The function of impatiens

The function of impatiens

1. Ornamental use: colorful appreciation pleasing to the eye. In addition to flower borders and bonsai devices, it can also be used as cut flowers.

2. Medicinal use: Impatiens balsamina seed is also known as impatiens, and its stem is also known as osseous grass, which can be used in medicine and has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, diuresis and detoxification, and passing through the bone. External application of smashed fresh grass can treat sores, furuncles, swelling and pain, poisonous insect bites. Seed is an antidote, which has the effects of menstruation, induced labor, expectorant and accumulation, which is prohibited by pregnant women; whole grass juice is used externally to treat injury.

Modern pharmacological studies have found that impatiens also contains a variety of anthocyanins, which can inhibit various pathogenic bacteria such as Xanthophyllum xanthophyllum, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Shigella dysenteriae and so on.

3. Manicure: impatiens has a strong effect on inhibiting fungi, and it is colorful at the same time. Using it to dye nails can not only treat gray nails and onychomyelitis, but also is a pure natural dyeing method without any harm to nails.

4. Hair dyeing: a pure natural plant hair dyeing method that does no harm to the body, and it is still fashionable reddish brown.

4. Edible use: the tender leaves of impatiens can be blanched with water and then eaten with salt and cold.

5. Impatiens can also drive snakes. There are no snakes in the place where impatiens are planted.