What are the effects of hibiscus flowers?

Hibiscus flowers can be used as medicine. Research has found that the roots, leaves and stems of hibiscus flowers contain nutrients such as flavonoids, which have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and reducing swelling, and detoxifying. They are effective in treating lung heat and cough, and treating women's menorrhagia, dysmenorrhea, excessive leucorrhea and other diseases. In addition, they also have a certain therapeutic effect on some acne and have a certain beauty-enhancing effect.

1. Treat vomiting blood

Uterine bleeding, conjunctivitis, sores, and lung abscess: decocted and taken with 3 qian to 1 liang of hibiscus flowers. (Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Shanghai)

2. Treat carbuncle and swelling :

Hibiscus mutabilis flowers, leaves, and moutan bark. Wash with decoction. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

3. Treat snake head carbuncle and snake venom:

Two taels of fresh hibiscus flowers and five cents of winter honey. Mash the mixture and apply it, changing the mixture two to three times a day. (Fujian "Folk Practical Herbs")

4. Treatment of water burns:

Dry the hibiscus flowers, grind them into powder, and apply them with sesame oil. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

5. Treatment of moxibustion sores that do not heal:

Grind hibiscus flowers into powder and apply it on the affected area. ("Miraculous Remedy")

6. Treat consumptive cough:

2 to 4 liang of hibiscus flowers, 1 liang of deer mouth grass, and 2 liang of brown sugar, stewed with pig heart and lungs; you can add salt if there is no sugar. (Chongqing Herbs)

7. Treating continuous menstrual bleeding:

Frost-resistant flowers and lotus shells are in equal parts. Grind it into powder and take 2 qian of it with rice each time. (Good Prescriptions for Women)

A 20% ointment made from hibiscus flowers can be applied externally to treat carbuncle, cellulitis, etc. It has anti-inflammatory, swelling-delaying, pus-dispelling and analgesic effects. According to the observation of more than 300 cases, the pain is generally relieved after one application of the medicine; after 3-7 applications, the effect of draining pus if there is pus and reducing swelling if there is no pus can be achieved.