Home Garden Flowers: Rustic and Useful

A small garden in the countryside has many familiar, wild plants. For generations, these plants have not only produced fragrant flowers and sweet fruits, but also many valuable medicines.

Areca flower:Areca (scientific name Areca catechu), also known as Areca palm or Areca palm, is a species of tree in the Arecaceae family.

Areca flower: has a slightly sweet taste, cool properties, has the effect of nourishing the heart, liver, stomach, treating coughs, clearing heat, ventilating, dispersing stagnant gas in the stomach... Areca flowers also contain vitamin A, vitamin C and lots of fiber.

To treat cough, chest pain, joint pain, abdominal bloating: take 0.5 ounce of areca flower and stew with pork to eat.

Banana flower:Banana is the name of plants in the genus Musa. The Musaceae family is a monocotyledonous plant family that includes bananas and plantains.

Cure uterine prolapse: take banana flowers (pick the flowers that have fallen to the ground), roast them, grind them, drink 2 times a day, 1 tablespoon of the powder each time, use boiling water to drink the medicine. You can also use 60 grams of fresh banana roots, boil them and drink several times a day.

Cure heart pain, anxiety, insomnia: 30g banana flower, 1 pig heart. Wash the banana flower, cut into small pieces; wash the pig heart, cut into four pieces; put both in a pot and boil for 30 minutes, then discard the banana flower residue, eat the pig heart and drink the water. Uses: calm the liver, relieve rebelliousness, benefit the qi, calm the mind, and calm the nerves.

Lactation booster: banana flower stewed with pig's feet: 1 pig's foot (500g); banana flower: 1; shallots, garlic, tamarind; onions, coriander, seasoning powder, pepper, oyster sauce, salt, fish sauce, salt, rice vinegar.

Clean the pig's feet, marinate with seasoning powder, oyster sauce, pepper. Peel off the old outer skin of the banana flower, thinly slice into circles, soak in water with a little lemon juice to prevent the banana flower from turning black or soak the banana flower in salt water mixed with rice vinegar, this method makes the banana flower both whiter and softer when eaten, take it out and rinse with water. Fry the onion and garlic until fragrant, add the pig's feet and stir-fry with a little fish sauce, then pour in enough water, bring to a boil. When the water boils, add the tamarind and reduce the heat. Simmer the pig's feet until they are almost tender, then take out the tamarind, mash it, filter out the pulp and get the tamarind juice. Return the tamarind juice to the pot and add the banana flower. Add a little seasoning to taste. Continue to simmer until the banana flower is soft, then sprinkle in chopped green onions and cilantro.

Grapefruit flower: grapefruit has the scientific name Citrus grandis (L.) Osbeck, belongs to the orange family (Rutaceae).

Cough treatment, expectorant: 4g grapefruit flower, 1 bowl of bean flower, 1/2 teaspoon ginger juice, 1 teaspoon rock sugar. Wash grapefruit flower, put in pot, boil for about 10 minutes, then remove the residue and take the water. Add ginger juice, sugar, bean flower and continue to boil, then take out and eat. Has the effect of expectorant, easy bowel movement.

Digestion: 12g grapefruit flower, steamed with tea to drink to digest food (stagnant food), hiccups, stagnant air, frequent groaning and yawning.

Star fruit:Star fruit is often used as medicine. Star fruit has the scientific name Averrhoa carambolaL., belonging to the Oxalidaceae family.

Treat children's cough: 10g each of male papaya flower, star fruit flower, perilla leaf, 5g of rock sugar.

Put everything in a porcelain bowl, add a little filtered water, boil in a double boiler, let it simmer for as long as possible. Let it cool or put it in a glass bottle, not a plastic bottle, do not put it in the refrigerator.

Every day, give your baby 1/2 teaspoon, drink by gradually absorbing it on the tip of the tongue, from little to much. When giving your baby medicine, hold your baby so that the head and neck are slightly higher than the stomach to avoid choking, regurgitation, and vomiting.

Acute bronchitis: use 30g fresh star fruit flowers, 10g ginger (roasted), cook with 200ml boiling water for 5 minutes, drink while still warm.

Papaya flower:Papaya is also known as phan qua thu, lo hong phle (Cambodia), mac hung (Laos), ca lao, and phien moc. Scientific name: carica papaya L. Papaya family papayaceae.

Acute bronchitis: use 20g dried male papaya flowers, steam with 50g rock sugar, eat while still warm.

Cure cough due to sore throat: 15g male papaya flower, 10g Chinese clematis root, 10g lemon basil leaves. Put all in a small bowl, add a little salt, steam rice and crush. Gargle 2-3 times a day, swallow the liquid gradually, use for 3-5 days.

Cure cough accompanied by loss of voice: 15g male papaya flower, 15g chives, 10g lemon seeds. Leave all fresh, crush and mix with 20ml water, add a little honey or sugar, mix well, drink 3 times a day. Use for 3 - 5 days.

Whooping cough: 20g male papaya flower (fried until golden), 20g old tangerine peel, 20g mulberry root bark (fried with honey), 12g fritillary tuber (dried), 12g alum. Grind all, sift into fine powder, drink 3 times a day. Children 1-5 years old take 1-4g each time; children 6-10 years old take 5-8g each time. Or male papaya flower, turmeric each 15g; 20g tangerine peel (fried with ginger water), mulberry root bark (fried until golden), star fruit bark (fried until golden), yellow tamarind flower, licorice, young lemon leaves each 30g; pennywort, piper lolot each 40g. Chop all, dry, boil with 400ml of water until 100ml remains, drink twice a day. Use for 5-7 days.

Pumpkin flowers:Pumpkin is also called pumpkin, scientific name is Cucurbita pepo, family Cucurbitaceae. Pumpkin vines grow on the ground.

100g of pumpkin flowers contain half of the amount of vitamin C and about 40% of the daily vitamin requirement, 5% of the consumption of Fe, K, Ca and Mg, many B vitamins and folate, these are very good substances for pregnant women and help the fetus develop a good nervous system.

Oriental medicine considers squash blossoms to be a medicinal herb with a cool nature, sweet taste, the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, cooling the body, and laxative...

Winter melon flowers are cooling and laxative but slightly astringent, so they have a mild astringent effect. Astringent properties help stop sweating and retain essence.

Male enhancement: mollusks (clams, oysters, snails, mussels) have the ability to enhance male potency. Eat them with squash flowers to strengthen sperm and prevent premature ejaculation. Roll mollusks in squash flowers and stir-fry them to create a delicious dish that also increases sexual ability.

According to Health and Life