1, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory
Chrysanthemum indicum contains steviol, which has a strong killing effect on a variety of bacteria, especially Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The concentration reaches 15mg/ml, which can effectively kill fungicides.
Therefore, drinking wild chrysanthemum tea or soaking it in water and smearing it on edema caused by infection has a good bactericidal, anti-inflammatory and repercussive effect.
Step 2 clear away heat and fire
In traditional Chinese medicine, chrysanthemum indicum is a cool medicine, which has the effect of clearing heat and removing fire. Especially in summer, when the weather is hot and humid, people are prone to catch a cold, get angry, oral ulcer and other hot and dry diseases due to strong liver fire. Drinking wild chrysanthemum in summer can regulate internal fire very well, and has a good prevention and treatment effect on catching fire caused by heat flow cold.
3. Clearing liver and improving eyesight
Chrysanthemum tastes bitter, slightly cold and clear heat, and enters the liver meridian, which can not only disperse the wind and heat in the liver meridian, but also clear the liver and improve eyesight. It can be used in combination with other traditional Chinese medicines to treat eye swelling caused by wind-heat in liver meridian and inflammation of liver fire. If the liver and kidney are deficient in essence and blood, the nutrition is lost, the eyes are dim, and the vision is blurred, you can also cooperate with the corresponding traditional Chinese medicine to nourish the liver and kidney, benefit yin and improve eyesight.
4. Dispel wind and cold
Chrysanthemum indicum is pungent in taste, clear in body and floating in air, slightly cold and clearing heat, and has the effect of relieving wind-heat in lung meridian, but it is not strong in dispelling evil spirits. It is often used to treat fever, headache, cough and other symptoms caused by wind-heat cold or warm pathogen invading the lungs in the early stage of epidemic febrile disease.
Soak Flos Chrysanthemi Indici in boiling water 1 hour, fry for 30 minutes, and take the liquid medicine for oral administration. Every time an adult goes to 2 yuan, a child can be exempted. Generally take medicine 1 time a month. Take the medicine/kloc-0 once every two weeks for those who caught a cold 3 ~ 6 times in the previous year, and for those who often catch a cold, take it every two weeks.
Take medicine every week 1 time. Compared with the same period of last year, the incidence rate of 1000 people who took medicine decreased by 13.2%, and the incidence rate was also significant compared with that of 26/kloc-0 people who lived nearby but did not take medicine.
Therefore, it can be seen that Chrysanthemum indicum has a good role in preventing influenza.
Step 5 lower blood pressure
There are many antihypertensive drugs made from Flos Chrysanthemi Indici in clinic, among which Flos Chrysanthemi Indici fluid extract is the most common, and single syrup is added to 5 ml (including 2 g of crude drug) per ml. 10 ml each time, three times a day. Thirty-five patients with stage I, II and III hypertension were preliminarily observed. The total curative effect was 68.57%, including marked effect 17. 14%, mild 5 1.43% and ineffective 3 1.43%. It also has a certain effect on the improvement of symptoms, and more than half of the cases have improved symptoms such as insomnia, head swelling, headache and dizziness.
6. Antioxidant activity
Experimental studies have proved that progesterone compounds contained in chrysanthemum have the ability to scavenge free radicals (OH). O2) and strong antioxidant activity, and the antioxidant activity of chrysanthemum is closely related to the content of progesterone compounds. The above experiments show that chrysanthemum has antioxidant and anti-aging effects.
7. Antiviral agents
Chrysanthemum morifolium has certain antiviral effect. Studies have proved that chrysanthemum can inhibit poliovirus, measles virus and herpes simplex virus to varying degrees. If the active ingredients in chrysanthemum reach a certain concentration, it can also effectively inhibit influenza virus, and even have a certain inhibitory effect on HIV.
8. How to eat wild chrysanthemum
wild chrysanthemum tea
Ingredients: some wild chrysanthemums, rock sugar and water.
Practice: wild chrysanthemum is brewed with boiling water for 10 minute, and then added with rock sugar to melt, which is a substitute for tea.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and improving eyesight, and preventing colds.
9. Will chrysanthemum tea be nontoxic?
There is no data to show that the antidote to chrysanthemum tea is generally not an antidote. Chrysanthemum can clear heat and detoxify, and the content of tannic acid such as tea polyphenols is also low, which will not reduce the efficacy. As long as there is no conflict between the medicine and chrysanthemum itself, there is no need to worry about the antidote.