What can plum blossom do? In China's traditional culture, plum blossom, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum are listed as four gentlemen, and they are also called "three friends in cold years" with pine and bamboo. Plum blossoms are also good medicine. Let's see what plum blossom can do.
What can plum blossom do? 1 1, plum porridge.
Plum blossom porridge is a delicious recipe, which belongs to Cantonese cuisine and is a traditional snack in Guangdong Province. The main raw materials are plum blossom and japonica rice. This dish can soothe the liver and regulate qi and stimulate appetite.
2. Plum blossom chicken soup
The main ingredients are cooked chicken nuggets, mushrooms, peas and plum petals. This soup is nourishing and refreshing.
3. Plum blossom soup cake
Efficacy: appetizing, regulating qi, clearing lung heat: This prescription was recorded in Lin Hong's book Shanjia Qinggong in Song Dynasty. Plum blossom regulates qi and stomach, sandalwood clears lung and relieves pain. The combination of the two can stimulate appetite, regulate qi and clear lung heat. Plum blossom soup cake reveals the fragrance of plum blossom in the fragrance of sandalwood, and delicious chicken soup makes you often eat plum.
The role of plum blossom
1, protecting stomach
Every year,1~ February is the harvest time in Bai Meihua. Buds are collected, spread on the table and dried. It should be stored in sealed cans and bags in a cool, dry and manic place to prevent insects from eating and getting wet. The flower buds contain volatile oils, mainly isoeugenol, benzaldehyde and benzoic acid. Slight acid, astringent taste and non-toxic. Has the functions of soothing the liver, regulating the stomach and resolving phlegm. Its taste is sour and its nature is stable. Friends with bad stomachs can often drink Bai Mei scented tea.
2. Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
Bai Meihua has the effects of reducing leukopenia, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. However, we should also drink tea in a timely and appropriate amount. In the morning, you can soak a cup of Bai Mei scented tea which is not too strong, and the total amount of tea per day should not exceed 1000- 1500ml. Besides making tea, you can also cook porridge with Bai Meihua. Plum blossom porridge: Take 5-7 white plum blossom flowers, break off the petals and wash them with clear water. Wash japonica rice 100g and cook until the porridge is cooked. Add Bai Meihua and sugar, and bring to a boil. The porridge has the effects of soothing liver, regulating qi, invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, refreshing brain and improving eyesight.
Bai Mei scented tea is used to treat plum blossom. People who usually have symptoms such as stomachache, loss of appetite, dizziness and lymph node tuberculosis can drink some Bai Mei scented tea appropriately to relieve some of the above symptoms. When Bai Mei scented tea is brewed, it has a strong fragrance. Smelling the fragrance is also a good way for friends who are usually busy with green to relax. Therefore, drinking Bai Mei scented tea can also relieve stress. Bai Meihua has so many functions, what are you hesitating about? Hurry and apply it to your life.
The efficacy of plum blossom
Taste: slightly sour, astringent and flat.
Meridian tropism: meridian tropism of liver, stomach and lung.
Indications: relieving depression, regulating middle energizer, resolving phlegm and detoxicating. For depression, upset, liver and stomach gas pain, plum blossom gas scrofula.
1, "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Hundred Flowers Mirror": appetizing and eliminating evil, cooking porridge, helping yang to rise, steaming dew-point tea, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and relieving summer heat and boredom.
2, "New Ginseng Pieces": "Green sepals and plums calm the liver and stomach, stop wrist pain and dizziness, and enter the diet."
3, flowers can extract the essence, flowers, leaves, roots, seeds can be used as medicine.
Usage and dosage: 3 ~ 5g.
What can plum blossom do? 2. The efficacy and function of plum blossom.
1. Plum is native to southern China and has been cultivated for more than 3,000 years. There are many varieties of ornamental trees and fruit trees. Many types are not only cultivated in the open field for viewing, but also planted as potted flowers to make plum piles.
2, flowers can extract the essence, flowers, leaves, roots, seeds can be used as medicine.
3, the fruit is eaten, salted or thousands, or smoked into a dark plum medicine, which has the effect of relieving cough, stopping diarrhea, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.
4. Li Neng is resistant to the harm of root-knot nematodes and can be used as the rootstock of drupe fruit trees.
Medicinal value of plum blossom
Soothes the liver, relieves depression, stimulates appetite, promotes fluid production, and resolves phlegm. The Lord is used for depression and anxiety; Liver and stomach gas pain; Meihe gas; Epilepsy sore virus
1. Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica first pointed out the medicinal value of plums: "Shi Mei tastes sour and flat, and is mainly used to relieve summer discomfort, soothe the nerves and stop limb pain, dry muscles, remove moles and eat bad meat."
2. Due to different processing methods, the finished plum products can be divided into Bai Mei and Mume. This processing method was recorded by Jia Sixie in Qi Yaomin's Book. Method for make Bai Mei: "sour plums, core-removed and first pic, dipped in salt juice at night and exposed at day." Ten nights, ten dips and ten exposures, and it's done. "Mume-making method:" It is also necessary to pick the plums when they are just formed, put them in cages, smoke them on the buds and dry them. "
3. Li Shizhen, a famous pharmacologist in the Ming Dynasty, thought: Mume can "astringe the lungs and astringe the intestines, stop diarrhea after a long cough, choke the diaphragm with nausea, expectoration, reduce swelling and eliminate phlegm, kill insects, relieve fish poison, horse sweat poison and sulfur poison." Bai Mei, on the other hand, "treats apoplexy, epilepsy, throat obstruction, phlegm stagnation, and stiff teeth. Take plum pulp to wipe the gums, and then spit it out. It also treats diarrhea, polydipsia, cholera vomiting and bloody collapse. "
4. It can be seen that plum has a wide range of medicinal uses. Modern medical research shows that plum buds can stimulate appetite, relieve depression, promote fluid production and eliminate phlegm, and promote blood circulation and detoxification. Root grinding can cure jaundice. Mume meat has the functions of astringing lung and astringing intestine, killing insects and promoting fluid production, and has obvious inhibitory effects on Escherichia coli, Shigella dysenteriae, typhoid Bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio cholerae.
5. Plum blossom mainly contains volatile oil, benzaldehyde, isoeugenol and benzoic acid. Mume mainly contains citric acid and sitosterol, and contains hydrocyanic acid when it matures. The decoction has inhibitory effect on staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, dysentery, tuberculosis and other bacteria and dermatophytes, and can reduce the occurrence of anaphylactic shock death in protein of guinea pigs.
Usage and dosage of plum blossom
Oral administration: decoction, 2-6g; I still took the pills and dispersed them. External use: apply fresh products.
How to eat plum blossoms?
1, plum porridge
Practice: Take 5 grams of green plum flowers and 80 grams of japonica rice, first cook the japonica rice into porridge, then add the green plum flowers and cook for two or three minutes. Eat a bowl for three to five days at a time.
Efficacy: Plum blossoms are flat, which can soothe the liver and regulate qi and stimulate appetite. People with poor appetite have a good eating effect, while healthy people have more energy when eating.
2. Plum blossom chicken soup
Practice: boneless cooked chicken pieces, cut into small pieces, and pour fresh soup into the pot to cook. Add chicken nuggets, mushrooms and peas to the soup. Boil and season with salt, then sprinkle with plum petals. After a little boiling, you can eat it.
Efficacy: Plum blossom can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase appetite, help digestion, and has a certain stomachic effect; Stewing soup with chicken pieces is more beneficial to your health.
Tip: Because plum blossom is light, fragrant and volatile, it should not be put into porridge or stew for too long, so as not to affect the efficacy.
What can plum blossom do? Three characteristics of plum blossom
1, appearance characteristics
Plum blossoms are small trees and sparse shrubs, with a height of 4 ~ 10 m, light gray or green bark, green branchlets, oval or oval leaves, wide wedge-shaped to round base, and small and sharp serrations at the leaf margin. Flowers are solitary or sometimes two peanuts are in the bud of 1, with strong fragrance, leaves open first, short pedicels, usually red-brown calyx, bell-shaped calyx tube, oval or nearly round sepals, and white to pink petals. The fruit is nearly spherical, with sour taste, sticky pulp and oval core. The flowering period is winter and spring, and the fruit period is May-June (extended to July-August in North China).
2. Growth characteristics
Plum blossoms like warm climate and are not cold-tolerant. Except apricot varieties, it can withstand the low temperature of -25℃, generally-10℃, and it is more resistant to drought and waterlogging, and its life span can reach thousands of years. Flowering period is particularly sensitive to climate change, preferring high air humidity, but avoiding heavy rain. It is resistant to high temperature, can grow at 40℃, and grows best in the area with annual average temperature 16 ~ 23℃. Very sensitive to temperature, it blooms when the average temperature reaches -5 ~ 7℃ in early spring. If it encounters low temperature, the flowering period will be delayed, and if it encounters low temperature, the flowering period can be extended.
The spiritual quality of plum blossom
1. Plum blossoms are cold first, and then bloom fragrance is introduced. Therefore, plum blossoms, like chrysanthemums, are admired and praised by poets.
"Plum Blossom" by Chen Liang, a poet in the Song Dynasty: "A flower changes suddenly first, and ten thousand flowers are fragrant later." The poet grasped the characteristic that plum blossoms are the first to bloom, and wrote the quality of being the first in the world and not afraid of setbacks. This is not only Yongmei, but also praising himself.
Wang Anshi's plum blossom: "It's not snow when you know it from afar, because it has a delicate fragrance." The poem not only describes the reasons why plum blossoms are scattered by the wind, but also implicitly shows the purity and whiteness of plum blossoms, which has received the artistic effect of good fragrance and lewdness.
Lu You's famous sentence is "Yongmei": "Scattered into mud, crushed into dust, only the fragrance remains." Plum blossom is used to describe a person's unfortunate experience of being destroyed and his noble sentiment of not wanting to go with the flow.
"Mo Mei" by Wang Mian in Yuan Dynasty: "Don't boast of its lewdness, just leave the air fresh and dry." It is also the plum blossom that shows that it is unwilling to go with the flow, shallow and profound.
2. Plum blossoms still bloom indomitable in the cold winter, symbolizing the precious quality of our nation's perseverance, tenacious struggle and fearlessness. In ancient times, there was a poet Yongmei's poem, "A few plums in a corner, and hanling spent it alone. I know from a distance that it is not snow, because it has a faint fragrance. " Plum blossom is also considered as the most moral flower variety.
In addition, although the plum blossom grows in a harsh environment, it still blooms happily, expressing an optimistic and hopeful character. Since ancient times, people have been praising her spirit of being proud of snow and her lonely and noble beauty of not competing with flowers for spring.