What are the medicinal values ​​of white chrysanthemum

Everyone is familiar with white chrysanthemum, especially those who love to drink white chrysanthemum tea, I believe they know more about white chrysanthemum. White chrysanthemum is also known as Jiehua and Ganchao. It is a perennial herb native to the eastern, central and southwestern regions of China. White chrysanthemum is a famous Chinese flower. It is a well-known ornamental plant because of its bright colors and wide range of uses. However, it is not only for viewing, but also has high medicinal value. So what are the medicinal values ​​of white chrysanthemum? Let me introduce them to you.

1. White chrysanthemum contains chrysanthemum glycosides, amino acids, flavonoids, and a variety of vitamins and trace elements. Chinese medical research shows that white chrysanthemum has the effects of nourishing the liver and improving eyesight, clearing the heart, nourishing the kidneys, strengthening the spleen and stomach, moistening the throat, promoting salivation, and regulating blood lipids.

2. Auxiliary treatment of hyperactivity of liver yang, high blood pressure, etc.: take 30 grams each of chrysanthemum and honeysuckle, add 12 grams of frosted mulberry leaves for obvious dizziness; for those with arteriosclerosis and high cholesterol, add 24 grams of hawthorn, brew with boiling water in 4 times instead of tea; take 16 grams each of chrysanthemum and frosted mulberry leaves, 10 grams of selfheal, add 150 ml of water, boil over high heat, add a little rock sugar instead of tea, which can clear away heat, improve eyesight, lower blood pressure and lipids.

3. To treat liver and kidney deficiency and blurred vision: take 120g chamomile, 30g Morinda officinalis (without the core), 60g Cistanche deserticola (soaked in wine), 90g wolfberry, grind them into fine powder, make them into pills with refined honey, as big as sycamore seeds, take 30 pills each time, on an empty stomach before meals with light salt water.

4. Treatment of coronary heart disease: Take 300 grams of white chrysanthemum, soak it in warm water overnight, decoct it twice the next day, each time for half an hour, remove the sediment after precipitation, and then concentrate it to 500 ml, take 25 ml orally each time, twice a day, and one course of treatment is 2 months. Clinically proven, the medicine has varying degrees of therapeutic effect on symptoms such as chest tightness, palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, headache, and numbness of the limbs. It has a blood pressure lowering effect on some hypertensive patients, and this method has no other side effects.

5. Used for wind-heat cold, fever and headache. Chrysanthemum is light and has a clear and upward Qi. It is slightly cold and clears away heat, and is good at dispersing wind-heat. Therefore, it is often used to treat wind-heat colds, or the initial stage of febrile disease, when warm evil invades the lungs, causing fever, headache, cough, etc. It is often used together with mulberry leaves, forsythia, mint, platycodon, etc., such as Sangju Drink.

6. Used for carbuncle and swelling. Chrysanthemum is sweet and cold in nature, nourishes yin, clears away heat and detoxifies, and is especially good at relieving carbuncle poison. Therefore, it can be used to treat carbuncle and swelling. It is often used together with honeysuckle and raw licorice, such as chamomile soup.

Through the introduction of the above article, everyone should understand the medicinal value of Bai. However, it should be noted that although white chrysanthemum is good for the body, chrysanthemum tea is a cooling tea. It can be used if you have internal heat, but if you have internal coolness, it is yin and cannot be drunk, as it will aggravate the internal coolness. Also, it cannot be drunk as thirst-quenching tea, as this will hurt your stomach.