Insomnia using passion flower

The flower of the passion flower has a sweet taste, neutral properties with the ability to cool the body, prevent prickly heat, and is a medicine with sedative effects, helping to sleep well.

Characteristics of the tree

Like many other plants, the flower of the morning glory is also called night jasmine, night jasmine, Tonkin creeper or Chinese violet... with the scientific name Telosma cordata (Burm.f.) merr, belonging to the morning glory family (Asclepiadoceae). It is a plant originating from Southeast Asian countries.

The plant is a small, climbing vine with many branches. The leaves are simple, opposite, heart-shaped, oblong, and glossy green. The flowers bloom in clusters (clusters) in the axils of the leaves, yellow or light green, the petals are long tubes, and the upper part is long and narrowly lobed, and the fruit is long. The flowers are fragrant at night, so it is called night jasmine. The flower blooms mainly in the summer, so it is grown as an ornamental plant to provide shade in the yard and the flowers are used as food.

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Food and medicine using passionflower:

Cure insomnia: 30g passion flower, 10g jasmine flower, 15g lotus heart. Boil to get water to drink during the day, need to drink continuously for 3-5 days.

For good sleep: use passion flower to cook soup with lean pork or crucian carp, eat once a day for several days in a row.

Cure for frequent insomnia: cook morning glory flowers with acacia leaves, each about 30 - 50g, wash clean, chop finely, cook together into soup, season with enough fish sauce, salt, and seasoning powder to eat within 4 - 7 days.

Cure pinworms: take about 40 - 50g of leaves or flowers of the passion flower plant, cook soup and eat daily. You need to eat for 7 days or more to be cured.

Or use 30g of morning glory flowers, 20g of purslane, 25g of ginseng leaves. Boil the water and divide into 3 doses to drink during the day, should be used for 3 consecutive days.

Treatment of hemorrhoids and uterine prolapse: take 100g of young and semi-mature leaves of the heavenly lily, wash them, crush them, add 5g of salt, add 30ml of distilled water and filter through clean gauze. Wash the hemorrhoids or uterine prolapse with 1% diluted potassium permanganate; then use a clean cotton ball soaked in the heavenly lily water and apply it to the hemorrhoids or uterus, and keep it bandaged. Do this 1-2 times a day for 4-5 days and you will see it gradually shrink.

Cure body and bone pain: Every day stir-fry passion flower with beef or eat with sesame salt. It will be effective.

Cure boils: take about 30 - 50g of crushed leaves of the ivy plant and apply to the boil once a day. It will heal in a few days.

Cure painful urination, frequent urination, white residue: take 10 - 20g of the root of the asparagus plant, boil to get the water to drink, divided into 2 - 3 times/day, after only 5 - 7 days it will be completely cured.

According to Health & Life - NT