Chrysanthemum can be decocted into soup, brewed into tea or incorporated into pills and powders. Chrysanthemum is the dried head of chrysanthemum in the Asteraceae family. It is sweet, bitter and slightly cold in nature. It belongs to the lung and liver meridians. It can dissipate wind-heat and clear away heat, calm the liver and improve eyesight, and clear away heat and detoxification (removing heat and toxicity from the body). It is used for wind-heat colds, headache and dizziness, redness and swelling of the eyes, dimming of the eyes, sores and carbuncles, swelling and poison. The efficacy of chrysanthemum alone is limited, so it is often used in combination with other drugs, such as chrysanthemum with honeysuckle to evacuate wind-heat, clearing heat and detoxifying the toxin commonly used to treat wind-heat and colds, the first signs of warm diseases, boils and swollen poisons. Chrysanthemum is cold in nature, and should not be used by people with cold spleen and stomach (spleen and stomach weak and cold). Chrysanthemum is contraindicated in people with a history of allergy to Chrysanthemum. Adverse effects of Chrysanthemum are not known. If needed, please use under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner.