Can you eat gardenias?

Gardenia is always closely associated with summer, hot summer air is always full of gardenia refreshing flavor. Chinese medicine thinks that gardenia is cold in nature, taste sweet, bitter, into the lung, the liver meridian, the gardenia which is white and blooming in the end can not eat it? This article will answer for you.

Gardenia flower can eat?

Gardenia flower can be eaten. Gardenia in our country south area such as Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and so on area cultivation quantity is very big, every to summer flower open time, many places have the tradition of picking food gardenia flower. And, gardenia flower besides can eat, also has the medicinal value, has the role of clearing heat, dissolving phlegm and so on.

Can gardenia make tea to drink?

Gardenia can make tea to drink. Specific practice is: pick gardenia flower buds or first open flowers, remove calyx, pedicel, spread the corolla down into a thin layer, dry with civil fire or oven. Dried gardenia tea can be brewed directly for drinking. Gardenia tea has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, stopping phlegm and cough.

The benefits of eating gardenia flowers

Gardenia flowers clear heat and cool the blood

Gardenia flowers bitter cold, can enter the blood and eliminate the evil heat, is sores and swelling poison, intestinal wind dysentery, blood heat delusion and other diseases of the auxiliary treatment food.

Gardenia jasminoides resolves phlegm and relieves cough

The active ingredients of Gardenia jasminoides can inhibit the growth of bacteria, dilute the phlegm and open the airway, with the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and can be used as a dietary supplement for people with cough caused by heat and phlegm congestion.

Gardenia jasminoides laxative and anti-cancer

Gardenia has a wide intestinal laxative, hindering the role of. Gardenia contains cellulose, can promote the peristaltic movement of the large intestine, help the excretion of stool, prevent the onset of hemorrhoids and rectal cancer tumor.

Gardenia diarrhea fire in addition to annoyance

One of the efficacy and function of gardenia is to exorcise fire and get rid of annoyance, because gardenia is suitable to use in some patients who have heat disturbing the heart and mind condition. Not only that, but also can help us to treat the situation of external heat illness, evil stagnation of the upper jiao, heart and chest boredom and sleeplessness.

Gardenia's eating method

Gardenia's eating method is various, the following recommend several delicious eating method.

Cold gardenia flower

Ingredients: gardenia 500g, green onion, ginger, sesame oil, old vinegar, salt, MSG each appropriate amount. Wash the gardenia flowers, put them in boiling water and boil them, take them out and drain them, cool them and grasp them loosely with chopsticks, put them in the white porcelain plate, sprinkle the green onion, ginger shreds, pour the sesame oil, old vinegar, put salt and monosodium glutamate at discretion, stir them evenly. This dish is fresh and tender, with the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, detoxifying and stopping dysentery.

Gardenia egg flower

Gardenia 200g, 3 eggs, green onion, ginger, salt and MSG each in appropriate amount. Gardenia to wash clean, put people in boiling water slightly mourning, cut into minced; egg knocking people in the bowl, beat well; gardenia put people in the egg, stir evenly; pot of oil, burn to eighty percent heat, pour people gardenia egg flower, fried, sprinkle onion, ginger shreds, people salt, MSG, fried well. This dish is fragrant, crisp and tender, has the effect of clearing heat and nourishing the stomach, broad intestine and gas.

Gardenia stir-fried small bamboo shoots

Gardenia 200g, shelled small bamboo shoots 150g, bacon 100g, green onion, ginger, MSG, salt each appropriate amount. Practice: gardenia to clean, slightly blanched; small bamboo shoots cut into thin slices diagonally; bacon cut into small dice; pot of oil, burn to 60% heat, will gardenia, small bamboo shoots, bacon together into the pot, stir-fry several times, add green onion, ginger shreds, and then stir-fry until cooked, add MSG, salt as appropriate. This dish is light and fresh, crisp and refreshing, has the effect of strengthening the spleen and appetite, clearing heat and intestines.

Eat gardenia cautions

Gardenia bitter cold, spleen deficiency diarrhea, kidney Yang deficiency people cautiously eat, long illness body deficiency people should not eat gardenia. Chinese medicine body constitution in the special endowment body constitution, Yang deficiency body constitution, Yin deficiency body constitution, stagnant blood body constitution people should not eat.