What are the effects of sweet-scented osmanthus? What dietary treatments are there?

Sweet-scented osmanthus is one of the traditional famous flowers in China, which has always had the characteristics of fragrance. Especially in the Mid-Autumn Festival, sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance, and family and friends to enjoy the wine on the moon. In fact, sweet-scented osmanthus not only has ornamental value, but also has medicinal value, which can be used in dietotherapy. So what are the effects of sweet-scented osmanthus? What dietary treatments are there?

I. the efficacy of sweet-scented osmanthus

Sweet-scented osmanthus, also known as Yingui, Jiuli incense and so on, can be used as medicine after picking flowers when they bloom from September to October. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that they are warm and pungent, and have the effect of resolving phlegm and removing blood stasis. Clinically, it can be used for the treatment of toothache, halitosis, intestinal wind and blood dysentery and other diseases.

Second, the function of Osmanthus fragrans

1. Dispelling cold and relieving pain: sweet-scented osmanthus is warm, which can be used to drive out cold and relieve pain symptoms. Daily can be used for abdominal cold pain, dysmenorrhea and other symptoms, for toothache, rheumatic pain and other aspects also have a certain relief effect.

two。 Resolving phlegm and relieving cough: sweet-scented osmanthus has the effect of warming lung and resolving phlegm and relieving symptoms such as cough and asthma caused by tracheitis.

3. Soothing mood: sweet-scented osmanthus has a unique fragrance, the fragrance contains γ-decanoic acid lactone, α-ionone and other aromatic substances can relieve mood, smell sweet-scented osmanthus can feel refreshed.

4. Beauty: sweet-scented osmanthus has the effect of skin care, beauty and beauty, often drinking sweet-scented osmanthus tea, can effectively improve the skin condition.

Third, sweet-scented osmanthus food treatment prescription

1. Yuzhu scented osmanthus tea

Materials: Polygonatum odoratum 15 grams, sweet-scented osmanthus 5 grams, a small amount of honey.

Practice: Polygonatum odoratum and sweet-scented osmanthus can be put into the pot, add water to boil, and then change to simmer for about 20 minutes, wait until the water temperature is cold, add honey to drink.

two。 Red jujube glutinous rice sweet-scented osmanthus lotus root

Materials: 200g glutinous rice, 50g brown sugar, about 10 Chinese wolfberry, 20 lotus seeds, 5g dried sweet-scented osmanthus

Practice:

Soak the glutinous rice one night in advance, enucleate the red dates and beat them into jujube paste, then mix them with the soaked glutinous rice.

Cut the lotus root at both ends, insert the mixed glutinous rice into the lotus root hole and compact it with chopsticks.

Add the right amount of water to the pot, add brown sugar, lotus seed, Chinese wolfberry and lotus root to boil for about 40 minutes, and finally add sweet-scented osmanthus to cook for about 10 minutes.

Matters needing attention in eating sweet-scented osmanthus

1. The sexual temperature of sweet-scented osmanthus, if it is a hot physique, should be cautious or less use sweet-scented osmanthus, so as not to cause aggravation of internal fire.

two。 When drinking sweet-scented osmanthus tea, the dosage should not be too much, generally 5-20 grams at a time is the most suitable.

Sweet-scented osmanthus can be used in cakes, candies, preserves, tea, wine and other food, eat a lot of ways, eat sweet-scented osmanthus can be refreshing.