inhibit the activity of ZV transcriptase and HLV replication. Albino -7-0-B-D-0 binan galactoside isolated from Chrysanthemum morifolium is a new active component against HZV, and its toxicity is very low.

5 Anti-inflammatory effect

Shandong Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine compared the anti-inflammatory effects of eight mainstream commercial extracts of Chrysanthemum morifolium on mice, and found that Jiju, Chuju, Hangju, Gongju and Chuanju had obvious anti-inflammatory effects, while Huaiju, Boju, Qiju and Huang Ju had weak or not obvious anti-inflammatory effects. Chrysanthemum extract can affect the permeability of capillaries in mice and increase the resistance of capillaries, thus having anti-inflammatory effect.

6 antipyretic effect

Chrysanthemum extract has antipyretic effect on rabbits with artificial fever by gavage.

7 antimutagenic effect

Chrysanthemum morifolium can obviously inhibit the micronucleus rate of mouse bone marrow PCE induced by cyclophosphamide, and the plate incorporation test also confirmed that chrysanthemum morifolium can obviously inhibit the reversion mutation of TA98 or TA 100 strain induced by 2- aminofluorene.

8 Anti-aging effect

Chrysanthemum can obviously prolong the life span of silkworm and enhance the peroxide reduction of glutathione. Chrysanthemum extract can improve the hypoxia tolerance of heart and brain in mice and prolong the survival time. Chrysanthemum also has the ability to scavenge O(2) free radicals. Chun Hu et al. studied the protective effect of chrysanthemum extract on superoxide anion free radical damage of biofilm, and found that chrysanthemum extract can enter the glyceride of cell membrane and play a protective role. This discovery shows that chrysanthemum has the hope to play a role in emerging functional foods, especially anti-aging foods.

9 anti-tumor effect

The dandelion saipao-type 3- hydroxytriterpenoids isolated from Chrysanthemum morifolium have a significant inhibitory effect on the skin tumor of mice caused by 12-0- tetradecanoyl Euphorbia diterpenoid alcohol-13- ester (TPA).

English name: Florists Chrysanthemum.

Alias: Chrysanthemum, Autumn Chrysanthemum, Jiuhua, Yellow Flower, Queen Flower.

Family name: Compositae

Origin and Habit: There are more than 30 kinds of chrysanthemums, and 17 kinds are native to China, mainly including: wild chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum, chamomile, chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum and so on. It is a perennial herb. I like cold, cold, growth temperature 18-2 1℃, underground roots are drought-tolerant, and waterlogging is the most taboo. I like loam with high terrain, deep soil layer, rich humus, loose and fertile soil and good drainage. It can grow in slightly acidic to slightly alkaline soil. And Ph6.2-6.7 is the best. As a short-day plant, it grows nutritionally under the long sunshine of 14.5 hours every day. Darkness above 12 hours per day and night temperature of 10℃ are suitable for flower bud development.

Legend:

Chrysanthemum, there is a very interesting legend in Japan. In ancient times, a big ship set out from China, carrying 12 noble boys and girls, and set sail overseas in search of the elixir of life. In exchange, they brought the most valuable item-Jin Juhua. Later, the ship was caught in a storm and washed to an uninhabited desert island, where it was forced to live, breed and plant Jin Juhua. After that, people there called themselves "Japanese Empire". The pattern on the Japanese flag that was mistaken for the sun is actually a Jin Ju. And the symbol of the Japanese emperor is 16 petals of chrysanthemum.

Wu Jun of the Liang Dynasty wrote the book "The Continuation of Qi and He": During the Eastern Han Dynasty, plagues and demons harmed Runan Ruhe area, epidemics prevailed, and moans and pains were everywhere. There was a man named Huan Jing, who went through hardships and dangers into the mountains, worshipped Fei Changfang as a teacher and learned the magic power of eliminating disasters and saving people. One day, Fei Changfang told Huan Jing: "The plague demon killed again on September 9, and you have to go back and save your parents and relatives." And told him: "When I climbed the mountain that day, I put Cornus officinalis in a red cloth bag and tied it to my arm;" Drinking chrysanthemum wine will defeat the plague demon and eliminate the disaster. " Huan Jing returned to his hometown and told the villagers the whole story. On September 9, the Ruhe River was blustery and foggy, and the plague demon came to the front of the mountain. Because the chrysanthemum was pungent and the dogwood was pungent, it was difficult to get close. Huan Jing fought fiercely with a sword, and the plague demon was beheaded at the foot of the mountain. At night, people went home, where "chickens, dogs, cattle and sheep suddenly died", but people survived. Since then, the custom of climbing mountains to avoid disasters in Chongyang has been passed down from generation to generation.

Chrysanthemum science

Japan Institute of Agricultural Biological Resources recently cultivated six new chrysanthemum varieties by ion beam irradiation technology. Each chrysanthemum can have five or six colors at the same time, and the petal patterns are different in depth. It looks dazzling, changeable and amazing. Six new varieties cultivated by researchers through ion beam irradiation are called ion bright, ion macro, ion dawn, ion hatsune, ion brilliance and ion magic. Researchers believe that this method can be used to cultivate new varieties of flowers in the future. The researchers used ion beam irradiation to mutate the cultured cells of petals and leaves, and the mutated cells continued to grow. In the past, mutation breeding was mainly irradiated by gamma rays, and the color was single. A chrysanthemum often had only two colors. Moreover, it takes a lot of time to enlarge only the fixed variation part, and it takes much less time to irradiate a chrysanthemum with ion beams of various colors and patterns.

Operation chrysanthemum

When it comes to the use of chrysanthemums, perhaps people can't help asking: What is worth mentioning? There are many kinds of chrysanthemums with bright colors and changeable postures; It is well known that chrysanthemum has high ornamental value, which is a fact, but its more uses are often ignored.

Chrysanthemum wine: It is brewed with chrysanthemum as raw material, glutinous rice and distiller's yeast. It was called "longevity wine" in ancient times. Its taste is cool and sweet, and it has the effects of nourishing liver and improving eyesight, strengthening brain and delaying aging.

Chrysanthemum porridge: use chrysanthemum and japonica rice to cook porridge, which is waxy and refreshing, can clear the heart and remove troubles, and is pleasing to the eye and dry.

Chrysanthemum tea: Tea made of chrysanthemum, with fragrant smell, can relieve summer heat, promote fluid production, dispel wind, moisten throat, nourish eyes and relieve hangover.

Chrysanthemum cake: mix chrysanthemums into rice pulp and steam them to make cakes, or make cakes with mung bean powder and chrysanthemums, which has the therapeutic effect of cooling and removing fire.

Chrysanthemum: "Chrysanthemum Sliced Meat" is fried with chrysanthemum and pork and snake meat or cooked with fish and chicken. Excellent meat quality, nourishing but not greasy, refreshing, and can be used to treat dizziness and wind-heat disorder.

Chrysanthemum soup: use tremella or lotus seeds to cook or steam chrysanthemum into soup, and add a little rock sugar to clear away heat and benefit the five internal organs and treat dizziness.

[Traditional Efficacy] Chrysanthemum is a perennial herb in Compositae, and it is one of the commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in China. Its flower head is used as medicine. According to ancient records, chrysanthemum is sweet, bitter and slightly cold; There is a difference between wild chrysanthemum and domestic chrysanthemum, "but domestic varieties are better, and tonic is more than diarrhea;" Wild chrysanthemum tastes bitter, and diarrhea can not stop, that is, domestic chrysanthemum can clear liver and improve eyesight, and wild chrysanthemum can detoxify and disperse fire. Chrysanthemum is very effective, and Chinese medicine is often used to treat diseases such as red eyes, sore throat, tinnitus, wind-heat cold, headache, hypertension and carbuncle. If eaten for a long time, it also has the effects of "benefiting blood, making people fit and prolonging life". According to legend, Kang Fengzi and Zhu Ruzi in Fairy Tales all became immortals by eating chrysanthemums, so chrysanthemums are known as "the best of medicine and food homology".

[Medical Mechanism] Management analysis shows that chrysanthemum contains volatile oil, inulin, adenine, amino acids, choline, stachydrine, berberine, flavonoids, chrysanthemum pigment, vitamins, trace elements and other substances, which can resist pathogens and enhance capillary resistance; Among them, flavonoids have been proved to have a strong scavenging effect on free radicals, and have remarkable effects on antioxidation and anti-aging. From the point of view of nutrition, the essence of plants lies in flowers and fruits. Chrysanthemum petals contain 17 kinds of amino acids, among which glutamic acid, aspartic acid and proline are higher. In addition, it is rich in vitamins and trace elements such as iron, zinc, copper and selenium, which has incomparable functions for ordinary fruits and vegetables. Modern clinical medicine has also proved that chrysanthemum can dilate coronary artery, increase blood flow and lower blood pressure, and has a good effect on coronary heart disease, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and hypercholesterolemia.

[Others] Colored chrysanthemums are not only common materials for art and painting; It also has the special environmental protection function of absorbing industrial toxic gases and dust such as H2S, Cl2 and SO2. It can also absorb a lot of CO and release O2, which is one of the substances for urban greening. The noble chrysanthemum stands proudly. It has always been a symbol of human integrity. Known as one of the "Four Gentlemen", he has been admired and encouraged by China intellectuals for thousands of years.

"It is better to hold the incense on the branch and die than to blow it into the north wind." In the season of chill and withering flowers, only she stands proudly and perseveres; Considerable to admire, edible and medicinal, lamentable, chrysanthemum is indeed one of the most precious gifts given by God to mankind.

October, also known as "Chrysanthemum Moon", is the season when chrysanthemums are in full bloom, although the frost and dew are heavy.

Chrysanthemum is a common medicinal and edible flower. The habit of enjoying and eating chrysanthemums in China has lasted for thousands of years.

When dazzling chrysanthemums sway in the autumn wind, they can also be colorful on the dining table; Eye-catching and healthy.

In the history of China literature, there are countless works of chanting chrysanthemums, and the inseparable relationship between chrysanthemums and people's lives in China is clearly remembered in black and white. Chrysanthemum is known as "the guest of prolonging life". In addition to medicinal and ornamental purposes, many places have the custom of eating chrysanthemums. "If you drink Mulan in the morning, you will be exposed, and if you eat Qiuju at night, your English will not work." Qu Yuan's singing may be the earliest testimony of eating chrysanthemums. Later, a group of great poets such as Tao Yuanming, Li Qiao, Wang Wei and Zheng Banqiao also had chapters on eating chrysanthemums for health preservation. "Sit in Dongli and taste the flower feast, and a piece of Joan cream is fresh in the mouth." The taste of chrysanthemum and the joy of eating are self-evident.

Chrysanthemum is soft and refreshing, and it is a good dish. There are many ways to eat it, such as fresh food, dry food, raw food, cooked food, braised, steamed, boiled, fried, roasted and mixed, and shredded into stuffing. Chrysanthemum cake and chrysanthemum jiaozi have their own merits. Although there are many varieties of chrysanthemums, yellow and white chrysanthemums are mostly used for food, especially white chrysanthemums. Hang Chrysanthemum, Florists Chrysanthemum Chrysanthemum and Fushan Chrysanthemum are all top grades.

It is a great enjoyment to let chrysanthemums bloom in your eyes and mouth in the crisp autumn season. "I'll come back at chrysanthemum time when I have a holiday on the mountain", chrysanthemum has been doomed for a thousand years. Let's spend the Double Ninth Festival lightly and watch the chrysanthemum flowers float slowly throughout the autumn. ...

■ Chrysanthemum tea

"Research the spring breeze, early back to the afternoon dream quite tea. The fragrant snow in Beiyuan is hard to find, and the buds are picked on the east fence. " Chamomile with pleasant fragrance is suitable for making tea, and white chrysanthemum produced in Suzhou and Hangzhou is the best choice. Chrysanthemum tea is fragrant and refreshing, and has the functions of dispelling wind and clearing heat, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, lowering blood pressure and dredging pulse. When you get up early, gently apply a cotton pad dipped in chrysanthemum tea juice around your eyes to eliminate dark circles. Chrysanthemum is also suitable for soaking in water with various flowers and teas, and the effect is more obvious, such as the following chrysanthemum teas.

□ Chrysanthemum hawthorn tea: Take chrysanthemum 10g, add hawthorn 10g and honeysuckle 10g instead of tea, which can reduce blood fat and blood pressure, lose weight and keep fit, and is suitable for patients with obesity, hyperlipidemia and hypertension.

□ Three kinds of scented tea: a little chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and jasmine. Soaking tea in water can clear away heat and detoxify. It is suitable for preventing and treating wind-heat cold, sore throat, carbuncle, etc. And even if you take it often, it can reduce the fire, and it has the effect of calming your mind and thinking quietly.

□ Chrysanthemum honey drink: 50 grams of chrysanthemum, 20 ml of water, simmer for 30 minutes, filter, add appropriate amount of honey, mix well and drink. Has the effects of nourishing liver, improving eyesight, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, clearing away heart fire, strengthening brain, and moistening intestine.

Methods: Make tea with about 3 ~ 5g chrysanthemum each time and drink it 2~3 times a day. Use glassware to hold chrysanthemum tea, add one or two jade butterflies and a few bamboo leaves; Air to 78 minutes of hot water; You can see that the tea leaves gradually turn yellow, and the petals of chrysanthemum are stretched out in clear water, clear and bright, and the fragrance is fragrant. Don't drink all the tea every time, leave about 1/3, and then add water to get the chrysanthemum fragrance.

■ Chrysanthemum wine

Chrysanthemum used for wine making was popular as early as the Han and Wei Dynasties. According to folklore, when chrysanthemums are in full bloom, their stems and leaves are collected together, brewed with grains, and stored until the second year of Chongyang for drinking. Chrysanthemum wine is cool and sweet, which is a good product for strengthening body and prolonging life. From a medical point of view, chrysanthemum wine can improve eyesight, cure dizziness, lower blood pressure, lose weight, lose weight, tonify liver qi, regulate stomach and nourish blood. Tao Yuanming said in his poem, "There is no shadow on the swallow, and the geese hear it. Wine can cure all diseases, and chrysanthemum can cure aging ",which is praising the role of chrysanthemum wine in eliminating diseases and prolonging life." Legend has it that drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival can also ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters.

Production: Wash and dry the dried chrysanthemum, soak it in low-alcohol grain wine, and drink it after one or two days. Regular drinking can promote blood circulation and qi circulation, resist aging and prolong life; If Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Fructus Lycii are added to the wine, it will have a good effect on dizziness, fatigue and dreaminess.

■ Chrysanthemum cake

Eating chrysanthemum cake is one of the customs of Chongyang. The word "cake" is homophonic with "high", which was originally used to compensate for not being able to climb mountains. But because this kind of cake is more Leng Xiang, calm and beautiful than ordinary cakes, it is particularly popular, so it has been handed down and there are many ways to do it. Let me introduce you to the simplest one.

Ingredients: 20~30 chrysanthemums, 200g water chestnut powder, fresh chrysanthemums 1 flower (chopped), and appropriate amount of rock sugar (the sweetness can be adjusted according to personal taste).

Practice: Boil the chrysanthemum with clear water for about 10 minute (wrap the chrysanthemum with gauze to avoid the trouble of slag separation). When the color is light yellow, don't cook it for too long, otherwise it will be slightly bitter. Take out chrysanthemum and add rock sugar to taste, the sweetness is slightly sweeter than normal, because adding horseshoe powder solution will dilute it. Add chopped fresh chrysanthemums. Water caltrop powder is dissolved in proper amount of water, poured into chrysanthemum water and steamed for about 15~20 minutes until it is completely transparent, so it can be eaten whether it is hot or cold. You can also add raisins, red and green silk, apricot meat and other small preserved fruit pieces or spread lemon slices in the sauce to increase the flavor. This kind of cake is sweet, soft and crisp, which melts in the mouth and leaves fragrance on the teeth and cheeks. Function: cool and remove fire.

Tips:

-Wash with salt water before eating, but don't soak for too long, so as not to destroy the organizational structure and nutritional flavor of chrysanthemum.

-Bitter barley-shaped like a chrysanthemum with thick dark green leaves. It tastes particularly bitter with mugwort and can't be eaten.

When drinking chrysanthemum tea, you can add sugar or rock sugar at will to add flavor and calm your mind.

-White chrysanthemum tea, appropriate use small Huang Ju.

□ The dosage and consumption of tea should not be too large. Whether the dosage is too large or taking it for too long, it will have toxic and side effects. This is especially obvious when drinking wild chrysanthemum tea.

Life link:

On the third night, there is a dream chrysanthemum as a pillow: there are many wild chrysanthemums in the suburbs, which can be collected and dried in the afternoon, put into gauze bags and stuffed into pillowcases. Has effects in preventing headache and dreaminess, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and lowering blood pressure. If used with mung bean and cassia seed, it can improve eyesight, so it is called "eyesight pillow".

□ Boil and wash chrysanthemum to coagulate fat: weigh several chrysanthemums, decoct them in water to get juice, pour them into the bathtub and add water to cool them. It can relieve summer heat, improve eyesight and refresh the mind, especially suitable for office white-collar workers and writers.

Weigh Flos Chrysanthemi, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, Radix Saposhnikoviae, Asari, Fructus Zanthoxyli, Fructus Gleditsiae Abnormalis, and Ramulus Cinnamomi (15-30g, depending on the amount of hair), decoct with water and wash your hair to prevent dandruff.

□ Collection of Double Ninth Festival customs: "Being a stranger alone in a foreign land, I miss my relatives twice during the festival, and I know where my brothers are climbing in the distance, and there is one less person everywhere." Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival in China, and we have collected many customs of this day to entertain everyone. Double Ninth Festival is a festival for the elderly. Don't forget to go home and see the old people at home that day. Chongyang is also called "Chrysanthemum Festival", and activities related to chrysanthemums are indispensable. There will be grand chrysanthemum banquets in chrysanthemum-producing areas such as Hangzhou, Kaifeng, Zhongshan (even Beijing), such as chrysanthemum-enjoying, drinking chrysanthemum tea, eating chrysanthemum cake, enjoying dogwood and hairpin chrysanthemum. Of course, we must climb high and look far, and pray for blessings for our loved ones; Huizhou and other places will also fly kites, so that kites can bring a year's longing and yearning to distant relatives.

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Chrysanthemum is really icing on the cake. Its thorough fragrance is even worse than vanilla, coriander and onion. Chrysanthemum is a famous dish in Cantonese cuisine and Huaiyang cuisine. Among the banquets in the name of flowers, the chrysanthemum banquet is also the most famous. Just listening to these vivid names, such as "Sweet-scented osmanthus fish crossing the bridge with chrysanthemum thick soup", "Preserved chrysanthemum flowers", "Five snakes stewed with chrysanthemum bamboo chicken", "Chicken with chrysanthemum dew fragrance", "Spring Nest with autumn chrysanthemum", "Duck stuffed with plum" and "Fresh chestnut soup with chrysanthemum", is enough to make you feel extraordinary and full of fragrance. Among all kinds of chrysanthemum dishes, nothing is more popular than "fried herring balls with chrysanthemum". There is also a beautiful legend: a long time ago, a group of refugees from the north settled in Guangdong because of the beautiful scenery in Xiangshan County. When they saw the delicious herring, they peeled off its clean meat, chopped it with a knife, stirred it into a sticky shape, and fried it into fish balls with traditional fried balls. Fish balls fried with peanuts are delicious and tender. I occasionally mix fish balls with fresh chrysanthemums that can be seen everywhere in the local area. It feels more fragrant and has a long aftertaste. So there is today's famous watch that makes people never tire of eating.

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