Effects of wintersweet flowers:

1. Flower buds are warm in nature, sweet and slightly bitter in taste. It relieves summer heat and promotes body fluid production, appetizing and dispersing depression, clearing breasts and moistening dryness, and relieving cough. It is mainly used to treat dizziness, vomiting, qi depression and stomach tightness due to summer heat, measles, whooping cough, burns, fires, otitis media, etc.

2. Wintersweet flowers contain volatile oils, including borneol, linalool, etc. It has the effects of relieving summer heat and promoting fluid production, appetizing and dispersing depression, detoxifying and promoting muscle growth, smoothing Qi and relieving cough, etc. It is mainly used to treat dizziness, vomiting, fever, polydipsia, Qi depression, stomach tightness, and cough.

3. Roots and stems are warm in nature. Dispelling wind and regulating qi, promoting blood circulation and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat asthma, cough caused by fatigue, stomachache, abdominal pain, rheumatism and itching pain, sores, swelling and poison, and wounds from bruises. It can also relieve depression, relieve cough and reduce phlegm, and detoxify. Used for depression, upset, liver and stomach qi stagnation, plum core qi, scrofula and sores, etc.

4. Wintersweet can provide us with a good recipe, wintersweet stewed tofu: 5 wintersweet flowers, appropriate amount of tofu, 250 grams of cooked soybean oil, appropriate amounts of shredded green onions, coriander, refined salt, and pepper. Put the pot on the heat, heat the oil, add the sliced ??tofu strips, fry them until they turn yellow, and take them out. Pour out the oil, add shredded green onions and cook for a while, add water and salt, then add the tofu strips and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the pepper. When it is out of the pot, add winter plum blossoms and MSG to adjust the flavor.

The wintersweet flower is the dried flower bud of the wintersweet plant of the family Wintersweet, also known as the snow flower. It usually blooms from mid-November to around March of the following year, and the flowering period is very long.

Pick in early spring when the flowers are not blooming, and dry them at low temperature in time. The dried flower buds are round, rectangular or obovate, 1 to 1.5 cm long and 0.4 to 0.8 cm wide. The perianth is superimposed into a flower bud shape and is brown in color. The lower part is covered by many membranous scales. The scales are yellowish brown and slightly yellowish. Triangular in shape, slightly hairy. It has a fragrant aroma, a slightly sweet taste, a bitter aftertaste, and a slightly greasy feeling.

There are two types of products:

1. Wintersweet, yellow flower center, double petals, round and large petals, large flowers.

2. Dog-heart wintersweet has a red center, single petals, narrow and pointed petals, small flowers and inferior quality. The flowers with yellow centers, complete and full but not yet open are better. Produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places. Wintersweet flowers are warm in nature and slightly bitter in taste.