In the eyes of our flower eating little herbalist, spring blooms are not flowers, they are medicine!

“Mountain flowers shine in the dock and burn the stream again, and the trees and branches can be enchanted.” Spring is the time when everything is revived, so the bursts of fragrance that drift into the nose from time to time, the streets and alleys, or sparse or complicated colorful splendor, are reminding us of the revival of the flower fairies. The awakening of some of them brings a taste of good herbs, so let’s get to know a few of them below. 1, Xin Yi “try to ask where the spring breeze is good? Xin Yi like snow Tsugaoka West.” –Wang Anshi Flower language: love, love of nature, eternal friendship Harvesting time: late winter and early spring when the flowers are not open Harvesting properties: pungent, warm. Functions and Indications: Dispersing wind-cold and clearing the nasal passages. Used for wind-cold headache, nasal congestion, nasal abscess, nasal runny nose. Note: Not to be taken by people with Yin deficiency and fire. 2, the moon season “only to say that the flowers do not bloom for ten days, this flower does not have days of spring.” –Yang Wanli Flower Language: Like the flowering period, persistent, waiting for hope, beautiful and long new. Harvesting time: Harvest all year round, pick when the flowers are slightly open, dry in the shade or at low temperature. Taste: sweet, warm. Functions: Promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, dispersing poison and eliminating swelling. Used for menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea, carbuncle and swelling, chest pain. Note: Should not be taken for a long time; caution for those with cold spleen and stomach and pregnant women. 3. Lonicera japonica “The golden tiger’s fetus contains vegetation, and the yellow silver is out of the clouds.” –Wang Fu Flower Language: Devote yourself to you with all your heart and soul, unchanging love. Harvesting time: Harvested in early summer before the flowers open, dry. Taste: sweet, cold. Functions: Clearing heat, detoxifying. Treating warm fever, febrile blood dysentery, carbuncle, swelling and poison, scrofula, hemorrhoids. Note: Avoid taking if the spleen and stomach are weak and cold, and if the sores and pus are clear. 4, knotted incense “golden ball of the cluster of eternal knotted incense, soft branches stirring dance neon.” — Anonymous Flower Language: “A thousand knots in the heart”, happy ties. Harvesting time: The inflorescences are picked in late winter and early spring when the flowers are open, and dried in the sun. Taste: calm, mild. Functions: Nourishing Yin and tranquilizing the mind, brightening the eyes, dispelling cataracts. Used for blue-blindness, cataracts, tearfulness, dreaming, deficiency gonorrhea, loss of voice. 5, Yang Jinhua “Autumn wind dare not blow, said to be the fragrance of heaven.” — Chen and Yi Language of flowers: Love flower, is the flower of the sky, white and soft, pure and beautiful. Harvesting time: April to November when the flowers first bloom, sun-dried or low-temperature drying. Taste: Pungent, warm; poisonous. Functions: Calming asthma and relieving cough, analgesic, antispasmodic. Used for asthma and cough, cold pain in the stomach and abdomen, rheumatic paralysis; surgical anesthesia. Caution: Take with caution internally. Weak people are prohibited. 6, winter flowers “monk’s room met with paragraph winter flowers, out of the temple chanting line day has been slanted. Twelve streets are covered with spring snow, who is the family of the horse’s hoof today.” –Zhang Ji Flower Language: Fairness. Follow your own judgment when choosing a lover. Harvesting time: In December or before the ground freezes when the flowers have not yet emerged from the ground, remove the flower stalks and mud and sand, shade dry. Taste: Pungent, slightly bitter, warm. Functions: Moisten the lung and lower the air, stop cough and resolve phlegm. It is used for new and prolonged cough, wheezing and coughing with phlegm, and coughing up blood in labor coughs. Note: Not to be used if the lung fire is burning and the lung is full of anxiety. Forbidden for coughs with Yin deficiency. Spring is here, a hundred flowers are the most pleasant, might as well take your loved ones to enjoy the spring flowers! But first of all, you still have to have a loved one. No beloved one can accompany you, after all, you can enjoy the flowers while reviewing medicinal botany, traditional Chinese medicine and other courses, the beauty of the flowers can not be the other half of your ugly ah, you ugly but you read more ah!