Welcome to read! Please click to follow and share common sense on safe and sensible medication use.

Thanks for the invitation! It's the season of osmanthus again, and the air is filled with the fragrance of osmanthus. Osmanthus is the flower of the plant Mucuna pruriens of the family Mucuna pruriens, commonly known as August laurel. Its branches (osmanthus branches). Fruit (osmanthus seed), root (osmanthus root), can be used as medicine. Osmanthus fragrans harvesting season for the flower blooming period, September and October harvest, shade dry standby.

Osmanthus fragrans is pungent, warm and non-toxic, its main effect is to warm the lungs and dissolve drinks, dispersing cold and relieving pain. The main treatment of phlegm and coughing, cold pain in the stomach and abdomen, intestinal wind and bloody diarrhea, menstrual dysmenorrhea, cold hernia and abdominal pain, toothache and bad breath and other evidence. The medicinal effects of osmanthus flowers have been recorded in many books. Now some of the classical materia medica as well as modern medicine recorded the efficacy of cinnamon, for your reference.

(A): (Materia Medica Huiyan): dispersing cold gas, eliminating blood stasis, stopping intestinal wind and blood dysentery, where suffering from yin and cold cold gas, all cold diseases in the abdomen, steaming hot to iron in the cloth.

(2): (Pharmacology of Chinese medicine): Removing bad breath and unclear vision.

(c): Anhui herbal medicine: disperses cold and knots, warms the lungs and relieves cough. Indications: stomach cold, abdominal pain, scrofula.

(D): (Zhejiang medicinal plants): treatment of phlegm and cough, menstrual closure and abdominal pain.

Examples of common cinnamon small remedies.

(I): For stomach cold and abdominal pain. 5g of cinnamon, 5g of good ginger, 3 slices of ginger, decocted with water.

(ii): Cure bad breath. Cinnamon soaked water night, gargle. (The amount is not limited to how much).

(C): Treating cold-congealed dysmenorrhea. Cinnamon 5g, three slices of ginger, brown sugar 1Og, bubble water and drink.

In addition, some people confuse cinnamon sticks with cinnamon sticks, which is wrong, cinnamon belongs to the family of camphoraceae, while cinnamon belongs to the family of Mulleinaceae, the two families are different, and the efficacy is not the same.

The above is a short answer, and I look forward to comments to add to it if it is not sufficient.

Thanks for reading! (Above image, from the web).

Osmanthus, also known as Mullein, Rock Cinnamon, Nine Miles of Fragrance, and Golden Corn, is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the family Mulleinaceae. China has a history of using osmanthus for medicinal purposes in ancient times, or making it into pastries, brewing wine, making tea, and so on.

Hello, I'm Dr. Xiao Xing, MD, welcome to follow me and share interesting health tips every day.

Native to the southwestern part of China, osmanthus is one of the top ten traditional flowers in China, and also has certain pharmacological and health care functions. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that osmanthus is warm and pungent in nature, and enters the lung meridian and large intestine meridian. It has the effect of dissolving phlegm, dispersing blood stasis, warming the middle and dispersing cold, warming the stomach and relieving pain. In the Compendium of Materia Medica, it is recorded that osmanthus flowers"Promotes the production of body fluid, eliminates odor, and treats toothache caused by windworms".In addition, "Lu Chuan Ben Cao" also called osmanthus flowers"For cough and phlegm."。

I. Active ingredients in osmanthus flowers

Cinnamon contains a variety of biologically active components that exert different effects.

1. Flavonoids, phenols and their derivatives: Cinnamon has the highest flavonoid content of any of the 12 common plants.
2. Lignans and their derivatives: The lignan-like components of cinnamon can play a role in inhibiting the release of NO from macrophages, which in turn acts as an anti-inflammatory.
3. Cyclen ether terpenes and their derivatives。
4. Phenylpropanoid and its derivatives: The phenylpropanoid compounds in cinnamon have strong antioxidant and anti-aging properties.

Second, the pharmacological effects of osmanthus

1. Melanin inhibition: The acetone extract of cinnamon can inhibit melanin biosynthesis, in addition to the disease has some antioxidant properties.
2. antioxidant: Flavonoids and phenols and their derivatives are the main components of cinnamon that have aSignificant antioxidant activityThe material basis of the antioxidant activity of flavonoids. Flavonoids inhibit tyrosinase activity and thus act as antioxidants, while phenolic acids act as antioxidants by regulating the level of oxidative stress in the body.
3. relieve fever and dispel pain: Flavonoids have significant antipyretic and pain-dissolving properties.
4. 抑菌: The flavonoids in cinnamon have a good antibacterial effect on Aureococcus aureus and Escherichia coli.

If you think Xiao Xing's speech is good, give aSupport, like, favorite, retweetThank you, Mr. Xing

Wang Guoyi, a postdoctoral fellow in nutrition and food safety at China Agricultural University, answered: Osmanthus is one of China's traditional top ten famous flowers, with four main varieties: golden osmanthus, silver osmanthus, danggui, and four-season osmanthus, which are not only very beautiful ornamental flowers with a strong aroma that is both physically and mentally pleasurable, but also flowers with a history of several hundred years of consumption that have been documented by successive generations of materia medica.

Chinese medicine believes that osmanthus is warm and pungent, containing volatile oil, wax and mignonette glycosides and other components, with warming and dispersing cold, warming the stomach and relieving pain, phlegm and stasis effect, often used in the treatment of phlegm and cough, intestinal wind and bloody diarrhea, stomach and abdominal cold pain, toothache, bad breath, etc..Can be combined with other flowers decoction soup for internal use, such as boiling water brewing tea; external use can be decoction water gargle or steam heat external compresses, the stomach and intestines have a very good protective effect. Osmanthus tea, osmanthus cake, osmanthus glutinous rice lotus root, etc. are household names, not only the flavor is attractive, often eat can also play a certain therapeutic effect.

It should be noted that although cinnamon is not poisonous, it should not be consumed in large quantities over a long period of time, otherwise it will have side effects on the body. It is recommended that you, when making cinnamon cake, cinnamon glutinous rice root and other delicacies, add cinnamon as a supplementary ingredient in small quantities. ▲ (Source: Life Times)

COPYRIGHT VIOLATION NOTICE: This article was originally published by Life Times and is not authorized for reprint.

Autumn is getting stronger and stronger, osmanthus is in full bloom, everywhere filled with osmanthus fragrance, refreshing. But do you know what it does?

Osmanthus, as it is known, has a fragrant, beautifying and greening effect. Not only that, it is also edible and medicinal. "Pick flowers in the fall, fruits in the winter, and roots in all seasons," says the osmanthus tree has good medicinal value.

The ancients said that osmanthus is the longest of all medicines, and the wine brewed with it can achieve the effect of "drinking it and living a thousand years". Of course, in addition to wine, osmanthus flowers tea or decoction to drink, the effect is also good.

Effects of Osmanthus fragrans

Osmanthus fragrans is warm and pungent in nature and enters the lung and large intestine meridians.

Now is just the harvest period (September to October), cinnamon pick impurities washed, dried or sun-dried storage, when the tea to be used.

Usually used to make tea or boiled soup, it has the effect of dispersing cold and breaking knots, warming the stomach and calming the liver, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

Usage of Osmanthus fragrans

1, dry osmanthus flower tea, usually with tea brewing. The amount does not have to be more, to dry osmanthus 2 money, tea a money, boiling water for five minutes, you can drink. Twice a day, divided into morning and evening once. Osmanthus tea has a special fragrance, plus contains tea polyphenols, can dissolve fat, eliminate bad taste in the mouth. So drinking it from time to time can keep you satisfied with the fresh flavor.

2, or with brown sugar bubble water, dry cinnamon 2 to 4 money (children and adults with different amounts), into the brown sugar, into the boiling water, cover the lid, simmer for about three minutes, uncovered the flavor is overflowing, drink while hot. The effect is able to detoxification, laxative.

"Brown Sugar Osmanthus Tea also has the effect of benefiting qi, nourishing blood and warming the stomach. Therefore, it is especially suitable for women, women in labor, children, and those who are physically weak.

3, fresh cinnamon can also be soaked, first wash cinnamon with salt water a few times, drain the water. Into the boiling water, put honey, cover and simmer for five minutes, you can drink. Suitable for drinking in the fall and winter, can relieve gastric discomfort and prevent colds.

Cinnamon contraindications

Osmanthus is suitable for most people to consume, the attention is that the nature of osmanthus is warm, and the fragrance of the flowers is strong, so it should not be consumed in excess, especially those who are not easy to consume it for those who have dampness and heat in the spleen and stomach. So how to tell what is dampness and heat in the spleen and stomach?

The main manifestations of burning pain in the stomach and epigastric region, easy dry mouth and sore throat, and hunger but no appetite, do not want to eat, as well as the color of urine is yellowish, stool sticky and greasy and other phenomena, is the so-called spleen and stomach dampness and heat symptoms.

She Kitchen (end)

Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed, and it is the season of fragrant osmanthus again. Osmanthus as an ingredient has many uses in folklore, people often use it to make cakes, osmanthus cake, osmanthus sugar, osmanthus pastry, and osmanthus wine, osmanthus tea, and osmanthus to make gourmet food, which can be used as both medicine and food.

As early as in the Compendium of Materia Medica, there are records of the medicinal use of osmanthus: "generating fluids, eliminating odors, resolving phlegm, and treating insect toothache", and the "Materia Medica Reminder" records: "Pungent, sweet and bitter in taste, warm in temperature, and non-toxic. It disperses cold air, eliminates blood stasis, and stops intestinal wind and bloody diarrhea". Cinnamon, also known as wood rhinoceros, golden chestnut, nine miles of incense, rock laurel, golden laurel, danggui, laurel, from the flowers of evergreen shrubs or small trees wood rhinoceros plant, harvested in the fall when flowering, shade drying that is obtained. It is warm and pungent in nature, with the efficacy of expelling phlegm and relieving cough, dispersing cold and relieving pain, invigorating the stomach and generating fluids, dredging the liver and tonifying the spleen, and strengthening the spleen and replenishing the deficiency, and is used in Chinese medicine to treat phlegmatic cough and wheezing, toothache and halitosis, loss of appetite, cold and painful epigastric region, cold hernia and abdominal pain, intestinal wind and bloody diarrhea, and menstrual pain and menstrual dysmenorrhea.

Modern pharmacological research has found that osmanthus mainly contains volatile oil, lauric acid, violet ketone, flavonoids, chlorogenic acid, oleanolic acid, phenols, triterpenoids and other active ingredients, but also rich in a variety of amino acids, vitamins and trace elements, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, hypoglycemic, antioxidant pharmacological effects, can be used for coughing and phlegm, dry pharyngeal and halitosis, abdominal pain, diarrhea and dysmenorrhea as an adjunctive therapy. It is also often used to make osmanthus tea, which can refresh the mind and beauty. Do ingredients pastry, spleen and appetite, brewing can be soothing, digestive, improve fatigue symptoms. Especially the volatile oil is widely used in flavors and essential oils.

However, it is important to note that cinnamon is warm and pungent in nature, and should be used with caution by those who are hot.

The authoritative interpretation of Pharmaceutical Affairs, unauthorized reproduction, plagiarism will be punished.

First of all, thanks for the invite.

Osmanthus is an evergreen broad-leaved tree, August flowers fragrant, is one of China's top ten traditional flowers. It not only has a high degree of ornamental, and almost the whole body is a treasure ah, flowers, fruits and roots can be used as medicine Oh. Flowers: pungent and warm. Can disperse cold break knot, phlegm cough. Used for toothache, coughing and phlegm, menstrual cramps and abdominal pain. Fruit: pungent, sweet, warm. Warms the stomach and calms the liver, dispersing cold. Relieve cold stomachache. Root: Sweet, slightly astringent, flat in nature. Dispels wind-dampness and disperses cold. Relieves rheumatism, musculoskeletal pain, lumbago, and toothache due to kidney deficiency.

Generally we see the flowers of osmanthus most. People use the flowers as ingredients to make osmanthus cakes, osmanthus candies, and can also be used to make osmanthus wine, which can soothe the muscles and vitalize the blood, improve appetite and digestion, and relieve fatigue. It can also be used in flower and fruit tea, which can refresh the mind, improve beauty and improve cough symptoms.However, diabetics should not consume cinnamon winning food, which can raise blood sugar in the body and aggravate the condition.In addition, due to the warm nature of osmanthus, people with hot body constitution and people with high liver fire should not consume food made of osmanthus, which is easy to make the fire in the body more exuberant.

I would like to communicate with people from all walks of life, learn, progress, and encouragement, and I would like to ask for more advice from my friends! Welcome to leave a comment, like, share, retweet! The intention is to spread the concept of health and wellness, parenting. Thank you for reading, attention, your support is my driving force!

Osmanthus is one of the ten famous flowers in China, loved by people, its flowers are small and beautiful, especially its fragrance, it is unique, since ancient times are loved by people. Osmanthus not only has a good ornamental value, but also has a high edible and medicinal value.

I The medicinal value of cinnamon

The flowers, seeds, and roots of osmanthus have excellent medicinal value.

According to Chinese medicine, cinnamon is pungent in flavor and warm in nature. It hasDispersing cold and breaking up knots, resolving phlegm and relieving coughIt is commonly used in the treatment of toothache, coughing and phlegm, menstrual cramps and abdominal pain;

Its fruit is pungent, sweet and warm in nature. It canWarms the stomach, calms the liver and disperses cold.It can be used for deficiency cold stomach pain;

Its root is sweet, slightly astringent and flat in nature. It hasDispels wind-dampness and disperses coldEffects. It can be used in the treatment of rheumatism, tendon and bone pain, lumbago, kidney deficiency and toothache.

II Therapeutic value of cinnamon

Osmanthus fragrans containsAromatic substances such as propyl decanoate, violet ketone, nerolidol, etc.These substances are the reason why osmanthus smells fragrant and strong, people often use fragrant osmanthus to make some delicious dishes, such as osmanthus cake, osmanthus wine, osmanthus tea, osmanthus sugar, osmanthus eight treasures rice, osmanthus porridge, etc., can also be extracted from the aromatic oleoresin as an edible spice.

Using osmanthus flowers to make osmanthus wine and osmanthus tea are famous products in China and are renowned both at home and abroad.

The ancients believed that osmanthus was the longest of all medicines, so wine made from osmanthus flowers could reach the"Drink and live a thousand years."The efficacy of the

The cinnamon wine is sweet and mellow, withAppetizing and invigorating, strengthening the spleen and replenishing the deficiencyIt is especially suitable for women, and is known as "Women's Happy Wine".

Tea made with cinnamon canBeauty and skin care, soothes throat, improves phlegm and coughsIt is a very good medicine for treating symptoms such as stomach cold, stomach pain and bad breath.

Osmanthus and half-summer, sliced white radish decoction water to drink can treat phlegm asthma and cough; and red beans decoction soup can be used to treat intestinal wind and blood dysentery, directly with boiled water or decocted with dulcimer can be used to treat toothache, halitosis.

III Therapeutic reference of cinnamon

Cinnamon can also be used to make a variety of pastries and delicacies, etc. Here are two delicious dishes made with cinnamon:

1. Glutinous Rice Lotus Root with Osmanthus Flower

Prepare 800g of lotus root, 200g of glutinous rice, 20g of lotus leaf, 100g of sugar, 40g of sugar cinnamon.

Wash the lotus root and disconnect it by section, cut off one end of the lotus root, fill it with soaked glutinous rice, then cover it with the lotus root section and insert it firmly with a bamboo stick;

Add water into the pot and put the lotus root (dunking rice mouth facing up) to boil, cover with lotus leaf and lid, turn to low heat and cook for two hours remove to cool and peel and slice into a plate;

Boil a pot of water add sugar to make it melt, skim off the froth and change to low heat, simmer until the sugar sauce thick, add cinnamon syrup and stir well poured on the glutinous rice can be.

2. Goji Berry Osmanthus Tea

Prepare the right amount of wolfberries 5g, red dates 3, cinnamon 3g, and honey.

Prepare water in a kettle and boil it, add wolfberries, jujubes and cinnamon and cook for two minutes, then add the right amount of honey.

This tea whitens the skin, moisturizes the lungs and relieves the symptoms of dry mouth and tongue.

For more on Chinese medicine, follow the author!

Hello, I'm Mr. Tam Wong-Page.

Now, it is the time when osmanthus flowers are in full bloom, and every time when osmanthus flowers are in full bloom, the air is filled with the osmanthus fragrance of osmanthus flowers, which is very intoxicating to smell, and theosmanthus flowerswhat are the possibilities?medicinal value呢?

　　The flowers of the osmanthus tree can be used to make tea to drink, and can be brewed with many flower tea to drink together, over time, will have the effect of beauty and skin care. Common flower tea has wolfberry osmanthus tea, the specific method is as follows:

　　Ingredients needed: cinnamon, jujubes, goji berries

　　1, first of all, wash the red dates and cut into small slices, the purpose is to be able to quickly soak. Here need to pay attention to is in cut red dates, need to remove the date core, because the date core after eating will be easy to heat dry.

　　2: Wash the goji berries and put them in a teapot.

　　3: Put the jujube and cinnamon into the teapot as well, pour in the boiling water, and then cover for 5-10 minutes.

　　Drink according to their own preferences can be appropriate to add some honey, roses, lemon slices, etc., all have the effect of beauty and skin care.

Other roles

　　1, Osmanthus has the function of absorbing dust and is resistant to harmful gases such as hydrogen fluoride, sulfur dioxide and chlorine.

　　2, cinnamon can be used to make food spices, just by boiling water slightly scalded and then fished out to dry, routed up with sugar, sealed in the bottle to maintain the color and aroma.

　　3, cinnamon can also be made with lotus root, dates and other small desserts. Specifically, cinnamon, pure lotus root powder with sugar, it becomes cinnamon lotus root powder, flavorful and appetizing. Take the best jujube, add sugar to cook, when the soup will be finished, add cinnamon, that is, into the spleen and appetizing cinnamon honey jujube.

　　4, cinnamon can also be used to make cinnamon cake, not only delicious food, but also disguised as absorption planning in the nutrition.

　　5, cinnamon can also be made into cinnamon wine, not only flavorful, but also promote appetite, increase heat, soothing and revitalizing, in order to help rapid digestion of food.

In addition to the osmanthus flowers for people to appreciate the fragrance, but also can be refined aromatic oil, as food, candy spices, such as making 'osmanthus sugar, osmanthus cake, osmanthus sauce, osmanthus tea, osmanthus wine ' and so on.

The roots and flowers can be used as medicine. Effects: Relieving cough, resolving phlegm, warming the stomach, dispersing cold, detoxifying, dispersing blood stasis, tonifying the middle Jiao Qi.

Indications: upper air coughing and knotting gas, throat paralysis, spitting and sucking, go cold wind pain, go cold headache, relief of surface sweating, go to the skin rheumatism, dissipate the blood stored in the lower Jiao, can be warm tendons through the veins, to stop boredom through the sweat, the joints,, and benefit the lungs, and cosmetic effects.

Pungent in flavor, warm in nature, non-toxic. It enters the lung, spleen and kidney meridians, dosage; 3 - 9 grams, decoction.

The medicinal value of osmanthus: 1. treatment of cough and asthma: osmanthus 3 grams, 10 grams of Chen Pi, the two mixed, put boiling water brewing, warm immersion 10 minutes, to be cool to drink. 2. treatment of cough phlegm 3. treatment of indigestion: osmanthus 10 grams of lentil flowers 50 grams of round-grained rice, the two kinds of drying, research into fine powder, and round-grained rice decoction into a porridge, eat porridge when the medicine into the end of a small spoon, you can put the sugar flavoring. 4. treatment of gastric cold pain: osmanthus 60 grams, 500 milliliters of white wine. Cinnamon into the white wine, sealed soak, often shaking, 1 week to drink, drink 10 ml each time, stomach pain attacks, heating and warm service. 5. treatment of cold stomach pain: cloves, cinnamon each 5-7, 50 ml of yellow wine, the two mixed, into a porcelain cup with yellow wine, stewed in water, while the temperature is drunk. 6. treatment of dysentery: 3 grams of cinnamon, 10 grams of Chen Pi, the above drugs are mixed well, divided into 3 times into a porcelain cup, need to be brewed with boiling water, and then put into a porcelain cup. Need to use boiling water, warm immersion 10 minutes, to be cool, when the tea to drink. 7. treatment of blood in the stool: cinnamon, acacia, silver flowers, elm 10 grams each, will be on the material into the pot with 500 ml of water, decocted to 300 ml, on the line, 3 times a day to drink, 1 dose per day. 8. treatment of menstrual cramps: 30 grams of cinnamon, 500 grams of glutinous rice, cinnamon and glutinous rice mixed evenly, add a small amount of water soak, steamed into dry rice, to be cold! Cinnamon and glutinous rice mixed evenly, add a small amount of water soaking, steamed into dry rice, to be cold, add wine curd appropriate amount of beer, fermentation into wine wine, 3 days before the onset of menstruation, with the amount of meals warm service, served for 5 days. 9. treatment of menstrual cramps: cinnamon 5 grams of saffron 50 grams of large gauze bag with a device of salt or fried bran, loaded into a small cloth bag, flat on the umbilical abdomen, the top of the placement of a large gauze bag filled with salt or fried bran hot ironing, once a day. 10. treatment of plum nucleus gas: cinnamon 3 grams of plum blossoms, plum blossoms 12, 20 grams of green tea, the three kinds of mixing Cinnamon: 3 grams of fresh cinnamon, plum blossom 12, 20 grams of green tea, mix the three kinds of 3-5 times into a porcelain cup, punch into the boiling water, warm immersion for 10 minutes, when the tea to drink.11. Treatment of plum nucleus gas: 10 grams of fresh cinnamon, sugar appropriate amount of cinnamon flowers into the sugar and mixed evenly, pickled cinnamon sugar, warm boiled water, 12. Treatment of toothache: cinnamon dew a little bit, soaked through the disinfection of the cotton ball, fill in the cavity of caries, bite down tightly.13. Resolve phlegm and dissipate blood stasis, treatment of coughs: cinnamon flowers several, rock sugar, salt each A spoon, cinnamon with salt water repeatedly wash, drain and put into a cup, boiling water, add rock sugar, cover and smother for 3 minutes, and so the flavor overflow can be drunk.14. Treatment of dry skin, hoarse voice, pressure pain: dry cinnamon, green tea, a handful of each, will be the tea, dry cinnamon poured into a cup, brewed with boiling water for 6 minutes can be consumed, morning and evening, a cup of, can be strong muscle moisturizing, blood moisturizing throat.