"Tang Materia Medica" contains peach blossom "to control evil, reduce swelling and benefit the large intestine". "A Bielu of Famous Doctors" holds that "peach tastes bitter and flat, which mainly removes moisture, facilitates urination and defecation, and eliminates three worms". Even Li Shizhen, a famous doctor in Ming Dynasty, praised the efficacy of peach blossom in getting rid of diseases, saying that it "reduces sexual activity and benefits the large intestine quickly. If it is used to treat qi deficiency, swelling, stagnation, and constipation, it is beneficial and harmless. " If you are constipated, you can try this peach blossom tea.
Ingredients: 3 peach blossoms and 9 grams of cassia seed.
Practice: put them in a teacup and brew them in boiling water for a while instead of drinking tea. Every day 1 dose, brewing for many times.
Efficacy: Peach blossom tea has moisturizing and laxative effects.
In addition to peach blossom tea, peach blossom porridge is also recommended. As early as the Tang Dynasty, people liked to cook porridge with peach petals. There is a saying in Feng Zhi's Miscellanies of Yunxian County in the Tang Dynasty that "Luoyang people eat cold food, dress in colorful clothes and cook peach porridge". Kong in the early Qing Dynasty also wrote in Peach Blossom Fan: "On March 3, Liulang arrived, hand in hand to decorate the building and eat peach blossom porridge."
Ingredients: 2g dried peach blossom, japonica rice 100g, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.
Practice: Put the peach blossom in a casserole, soak it for 30 minutes, add the japonica rice, simmer the porridge with slow fire, and add the brown sugar and mix well after the porridge is finished. Every day 1 dose. Peach blossom porridge can induce diuresis and reduce swelling, and is suitable for gastrointestinal dryness and heat and constipation. After three days of continuous service, it will stop immediately.
Efficacy: Brown sugar has a warming effect, which is warm, hot and cold, so it helps to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Patients with habitual constipation can change brown sugar into honey. Peach blossom porridge can not only beautify, but also promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.
Constipation is often accompanied by obesity. Peach blossom can not only treat constipation, but also have a good effect on losing weight.
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