Chrysanthemum indicum is a common compositae plant in the countryside. It exists on the roadside and on the gully ridge. Chrysanthemum indicum has the best efficacy among compositae plants. When chrysanthemum indicum is in bloom, it is the time when the nutrient content is the highest, and the efficacy will be much reduced after flowering. Chrysanthemum indicum has a good effect of still removing fire, cooling blood and expelling toxin, and it is a natural green Chinese medicine with health care function. Drinking Flos Chrysanthemi Indici also has a good therapeutic effect on hypertension, migraine and coronary heart disease. The medicinal properties of Flos Chrysanthemi Indici are slightly cold, bitter and non-toxic. It can not only be used for making tea, but also be used as a traditional Chinese medicine in combination with other drugs. Wild chrysanthemum can be used as traditional Chinese medicine, tea, and edible. A small amount of wild chrysanthemum can be added when stewing meat, which has the effects of reducing greasy, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and can also be eaten in soup. It is a good dietotherapy product blindly. Using wild chrysanthemum to make tea in summer can prevent heatstroke well and has the effect of relieving summer heat and quenching thirst.

I. dual-purpose food and medicine

The tender buds of wild chrysanthemum are edible. It is one of the wild vegetables that people often eat in spring. Every year in March and April, the newly sprouted buds are picked back, washed, chopped, mixed with eggs and fried. It tastes good! It can also be cooked in cold salad or stir-fried.

Wild chrysanthemums can be used to make tea. In autumn, pick the flowers back, dry them, and make tea and drink. It has the effects of relieving summer heat, quenching thirst, and refreshing the brain. It can also be brewed with Lycium barbarum or honey, which can clear liver, improve eyesight, soothe liver and relieve depression.

Wild chrysanthemum can be used as medicine. It has the functions of clearing away heat and fire, resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation, clearing liver and improving eyesight. It is one of the standing medicinal materials in Chinese medicine shops. It has good curative effect on sore throat, furuncle swelling and itching.

Second, to relieve itching.

Chrysanthemum indicum has the effects of clearing away heat and fire, resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation. Used for boiling juice and bathing, it not only cools and relieves summer heat, but also relieves itching. It is a good material for bathing in summer.

Third, repel mosquitoes and kill insects

In the folk, people often collect wild chrysanthemums with stems, leaves and inflorescences after autumn, and dry them for preservation. When eggs breed in spring and summer and mosquitoes and flies are infested with malaria, scorch them and grind them into powder, and scatter them in places where eggs are easy to breed or smoke them. It has a good effect on eliminating mosquitoes, flies and other insects. This is because chrysanthemum indicum contains pyrethrins, which is the main source of pesticides. The active substance in it can make insects and cold-blooded vertebrates poisoned by contact, but it has little toxicity to people. Our commonly used "Lanju Mosquito-repellent incense" comes from this.