I once visited Lu Xun's former residence in winter. The most impressive thing for me should be the wintersweet tree in Baicao Garden. As the dried flower buds of the wintersweet family, the wintersweet flower is warm in nature and slightly bitter in taste. It contains volatile oils, cyperine, cyperin, and tail-carotene. It has many uses, so let's learn about it together. The efficacy and function of wintersweet flowers It tastes slightly sweet and spicy, and is cool in nature. It has the effects of relieving heat and promoting body fluid, stimulating appetite and relieving depression, detoxifying and promoting muscle growth, and relieving cough. It is mainly used to treat summer heat dizziness, vomiting, fever thirst, qi stagnation and stomach tightness, cough and other diseases. People often use wintersweet flowers to boil water for babies to drink, which has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. Nutritional value of wintersweet flowers Wintersweet flowers contain volatile oils, including borneol, eucalyptol, linalool, cymenine, isocymenine, cymenin, a-carotene, linoleic acid, oleic acid and other chemical components. The leaves contain cymenine, cymenine and isocymenine; the fresh leaves contain hydrocyanic acid. The seeds contain fatty oil, fatty acids, linoleic acid, linolenic acid and other components. Among them, cymenine has an effect similar to strychnine (which can excite the nerve center, but is more toxic), and can also lower blood sugar and excite the uterus and intestines. How to choose wintersweet flowers There are two types of products: 1. Wintersweet The center of the flower is yellow, the petals are double, and the petals are round and large. 2. Chimonanthus dogwood The center of the flower is red, with a single petal. The petals are narrow and pointed, the flower is small, and the quality is inferior. The best ones are those with a yellow center, complete and full but not yet opened. They are produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places. Storage of Wintersweet Flowers Place in a cool and dry place to prevent mildew and moth. |
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