What are the effects and functions of snow flower

In people's daily diet, they will choose some foods that have nutritional value to themselves, especially some people who advocate health preservation. Snow flower is a kind of food that people like to eat. Many people are not very clear about the effects of snow flower, and don’t know what nutritional value it has for the human body. So, what are the effects and functions of snow flower?

First, what are the effects and functions of snow flower? Snow flower is also known as wintersweet flower, yellow wintersweet, wax wood, and iron chopsticks. Its flower buds, roots, and root bark are used as medicine. Snow flower tastes sweet, slightly bitter and warm in nature. It is suitable for symptoms such as fever, thirst, chest tightness, cough, scalds, burns, sore throat, rheumatism, and bruises. Used externally to treat burns, otitis media. Modern research shows that snowflower contains a variety of volatile oils, styraxine, styrax glycosides, and p-carotene. Strychnine 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. Specific functional prescriptions are listed below: Wind-fire red eyes: 10 grams of snow flower and 10 grams of chrysanthemum. Boil in water, add 15 grams of honey and drink. Acute conjunctivitis: 6 grams of snow flower and 9 grams of chrysanthemum. Boil in water, add a little honey and drink. Otitis media: Take an appropriate amount of snow flower buds, soak them in sesame oil or rapeseed oil. After 3 to 5 days, use the oil to drip into the ears, 2 to 3 drops each time. Heatstroke, irritability, dizziness and headache: Take appropriate amounts of snow flower, lentil flower and fresh lotus leaf, decocted in water and taken orally. Wind-cold cold: 15 grams of wintersweet root (dried), 3-5 slices of ginger, decocted in water and added with appropriate amount of brown sugar. Sore throat: 10 grams of snow flower, 10 grams of isatis indigotica, 10 grams of green fruit, 5 grams of sterculia lychnophora. Decoction in water. Thirst due to summer heat: 10 grams of snow flower, 10 grams of lentil flower, and 15 grams of fresh lotus. Decoction in water and add rock sugar. Chronic cough: 9 grams of snow flower, soak in boiling water, and drink as tea.

Second, summer heat, thirst, dizziness, chest tightness, vomiting, polio, and whooping cough: 3-6 grams of dried wintersweet buds, decocted in water. . Epigastric pain: ① 9-15 grams of snow flower or root, drink as tea or decoct in water. ② 5 grams of snow flower, 10 grams of Cyperus rotundus, and 15 grams of Angelica sinensis. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day. .Burns: ① Take an appropriate amount of snow flower, soak it in rapeseed oil, and apply it to the affected area. ② Take 10 grams of fresh snow flower, mash it to extract the juice, and apply it to the affected area.

What are the effects and functions of Snow Flower? Skin ulcers: 10 grams of Snow Flower, 3 grams of Coptis chinensis, 6 grams of Phellodendron chinense, 3 grams of Indigo Naturalis, grind into fine powder. Take an appropriate amount and mix with sesame oil, apply to the affected area, 2 to 3 times a day. . Skin rashes and ulcers, and tinea cerevisiae: soak 6 grams of snow lily in 60 ml of peanut oil or sesame oil. Apply it locally after two weeks, 2 to 3 times a day. .Back pain: 6 grams of wintersweet (root and stem), 30 grams of honey. Fry the roots and stems of wintersweet until they turn yellow, add honey and steam them. Take it all at once. 15. Plum pit qi: 10 grams of snow flower and 10 grams of daidai hua. Brew with boiling water and add sugar instead of tea.