8 medicinal uses of chrysanthemum vegetables

1. Characteristics of chrysanthemum plant

Chrysanthemum cabbage is also known as chrysanthemum vegetable, chrysanthemum chrysanthemum, dong Hao … Scientific name Chrysanthemum coronarium L. belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae (Compositae).

Cauliflower plant grows straight, smooth, 0.5-0.8m high, bearing many branches. Leaves hug to stem, blade lanceolate with lanceolate lobes, but wide open, serrated at the tip. Inflorescences head-shaped yellow, growing at the tips of branches, bracts dry at the tips.

Chrysanthemum is grown everywhere mainly for vegetables. A few are used as medicine. When used as medicine, use fresh or dry in the cool.

Chrysanthemum plants also grow and are grown in China and Japan. Chrysanthemum is thought to have originated in Europe and northern Asia.

In chrysanthemum essential oil special aroma. Also has 5.57% carbohydrates, 1.85% protein, 0.43% fat, lots of B vitamins, a medium amount of vitamin C and little vitamin A.

2. Usage and dosage

According to the book Medicinal plants and Vietnamese herbs by Prof. Dr. Do Tat Loi, chrysanthemum is mainly grown to get the plant to cook soup, often people who cough for a long time cook soup to cure cough. In addition to curing cough, chamomile provides us with the amount of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and vitamins mentioned above.

As medicine, chrysanthemum cures eye pain, chronic headache, vomiting blood. Take 10-16g per day in the form of a mixed drug or a decoction.

2.1.Prescription for cough medicine for children

6g chrysanthemum leaves, finely chopped, put in a small bowl, add a little white sugar, put in a steamed rice cooker to secrete water. Divide into several times a day.

2.2. Cure persistent cough in adults due to cold

100 – 150g chrysanthemum vegetables washed, 200g pork lungs cut into bite-sized pieces, used to cook soup daily. Eating both food and water and maintaining eating for 3-4 days is enough for 1 course.

2.3. People who have just woken up sick, can’t eat and drink

Cabbage 500g, lean pork 100g, fresh ginger 3 slices. Meat is washed, sliced ​​to taste, washed and chopped vegetables, cooked with pork, seasoned to taste, almost cooked add a little crushed ginger. Eat while still hot.

Cabbage soup cooked with meat.

2.4. desensitization

150g fresh chrysanthemum, washed and drained, then put in a large bowl, pour boiling porridge directly on top, leave for 5-10 minutes for vegetables to be rare and cool, mix well and enjoy, eat 2-3 times a day .

2.5. Cure diarrhea

200g of fresh chrysanthemum vegetables cooked in soup daily, continuously for 3-5 days has the effect of warming the spleen. Very effective in treating loose stools or persistent diarrhea.

2.6. Treat dizziness

0.5 kg carp, washed, scaled, squeezed wine to avoid fishy then fried golden. Add ginger, simmer until cooked, then add 200g of fresh washed chrysanthemums and cook until boiling, season to taste. Do this course for 10 consecutive days.

2.7. Lower blood pressure

Amino acids and essential oils of chamomile have antihypertensive effects. In addition to cooking soup or mixing chrysanthemum salad, you can squeeze chrysanthemums to get juice, drink 50 ml per day, divided into 2 times morning and afternoon.

2.8. Treating chronic headaches

Take the whole chrysanthemum plant from the stem, flowers to the roots and leaves and cook. Drink about 30g of this cooked water every day. Combine with hot dried chamomile leaves on the top of the head and temples at night before going to bed or whenever you feel a headache.

According to Hai Long