Flora odorata is used as medicine with flower buds. Cough suppressant, expectorant and asthma, respiratory excitatory effects, effects on the cardiovascular system, effects on hemodynamics in animals, anti-platelet activating factor. Taste pungent, slightly sweet, warm. Moistening the lungs and lowering the qi, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Indications for use: new long cough, asthma, labor cough and blood.

Don't wash, sun, freezing, hand touching, or easily discolored black, affecting the quality. Winter flowers of medicinal buds usually in 15 days before and after the winter flowers have not yet come out of the ground when the digging, digging and put in a ventilated place in the shade, sieve off the soil, remove the pedicel, drying to the whole dry standby.

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Fashionable winter grows in the gullies and valleys, sparse forest margins, rocky crevices and undergrowth at an altitude of 800-1600 meters. Prefer warm and humid climate environment, summer like cool climate, require in loose fertile, well-drained sandy soil growth.

Distributed in China, India, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Western Europe and North Africa; in China, it is distributed in Northeast, North China, East China, Northwest China and Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan (Zhongdian, Lijiang, and Heqing) and Tibet (Tsatsumi, Miling, Linzhi, Langxian, and Qionghua).

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